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Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses

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Re: Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses

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Post by moksly »

AlexMuir wrote: post #49
moksly wrote: post #15

I recently watched a Danish documentary about Israel, it’s a whole series on the Middle East, and one of the things they talked about in it was how Israel is never in the Danish media for anything positive. That same day I read an article about the youngest Dane to visit every country in the world, something he finished recently, talk about how there is peace and security in every country if you go to the right place…

I think you’ve been downvoted here because there isn’t really a clear point to your comment. Perfectly written but having read I don’t know what you are actually saying.

I was trying to say, that maybe the media is seeing this backlash, not because of some Amazon marketing army, but instead because a lot of people are genuinely happy working for Amazon.

Re: Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses

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Post by im3w1l »

cperciva wrote: post #40
Jerry2 wrote: post #9

Whenever I see a news story about Amazon workers and robots, I'm reminded of Amazon's "workers in a cage" patent [1]. It has spawned a bunch of funny (or sad?) "Amazon Wagie Cage" memes as a result [2][3]... and even an art exhibit of a real-sized patent drawing [4]. Needless to say, I shop a lot less on Amazon these days and try to buy from other shops whenever possible. [1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/ama…

Amazon's "workers in a cage" patent You do realize that the cage is there to protect the worker, right? If you think "worker in a cage, on top of a robot" is terrible, have you ever seen a construction crane? It is literally a robot with a cage in which a worker sits -- and just like the (never implemented!) patent from Amazon, the point of the cage is to protect the worker.

Having a comfy chair instead of a metal bench and glass instead of wire net makes cranes look a lot nicer than that concept art.

Re: Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses

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Post by iamaelephant »

cperciva wrote: post #40
Jerry2 wrote: post #9

Whenever I see a news story about Amazon workers and robots, I'm reminded of Amazon's "workers in a cage" patent [1]. It has spawned a bunch of funny (or sad?) "Amazon Wagie Cage" memes as a result [2][3]... and even an art exhibit of a real-sized patent drawing [4]. Needless to say, I shop a lot less on Amazon these days and try to buy from other shops whenever possible. [1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/ama…

Amazon's "workers in a cage" patent You do realize that the cage is there to protect the worker, right? If you think "worker in a cage, on top of a robot" is terrible, have you ever seen a construction crane? It is literally a robot with a cage in which a worker sits -- and just like the (never implemented!) patent from Amazon, the point of the cage is to protect the worker.

Thanks for clearing that up, cperciva FC Ambassador.

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Post by iamaelephant »

buyx wrote: post #33
drawkbox wrote: post #17

Nearly all entities in products and politics astroturf heavily. In the end it is a massive critical thinking lesson and adds much needed skepticism to the populace. The truth is the internet is teaching the biggest lesson ever in critical thinking and getting your information from many sources across spectrums, individuals, companies, countries, divides and more. Let's hope that people see it as a lesson and not some…

It’s great to talk about lessons in critical thinking for sophisticated first-world countries, but in third-world, poorly educated countries, people with poor literacy are being exposed to a firehose of propaganda. The critical thinking lessons you mention are likely to come at the price of a massive loss of human life.

Whereas in developed intelligent countries you're all immune to this effect. Pretty cool.

Re: Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses

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Post by iamaelephant »

Topgamer7 wrote: post #36
alanbernstein wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imagine... Not that.

If you read through the chain of tweets. There is one account that says "I'm Michelle", from a non-Michelle account.

If you read the actual article you'll find this is a common theme.

Re: Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses

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Post by MikeGale »

I don't really see the issue.

These appear to be real humans.

I see so many fake accounts, sock puppets etc. just about any place I look, that I just accept that to not be an idiot myself I need to spend time thinking through everything.

I don't understand writing that seems to assume that anybody, or their analysis, can be automatically believed.

Re: Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses

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Post by cperciva »

im3w1l wrote: post #52
cperciva wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazon's "workers in a cage" patent You do realize that the cage is there to protect the worker, right? If you think "worker in a cage, on top of a robot" is terrible, have you ever seen a construction crane? It is literally a robot with a cage in which a worker sits -- and just like the (never implemented!) patent from Amazon, the point of the cage is to protect the worker.

Having a comfy chair instead of a metal bench and glass instead of wire net makes cranes look a lot nicer than that concept art.

Aren't patent drawings supposed to show only the essential functional elements?

Re: Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses

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Post by 2_listerine_pls »

savrajsingh wrote: post #2

I believe this article was triggered by this tweet: https://twitter.com/rulesobeyer/status/1161820065773182976?s...

> Bezos ain't paying me a dime to say I like my job. Instead, I get paid for my effort to educate others about how wonderful it is.

Re: Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses

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Post by cperciva »

iamaelephant wrote: post #53
cperciva wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Amazon's "workers in a cage" patent You do realize that the cage is there to protect the worker, right? If you think "worker in a cage, on top of a robot" is terrible, have you ever seen a construction crane? It is literally a robot with a cage in which a worker sits -- and just like the (never implemented!) patent from Amazon, the point of the cage is to protect the worker.

Thanks for clearing that up, cperciva FC Ambassador.

I highly doubt anyone working in an Amazon Fulfillment Centre won the Putnam Competition. ;-)
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