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I'll never understand why companies think directly involving themselves in the political discourse is a good idea. It would honestly even be different if Jeff Bezos himself tweeted these things, but to see the Amazon corporate news account try to one-up Elizabeth Warren is so bizarre..
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There's reports (source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/29/jeff-bezo... ) that Bezos got mad that the media department wasn't doing enough to combat the "outright lies" spread by the media about Amazon working conditions, which apparently spurred the latest tweets from the AmazonNews account. Seems to be a self inflicted wound from ego. Edit: Source requested
> There's reports that [citation needed]
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There's reports (source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/29/jeff-bezo... ) that Bezos got mad that the media department wasn't doing enough to combat the "outright lies" spread by the media about Amazon working conditions, which apparently spurred the latest tweets from the AmazonNews account. Seems to be a self inflicted wound from ego. Edit: Source requested
> There's reports that [citation needed]
For me, the recent (petty) twitter activity of @amazonnews was the final push I needed to cut all ties with Amazon.
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> There's reports that [citation needed]
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/29/jeff-bezo... Added
> According to Recode, the suspicious tweets in fact came at the behest of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who had recently conveyed disappointment to Amazon officials that the company was not pushing back against criticisms that he considered misleading.
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It's also literally in the Intercept article with a link to the story lol: > According to Recode, the suspicious tweets in fact came at the behest of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who had recently conveyed disappointment to Amazon officials that the company was not pushing back against criticisms that he considered misleading.
I'll never understand why companies think directly involving themselves in the political discourse is a good idea. It would honestly even be different if Jeff Bezos himself tweeted these things, but to see the Amazon corporate news account try to one-up Elizabeth Warren is so bizarre..
I find it refreshing to see a company openly tweeting what they think and not issuing boring PR statement. It is probably going to cost them a lot in backslash though
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There's reports (source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/29/jeff-bezo... ) that Bezos got mad that the media department wasn't doing enough to combat the "outright lies" spread by the media about Amazon working conditions, which apparently spurred the latest tweets from the AmazonNews account. Seems to be a self inflicted wound from ego. Edit: Source requested
> There's reports that [citation needed]
My wife got a photo and then immediately after they delivered packages and left I went and took a photo because I couldn’t believe it.
I had not heard about the controversy until then, but my wife had been following it. I read these tweets and I also didn’t believe they were real, they were far too aggressive.
It was strange because I felt like I needed to know if it was in fact pee or not, but I also was not willing to bend over and smell it. It had all of the appearances of pee, yet the disposal was so obviously careless and conspicuous it was as though the person wanted to be caught.
The up close photo I took shows two foamy sections.
We discussed ethical issues of the potential for the worker being fired over this. And whether it ever okay to pour a bottle of pee out in front of some homes on a bike way. We also consulted a USPS mail carrier friend about what he has dealt with and USPS’ procedure for bio breaks.
Gathering all that, I still chose to email the photos and ask Amazon how they intended to handle this.
Waiting on a reply.
Edit: This was a tough call, I added some additional details below.
If the driver had knocked on our door and asked to use our bathroom, I'd have absolutely invited him in. This happened with a Fedex driver once before. That person ended up leaving pee on the seat, which was pretty gross.