So Amazon/Bezos are learning how to behave on Twitter by example of Donald Trump?
Amazon security staff reported its own tweets as “suspicious,” fearing hack
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#42We had a driver pour out a bottle of pee directly onto the street in front of our place from his open driver’s side van window on Saturday afternoon. 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…
A bit surprised you sent the photos to Amazon. That person is likely to be fired. A bit of pee on the street is not going to harm anything or anyone (otherwise the streets around bars would be an enormous biohazard), although it's obviously gross.
Is human pee any more gross than dog pee? This isn't a rhetorical question - I'm genuinely asking.
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#43We had a driver pour out a bottle of pee directly onto the street in front of our place from his open driver’s side van window on Saturday afternoon. 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…
You... ratted out the guy who delivers your packages to his corporate masters for doing the very human homeostatic requirement of urination? Seriously?
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#44We had a driver pour out a bottle of pee directly onto the street in front of our place from his open driver’s side van window on Saturday afternoon. 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…
It is enervating hearing anecdotes like these from wealthy people who seemingly believe the same necessary excretions they have aren't a privilege lower classes deserve
Re: Amazon security staff reported its own tweets as “suspicious,” fearing hack
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't mind them pushing back on politicians, but I do mind them lying while they do it. I'm also stopping purchases from amazon.com based on this, but I'm not yet ready or able to cut out AWS
> but I do mind them lying while they do it Sure, I sympathize with this. But one person's lies are another person's truth in this day and age, unfortunately.
Right, but _I_ think they're lying, and so they've lost _my_ purchases because of it.
That's the problem when you make corporate statements that are both controversial and on shaky factual ground. The shakier the factual ground the more people might decide you are not telling the truth (as they see it) and stop doing business with you.
Again, I have _zero_ problem with a company being snarky with politicians. Criticizing our electeds is the core of the first amendment and I fully support citizens right to disagree with political figures—even political figures I mostly agree with. For example, this particular tweet from @amazonnews I quite agree with: https://twitter.com/amazonnews/status/1375529101931520007.
> This is extraordinary and revealing. One of the most powerful politicians in the United States just said she’s going to break up an American company so that they can’t criticize her anymore.
I have no problem with companies being "powerful enough to heckle senators with snotty tweets". I actually have a problem with the inverse: there should be no company that is not powerful enough to heckle senators with snotty tweets.
Re: Amazon security staff reported its own tweets as “suspicious,” fearing hack
#46We had a driver pour out a bottle of pee directly onto the street in front of our place from his open driver’s side van window on Saturday afternoon. 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…
I 100% believe that drivers pee in containers - heck, my grandfather and I used to do the same when fishing - they make containers with handles specifically made for this. That said, given that the firestorm has become very public, I would expect disgruntled (or any driver, they are wage slaves) drivers to be acting more conspicuous to draw more attention to the problem, which may temporarily inflate its visibility,…
Why wouldn't you just pee into the water into which you are fishing?
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#47I'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..
It's called sucking up to the boss. Whoever was responsible for the tweets evidently believed the Bezos would approve of the content. It gives him plausible deniability (after all, he didn't write it) and in many cases may improve the career prospects within the company of the person who did write it.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but I do mind them lying while they do it Sure, I sympathize with this. But one person's lies are another person's truth in this day and age, unfortunately.
You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you?
We know from internal amazon communications it's happening. It's comical for them to deny it, except for the human misery they are making by having work expectations that make it almost impossible to take bathroom breaks and meet their expectations.
The memos that say "please don't leave pee in the trucks, please don't leave poop, we can figure out who you are".
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#49My read on this was that it was a snarky report done in protest. Ken Klippenstein is a troll who does things with a straight face, and likely so are people who leak to him. I don't think anyone really believed it was hacked, but rather it was a way to criticize it with plausible deniability.
Seems likely that the person who leaked it to Ken Klippenstein was the same person who opened the ticket in the first place.
Re: Amazon security staff reported its own tweets as “suspicious,” fearing hack
#50My read on this was that it was a snarky report done in protest. Ken Klippenstein is a troll who does things with a straight face, and likely so are people who leak to him. I don't think anyone really believed it was hacked, but rather it was a way to criticize it with plausible deniability.
The only thing that stands out to me was the callout of different platforms used to send the tweet.
I could see, along with everything else, that being enough to at least make the question worth raising.