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Re: I lasted three minutes at Amazon

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Post by q1w2 »

idontwantthis wrote: post #24

I highly mistrust anything on /r/antiwork. So many of the posts are the “and everyone clapped” variety but get hundreds or thousands of upvotes, I’m pretty sure it’s at least half a troll karma farm.

Just look at the subs the same mods mod...

r/Anarchism r/Anarchy101 r/IWW r/LateStageCapitalism r/lostgeneration r/Socialism_101 r/mutualism r/radicalmentalhealth

It's part of an anarcho-socialist grouping of Reddit subs that push a specific agenda.

You cannot take anything there seriously.

Re: I lasted three minutes at Amazon

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Post by whoknowswhat11 »

For those confused, you scan in your badge, that get's you through the door.

Then you check the monitor to figure out what job you will be doing (ie, pack or rebin)

If your station is taken for some reason, you should be able to just move to another station and log in there - you don't have to use station assigned.

You will also have a monitor which shoes your rate.

Managers probably won't even know your name, and if you are day one employee showing up late, will have no clue who you are.

Some of the safety rules (because amazon get's hammered on this) - SUPER annoying - no listening to music - are you kidding? The most boring job possible, and to keep folks safe no music, not even one earbud in.

Re: I lasted three minutes at Amazon

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Post by TulliusCicero »

coldacid wrote: post #174
TulliusCicero wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People have been trying to get low or no code solutions to work for a very long time now. The problem is that they a) they tend to be limited in the scope of the problems they’re appropriate for, and b) if you try to solve really complicated issues with them, you usually run into the same difficulty problems that you do with regular coding.

As we've been finding out with our org's migration to Dynamics from our homebrewed organizational software. (The auditing features in Dynamics are particularly limited.) Still, as time goes on these platforms keep improving on the complicated issues and the edge cases that tend to work better with bespoke software. Slowly but surely they are killing us off.

But conventional programming languages are consistently getting better too, and the needs and desires for what people want their programs to do keep getting more expansive. That’s why programmers still make so much money, why demand is so high.

It’s still possible for it to go the way you say, but so far there’s no evidence of that.

Re: I lasted three minutes at Amazon

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Post by pas »

strikelaserclaw wrote: post #148
idontwantthis wrote: post #24

I highly mistrust anything on /r/antiwork. So many of the posts are the “and everyone clapped” variety but get hundreds or thousands of upvotes, I’m pretty sure it’s at least half a troll karma farm.

just the fact that anti work grew to so many people is telling of the times we live in, that along with superstonk, crypto, wallstreet bets dominating reddit popular tells me that capitalism will implode without major rework in the next 20 years.

meh. the world always had a brutal underbelly, now it's online and visible. and it seems especially drastic in places with high inequality, eg. "the West", and it hits hard especially in the US.

but the whole problem is that these people are powerless. they are not the majority[0] and of course they are the wrong minority (not the rich one, duh).

[0] which - compared to agrarian times - is great, [yaay progress!] but at the same time it's completely fucked up because the "median voter" [still] doesn't really care. (due to a myriad of reasons from the evo-psycho Dunbar's numbers reasons to the "Marx: capitalism is alienating the worker from its self", or in a bit more modern phrasing "neoliberalism atomized society [1] (by focus on individualism and individual rights)" - , plus things are changing too fast[2] and the vastly different responses by different ideological groups are leading to extreme political polarization, and so on).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eu45yGPRbA

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29457930

Re: I lasted three minutes at Amazon

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Post by antiterra »

lobocinza wrote: post #146
antiterra wrote: post #87

It’s always been surreal when I’ve had the chance to be/sit next to contractors whose every minute is accounted for and who cannot take a single day of vacation without finding someone to swap shifts with, every action under the scrutiny of a shift manager lording over them like a narcissistic parent. All the while, the salaried, fully insured and vastly more expensive ‘real’ employees all show up late to meetings, r…

As a contractor I account hours spent on my own without providing evidence further than the work done.

Perhaps I should have clarified that I am talking about closely managed shift employees and not the kind of contractors who self-direct the completion of project work.

Re: I lasted three minutes at Amazon

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Post by hiptobecubic »

antiterra wrote: post #87

It’s always been surreal when I’ve had the chance to be/sit next to contractors whose every minute is accounted for and who cannot take a single day of vacation without finding someone to swap shifts with, every action under the scrutiny of a shift manager lording over them like a narcissistic parent. All the while, the salaried, fully insured and vastly more expensive ‘real’ employees all show up late to meetings, r…

This is Google.

Re: I lasted three minutes at Amazon

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Post by gaws »

indrora wrote: post #164
idontwantthis wrote: post #24

I highly mistrust anything on /r/antiwork. So many of the posts are the “and everyone clapped” variety but get hundreds or thousands of upvotes, I’m pretty sure it’s at least half a troll karma farm.

Since you're on HN, I'll give you the benefit of assuming you're working a nice, solid, salaried job. Retail is hell. It's the worst on-call you've ever experienced times a thousand. If you haven't worked retail in the last few years, I'd actually suggest doing the following: Go on the dating app of your choice and put out that you're legit looking for coffee with folks who work hourly retail jobs. You're vaguely tec…

> Retail is hell. It's the worst on-call you've ever experienced times a thousand.

Thank God I don't work retail.

Re: I lasted three minutes at Amazon

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Post by gaws »

antiterra wrote: post #87

It’s always been surreal when I’ve had the chance to be/sit next to contractors whose every minute is accounted for and who cannot take a single day of vacation without finding someone to swap shifts with, every action under the scrutiny of a shift manager lording over them like a narcissistic parent. All the while, the salaried, fully insured and vastly more expensive ‘real’ employees all show up late to meetings, r…

> It’s always been surreal when I’ve had the chance to be/sit next to contractors whose every minute is accounted for and who cannot take a single day of vacation without finding someone to swap shifts with, every action under the scrutiny of a shift manager lording over them like a narcissistic parent.

What a nightmare.

Re: I lasted three minutes at Amazon

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Post by nexuist »

solnyshok wrote: post #172
nexuist wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Other than the drug test it didn't seem like there was a single thing OP was required to do that wouldn't be solved by automation. At my current job we set up direct deposit, filled out info for background checks, completed training videos and quizzes, etc. all through online forms. Everyone OP interacted with shouldn't even be in the picture. It's a warehouse job; I struggle to see why you even need any humans in th…

imagine they read your comment and implement that...

Everyone would've had a day off today ;)
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