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ah yes, my first job was at office depot and most of my training video was this, basically. they also taught us how to profile people and had us follow poors around the store incessantly asking "what may i help you with today?"
This is beyond disgusting, and definitely not acceptable. So much for being "the world's best employer". I want to dig a hole and bury myself from the embarrassment of being associated with this company.
For who? Those at HQ in Seattle? Sure. Those on the ground/in the field? lol
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Do you have examples of murky? I can think of police and prison unions but those are a symptom of an entirely different set of problems and aren't really about "unions". Any others?
Teacher's unions becoming so strong that schools cannot fire bad teachers, and in the end it's the students who pay for it.
There are specific local issues I'd like to provide as anecdotes, but it's local and newsworthy enough that my IRL identity would start to bleed into this online identity, which I try to keep pseudo-anonmyous. So I'll try to stick to generalities.
While I won't argue that unions get things right 100% of the time, and I would absolutely say that my child's education benefits from teachers having strong unions.
This is beyond disgusting, and definitely not acceptable. So much for being "the world's best employer". I want to dig a hole and bury myself from the embarrassment of being associated with this company.
> So much for being "the world's best employer". wut, you actually bought that until just now?
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For who? Those at HQ in Seattle? Sure. Those on the ground/in the field? lol
It is embarrassing for me, as an AWS employee and affects the moral calculus I am solving every day I decide to go to work.
ah yes, my first job was at office depot and most of my training video was this, basically. they also taught us how to profile people and had us follow poors around the store incessantly asking "what may i help you with today?"
May I ask, when you ask someone that, what are the expected answers and what are the courses of action?
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No social movement in history has ever been powered by people being considerate about their consumption patterns. I'm not saying it's a waste of effort, but I am saying this is unlikely to be sufficient to any cause. In fact, I'd posit that it has a far greater (and largely negative) impact on your life than it has a positive one on other peoples' lives.
As a counterpoint, here's a brief history of social movements that were powered (in part) by considerate consumption patterns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott They were organized of course, which starts by communicating your cause and action to other individuals.
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So … this clip is the first bad thing you’ve seen about Amazon and its business practices? Are you one of the 10,000 that is just learning about Amazon today?
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Amazon gave you a 30-day trial of Prime.
So I did my first part in trying to support everyone who dislikes this as much as I do. I cancelled my Prime and I will try to not purchase anything from Amazon for a year. It's not much, but it's something. I invite everyone to do the same.
I do wonder how likes of Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy square their claimed left-wing worldview with being anti-union.