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im the claim that people would be going crazy and leaving, so it cant be true, which is what the original article states happens
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Aug 17, 2015 15:25
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there are clearly documented issues like the absurdly limited bathrooms that's easily and externally verifiable, if one would bother it's been an open secret that amazon is a terrible place to work for years and years
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Aug 17, 2015 15:28
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I guess Bezos is making the claim that he didn't read or was never made aware of any of the many, many gawker stories about amazon work culture.
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Aug 17, 2015 15:52
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here's some manager's incredibly long response to that Amazon article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/amazonians-response-inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-nick-ciubotariu
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Aug 17, 2015 15:53
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Shadowhand00 posted:here's some manager's incredibly long response to that Amazon article: "Yes. Amazon is, without question, the most innovative technology company in the world. The hardest problems in technology, bar none, are solved at Amazon. This is why I'm here."
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Aug 17, 2015 16:08
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refleks posted:"Yes. Amazon is, without question, the most innovative technology company in the world. The hardest problems in technology, bar none, are solved at Amazon. This is why I'm here." oh god i'm dying
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Aug 17, 2015 16:09
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http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/how-yuppies-hacked-the-original-hacker-ethos/ The hacker ethos is wild and anarchic, indifferent to the trappings of success. Or it was, until the gentrifiers moved in
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Aug 17, 2015 16:12
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I'd consider trying to sell the fire phone one of the most challenging problems in technology
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Aug 17, 2015 16:12
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loving hell, hes a manager for managers. hes the problem the original article is talking about. "What, why is it so bad to just let them eat cake. I LOVE IT" - Some french bitch
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Aug 17, 2015 16:15
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qirex posted:I'd consider trying to sell the fire phone one of the most challenging problems in technology too bad they never solved that one lmao
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Aug 17, 2015 16:18
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Shadowhand00 posted:here's some manager's incredibly long response to that Amazon article: quote:I would have written it regardless of whether PR would have approved or not, because the NYT article is so blatantly incorrect, and additionally, purposefully designed to make past data reflect current reality at a company that has done quite a bit to change its ways and continues to work hard to do so. 
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Aug 17, 2015 16:22
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quote:I actually work here, and can give you a data-driven perspective of what life at Amazon is really like, today. I’m not an anonymous source, and I’m not something a journalist made up to generate clicks. I am putting my name and reputation behind everything I write, and willing to stand by my words 100%. wow, at amazon the singular of anecdote is data
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Aug 17, 2015 16:26
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refleks posted:"Yes. Amazon is, without question, the most innovative technology company in the world. The hardest problems in technology, bar none, are solved at Amazon. This is why I'm here." "In particular, we were trying to work out how much money we could burn for no good reason, and how quickly we could do so. It turns out that the best we can do is a quarter of a billion a year, but watch this space."
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Aug 17, 2015 16:29
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qirex posted:I'd consider trying to sell the fire phone one of the most challenging problems in technology
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Aug 17, 2015 16:30
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hobbesmaster posted:wow, at amazon the singular of anecdote is data data-driven perspective mods please
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Aug 17, 2015 16:31
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qirex posted:I'd consider trying to sell the fire phone one of the most challenging problems in technology
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Aug 17, 2015 16:56
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read a defense of soylent being full of lead and cadmium today part of the argument was that people would have to consume nothing but soylent for the metals to be a problem, and who eats the same thing all the time, honestly?!
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Aug 17, 2015 16:58
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Chris Knight posted:http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/how-yuppies-hacked-the-original-hacker-ethos/ I skimmed this article, it was poo poo, confusing "autistics with beagle boards" and "website defacing" as hackers throughout. Just mixes and mashes them with abandon, like the author has no idea what the difference is. "Hey they're both hackers right?". Also, I like this idea that gentrifyers are the new hipsters. I wanna see that middle manager from amazon (who wrote that article ) go on tor and see some crazy poo poo on the underbelly of the internet.
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Aug 17, 2015 16:59
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http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/amazon-chief-says-employees-lacking-empathy-will-be-instantly-purgedThe New Yorker posted:SEATTLE (The Borowitz Report)—Saying that he was “horrified” by a New York Times article recounting callous behavior on the part of Amazon executives, company founder Jeff Bezos warned today that any employees found lacking in empathy would be instantly purged.
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Aug 17, 2015 17:11
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http://motherboard.vice.com/read/at-amazon-employees-treat-the-bathroom-as-an-extension-of-the-officequote:I regularly saw people bring their laptops into the bathroom, where they would sit on the toilet and write code. (I’ve never seen anyone clean their laptop after leaving the bathroom.) Engineers would talk to each other through stalls. On many occasions, I heard people take phone calls while mid-business. It was hard to tell if someone was groaning because it was difficult to code or difficult to poop. Another Amazon colleague once joked that this gave new meaning to the word “deploy.”
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Aug 17, 2015 17:17
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at the date posted:http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/amazon-chief-says-employees-lacking-empathy-will-be-instantly-purged had to go back to check that the url wasn't the onion
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Aug 17, 2015 17:28
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the borowitz report is the new yorker's unfunny version of the onion
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Aug 17, 2015 17:33
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yeah the borowitz report is usually loving awful but this one's ok
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Aug 17, 2015 17:34
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missed the /humor/ there in the url woopsy
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Aug 17, 2015 17:37
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FMguru posted:gawker has actually had really good coverage of amazons awfulness for the last year or two yep sounds like retail
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Aug 17, 2015 17:46
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The trouble with articles about lovely company culture is that no one with two neurons to string together will go on record to say that Amazon essentially made her work too hard. The ubiquitous breed of middle manager who buys glossy books on "leadership" with smiling men in suits on the cover, the breed who aspires to be Jumpin' Jeff Bezos, Self-Made Billionaire, will see her complaint and write her off as a whiner.
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Aug 17, 2015 17:47
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quote:"The hardest problems in technology, bar none, are solved at Amazon." ~invents a toilet-paper-ordering button~
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uninterrupted posted:~invents a toilet-paper-ordering button~ do they even have one for ordering asspaper 
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Aug 17, 2015 18:17
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i wipe my rear end with razor blades, don't you?
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:do they even have one for ordering asspaper do they hav one for ordering jpg artifacts
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Aug 17, 2015 18:19
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.qirex posted:I'd consider trying to sell the fire phone one of the most challenging problems in technology
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Aug 17, 2015 18:42
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man look at all these leading brands
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Aug 17, 2015 18:43
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Phoenixan posted:man look at all these leading brands now you have a physical means by which to engage with them.
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Aug 17, 2015 18:45
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Phoenixan posted:man look at all these leading brands mmmm, brands  I don't get why they don't sell more bulk stuff at amazon like why isn't cereal sold in 5 lb multipacks, feels kind of dumb to mail order one box of kashi
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Aug 17, 2015 18:48
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:http://motherboard.vice.com/read/at-amazon-employees-treat-the-bathroom-as-an-extension-of-the-office ive seen this in a totally unremarkable office complex. guys talking business on the shitter in between fart noises, or texting with one hand while pissing at the urinal with the other. the worst was some guy making noises that i thought were many tiny poops splashing into the water; i finally realized they were too consistent to be from him, it must've been the sound effect from some candy crush bullshit that he didn't even bother muting on the john
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Aug 17, 2015 19:05
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"You are recruited every day by other world-class companies, and you can work anywhere you want." Translation: get the gently caress out, whiners.
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Aug 17, 2015 19:09
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rrrrrrrrrrrt posted:now you have a physical means by which to engage with them. i loving love engaging w/ my favorite brands
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qirex posted:mmmm, brands less mark up that way
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