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Platystemon posted:(thing about stretching)
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Jul 17, 2019 03:21
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galenanorth posted:
none of this should be loving normalized or considered fine.
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Jul 17, 2019 03:23
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lmfao holy poo poo. you worked too fast and too well, and our lovely logistics chain means you dont have anything to do for part of your shift, so you can either USE YOUR loving VACATION TIME TO GET SENT HOME EARLY, or have your numbers go down so you look like a worse employee FOR DOING YOUR JOB ABOVE AVERAGE. epic poo poo lol. has amazon heard of the technique that literally everyone else in hourly work uses called 'hey you can clock off early if you want'
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Jul 17, 2019 03:27
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Larry Parrish posted:lmfao holy poo poo. you worked too fast and too well, and our lovely logistics chain means you dont have anything to do for part of your shift, so you can either USE YOUR loving VACATION TIME TO GET SENT HOME EARLY, or have your numbers go down so you look like a worse employee FOR DOING YOUR JOB ABOVE AVERAGE. epic poo poo lol. has amazon heard of the technique that literally everyone else in hourly work uses called 'hey you can clock off early if you want' They probably did hear of that but then thought "what would number want us to do?" and you know the answer to that one.
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Jul 17, 2019 03:38
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I think they probably gave workers extra vacation time (unpaid) to compensate when the work shortage was bad enough that workers were sent home, but I can't really remember it that well. For the 20 minute gaps, I suppose if all workers in the same department were experiencing the same shortage, it wouldn't have affected my ranking, but yes, we all would've been looking like worse employees.
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Jul 17, 2019 03:48
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galenanorth posted:I think they probably gave workers extra vacation time (unpaid) to compensate when the work shortage was bad enough that workers were sent home, but I can't really remember it that well. For the 20 minute gaps, I suppose if all workers in the same department were experiencing the same shortage, it wouldn't have affected my ranking, but yes, we all would've been looking like worse employees. none of this should be normalized or considered fine.
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Jul 17, 2019 03:51
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galenanorth posted:I think they probably gave workers extra vacation time (unpaid) to compensate when the work shortage was bad enough that workers were sent home, but I can't really remember it that well. For the 20 minute gaps, I suppose if all workers in the same department were experiencing the same shortage, it wouldn't have affected my ranking, but yes, we all would've been looking like worse employees.
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Jul 17, 2019 04:02
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the only thing more hilarious than amazon's turnover is the fact that can even find anyone to hire. everywhere i've ever been in california has every single corner store, gas station, and fast food restaurant desperate for employees. yeah those jobs sucked but the franchises never hosed me out of breaks etc and i didnt have my crotchety rear end in a top hat manager telling me i couldn't sit to stock the bottom racks of soda or whatever. basically what i'm saying is how does anyway even make it past the first day on these jobs, don't they only pay minimum wage?
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Jul 17, 2019 04:03
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Larry Parrish posted:the only thing more hilarious than amazon's turnover is the fact that can even find anyone to hire. everywhere i've ever been in california has every single corner store, gas station, and fast food restaurant desperate for employees. yeah those jobs sucked but the franchises never hosed me out of breaks etc and i didnt have my crotchety rear end in a top hat manager telling me i couldn't sit to stock the bottom racks of soda or whatever. basically what i'm saying is how does anyway even make it past the first day on these jobs, don't they only pay minimum wage? corner stores don't exist, gas stations don't have employees, and the fight for $15 is a pipe dream in a lot of amazon counties
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Jul 17, 2019 04:08
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There are contracted workers that get paid minimum wage or healthcare benefits, and they wear white lanyards. The blue lanyards got paid $13/hr when I worked there in Fall 2015. It is now $15/hr thanks to the Fight for $15 campaign and Sen. Sanders' advocacy. Now that I think about it, though, that doesn't include the contracted workers, and the articles I looked up about the minimum wage do not mention contracted workers at all. https://www.oncontracting.com/client/company/amazon-contract-jobs-reviews-staffing-agencies clearly mentions sub-$15/hr pay rates.
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Jul 17, 2019 04:12
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galenanorth posted:There are contracted workers that get paid minimum wage or healthcare benefits, and they wear white lanyards. The blue lanyards got paid $13/hr when I worked there in Fall 2015. It is now $15/hr thanks to the Fight for $15 campaign and Sen. Sanders' advocacy. Now that I think about it, though, that doesn't include the contracted workers, and the articles I looked up about the minimum wage do not mention contracted workers at all. Because it's a bunch of actual bullshit. The 15$ an hour "raise" came with reduced benefits for those who got it, and entirely ignored contract workers which make up a large percentage of the workforce.
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Jul 17, 2019 04:18
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Larry Parrish posted:the only thing more hilarious than amazon's turnover is the fact that can even find anyone to hire. everywhere i've ever been in california has every single corner store, gas station, and fast food restaurant desperate for employees. yeah those jobs sucked but the franchises never hosed me out of breaks etc and i didnt have my crotchety rear end in a top hat manager telling me i couldn't sit to stock the bottom racks of soda or whatever. basically what i'm saying is how does anyway even make it past the first day on these jobs, don't they only pay minimum wage? amazon puts their warehouses in economically depressed shitholes, far from the cities you know those news stories about entire counties that are hosed over because the biggest employer was a single wal-mart store, and that store just closed down because physical retail is being killed by online sales? those are the kinds of places Amazon warehouses get built
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Jul 17, 2019 04:31
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galenanorth posted:I think they probably gave workers extra vacation time (unpaid) to compensate when the work shortage was bad enough that workers were sent home loving poo poo
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Jul 17, 2019 04:40
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galenanorth posted:Nah, the training is paid. You weren’t having to pay for a cab you otherwise wouldn’t have? I assumed that’s what the texting your partner meant.
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Jul 17, 2019 04:51
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Platystemon posted:You weren’t having to pay for a cab you otherwise wouldn’t have? Oh, yeah, it effectively cost me an hour of pay whenever it happened due to interrupting my ride-sharing habit
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Jul 17, 2019 04:54
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https://twitter.com/markmilian/status/1151334652319158272?s=20
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Jul 17, 2019 04:55
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I was sad when the biohacker trend didn't result in overmoneyed mutants so hopefully ol musky will thin out the techbros
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Jul 17, 2019 04:58
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Tashilicious posted:none of this should be loving normalized or considered fine. Most of it yeah. The part about paid training as an alternative to leaving early sounds alright to me.
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Jul 17, 2019 05:06
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Agean90 posted:I was sad when the biohacker trend didn't result in overmoneyed mutants so hopefully ol musky will thin out the techbros wrong kind of hole in the head but it might be worth a shot
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Jul 17, 2019 05:07
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Nomnom Cookie posted:Most of it yeah. The part about paid training as an alternative to leaving early sounds alright to me. that should just be part of working there. "sign up for training on x days, do training instead of work and get paid"
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Jul 17, 2019 05:08
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of course Bloomberg farmed out all their Musk coverage to a dedicated fanboy who wrote a Musk biography
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Jul 17, 2019 05:35
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Platystemon posted:I don’t believe they’re real on the basis that even bootlickers would be afraid of retaliation for posting something about the company, even if they were never negative. I don’t disagree with the sentiment. but a naming structure (they’re both @amazonfcXXXX) indicates the accounts were specifically created with this intent. I don’t really see even bootlicking floor workers coordinating with other bootlickers to create accounts all on their own. at best they’re being prompted by higher ups “hey you should do this” I feel it’s more likely a marketing project by marketing employees.
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Jul 17, 2019 05:36
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Tashilicious posted:that should just be part of working there. "sign up for training on x days, do training instead of work and get paid" sure, that too. but the standard if there’s no work for people to do is to send them home. offering training as an alternative so people get paid for their full shift seems like an improvement to me course it’s super hosed making people who want to leave use vacation time or get hosed on metrics. wtf
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Jul 17, 2019 05:49
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Training new people over and over and over again is a huge drain on resources, and it's all because of the incredible turnover that comes from the way companies treat their employees. What you think would happen: Okay, we need to reduce turnover, what can we do to increase employee satisfaction? What actually happens: How can we make training even cheaper and even less effective?
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Jul 17, 2019 05:59
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SHOT THROUGH THE BRAIN AND YOURE TO BLAME elon gives where am I
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Jul 17, 2019 06:26
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And as she looked into those soft blue eyes she instinctively realized, with mammilan certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human
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Jul 17, 2019 06:34
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quote:Neuralink’s goal is to leave its sort of mind-reading computer sitting safely and indefinitely inside someone’s head. “All of this will occur actually quite slowly,” Musk says. “It’s not going to be like suddenly, Neuralink will have this incredible neural lace and start taking over people’s brains. It will take a long time, and you will see it coming.”
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Jul 17, 2019 06:49
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If we're sharing working for Amazon sucks stories, here's mine from a decade ago. It was a "picker" job in a warehouse in the middle of nowhere but it paid $11 per hour, which was amazing after the crash in '08. Training was the usual walkthrough, safety video, drug test kind of stuff. You have the minimum legally mandated amount of break time, two 20 minute breaks in a 12 hour shift, and you are *required* to take them because we recently got sued for only having one 20 minute break. You should make sure to carry around a couple of water bottles because it's sometimes over a hundred degrees in the warehouse and you don't want to waste time going to the water fountain that's only in one corner of the building. Also the water bottles you carry around have to have their labels removed - if we catch you with a water bottle that has a label, you will be fired. I'm still not sure why they had that rule. Anti-theft? Training was unpaid. (I believe this was legal at the time? I'm not sure.) Week 1. About thirty people gather in this room to start their first day of work. A few names get called to go to the next room, then they start pointing to whoever happened to be near the front desk. About half the people remain. They tell the rest of us that we won't be able to start work this week, but we can call this number to guarantee that we can start next time. And needless to say, you all won't get paid this week. I call the number immediately, they say I'm on the list to start next week, and I go home. Week 2. I arrive and make sure I'm standing in the front of the room. They call the names of people guaranteed to start that day but they don't call mine and this time they pick people from the *back* of the room to start. Again about half the room won't start work that day. Same story: call and you'll start next time. Again, you obviously won't get paid this week. I call the number again to add me to the "Must Start" list and ask them to double check that I'm guaranteed to start next week, and they assure me I am. Week 3. Repeat of the above. I'm not on the list and I guessed the side of the room wrong. Another person complains that they should have been on the Must Start list. "Why no I have no idea why you two aren't on the list". Same story: call and you're guaranteed to start next time. Week 4. There wasn't a week 4. Counting gas, I made negative money on this "job". Not to mention that I could have been looking for an actual job. Welp that's my story about trying to work at Amazon. In all honesty I probably dodged a bullet. Thinking back it's sorta like the old photos of the crowds of workers waiting outside factories during the great depression, everyone standing around to see if they'll be able to work that day. Except it's entirely unnecessary and Amazon just decided to treat its employees like garbage. They clearly needed a huge influx of new workers. A dozen-plus new employees a week means a dozen-plus employees quitting/fired each week. Millennials hate capitalism because their formative experiences are working for pieces of poo poo companies. Oh and also the job was technically through a recruitment agency whose only client was Amazon, and the only way to get a job at the warehouse was through that agency. And the agency was next door to the warehouse in the middle of nowhere. I'm not sure what legal bullshit that scheme was for, but they weren't trying very hard to hide it.
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Jul 17, 2019 07:04
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Broke: Skynet is an AI that decides humanity is a threat and uses our own nuclear weapons against us. Woke: SkynetX is invented as an alternative to EC2 spot pricing.
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Jul 17, 2019 07:04
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My theory on SkyNet was that it was simply doing what it was programmed to do. It wasn't sentient, just following it's algorithm created by the eternal american war machine.
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Jul 17, 2019 08:03
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MonsieurChoc posted:My theory on SkyNet was that it was simply doing what it was programmed to do. It wasn't sentient, just following it's algorithm created by the eternal american war machine. That'd be too scary for a movie if John Connor rolled up on the SkyNet HQ and realized no one/thing was actually there and conscious of what was going on
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Jul 17, 2019 08:17
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Fried Watermelon posted:That'd be too scary for a movie if John Connor rolled up on the SkyNet HQ and realized no one/thing was actually there and conscious of what was going on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmRpLLs7SNE
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Jul 17, 2019 08:24
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MonsieurChoc posted:My theory on SkyNet was that it was simply doing what it was programmed to do. It wasn't sentient, just following it's algorithm created by the eternal american war machine. The algorithm used for determining which Pakistani gets hellfired by a drone is called SKYNET, so that checks out.
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Jul 17, 2019 09:38
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Robo-Slap posted:Oh and also the job was technically through a recruitment agency whose only client was Amazon, and the only way to get a job at the warehouse was through that agency. This sort of thing is becoming pretty common for warehouse or low-skilled manufacturing work, not only for Amazon, and I can tell you from experience it's resulting in the stupidest hiring practices you could imagine.
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Jul 17, 2019 10:00
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StashAugustine posted:And as she looked into those soft blue eyes she instinctively realized, with mammilan certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human
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Jul 17, 2019 10:11
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goatsestretchgoals posted:SHOT THROUGH THE BRAIN Hole in the head You’ll be quite dead When Elon is done Drilling your head
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Jul 17, 2019 12:26
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Robo-Slap posted:
It's because when you hire through an agency your warehouse/factory can retain it's Double-Platinum Quadruple A+ safety ratings and have three billion consecutive days with no incident and some sweet insurance discounts because when someone gets maimed they technically didn't work for you. So your company can say it's totally regulation compliant using 100% domestic labour meanwhile the recruiting agency just doesn't bother with any kind of safety accreditation and they don't pay into worker's comp so they don't have to worry about insurance rates. There's a meat packing plant in Toronto that did this and had like 3 fatal incidents with no consequences, but I think the recruiting agency had to go bankrupt and re-form after each one.
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Jul 17, 2019 13:38
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once saw an article that said that the antivaxxer movement was gnosticism for rich people, glad we now have trepanning for rich people too
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Jul 17, 2019 16:55
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autism ZX spectrum posted:It's because when you hire through an agency your warehouse/factory can retain it's Double-Platinum Quadruple A+ safety ratings and have three billion consecutive days with no incident and some sweet insurance discounts because when someone gets maimed they technically didn't work for you. So your company can say it's totally regulation compliant using 100% domestic labour meanwhile the recruiting agency just doesn't bother with any kind of safety accreditation and they don't pay into worker's comp so they don't have to worry about insurance rates. There's a meat packing plant in Toronto that did this and had like 3 fatal incidents with no consequences, but I think the recruiting agency had to go bankrupt and re-form after each one. Haha this owns. Capitalism ftw
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Jul 17, 2019 17:13
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Musk sucks but this science is pretty cool stuff. Even with just like exterior electrodes on your scalp you can train to move poo poo with Your Mind using a computer that interprets whatever signal you give off when you imagine some poo poo
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Jul 17, 2019 17:15
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