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their hosting is p. good sucks about all the other stuff
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Jan 27, 2018 19:39
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more of a rio grande man, myself...
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Jan 27, 2018 19:40
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spoke like someone who doesn't own stock
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Jan 27, 2018 21:01
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their website is terrible but I still somehow manage to order stuff off it all the time
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Jan 27, 2018 21:03
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ordering everything prime delivery is dumb, learn to wait a week bitch
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Jan 27, 2018 21:14
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everyone who places 20 prime orders should get a "present" on their driveway
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Jan 27, 2018 21:16
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Gazpacho posted:everyone who places 20 prime orders should get a "present" on their driveway like what? free amazon basics lightning cable? gift card? don’t leave me hangin’, op!
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Jan 27, 2018 21:21
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Gazpacho posted:ordering everything prime delivery is dumb, learn to wait a week bitch Explain.
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Jan 27, 2018 21:24
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Gazpacho posted:ordering everything prime delivery is dumb, learn to wait a week bitch I bought some books from amazon three weeks ago. they were delivered yesterday. I’m 100% certain that they had these available in inventory the day I ordered them. the only reason to delay the fulfillment for two and a half weeks is to push people into paying for prime.
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Jan 27, 2018 21:25
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more likely some hastily developed software tool got stuck on the shipment and the books sat in a tray for several days until a tech manually tweaked the database
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Jan 27, 2018 21:48
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i've told this story before but amazon has or had a returns warehouse near lexington kentucky and one day a ticket came in that there were thirty pallets of stuff tracked in the database as sitting in the warehouse for several months, and they didn't exist anywhere. no one knew what had happened, probably the order got stuck and the truck was waiting and an employee just loaded them and forgot about it. since there was no documentation of anything in fulfillment software I didn't know how to make them go away either, eventually an old systems hand (of whom there were very few) had to explain how to make them go away: pretend to move the pallets into an empty shelf, then count the items in the shelf which automatically deletes the phantom items some time after that i heard a rumor that a significant percentage of what was tracked in the warehouse turned out not to exist.
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Jan 27, 2018 21:58
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Amazon is a point of sale, yes.
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Jan 27, 2018 22:40
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it's really hard to believe thinking back on it but at the time i was there, there was no attempt to systematically explain to new employes even the most basic things like "how items are tracked in containers", even though the company had the resources and reasons to do so. I was thrown into meetings where everyone used TLAs (including confusing ones like "IPC" that don't mean what you assume) with complete indifference to whether the new guy understood, and when the next guy came into the team, I watched them do the same thing to him on one occasion I sat in a whole session on this robotic thing in a Japan warehouse. after most of the session had gone by with the presenter referring to the thing by its code name and never actually defining it I said, "you've told us a lot about this system's control interface but uh, what is it?" and even then she couldn't pull together the words "IT'S A SORTING SYSTEM." also she kept saying "send commands to the vendor" to mean "send commands to a machine made by some vendor" as if "vendor" didn't have any other possible meaning in a friggin retail company after a couple years of this i still felt like a poo poo idiot but at least I'd picked up a few bits of information that allowed me to be somewhat helpful. then one day a ticket comes in talking about this "bundle" tool thats part of a process i've never heard of that apparently exists in only a few warehouses and its broken and omg fix it right now! when I resigned I brought that up as one of the reasons I was convinced that I would never "adjust" terribly, pervasively pathological organization that no one should ever work in Gazpacho fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Jan 27, 2018 |
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Jan 27, 2018 23:17
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amazon is not the ice cream of the future
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Jan 27, 2018 23:34
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jeff benzodiazepine is the least bad tech ceo though.
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Jan 27, 2018 23:34
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akadajet posted:jeff benzodiazepine is the least bad tech ceo though. 
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Jan 27, 2018 23:35
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yeah they also give out really lovely laptops at amazon, another reason not to work there
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Jan 27, 2018 23:41
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pram posted:yeah they also give out really lovely laptops at amazon, another reason not to work there I never would work anywhere I wasn't given a maxed out 15 inch macbook pro.
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Jan 27, 2018 23:45
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alienware or bust for me.
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Jan 27, 2018 23:47
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pram posted:yeah they also give out really lovely laptops at amazon, another reason not to work there
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Jan 27, 2018 23:47
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http://internetwalmart.com/
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Jan 27, 2018 23:47
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now how lovely are we talking here for the laptops? like getting hp probooks instead of elitebooks? or full-on ultra-garbage, lowest spec trash replete with 1366x768 screen, 4GB RAM, and 250GB spinning rust?
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Jan 27, 2018 23:49
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akadajet posted:I never would work anywhere I wasn't given a maxed out 15 inch macbook pro. you can do this at amazon no problem. you just gotta buy it yourself. also inside scoop some big changes are coming in staffing and there's gonna be a lot of unhappy people on the next month or two. lol!
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Jan 27, 2018 23:49
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President Beep posted:alienware or bust for me. matches your av
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Jan 27, 2018 23:49
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i like buying poo poo from amazon. i would never actually want to work there haha
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Jan 27, 2018 23:50
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SO DEMANDING posted:now how lovely are we talking here for the laptops? i'm guessing it's whatever garbage dell or hp has with tn screens.
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Jan 27, 2018 23:51
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SO DEMANDING posted:now how lovely are we talking here for the laptops? vga port lovely
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Jan 27, 2018 23:52
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lol
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Jan 27, 2018 23:53
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Jan 27, 2018 23:54
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pram posted:vga port lovely
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Jan 27, 2018 23:55
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pram posted:vga port lovely so.. every windows laptop ever then?
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Jan 27, 2018 23:56
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it used to be if you knew exactly what you wanted it was p good but now you search for something and the results are just a bunch of garbage
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Jan 28, 2018 00:19
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Elder Postsman posted:it used to be if you knew exactly what you wanted it was p good but now you search for something and the results are just a bunch of garbage don’t sign your posts
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Jan 28, 2018 00:19
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the packing desks that amazon gives to corporate employees to do their work on are supposed to symbolize frugality and the spirit of construction, like marine recruits assembling their own bunks to sleep on, but really they're an example of the company's indifference to the question of how to make a work environment productive
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Jan 28, 2018 00:29
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Gazpacho posted:the packing desks that amazon gives to corporate employees to do their work on are supposed to symbolize frugality and the spirit of construction, like marine recruits assembling their own bunks to sleep on, but really they're an example of the company's indifference to the question of how to make a work environment productive they're not that cheap anymore either, and nobody here builds them anymore. also most people just do an ergo consult and get an adjustable desk, so they might as well just start switching people over to those. also the laptop/desktop situation sucked for years but about 2 or so years back that was finally fixed.
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Jan 28, 2018 01:02
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I have a friend thats actually getting rid of prime and stopping really using amazon at all simply because they're sick of all the unreliable 3rd party garbage that infects the site now
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Jan 28, 2018 01:09
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:also inside scoop some big changes are coming in staffing and there's gonna be a lot of unhappy people on the next month or two. i'd bet over the next 10 years amazon sheds like 50% of its full time employees. also iirc i find it very weird that i've probably talked with fuzzywife directly.
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Jan 28, 2018 01:12
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The Management posted:I bought some books from amazon three weeks ago. they were delivered yesterday. I’m 100% certain that they had these available in inventory the day I ordered them. the only reason to delay the fulfillment for two and a half weeks is to push people into paying for prime. I heard of a company which assembled bikes from custom-selected parts to a user's specifications. Their process was so efficient that they were able to deliver almost all of their finished bikes the next day, as standard, for no particular extra charge. Customers found this so spooky that the company took to leaving the bikes in a warehouse for a few days by default and charging extra for next- or same-day delivery.
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akadajet posted:jeff benzodiazepine is the least bad tech ceo though. lol no
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