it's the fulfillment center workers who have to piss in bottles, the drivers are the ones shitting in bags
― rob, Monday, 29 March 2021 22:11 (three years ago) link
oh yeah
terrible working conditions without even bathroom breaks are more widespread than just amazon is my point i guess
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 29 March 2021 22:15 (three years ago) link
Absolutely. And anyone spending their work day in a vehicle is going to face this problem. I read a bit about this w/r/t women who drove for uber/lyft sharing tips online about safe bathrooms
― rob, Monday, 29 March 2021 22:20 (three years ago) link
It's like Xerox or Kleenox, their brand is tied (for some/many) to terrible workplaces that don't have to be, as Wal-Mart was in the '90s and '00s.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 29 March 2021 22:26 (three years ago) link
It's easier for people to yell at one name (that keeps shitting itself publicly - Wal-Mart didn't have twitter to deal with) than all of capitalism.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 29 March 2021 22:27 (three years ago) link
A few years ago I had a Lyft driver who was eight months pregnant and really needed to pee, so she asked if it was okay if she went a few blocks off route to stop at a gas station she trusted and she kept being like super, super apologetic. I was like, "seriously, it's absolutely fine, I don't want you to have to drive around in pain".
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 29 March 2021 22:33 (three years ago) link
I would have thought one of the perks of being an Amazon driver would be getting to piss in a bottle and then pour it out the window on passing motorcyclists or convertibles.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 29 March 2021 22:37 (three years ago) link
buddy only bezos get to pour his piss bottle on america
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 00:27 (three years ago) link
The recent official “You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you?” tweets were so aggressive that engineers filed internal reports assuming the account had been hacked and were being sabotaged.
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 08:07 (three years ago) link
^that and this making me feel better about being so confused yesterday: https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dpnb5/twitter-is-banning-amazon-ambassadors-and-its-a-total-mess
― rob, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
More from the Beeb: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56581266
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 17:17 (three years ago) link
it feels wrong to keep this video to myself pic.twitter.com/uQjqHElIr7— Alex Press (@alexnpress) March 30, 2021
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 23:04 (three years ago) link
who?
― Nhex, Tuesday, 30 March 2021 23:09 (three years ago) link
Chet Haze, fresh from heralding a White Boy Summer
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Tuesday, 30 March 2021 23:25 (three years ago) link
Amazon’s Twitter Army Was Handpicked for “Great Sense of Humor,” Leaked Document Reveals
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 05:59 (three years ago) link
obviously the solution to all this is a new startup called toiletr where everyone rents out their bathrooms
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 18:26 (three years ago) link
airpee'n'poo
― nickn, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
I've long thought that it was downright criminal that well-maintained public restrooms aren't just a basic part of every mid-to-large city's governmental function.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 20:03 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/opinion/sunday/public-toilets-united-states.html
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 21:08 (three years ago) link
It is downright criminal. Nothing worse than having to end a pleasant walk somewhere early and return home because, god forbid, we provide a place for the general public to use a bathroom.
But, America. People are so freaked out by the possible bad things that someone might do in a public restroom that they'd prefer to just revoke it for everyone.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 21:26 (three years ago) link
it's not just an American problem tbf. I had to stop chaining my volunteer deliveries for this reason!
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 21:33 (three years ago) link
I guess I just assumed it was more of an American thing.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 21:36 (three years ago) link
Anytime people are visiting from out of town, I have to maintain a mental map of where they can comfortably use a restroom in any part of the city.
― You Can't Have the Woogie Without a Little Boogie (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 21:46 (three years ago) link
America has plenty of public toilets. Like this one:
https://i.imgur.com/0O0Bf9s.png
― pplains, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 21:49 (three years ago) link
Thought that was going to be Ronald Reagan’s grave tbh
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 21:52 (three years ago) link
Warren:
Some of the biggest, most profitable corporations in America (I’m looking at you, Amazon) have paid $0 in federal corporate income taxes. I’ve pushed for a tax on the book profits of these giant corporations, and the Biden-Harris #AmericanJobsPlan includes a version of this.
Biden's former comms director, Obama's WHPS:
With great respect, Senator @ewarren, this isn’t correct about Amazon’s tax payments. But changing the law is certainly more productive than faulting companies for following it-and far better than threatening to break up American companies so they can't criticize elected leaders.
A comment:
Amazon’s line they’re simply “following the law” by paying no taxes ignores the obvious fact that in 2017 Amazon had 64 different tax lobbyists pushing for the Trump tax cuts. They’re not passive aw shucks “taxpayers”, they’re the second biggest spender on lobbying in Washington!
― armoured van, Holden (sic), Thursday, 1 April 2021 00:38 (three years ago) link
Jay Carney@JayCarney [....]eternal GBV fan (@_GuidedByVoices)
Can we get Pollard in on this?
― jmm, Thursday, 1 April 2021 00:44 (three years ago) link
union vote not going so hot for the union, for some reason
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Friday, 9 April 2021 14:35 (three years ago) link
extremely dispiriting, especially in light of how much awful shit has come out recently, and Amazon’s creepy and bungled social media response. I honestly thought this would be a corner turned, but nope. And I’ve been mostly unplugged but has Amazon’s grossness been covered anywhere except Twitter/ Ken Klippenstein?
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Friday, 9 April 2021 17:02 (three years ago) link
was disappointed in how Nomadland skated past the awfulness of Amazon's treatment of RV-dwelling seniors, but then again it wasn't really what the movie was about per se (the book definitely focuses on this more)
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Friday, 9 April 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I also sort of hoped this might be some sort of turning point, perhaps naively.
Has anyone gone back to replace all of the B'n'L logos in Wall-E with the Amazon logo yet?
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 April 2021 17:09 (three years ago) link
the shitposting was far from their only form of fuckery
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-pushed-usps-to-install-mailboxes-outside-warehouse-report-2021-4
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Friday, 9 April 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
I've ordered a couple things from eBay recently that showed up in Amazon bags.. such a bummer.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 9 April 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
not to dunk on Nomadland (film) but it does seem odd how two of the primary cUlTuRaL mArXiSt bogeyman of conservative fever dreams (Hollywood & “”the media””) have been suspiciously silent on class and labor issues in the last few decades. examples are out there obv, but they are very much the exception.
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Friday, 9 April 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link
I suppose Hollywood doesn’t really have an obligation per se, but The Media has been exceedingly negligent
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Friday, 9 April 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link
I've ordered a couple things from eBay recently that showed up in Amazon bags.. such a bummer.me too! they even have amazon fulfilment packing slips inside. i’m like ... wha
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 10 April 2021 16:52 (three years ago) link
i'm thinking this might have some connection to the facility being in Alabama
― sharpening the contraindications (Aimless), Saturday, 10 April 2021 17:36 (three years ago) link
xpost yeah merchants sell stuff on both sites but have amazon logistics handle the storage & shipping
― rob, Saturday, 10 April 2021 18:03 (three years ago) link
was disappointed in how Nomadland skated past the awfulness of Amazon's treatment of RV-dwelling seniors, but then again it wasn't really what the movie was about per se (the book definitely focuses on this more)― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Friday, April 9, 2021 1:07 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Friday, April 9, 2021 1:07 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Would Amazon have let Zhao film in the fulfillment center if the script had made more of that? I'm assuming not.
I await what happens when Nomadland finishes its theatrical run and the awards season--will it ever stream on Amazon Prime? And just what does it mean for the film industry that Amazon is both a content provider AND a major outlet for its own and other producers' titles. The Paramount Decree has been overturned, but this looks to me like a remake of the vertical integration the original antitrust case wanted to abolish.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Saturday, 10 April 2021 19:28 (three years ago) link
will it ever stream on Amazon Prime?
It's on Hulu. Once that window expires (if it ever does), they might pick it up as a paid rental, though.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 10 April 2021 20:31 (three years ago) link
good time to remind everyone that Jeff Bezos sexts like a computer that's pretending to have a human body https://t.co/D2lDQmWQkk pic.twitter.com/Nta156WfkD— Cari Hernandez (@eatinginmycar) May 11, 2021
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Tuesday, 11 May 2021 22:04 (three years ago) link
bring me death pic.twitter.com/IwKkNPNl3P— Luke Bailey (@imbadatlife) June 2, 2021
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 June 2021 20:19 (two years ago) link
jesus christ I'm sure doing social for Amazon pays a lot better than the warehouse but imagine the stress of managing twenty different accounts "talking" to each other like that
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 4 June 2021 20:23 (two years ago) link
yeesh
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 June 2021 20:39 (two years ago) link
How authentically english to brew a cuppa when you're expecting big news
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 4 June 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
companies are starting to cut out the risky, unreliable part of social media, people, and instead are talking to themselves.
why are they doing this? because asking yourself questions and then answering them is a classic political move. you have to remember to imply that you're asking the questions the audience wants to hear, even though you're not.
^otm
― Karl Malone, Friday, 4 June 2021 22:18 (two years ago) link
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7begd/amazon-furniture-assembly-service-adds-new-chaos-to-delivery-workers-lives
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 7 June 2021 14:33 (two years ago) link
the unstoppable DaVinci-swallowing pseudo-dictator that is BEZOShttps://www.change.org/p/reddit-we-want-jeff-bezos-to-buy-and-eat-the-mona-lisa
― burly crafty woodsman (James Harden) vs tall ethereal phantom (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 June 2021 05:09 (two years ago) link
would rather see the mona lisa eat jeff bezos tbrr
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 19:20 (two years ago) link
Bleak
🤮 pic.twitter.com/gHSVSsR03k— Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) November 10, 2021
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 10 November 2021 15:47 (two years ago) link