the unstoppable local-biz-swallowing pseudo-monopoly that is AMAZON

this is my shit.

great article

I think one reason this hit me so hard is that I just finished reading Anna Tsing's The Mushroom at the End of the World the other day, and this struck me as a weird, grimmer companion piece to that book.

Great article!

Also,

Often, sellers will invent destinations to give their travels a direction. Anderson likes to follow bands. He recently followed The Mountain Goats across four states and is planning to do the same this summer when Tool goes on tour.

Maybe he's an ILXor?

I want a 70’s-era Wim Wenders movie of this article.

Kings of the Resell.

Anderson In The Closing Toys R Us.

Big Lots In The Cities

Paris, Texas

lol

Two sides to every story: an Amazon sortation center associate provided their perspective about the recent coverage of our working conditions on @Quillette. https://t.co/e1L6ODOAbs

— Amazon News (@amazonnews) July 24, 2019

Hello fellow proles

Ok now that I read the full piece, I am wondering if that’s possibly extremely dry satire

fucking quillette lol

alas, tweet deleted

lol what is happening (scroll up for full thread)

i feel like im talking to the borg

— Diana Wilde (@rulesObeyer) August 15, 2019

Amazing.

absolutely nightmarish

just a horde of glassy-eyed zealots queuing up to bleat platitudes about their entirely unsinister corporate masters

wow

at the same time though, they do seem to have some good amazon experiences and just want to make sure the good stories are also heard!!!

And at up to $17 as a Tier 1 entry-level stower, it's not that hard to save up for college, is all I'm saying!!

What’s even going on here? I have my doubts about this Rafael character.

It must be that one I agree, but these overtimes are voluntarily taken on our day offs. Impromptu ones happen during holiday and peak which is also nice for extra cash in our pockets. 💸

— Rafael - Amazon FC Ambassador 📦 (@AmazonFCRafael) August 14, 2019

(needs to be seen in context)

From what I remember from my Amazon internment, "ambassadors" are basically mouthpieces for the company. They tend to be the kind of people who have stayed there long enough to advance beyond warehouse drone status. Lunatics, in other words.

The idea of actually making one of thosr places your long term career is mind-boggling to me in retrospect.

Andy Partridge of XTC: And I've got one, two, three, four, five, senses working overtime, trying to taste the difference between lemon and lime

Brandy - Amazon FC Ambassador #: And the entire voluntary overtime offered by Amazon is helping to pay for me to take my daughter on vacation to Florida

entirely

Love carol’s little anti-union riposte there yikes

Poor Rafael, when he started at Amazon he was a white woman named Michelle, had grandkids that called him Nana. Now he's a young filipino.

there's your replacement theory proof

I don't understand why they must recycle twitter accounts like that.

We are happy to work at the glory hole of capitalism.

— Žižek - Amazon FC Ambassador 📦 (@SvetaPinto) August 15, 2019

Is the FC First Class or Football Club?

It's what they call their warehouses, "fulfilment centres".

a friend of a friend's last day at amazon corporate, after 7 years, is friday. no one has said anything and she's thinking she'll have to organize her own goodbye lunch

i am certain amazon will end its contract with the postal service in the near future. maybe the usps shouldnt have staked its survival on a single private company. https://t.co/e46PubyME4

— Terry (Real Lady) - Amazon FC Ambassador (@itsbreadtimebch) August 15, 2019

Personally, I think it's kinda cool that Amazon uses thispersondoesnotexist.com as their staffing source for FC Ambassadors.

I suffer from depression too, and at one point I wanted to quit Amazon. But I realized it was my fault for the problems I was dealing with, and not Amazon's. I'm allowed to talk to people, but sometimes I don't want to. Now I have some great coworkers to pass the nights with.

— Hannah - Amazon FC Ambassador 📦 (@AmazonFCHannah) August 15, 2019

real human hours

Bit late but, Hello I'm Ciera. I work at JAX2 as a Decanter/Problem Solver. Help Launch the building back in Aug 2017 as a Stower.
I have 2 Dogs and I love playing the Sims in my spare time. pic.twitter.com/mxqpdn5yXy

— Hannah - Amazon FC Ambassador 📦 (@AmazonFCHannah) March 26, 2019

Once I realized that suppresive small local businesses were the source of all my body thetans, I shot up to FC VIII in no time.

totally normal picture of a person at work without showing their face

totally normal picture of a person at work without showing their face, who has a different name, head size & hair from the name & photo on my account

My name is Leo, I’m an Amazon Ambassador and rebin at JAX2. Any questions about the FC just ask! I’m also into riding motorcycles, the beach and/or pool. I’m Retired Public Service (Newark NJ), CR7, support Portugal National Soccer Club and Sporting Futbol Club. pic.twitter.com/0edDglLEFM

— Hannah - Amazon FC Ambassador 📦 (@AmazonFCHannah) August 21, 2018

the great thing about this program is it was absolutely the brainstorm of some midlevel PR manager who needed to find something to do to justify their next promotion

Like how do they not vet their bots to ensure that the name in the text of the tweet matches the name on the account. How. This is a very large corporation. How does this happen.

I suffer from depression too, and at one point I wanted to quit Amazon. But I realized it was my fault for the problems I was dealing with, and not Amazon's

she’s not sad, she was just programmed that way

Mental Illness is no light subject. As a person who suffers from Depression, I am happy to know i have resources thru my job to help me if I need it. #youarenotalone This job can be tough, it isn't for everyone: but just like puzzle pieces we fit into different pieces. 💙💙💙💙💙

— Hannah - Amazon FC Ambassador 📦 (@AmazonFCHannah) March 13, 2019

xposts, ha An AI's depression is presumably self-generated?

'Just like puzzle pieces we fit into different pieces' - Bob Marley