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Inside Amazon

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by JackReacher, Aug 17, 2015.

  1. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    You're not very smart.
     
  2. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    Like I said, the Hunger Games approach has its benefits from a business standpoint. Yet some companies still seem to do well by creating a workplace culture in which employees are treated with fairness, respect, dignity and civility. You can be nimble without fucking over people.
     
    Last edited: Aug 17, 2015
  3. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    I like when you reach for that one because it means I'm right.
     
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  4. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    Didn't Gawker run a "Horror stories" series written by current and/or former Wal-Mart employees not long ago?
     
  5. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    I also have no problem with Amazon doing this to people if they know this is the type of business they are going to work for.
     
  6. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    Well, I worked at Gannett, so yeah. I concede your points here.
     
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  7. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Yeah. And as other companies follow suit, I'm sure it will be more common. (Anecdotally, I've heard Tesla is a particularly horrible sandpit for humanity, even within the tech world.)

    The big problem is all of this runs up against what the tech industry says are its big new initiatives of diversity and work-life balance. It's obvious the only thing they want and will want are males, Asian and white, between 22 and 27 years old. If you're going to grow out of that age range that's OK, as long as you don't actually do any of the things that people in their 30s like to do.
     
  8. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    How'd Xerox's invention of ethernet/the graphical user interface/object-oriented programming pan out?
     
  9. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

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  10. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Did your dictionary just happen to open on the page that has the definition of "equifinality" on it?
     
  11. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    This also of course feeds in with tech companies' eternal lament that they "can't find qualified Americans" and must expand the H1B visa program. By accepting these conditions as inevitable and necessary, we condone a system that brings in more indentured servants at half the pay and benefits and with 100-hour workweeks. Then tech companies lament that Americans won't work as hard as the Chinese and Indian laborers, and we need even more H1B visas. Lather, rinse, repeat.
     
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  12. I Should Coco

    I Should Coco Well-Known Member

    This is why — unlike Amazon — newspapers' list of principles totals exactly one line: How did we handle this last year?
     
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