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If I seem to "have an agenda" based on widespread media reports that are far beyond that one NY Times piece, how exactly would you categorize your own stance? W

If I seem to "have an agenda" based on widespread media reports that are far beyond that one NY Times piece, how exactly would you categorize your own stance? What's your relationship to Amazon? I'm only one of their occasional customers. Anyway, here's reporting about how their warehouses used Neo-Nazis to intimidate immigrant laborers and worked a temp to death. If you have evidence of the drastic measures that would need to be taken to prevent this kind of behavior, I'm happy to hear about it. http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/life-and-death-amazon-temp/ http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/life-and-deat... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/amazon-used-neo-nazi-guards-to-keep-immigrant-workforce-under-control-in-germany-8495843.html%3famp https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/amazon-used-...

jhall1468 9y ago
The first article is about a temp worker dying. One guy. The second article is about Amazon Germany, specifically that the security company they hired, allegedly hired neo-nazis. You don't seem to have an agenda, you absolutely have one. What happened to that temp is tragic, but you can't get more isolated than 1. > Anyway, here's reporting about how their warehouses used Neo-Nazis You mean the company they hired that then hired some shitty people? I don't get why Amazon is now responsible for that.
- alphonsegaston 9y ago
  Different people have different thresholds for what's "water under the bridge." That's fine. I've been a long time occasional customer of there's, but have become increasingly leery of their business and employment practices, both from media reports and people I know who've worked with them. I wouldn't want to be treated that way or see anyone I know treated that way either. That's what informs my views and comments. If you see it as an agenda, that's okay too. But I only used the term "seem" because your framing is to position yourself as somehow more impartial and knowledgeable, while refusing to clarify your own relationship with Amazon and what informs your (in my view) similar stridency.
- s73ver 9y ago
  One guy is far too many. There is absolutely ZERO excuse for that happening.

jhall1468 9y ago

The first article is about a temp worker dying. One guy. The second article is about Amazon Germany, specifically that the security company they hired, allegedly hired neo-nazis. You don't seem to have an agenda, you absolutely have one. What happened to that temp is tragic, but you can't get more isolated than 1. > Anyway, here's reporting about how their warehouses used Neo-Nazis You mean the company they hired that then hired some shitty people? I don't get why Amazon is now responsible for that.

alphonsegaston 9y ago
Different people have different thresholds for what's "water under the bridge." That's fine. I've been a long time occasional customer of there's, but have become increasingly leery of their business and employment practices, both from media reports and people I know who've worked with them. I wouldn't want to be treated that way or see anyone I know treated that way either. That's what informs my views and comments. If you see it as an agenda, that's okay too. But I only used the term "seem" because your framing is to position yourself as somehow more impartial and knowledgeable, while refusing to clarify your own relationship with Amazon and what informs your (in my view) similar stridency.
s73ver 9y ago
One guy is far too many. There is absolutely ZERO excuse for that happening.