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Shit, if I was an Amazon warehouse worker and had the chance to get paid the same except SOME of my workload was sitting down and shilling for Amazon on twitter
by Applejinx 8y ago
Shit, if I was an Amazon warehouse worker and had the chance to get paid the same except SOME of my workload was sitting down and shilling for Amazon on twitter, I would jump (well, sit) at the chance.
It's a different kind of demanding, more like being a commercial writer, probably more open to people who are damn good commercial writers and happen to be working as a picker in an Amazon warehouse. It'd be like getting paid as a picker but being paid to have breaks and worker rights.
I don't think it's illegal to do this, but it is as manipulative as it's possible to be. Therefore that's probably just what's happening there: if you can write and shill effectively on Twitter there's a chance that you get to do that and pretend to yourself that it's a break or rest period.
Very Amazonian.
- krapp 8y ago>Shit, if I was an Amazon warehouse worker and had the chance to get paid the same except SOME of my workload was sitting down and shilling for Amazon on twitter, I would jump (well, sit) at the chance. They probably wouldn't let you sit down, unless you were shilling on your lunch break. Amazon has a policy against their warehouse workers sitting down while on the job, not even HR is allowed to sit when they're staffing the front. You can squat though, and I've tried to get around it by sitting seiza.
- nasredin 8y ago>>>Seiza is the Japanese term for one of the traditional formal ways of sitting in Japan I am surprised there's no workplace shootings in Amazon warehouses a la USPS.
- mrguyorama 8y agoThere's not enough time
- saudioger 8y agoThere's no way they're actually writing this stuff. At best they're real employees allowing a company to tweet on their behalf.