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Say what you will about Amazon, but what I did not appreciate about that Gizmodo article is they are misleading on purpose. They put a massive screenshot of the
by rekshaw 8y ago
Say what you will about Amazon, but what I did not appreciate about that Gizmodo article is they are misleading on purpose. They put a massive screenshot of the video showing a "TIPS" acronym that apparently stands for Threat, Investigate, Promise, Spy. Then in tiny grey text the caption states its a screenshot of what the company does NOT advise Management doing. Obviously very few will read that tiny caption. Sensationalism at its best.
- xg15 8y agoAnd Amazon is so concerned that its managers could spontaneously forget not to do any of those four specific things that they made this handy acronym to help them remember. /s But this image appears at about the middle of the article, after the fold - so whatever the rationale, it wouldn't be particularly useful clickbait. The rest of the article is pretty unambigous though. The expectation that employees should focus more on "customer obsession" than their own wage is rather funny. The "warning signs" and general language is less so. I'm not sure how the legal situation in the US is - but the quotes seem like they very carefully try to stay out of legal trouble, but go as far far as they can in anti-union tactics otherwise.
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- mywittyname 8y ago> Obviously very few will read that tiny caption. Sounds like the point. It's like having a police PSA to prevent robbery that describes in detail how to effectively commit robbery and get away with it. Afterwards, in tiny letters it says, "don't do this."