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Amazon job ad for an intelligence analyst to track 'labor organizing threats'
- xenocyon 6y ago'After this story was published, Amazon deleted the job listings and company spokesperson Maria Boschetti said in an email that "the job post was not an accurate description of the role — it was made in error and has since been corrected." The spokesperson did not respond to follow-up questions about the alleged mistake.' (source: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4aqw/amazon-hiring-intelligence-analyst-to-track-labor-organizing-threats https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4aqw/amazon-hiring-inte...)
- dang 6y agoSince that article gives a lot more information than https://web.archive.org/web/20200901125228/https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/1026060/intelligence-analyst https://web.archive.org/web/20200901125228/https://www.amazo..., we've switched the URL to it. Submitted title was "AMZN scraps job ad targeting “labor, activist groups, hostile political leaders”". Please don't use titles that way. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, do so by adding a comment to the thread, so that then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=%22level%20playing%20field%22%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
- munk-a 6y agoAs a note on presentation - can we avoid stock ticker shortenings in article titles and switch AMZN to Amazon?
- bigdict 6y agothere’s a mental disorder vibe to using tickers instead of normal company names
- stingraycharles 6y agoI understand what you’re referring to, but calling it a “mental disorder vibe” is just insulting people for no good reason.
- DLA 6y agoReally? What disorder is that?
- labster 6y agoI’ve always wondered why the FCC was in charge of regulating T cells.
- stevenjohns 6y agoYou see it happen on HN often because of title length limits.
- dang 6y agoNot so often. Looks like 9 cases of AMZN in the last year compared to over 3000 for Amazon. Incidentally, abbreviations are not a good way to work around HN's title limit. The idea is to find a shorter meaningful title, not to use tricks to squeeze more in. This is nearly always possible.
- xenocyon 6y agoYes, that was my only reason for employing the abbreviation. In any case, it appears that the mods have chosen to switch out the title with a different one (my original carried an excerpt from the job posting which is now removed).
- dang 6y agoIt turns out that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24343361 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24343361 was posted earlier and also on the front page, so we've merged most comments thither.
- sagebird 6y agoHow is minimum wage or labor unions different from competing suppliers engaged in price fixing? (The suppliers being workers, and the product, human labor) This is not rhetorical, I want perspectives I may have missed. My initial thought is that it Is similar to price fixing and has negative consequences, but there are perceptions of positive consequences that make it socially unacceptable to not go along with it?