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That's a good point. Unions have never done anything shady, they're too busy feeding the poor and rescuing kittens in trees. Snark aside, OP never said it was
by oh_sigh 6y ago
That's a good point. Unions have never done anything shady, they're too busy feeding the poor and rescuing kittens in trees.
Snark aside, OP never said it was the union doing it. It could just be someone outside the potential union members who just supports unions in general, or doesn't support Amazon, who is doing it.
What other explanation is there? Do you think there is some die-hard Amazon supporter who goes out of their way to generate fake profiles and then post messages that wouldn't sway anyone?
- ruste 6y agoSomewhere in another thread someone suggested that amazon had a program and incentives for employees to represent them positively online so maybe it is just poor PR on their part. Still, these days it's hard to take anything at face value.
- oh_sigh 6y agoYes, that's their ambassador program. But I doubt that the ambassador program would tell the members to create unverified accounts and try to pass them off as official amazon ambassador accounts.
- uoaei 6y agoEssentializing all unions based on the behavior of a few of them, vs summarizing a single company's behavior who has a visible and obvious track record of breaking up unionization efforts via nefarious and underhanded tactics, are completely incomparable. If you want snark, have some back: where did the big bad union boss touch you? > What other explanation is there? Hired a shoddy offshore bot-writing and astroturfing outfit who are obviously not up to the job. It's a very simple, and one of the most likely, explanations. Occam's razor comes in handy occasionally if you just take the time to think a bit.
- oh_sigh 6y agoI never said I was anti-union. I'm just pointing out that unions aren't 100% pure forces of good. They have a good idea at their heart, and frequently they are abused by insiders for personal gain. > Occam's razor Amazon has an ambassador program, where they basically pay workers to post on twitter about how good their job is. You're saying they have a program for workers to post on twitter, and they also hire astroturfers to make fake posts of the same thing on twitter, using photos of moderately known celebrities as their backgrounds? I don't buy it. Amazon made the mistake of creating a system where accounts are "verified" merely by a prefix of their name - "@AmazonFC...". Therefore anyone can make an account that looks like "@AmazonFC...", not just Amazon. What amazon should have done is have a single official account, or even a single official account which links to other official accounts. Occam's razor tells me that the most likely creator of these accounts is a troll who browses reddits ABoringDystopia sub, and is just having fun.
- uoaei 6y agoThat's also plausible, and indeed not unlikely. In that case, I applaud the tactics. Bravo! brava! anonymous internet citizen and empathetic soul!