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> They say QR codes have also been displayed around the building, which, when scanned by a staff member, automatically generate an email to the GMB’s membership

> They say QR codes have also been displayed around the building, which, when scanned by a staff member, automatically generate an email to the GMB’s membership department, cancelling their membership. How does a generic link generate an email that cancel the membership of a specific person ? Or do they have personalized links all around, but then why don't just call those link ? There is something I am missing (My guess is that it could be a link that opens a web page that deceive the person into canceling the membership, but it is not what is described here)

jprete 2y ago
Or Amazon could have made an actual page or API endpoint that uses the person's existing Amazon credentials to generate and send the email.
lexicality 2y ago
mailto:membership@gmb.union?bcc=hr@amazon.uk&subject=Please%20cancel%20my%20union%20membership&body=I%20have%20decided%20I%20wish%20to%20participate%20in%20the%20free%20market%20as%20in%20independent%20economic%20entity%20like%20god%20intended%2C%20please%20immediately%20cancel%20my%20membership%20and%20remove%20me%20from%20the%20roster
- teddyh 2y ago
  This link technically ”generates” an e-mail, but does not send it.
ooterness 2y ago
That "generates an email" line is ambiguous. I hope it's just a "mailto:" link that pre-fills the to/subject/body/etc. without sending. I wish the article had used clear language like "pre-filled" or "sends", since it could mean either, and those are very different levels of scumbaggery.
- chrisjj 2y ago
  > That "generates an email" line is ambiguous Disagreed. It is unambiguous and false - I'll bet. It merely opens and fills a Compose window.
- TazeTSchnitzel 2y ago
  > Rosa Curling, a director of Foxglove Legal, which is involved in the case, said workers had been “hustled into anti-union propaganda seminars, then have a QR code shoved in their face that terminates their membership with just one click to quit. If only it was so easy to quit Amazon Prime!” (emphasis mine) I don't think this is that unclear. Scan and then a single tap on “Send”.

jprete 2y ago

Or Amazon could have made an actual page or API endpoint that uses the person's existing Amazon credentials to generate and send the email.

lexicality 2y ago

mailto:membership@gmb.union?bcc=hr@amazon.uk&subject=Please%20cancel%20my%20union%20membership&body=I%20have%20decided%20I%20wish%20to%20participate%20in%20the%20free%20market%20as%20in%20independent%20economic%20entity%20like%20god%20intended%2C%20please%20immediately%20cancel%20my%20membership%20and%20remove%20me%20from%20the%20roster

teddyh 2y ago
This link technically ”generates” an e-mail, but does not send it.

ooterness 2y ago

That "generates an email" line is ambiguous. I hope it's just a "mailto:" link that pre-fills the to/subject/body/etc. without sending. I wish the article had used clear language like "pre-filled" or "sends", since it could mean either, and those are very different levels of scumbaggery.

chrisjj 2y ago
> That "generates an email" line is ambiguous Disagreed. It is unambiguous and false - I'll bet. It merely opens and fills a Compose window.
TazeTSchnitzel 2y ago
> Rosa Curling, a director of Foxglove Legal, which is involved in the case, said workers had been “hustled into anti-union propaganda seminars, then have a QR code shoved in their face that terminates their membership with just one click to quit. If only it was so easy to quit Amazon Prime!” (emphasis mine) I don't think this is that unclear. Scan and then a single tap on “Send”.