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An exasperated Amazon customer has posted a video of 62ft of wrapping paper snaking through his house - that was used to "protect" dog food.
Nick Taylor said the box used to deliver the bag of food was "big enough to live in" and claimed the food didn't need to be packaged at all.
Nick laid out the 19-metres of packaging paper in his home in Bath and posted the video to Amazon's Facebook page.
The trail starts in what appears to be a utility room and leads in to a dining area before entering the kitchen itself.
From there the paper enters the hall, where the dog food can be glimpsed in its heavy plastic packaging.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/exasperated-amazon-customer-films-62-12259048
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Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food
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Two is not equal to three, even for large values of two.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by lentilla on Sunday April 01 2018, @12:14PM (5 children)
What this says to me is that an Amazon employee is fed up with their employer, and is waging a petty, useless, one-person war against The Man.
The customer posted this video online and the likely result is the employee got fired. In a just world, the boss would ask "why?" and fix the issue but the world isn't exactly fair.
It's all well and good to have a whinge at a weekend barbecue about "the stupid amount of packaging Amazon used" but when you go posting this kind of stuff online, people's lives are altered. Do we pause to consider the consequences?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 01 2018, @01:05PM (2 children)
Can't say that I care an awful lot. That employee with whom you are concerned has no consideration for his employer, for renewable resources, for the customer, or much of anything else. If he's only there for the paycheck, and doesn't care about anything else, then his life needs to be altered.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by lentilla on Sunday April 01 2018, @01:37PM (1 child)
Sure, the employee is behaving childishly and disrespectfully but my gut feel is that there is an underlying reason for this beyond the simple interpretation that the employee is a sorry excuse for a human being. I'll wager the employer is treating the employee disrespectfully and the employee is acting out. Yes, it's dumb, but that's what happens when people get in a bad situation.
Most humans go to work primarily for the paycheck, and packing boxes is not particularly fulfilling for most people. So yes, the employee's life needs to be altered - but probably not by being fired.
An alternate speculation is that the employee in question is far too smart to be packing boxes and really needs to be moved to a more appropriate position. (Or flipped around: has considerable potential to provide far more value to their employer in a more challenging position.)
Or; of course; they could just be a sorry excuse for a human being.
Anyway, it's all speculation. But I do care about other people. Some are more capable - many less - but mostly they are OK people bumbling through life just like you and me. In this case, empathy comes easily - I know that I'd go completely spare if I had to pack boxes every day.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @06:13PM
The working class needs to organize. Childish actions will do nothing to help.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @01:38PM
I hate to break it to You, but this was probably packaged like this in order to fill an empty space in a truck somewhere. -- if it wasn't packaged by a machine, it was probably a machines decision to do so. Alternatively, it could also be explained with a lack of smaller boxes.
And do not worry about the employee -- Amazon doesn't give two shits about this thing.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by khallow on Sunday April 01 2018, @02:55PM
OTOH, the firing may have fixed the issue. The problems don't always lie with the Man.