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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday May 02 2020, @09:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the virtual-water-cooler dept.

Amazon locks down internal employee communications amid organizing efforts:

Amazon is reportedly (and suddenly) enforcing rules limiting employees' internal communication as workers, critical of the company's behavior, become increasingly outspoken and organized.

Internal listservs with more than 500 participants are now required to move to a moderated model where a manager must approve any content before its distribution, according to emails obtained by Recode.

Amazon had almost 800,000 total employees worldwide as of the end of 2019, a number that does not include the recent addition of another 175,000 temporary warehouse and delivery workers the company just hired to handle increased demand due to COVID-19. Of those 800,000, more than 500,000 are in the United States, and at least 275,000 of those are full-time employees.

Those hundreds of thousands of employees use thousands of internal listservs to talk among themselves about basically anything. That "anything," of late, includes many criticisms of Amazon. The company has faced both internal and external reproof[*] for its management of warehouses, where some employees have called for better cleaning, more protective equipment, and more paid time off as COVID-19 has spread through at least 50 US facilities.

[*] Malformed link in original; corrected here.


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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 02 2020, @01:38PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 02 2020, @01:38PM (#989450)

    > Your household decision will have no effect on Amazon.

    Correct. However, millions of household decisions will. I made my decision when Amazon cost me money by being assholes (long story) and have never bought anything directly from them. (yes, have had the occasional Amazon fulfillment from an eBay order).

    Those Amazon employees need to get smarter--do their complaining and union organizing on Facebook and Twitter, that's where they have a chance of reaching millions of households (not on their company intranet).

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  • (Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Sunday May 03 2020, @05:59PM (1 child)

    by digitalaudiorock (688) on Sunday May 03 2020, @05:59PM (#989850) Journal

    Amazon can fucking suck it. I avoid it like the fucking plague lately. Their constant attempts to trick you into doing shit you don't want to borders on criminal. I accidentally signed up for Prime twice when I was sure I didn't and they made it very hard to find out where to cancel that. Even more annoying is the crap with some products like razor blades where they have a "Subscribe Now" button (that is to keep buying it on a regular basis) that looks exactly like the usual icon to just buy something once and they make it kludgy and confusing to change that to a one time buy. That is criminally deceiving.

    Anyone who hasn't seen the Frontline on Amazon really should. The reality of the situation is worse than you probably think:

    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/amazon-empire/ [pbs.org]

    Jeff Bezos can fucking suck it. He thinks he's some sort of visionary genius when he's little more than a mediocre tech person who got lucky at the exact right point in human history. If he's "good" at anything, it's the business savy of knowing how to exploit the lottery he hit to the detriment of all fucking mankind. Bully for you, and rot in hell like the evil you are.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2020, @01:49AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2020, @01:49AM (#990007)

      [...] Jeff Bezos can fucking suck it. He thinks he's some sort of visionary genius when he's little more than a mediocre tech person who got lucky at the exact right point in human history. [...]

      Jeff Bezos is a cop.