Pretty sure it is, because it's less depressing and bleak than the fake accounts Amazon is operating that have also been featured in this thread.
Satire is dead.
Parody can't match reality.
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Black Mirror is Real: Woman criticizes Amazon on Twitter, Gets Flooded with Branded Amazon Employee Accounts Exalting the Company
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Pretty sure it is, because it's less depressing and bleak than the fake accounts Amazon is operating that have also been featured in this thread.
Satire is dead.
Parody can't match reality.
Wow. That stream with the various different accounts chiming in like its the 1 person is super Fucking weird
"I think Amazon workers deserve fair treatment."
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There's already something Orwellian newspeak about the term "fulfilment centre" but this is downright creepy.
I'd respect it more if they were sneaking. Cant call it astroturf if they're not even trying.
Bernie got them SHOOK
This seriously feels as if they were brainwashed
This seriously feels as if they were brainwashed
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Speaking of Black Mirror, I had a dream last night that I insulted Lindsey Graham on Twitter, and he sent ICE to get me.
WTH?
WTH?
And some of us here shill for nothing. We need to unionize! I want my check, TWDC.
Isn't account sharing against the Twitter ToS?
It also reminds me of the Sixers in Ready Player One.
It also reminds me of the Sixers in Ready Player One.
Interesting.
Next time I'm feeling lonely I'll tweet some bull shit about Amazin fulfillment centers.
Next time I'm feeling lonely I'll tweet some bull shit about Amazin fulfillment centers.
They'll tweet about it until Amazon replaces these twitter accounts with bots.
If MLM and Scientology merged together, those tweets are what I'd imagine interacting with their members would be like.
And who is this low budget struggle PR for? Who's biting? A few weeks ago, "Amazon News" also promoted a shitty PR piece written by Quillette.
Qatar, MBS, and Blackwater hire shameless but effective PR firms and lobbyists. Amazon with all its money does the shit in the OP.
I thought this one was parody account like Amazon Ambassador Jordan. Oh dear.
And who is this low budget struggle PR for? Who's biting? A few weeks ago, "Amazon News" also promoted a shitty PR piece written by Quillette.
Qatar, MBS, and Blackwater hire shameless but effective PR firms and lobbyists. Amazon with all its money does the shit in the OP.
I thought this one was parody account like Amazon Ambassador Jordan. Oh dear.
People have to pay their bills. Some people have the option of choosing a more ethical career than others. Some people don't. These are people on the lowest rung of the corporate ladder. Getting mad at them personally doesn't make sense to me and ends up as lower class in-fighting.
It'd be different if we were talking about high level corporate manager who's engaging in ethics breaches and are paid far beyond their value, but I really can't fault someone for taking a decent minimum wage job even if it means selling out their soul. The true culprits here are not the individual shill accounts, it's Amazon corporate policy, and to a lesser extent, Twitter corporate policy.
Wtf? If they actually got a bunch of people to write positive things about them on social media, why would they have them go around with "Amazon Ambassador" in their name? When you want people to be convinced you're not evil, you do that by convincing people regular ass employees aren't having a problem with your company. An "Amazon Ambassador" isn't a regular ass employee.
"I feel like I'm talking to the borg" lmfao. That's so accurate. "Our captors are feeding us and we are safe and secure"
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Lol I was joking a bit about you calling her a class traitor and then you basically go and do it. Brilliant.
Her getting snarky is not a problem here lol. Going after her in any capacity is massively losing the script dude.
When i worked the floor at an Amazon FC I'd have said whatever they wanted on Twitter to get some time away from production
I don't think it's a problem either. I just don't like it when our (American) culture blames corporate/social problems on company drones, while turning around to exalt the virtues of capitalism.
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I mean you clearly do, you outright argued she shouldn't expect privacy on Twitter and accused her of taking her anger out on the employees harassing her.
Again they went to her. They bombarded her.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's some seriously strict oversight and there's little creative input here on the actual 'Ambassadors' side (it could be one dumbass manager here directing a team's focus unto one poor woman) but at the same time this is very much a vain hope to believe that the cogs in the machine are still free-thinkers.
She shouldn't, no one should. Twitter doesn't promise privacy nor does it guarantee privacy, and it has shown that it will only step in against harassment when it suffers PR backlash.
Social media is not a private space and social media giants don't care about securing your privacy.
on the one hand its kinda hilarious amazon basically pays a few people $15hr to just be super positive about amazon online, its not that different from a million other jobs OR a million russian/etc bots either
on the other hand its nice one person is taking them to task for it
on the third hand that person is probably also just a twitter clickbaiter, trying to get a rise out of any corporation so they can get that little perfect vortex of social media attention and profit off it
i kinda wish era wouldn't allow any talk of twitter thread wars tbh, it just feels kinda slimey for some reason like we are contributing to the fall of decency and society. this whole thing does feel very much like that black mirror episode with jessica chastain where everyone is super fake and chasing Like's
on the other hand its nice one person is taking them to task for it
on the third hand that person is probably also just a twitter clickbaiter, trying to get a rise out of any corporation so they can get that little perfect vortex of social media attention and profit off it
i kinda wish era wouldn't allow any talk of twitter thread wars tbh, it just feels kinda slimey for some reason like we are contributing to the fall of decency and society. this whole thing does feel very much like that black mirror episode with jessica chastain where everyone is super fake and chasing Like's
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She also shouldn't passively accept harassment from paid harassers and that includes it being ok to tell them off.
I know I regularly riff on the Achewood "Liebot, what is the saddest thing?" setup but, like, this is an entirely new level for that.
You are correct liebot, this is the saddest thing.
She shouldn't, and it's absolutely okay.
Again, I'd prefer it if society collectively spent more time tearing down capitalism instead of engaging in twitter wars but I'm not going to tell her to stop snarking at brand accounts.
I'm surprised at the shock in this thread. This type of thing has been happening since the internet went mainstream 25-30 years ago. Frontline did a documentary on it 20 years ago. Those Russian troll farms that we love to talk shit about? They learned it from US corporations and just like the Nazis, the Russians only went so far because the US takes this shit to absurd levels as demonstrated by Amazon. You'd be a fool to think they're the only company that takes it this far.
I heard about this and thought it was pretty shady.
Then I read that twitter thread and think it's fucking legitimately dystopian.
Then I read that twitter thread and think it's fucking legitimately dystopian.
I liked my time at Amazon. It was fun, lazy work and took home some cool swags. It sucks about other warehouse fulfillment centers who treat their workers like that.
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I think she just wanted to criticize Amazon but sure you can assume the absolute worst of her so you can feel you're above it all.
I mean literally this is only a story because a literal swarm of paid harassers descended on her.
If that was the only job you knew, an dthye paid you to say it,you probably would believe it.
Absolute best way to destroy this initiative is to countertroll. Make fake Ambassador accounts and talk about how generous Jeff Bezos is for letting you clean his shoes with rags instead of your tongue.
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Those accounts were created by Amazon for their employees to use on company time for company pay.
They recycle them which is why you can find old tweets from other employees in their Twitter history
All they do when someone new takes over is change the pic and the name
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