|
Gorilla Salad posted:I remember a story Bezos himself told back when Amazon was still new and only sold books. He deigned to spend an hour or two slobbing it with the plebs on the warehouse floor as they grabbed books off the shelves and had to sort them all out while on their hands and knees because there was nothing else available to them. And they still have neither.
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 15:29
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 26, 2024 20:00 |
|
|
Now they have electronic bracelets which measure hand movements against a computer generated metric and are punished if they don't move fast enough.
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 15:58
|
|
|
PostNouveau posted:And they still have neither. No they have tables you're not allowed to leave. You have a cubicle style station where the other side of your table is constantly visited by robots containing boxes of things to pack at a rate designed to be "as efficient as possible". You're not allowed to bring anything besides your clothes past the security check point (passing through which takes 5 minutes where you're off the clock). Dystopian is an overused word, but Amazon warehouses are a thing straight out of brave new world
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 17:00
|
|
|
i wonder how many amazon employees vote Republican
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 17:06
|
|
|
Wheeee posted:i wonder how many amazon employees vote Republican lol if you think amazon employees get time off work to vote
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 17:08
|
|
|
ikanreed posted:No they have tables you're not allowed to leave. my prime membership ended today!
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 17:27
|
|
|
ikanreed posted:Amazon warehouses are a thing straight out of brave new world
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 17:32
|
|
|
Wheeee posted:i wonder how many amazon employees vote Republican yeah, how stupid of them. they should support the Democrats in order to back the Dems' various proposals to protect workers and diminish corporate power, such as
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 18:32
|
|
|
Main Paineframe posted:yeah, how stupid of them. they should support the Democrats in order to back the Dems' various proposals to protect workers and diminish corporate power, such as consolidated data centers will lead to vacant warehouses that local governments can give to amazon for free in exchange for them setting up a shipping center there
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 18:36
|
|
|
Gorilla Salad posted:Now they have electronic bracelets which measure hand movements against a computer generated metric and are punished if they don't move fast enough. Also, the movement data from the employees is probably used to teach an AI to do that job with the cheapest robot arms available.
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 18:41
|
|
|
ikanreed posted:No they have tables you're not allowed to leave. Well, the good news is they'll have the packing automated soon enough and then no one will have to deal with their bullshit jobs. The bad news is the super rich are going to escape to Dubai before we break out the pitchforks and torches.
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 18:54
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/julie_johnsoned/status/984809438602321920
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 19:15
|
|
|
RabbitWizard posted:Also, the movement data from the employees is probably used to teach an AI to do that job with the cheapest robot arms available. That's extremely good. Because warehouse packing should be 100% automated as soon as possible. Of course, Amazon needs to be nationalized as well, but I don't particularly care which order it happens in.
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 19:17
|
|
|
We feared the future would be like Blade Runner, and we got Johnny loving Mnemonic
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 19:31
|
|
|
Halloween Jack posted:We feared the future would be like Blade Runner, and we got Johnny loving Mnemonic Lol
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 19:32
|
|
|
PostNouveau posted:Well, the good news is they'll have the packing automated soon enough and then no one will have to deal with their bullshit jobs. lol if you think dubai will last five minutes in a scenario where the .1% are fleeing there
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 23:25
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/NatEveryWord/status/993665874144976896?s=20
|
|
#
?
May 8, 2018 23:33
|
|
|
game developers must avoid the wage-slave attitude Many modern game developers have embraced a culture of victimology and a bad attitude toward their chosen vocations. They complain that the long hours and personal sacrifices great games require are a consequence of poor management. They want to pretend that they can turn an inherently entrepreneurial endeavor like game development into a 9-to-5 job. Somehow, these people have managed to adopt a wage-slave attitude toward one of the most remarkable and privileged careers in the world. ... I know I’m going to offend a lot of people by saying this, but I do so with the hope that a few will wake up and shake off their mental shackles. I’ll grant that it’s been 23 years since I used an outhouse or had to hunt for dinner, but I’m still thrilled by the incredibly decadent luxury of porcelain toilets and fast food. I can’t begin to imagine how sheltered the lives of modern technology employees must be to think that any amount of hours they spend pushing a mouse around for a paycheck is really demanding strenuous work. I’ve hired thousands of people over the years and can’t help but notice the increasing frequency with which I encounter people with a wage-slave attitude toward making video games. go ahead and read the rest if you wanna get real mad btw this is the author: quote:Alex St. John is the co-creator of the DirectX family of API’s at Microsoft and founder of WildTangent Inc., one of the world's earliest and largest downloadable game publishers. He has over 20 patents related to online game publishing and is a speaker and technology columnist on GPGPU programming today. and here is the response from his own daughter calling him a jackass On [his] blog, they uncovered extremely distasteful recruiting slides and supplemental blogs with revolting opinions regarding women, minorities and the mentally handicapped in the tech industry. Since these findings, countless others and I have found ourselves at a loss for words how anyone, especially someone in a position of power, can think that it is acceptable to broadcast such offensive material. As his toxic waste trash fire not only is associated with my last name but also my face, I felt compelled to respond to my father’s sexist, ableist, and racist rants. (Important disclaimer: I have not lived with or near my father for many years and I lead an independent existence. I very strongly disagree with his opinions but have unfortunately ignored them for too many years.)
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2018 17:59
|
|
|
Why is the creator of WildTangent talking about "great games?"
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2018 18:08
|
|
|
I LOVE WAGE SLAVERY posted:"Don’t be in the game industry if you can’t love all 80 hours/week of it — you’re taking a job from somebody who would really value it. lol get hosed. have fun working unpaid overtime making candy crush clones.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2018 19:52
|
|
|
Alright, I will take my family to work, have them cook lunch using Amazon stock etc., thanks Jeff.
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2018 20:27
|
|
|
H.P. Hovercraft posted:game developers must avoid the wage-slave attitude I also used to use an outhouse and hunt for dinner and I'd rather go back to that than code for 12 hours a day or whatever bad labor practice he's defending
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2018 20:33
|
|
|
it routinely amazes me that people in the west have been so thoroughly domesticated that pieces of poo poo like that are never put down by someone theyve abused
|
|
#
?
May 9, 2018 20:48
|
|
|
Wheeee posted:it routinely amazes me that people in the west have been so thoroughly domesticated that pieces of poo poo like that are never put down by someone theyve abused Even though it is an extremely tired word, "sheeple" is still an accurate description for most people
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2018 03:04
|
|
|
H.P. Hovercraft posted:game developers must avoid the wage-slave attitude this douche aside, I'd advise any young and malleable goons reading this, who still haven't decided what industry you want to wage slave yourself in for the next 50 years, to never try to turn a hobby you enjoy into a career. Nothing will kill your love of video games faster then beta-testing some garbage game for 11 hours a day or spitting out code.
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2018 03:49
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/MirrorPolitics/status/993953079203717120
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2018 09:24
|
|
|
yeah, sure, but Jeremy Corbyn is loony
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2018 11:01
|
|
|
*lady bracknell voice* A packet clutch?
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2018 20:34
|
|
|
its kind of cool looking tbh. bit expensive tho
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2018 21:04
|
|
|
THe wealthy shall hang from their crisp packet clutches.
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2018 21:08
|
|
|
fashion has nothing to do with aesthetics, its all about status and signaling
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2018 21:10
|
|
|
Wheeee posted:fashion has nothing to do with aesthetics, its all about status and signaling So, keeping your poo poo in an used crisp bag made of gold signals "I'm loving garbage but still so much richer than you"?
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2018 21:16
|
|
|
Teal posted:So, keeping your poo poo in an used crisp bag made of gold signals "I'm loving garbage but still so much richer than you"? yes.
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2018 21:18
|
|
|
Wheeee posted:fashion has nothing to do with aesthetics, its all about status and signaling What about the jumpers
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2018 21:22
|
|
|
Wheeee posted:fashion has nothing to do with aesthetics, its all about status and signaling 
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2018 21:24
|
|
|
Wheeee posted:fashion has nothing to do with aesthetics, its all about status and signaling Oscar Wilde delivered a series of lectures in Wild West mining towns on Aestheticism and singled out the American gold miner - a working class icon - as a hero of (masculine) aesthetics. He praised the pervasive long hair, loose-fitting & sturdy clothing, the leathers and blend of tones. Not really a propos of anything, just thought of it from this post.
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2018 21:30
|
|
|
thinkin bout oscar wilde getting hosed in the rear end by gold miners
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2018 21:38
|
|
|
"Do you boys know how to shovel coal?"
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2018 21:39
|
|
|
an actual dog posted:thinkin bout oscar wilde getting hosed in the rear end by gold miners
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2018 21:41
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 26, 2024 20:00 |
|
|
Is there a good collected works of Oscar Wilde available?
|
|
#
?
May 10, 2018 21:41
|
|