Amazon Tells Warehouse Workers to Close Their Eyes and Think Happy Thoughts (www.404media.co)
from morrowind@lemmy.ml to cyberpunk@lemmy.ml on 13 Mar 2024 06:32
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RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de on 13 Mar 2024 06:38 next collapse

Worker, place your hands on the pads and think happy thoughts. You have 10 seconds to comply. Failure to comply will result in complementary reconditioning. Happy birthday!

STOMPYI@lemmy.world on 13 Mar 2024 11:32 collapse

Drink a compliance can of soda to proceed…

MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works on 13 Mar 2024 07:10 next collapse

This is a dangerous mindset, closed eyes aren’t focused on the task at hand and happy thoughts aren’t company thoughts!

Missmuffet@lemmy.world on 13 Mar 2024 07:11 next collapse

I was working at an amazon, and they made these shitty “games” for you to “play”, and you played them by working faster :////

Basically, in one, you’d get a pet and it would grow based on how fast you worked. The games also pit you agaist your coworkers so youd feel pressured to - you guessed it - work faster.

I was doing good one night and told my manager and he went “Nice! Now go even faster!”. By far the worst job ive ever had.

RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de on 13 Mar 2024 09:35 next collapse

Sounds like Andor in the factory for death star parts

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GluWu@lemm.ee on 13 Mar 2024 10:52 collapse

So literally the fifteen million merits episode from black mirror

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morrowind@lemmy.ml on 14 Mar 2024 02:11 collapse

I watched that episode but it was pretty dumb, because it was just an unexplained dystopia. You can’t make much of a point if hinges entirely on a dystopia with no reason to exist with unexplained systems of power to create oppression.

DestroyerOfWorlds@sh.itjust.works on 13 Mar 2024 07:47 next collapse

this is the Dystopian Now.

Icalasari@kbin.social on 13 Mar 2024 08:26 next collapse

What in the dystopian fuck?

jsomae@lemmy.ml on 13 Mar 2024 09:31 next collapse

what’s the context for this screen? A mental wellness exercise?

Missmuffet@lemmy.world on 13 Mar 2024 17:44 collapse

These messages play on each worker’s screen about once an hour. They’re supposed to be wellness checks. Source, former employee.

drwho@beehaw.org on 13 Mar 2024 18:10 next collapse

Great. Somebody thought Paranoia was another RPG to mine for terrible ideas to implement.

uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 13 Mar 2024 22:43 collapse

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