Experimenting in how far it can push white-collar workers,
redrawing the boundaries of what is acceptable.
“Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.”
Bo Olson, worked in books marketing
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“Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.”
Bo Olson, worked in books marketing
Or as an earlier observer noted on his visit to the the predecessor of the contemporary office, the "dark satanic mills".How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, lavender, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? ”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
We came nae to view you warks
In hopes to be mair wise,
But only, lest we gang to hell,
It may be nae surprise.
― Robert Burns
so you think dehumanizing humans is wrong, and dehumanizing robots is OK?Parodite wrote:Amazon seems to me a typical example where one hopes that one day soon.. all the nasty boring repetitive dehumanizing work is done by robots.
Our future rulers:Torchwood wrote:Amazon is evil, but customer service is excellent, and I like my Kindle (whose ebooks are on a different format to the global standard, to keep you locked in.)
Still, customer service from slave plantations was probably very good. Jeff Bezos is a megalomaniac who wants to take over the world, and so far is doing very well at it.
Typhoon wrote:Our future rulers:Torchwood wrote:Amazon is evil, but customer service is excellent, and I like my Kindle (whose ebooks are on a different format to the global standard, to keep you locked in.)
Still, customer service from slave plantations was probably very good. Jeff Bezos is a megalomaniac who wants to take over the world, and so far is doing very well at it.
Oceania - Amazon
Eastasia - Alibaba
I think that there is a bit more to it than that.Zack Morris wrote:A "bruising workplace" Please. Like I'm sure the NYT is just a cuddly play pen. I'll bet more people have cried at their desks there than Amazon. I've no direct experience with Amazon but the folks I know who do absolutely love the place. The key to understanding these pieces is that New Yorkers are extremely envious of Silicon Valley and the west coast working culture in general. Just take a look at a plot of newspaper circulation vs. time over the past 10 years and you'll understand why underpaid and overworked NYT staffers are bitter.
Of course, the final solution will be complete warehouse automation.My brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-packing time inside the online-shipping machine.
At least you have cubicles . . .The US economy has roared back since the Great Recession, but many employees are grappling with the same overwhelming crush of work that was a hallmark of the downturn. The phenomenon has fueled an extraordinary rise in corporate revenues, but it has also stretched workers to the breaking point.
I think that you're right.Typhoon wrote:Our future rulers:Torchwood wrote:Amazon is evil, but customer service is excellent, and I like my Kindle (whose ebooks are on a different format to the global standard, to keep you locked in.)
Still, customer service from slave plantations was probably very good. Jeff Bezos is a megalomaniac who wants to take over the world, and so far is doing very well at it.
Oceania - Amazon
Eastasia - Alibaba
I'd believe that the life of an Amazon warehouse worker sucks. But the NYT exposé was mainly concerned with the plight of Amazon's office workers.Typhoon wrote: I think that there is a bit more to it than that.
As always, it's probably better to be in management than a frontline worker:
MJ | I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave
Indeed. And this is something Amazon is at the forefront of.Of course, the final solution will be complete warehouse automation.
Actually, we rarely do these days. Open offices are all the rage. A Facebook friend shared this horror story:At least you have cubicles . . .
This is not too dissimilar from my current office layout, except that there is no special seating for the managers. Our desks are long benches, basically, and a little more spacious, with walls of monitors (between 3 and 6 per person) acting almost to create semi-cubicles
The traditional J-office organization. The manager or section head sits at a desk at the end.