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Re:I feel like im talking to the borg by BeetleB on Thursday August 15, 2019 @10:19AM (#20705424)
>are you a robot, did they make a bunch of ai to lie for them instead of helping real workers

Talking to a real human this way is not reasonable. Nor is it an argument.

>how much are you compensated per tweet like this

This is like the question "Have you stopped beating your wife?" When the assumption of malintent/guilt is there from the start, you're setting yourself up for a very unreasonable conversation.

>so they’re paying you to tweet that you like your job, which is tweeting about liking your job...lol yes!! you are paid to say that you like your job. it’s your job!

This is very likely false, and she is actively ignoring people who are saying it is false.

I have to agree with GP. While I found the ambassador tweets to be, well, weird, her tweets are the ones that stood out to me as very unreasonable. She does not seem at all interested in anything that contradicts her world view.

Re:I feel like im talking to the borg by ahelwer on Thursday August 15, 2019 @10:31AM (#20705538)
It isn't false that they're paid to tweet. One of the Amazon borg replies they tweet for two days (at $15/hour) then work in the warehouse for two days.
Re:I feel like im talking to the borg by BeetleB on Thursday August 15, 2019 @11:03AM (#20705826)
>It isn't false that they're paid to tweet.

Which is not the allegation being made.

Re:I feel like im talking to the borg by ahelwer on Thursday August 15, 2019 @11:06AM (#20705860)
Put some effort in then, because I have no idea what hair you're trying to split.
Re:I feel like im talking to the borg by skinnymuch on Thursday August 15, 2019 @10:59PM (#20711780)
They are essentially compensated for tweets. They are paid hourly to tweet. And have to be tweeting positive things regularly per hour. Essentially the same thing.

The part about saying they like their job is true. The guidelines for them is everything has to be positive.

Re:I feel like im talking to the borg by basscomm on Thursday August 15, 2019 @10:43AM (#20705641)
>>so they’re paying you to tweet that you like your job, which is tweeting about liking your job...lol yes!! you are paid to say that you like your job. it’s your job!

>This is very likely false, and she is actively ignoring people who are saying it is false.

She's technically correct in the same way that it's technically correct to say that if I take a restroom break while on the clock that I'm getting paid to use the restroom.

Re:I feel like im talking to the borg by titanomachy on Thursday August 15, 2019 @11:13AM (#20705914)
Some ambasssador in the thread says she tweets two days and works in the warehouse two days. So it's not really comparable to using the bathroom.
Re:I feel like im talking to the borg by basscomm on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:09AM (#20715287)
Let me put this another way:

If, during the course of doing my job, someone asks me if I like doing my job and I say, "yes", it would technically be correct to say that I was paid for saying that I like my job (since I'm being paid for doing all the things that I do while on the clock it's also technically correct to say that I was paid for tying my shoes or talking to a coworker about some movie if I did those things during a shift). That does not necessarily mean that one of my job duties is telling people how much I like my job.