Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticism of Warehouses

Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by cperciva on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:07AM (#20712348)

Amazon's "workers in a cage" patent

You do realize that the cage is there to protect the worker, right?

If you think "worker in a cage, on top of a robot" is terrible, have you ever seen a construction crane? It is literally a robot with a cage in which a worker sits -- and just like the (never implemented!) patent from Amazon, the point of the cage is to protect the worker.

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Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by im3w1l on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:57AM (#20712512)

Having a comfy chair instead of a metal bench and glass instead of wire net makes cranes look a lot nicer than that concept art.

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Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by cperciva on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:16AM (#20712627)

Aren't patent drawings supposed to show only the essential functional elements?

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Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by im3w1l on Friday August 16, 2019 @03:27AM (#20712896)

Maybe. I personally think it's silly. Still, that's where I think the critique comes from.

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Re:Amazon Uses a Twitter Army of Employees to Fight Criticis... by cperciva on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:43AM (#20712728)

I highly doubt anyone working in an Amazon Fulfillment Centre won the Putnam Competition. ;-)

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