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Re:Amazon's Surveillance Infrastructure and Revitalizing Wor... by tokai on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @09:24AM (#24341476)
> the security check is not a critical part of the job and could be eliminated.

lol, scores of work assignments and whole jobs shouldn't be compensated with this line of reasoning.

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Re:Amazon's Surveillance Infrastructure and Revitalizing Wor... by Red_Leaves_Flyy on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @09:32AM (#24341542)
Stocking shelves isn't critical. Get rid of the shelves and park the pallets on the floor.
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Re:Amazon's Surveillance Infrastructure and Revitalizing Wor... by vetrom on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:16AM (#24341925)
While not identical, the warehouse store model is essentially this, with different examples of execution more or less close to the exactly this.
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Re:Amazon's Surveillance Infrastructure and Revitalizing Wor... by coldtea on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:49AM (#24350356)
lol, only if we follow the "sliperry slope" conclusion.

And if we take your comment to its sliperry slope conclusion, then employers could ask for employees to do anything, for any amount of time, unpaid, if they considered it "critical".

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