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Re:Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get mo... by pishpash on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @07:43PM (#24348431)
Is "cutting the queue" (what this is) an unintended consequence of having a queue? It's perfectly normal behavior. Maybe it gets resolved socially, or the solution could involve tracking whether the follow-up movement happened as assumed (the real hidden assumption). Making a buffer and reducing precision doesn't solve anything actually, it makes it socially more difficult, but it's really a hack, as was choosing the closest physical phone whether a warm body was attached or not.
Re:Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get mo... by cortesoft on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:32PM (#24349462)
I think if they randomly select someone with a range, it would make it not as important to try to be physically closer. It wouldn't stop all gaming of the system, but it would be a start.
Re:Amazon drivers are hanging smartphones in trees to get mo... by hombre_fatal on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @09:21AM (#24352931)
You'd want to tweak it so you were picking the person in range who went the longest without a gig rather than a naive random pick. Lot more encouraging for the workers vs watching the guy who just got a gig receive yet another before them.