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Re:Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of pe... by lisper on Friday June 17, 2022 @04:32PM (#31783918)
Wow, that was really poignant.
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Re:Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of pe... by philsnow on Friday June 17, 2022 @06:43PM (#31785401)
I dunno, it seemed fairly rosy.

They could have twisted the knife quite a bit more: there were a couple 3-second interactions where people are buying things [0][1], if they had been denominated in "hours of service" rather than USD, with the Company knowing what their hours balance was, and having the balance tick down and go negative... that would have been dark.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO9VRtrTJwc#t=1m26s

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO9VRtrTJwc#t=2m5s

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Re:Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of pe... by lisper on Friday June 17, 2022 @06:58PM (#31785541)
Yes, it was understated. Given SP's general trend of exaggerating things to extremes I thought that made it all the more emotionally impactful. It was like: if we exaggerated this reality, it would not be funny, it would be unwatchable.
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