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[Madman198237]

It's like the entire management for that company is actively working to NOT improve or make good decisions. It's incredible.

[JoshuaFH]

You know, it's enough for governments to act like petty dictators, but do companies feel the need to do so as well?

It really does feel like many institutions just want to see how badly they can behave before the commoners decide to burn the world down.

[Naturegirl1999]

Gah! Who knows how many other companies are also trying to do this shit?

[McTraveller]

Companies don't do things.

Countries don't do things.

People do things.

"Powerful people" often don't even do things - most often they employ masses of "regular people" to do things on their behalf.

[Svarte Troner]

You know, it's enough for governments to act like petty dictators, but do companies feel the need to do so as well?

It really does feel like many institutions just want to see how badly they can behave before the commoners decide to burn the world down.

*Sits down backwards on a chair* the dudes running the companies are the same ones running the government

[Enemy post]

plantation, slave, slave labor, master

A bit yikesy there Mr. Bezos

Ethics

[Egan_BW]

Banning things like "this is concerning" does seem like an effort to make yes-manning mandatory. Which seems like a good way to get to whatever the corporation equivalent is of invading a country with a bunch of broken materiel and untrained conscripts and realizing that you're probably not gonna win in three days like you thought.

[MrRoboto75]

Banning things like "this is concerning" does seem like an effort to make yes-manning mandatory. Which seems like a good way to get to whatever the corporation equivalent is of invading a country with a bunch of broken materiel and untrained conscripts and realizing that you're probably not gonna win in three days like you thought.

this is concerning

[MaxTheFox]

As much as I'd want a place for civil discussion of the war... keep the thread locked, I don't like it when people call for the deaths of over 100 million people, surprisingly.

It's just one of those subjects that drives people up the wall apparently.

Also there was one other Russian (KittyTac) but he kinda stayed on the sidelines and watched for the most part (perhaps in horror at some of the takes)...

[EuchreJack]

I feel like this belongs here, since Amazon is so tightly would around our economy and political lobbying engine. Amazon apparently had a doc leak showing its plans to ban specific words and phrases internally to it's employees. Here's a list!

This sounds like a joke from a dystopian scifi starring Sylvester Stallone, but it is not. Naturally no major news outlet is covering it at present.

Spoiler: Bad Words include "pay raise" and "accessibility" (click to show/hide)

Their official response is "lol we weren't really going to".

Good thing their employees are Unionizing the crap out of them.

[hector13]

I feel like this belongs here, since Amazon is so tightly would around our economy and political lobbying engine. Amazon apparently had a doc leak showing its plans to ban specific words and phrases internally to it's employees. Here's a list!

This sounds like a joke from a dystopian scifi starring Sylvester Stallone, but it is not. Naturally no major news outlet is covering it at present.

Spoiler: Bad Words include "pay raise" and "accessibility" (click to show/hide)

Their official response is "lol we weren't really going to".

Good thing their employees are Unionizing the crap out of them.

One warehouse, out of more than a hundred, unionizing does not a movement make.

[Starver]

I was wondering about the "TOT"....

Spoiler: Disambiguation page - Annotated (click to show/hide)

Look up Tot or TOT in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Maybe later
Tot, ToT or TOT may refer to:
Economics

• Total (Tot.), the summation of multiple values You'd think not
• Transient occupancy tax, charged in the US Vaguely possibly a bone of contention for nonlocal workforce..?
• Terms of trade, the relative price of imports in terms of exports That's just international business!

Organizations

• TOT (Thailand), a telecommunications company Prob. not, unless they were a problem in some unspecified way
• Total S.A., an oil company with NYSE ticker symbol TOT Can't see it, unless it's Bezos's background with Exxon that makes for controversy

People

• Tót, Hungarian surname and ethnonym Ah yes, that notorious Hungarian-(Danish and/or Cuban) family feud system!

Other uses

• Transfer of technology, the process of disseminating technology Unlikely, unless in the context of cyborg-implantation (and that's Musk's thang!)
• Tots, short for Tater tots, a brand of hash browns produced by Ore-Ida A bad allergy experience?
• Toddler or young child NO CRÈCHE!
• Rum ration, given daily to sailors on Royal Navy ships ♪♪Oh what shall we do with the drunken packer..?♪♪/♪♪Ear-lie in the morning!♪♪
• Theatre of Tragedy, a Norwegian band A falling out with their publisher/promoter?
• Time on Target, a military technique Extreme warehouse surveillance...
• Tip of the tongue, a memory processing phenomenon I'm sure there's a good reason for this one, but... No, it's gone.
• Totnes railway station, Devon, England; National Rail station code Obviously!!!11!!!
• Trail of Tears It's the dysentery?
• Trans-obturator vaginal tape, procedure for urinary incontinence Rather extreme approach to Personal Breaks...
• Treaty of Tordesillas (ToT), signed 1494 That ol' Spain/Portugal thing (but they haven't banned talking about the ToZ yet!)
• T.O.T.S., a 2019 computer-animated television series on Disney Junior Clearly
• Time in Tonga, a time zone with abbreviation TOT Those troublesome Tonganese and their timekeeping...

[EuchreJack]

I feel like this belongs here, since Amazon is so tightly would around our economy and political lobbying engine. Amazon apparently had a doc leak showing its plans to ban specific words and phrases internally to it's employees. Here's a list!

This sounds like a joke from a dystopian scifi starring Sylvester Stallone, but it is not. Naturally no major news outlet is covering it at present.

Spoiler: Bad Words include "pay raise" and "accessibility" (click to show/hide)

Their official response is "lol we weren't really going to".

Good thing their employees are Unionizing the crap out of them.

One warehouse, out of more than a hundred, unionizing does not a movement make.

When it's among the biggest and most prominent, it's a healthy start.

[Lord Shonus]

When it comes to unions, the gap between 0 and 1 is much bigger than that between 1 and 100.

[JoshuaFH]

Corporations know that, which is why they're so zealous in trying to quash all language that might even imply unionization, and so brazen in employing union busting tactics when they do start to germinate.