Amazon trying to cover their ass?

Updated Wednesday, September 4, 2024 5:10 p.m. EST - Amazon reached out to deny the reports of a crack down on singing along with the radio in trucks and provided this PR video clip as evidence. A PR spokesperson told Jalopnik: “This post is completely inaccurate. Amazon has never issued guidance or communications to Delivery Service Partners that prohibits singing in the vehicle.”

https://youtu.be/3ddtY_iOrk8

46 points

LOL the balls on these companies

I’m shocked people are still putting up with all this horseshit. Why is everyone so complacent. I don’t get it.

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40 points

When you’re desperate for work and low on options, you take what you can get.

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11 points

It’s not even employment, I mean buying from these companies. Why…it’s not even convenient anymore having to return most of the crap or throw it out because of how utterly cheap it is.

Collectively, humans are fucking stupid and can’t do the only thing to kill these companies. Stop giving them money. But everyone is great at going online and bitching about em.

I refuse to buy online. Unless I can see the thing BEFORE buying, I won’t buy it. I’ve literally broken stuff in stores to test how I’m going to be fucked. Ripped soles off shoes, bent steel frying pans. I’m sick of everything that this world is turning into…the only thing that will have SOME form of quality is our jail cells for when we try to take everything back.

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People also order on temu. Amazon is oftentimes the same but with one day delivery. And Amazon does not just sell trash, since you can still get almost anything. An iPhone from Amazon is the same as an iPhone directly from Apple or from some smaller shop. And it might be cheaper, additional to the quick delivery. Amazon can still be incredibly convenient. If I know I need something important tomorrow and there’s no local store, Amazon it is. But of course, if I just want a thing without hurry, there are usually some better/cheaper options.

Also, you sound like a nightmare customer. Do you also break stuff in small privately owned shops or do you at least stick to big corporate stores?

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7 points

And they are low on options, because people keep buying from these shit companies.

I have never bought anything from Amazon.

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32 points

This is beyond micromanagement. Nanomanagement? Or did they skip a step and go straight to picomanagement?

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5 points

femtomanagement

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2 points

Perhaps even attomanagement

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Amazon Representative: This post is completely inaccurate

Amazon has lied before. When the right to sing is explicitly enumerated in the union-approved contract we can believe them.

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12 points

Read between the lines in Amazon’s response.

They probably monitor the drivers for lip movements to see if they’re talking on the phone, but their monitoring can’t differentiate between singing or talking to one’s self and talking or singing to someone else, so everyone gets flagged. The drivers know the best way to avoid the ire of management is to simply not move their lips.

It may not be an outright prohibition, but it does have a chilling effect, which makes it as good as one.

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5 points

Please tell me this is the onion.

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