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Amazon Tells Warehouse Workers to Close Their Eyes and Think Happy Thoughts (www.404media.co)

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[–] Missmuffet@lemmy.world 69 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I was working at an amazon, and they made these shitty "games" for you to "play", and you played them by working faster :////

Basically, in one, you'd get a pet and it would grow based on how fast you worked. The games also pit you agaist your coworkers so youd feel pressured to - you guessed it - work faster.

I was doing good one night and told my manager and he went "Nice! Now go even faster!". By far the worst job ive ever had.

[–] GluWu@lemm.ee 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So literally the fifteen million merits episode from black mirror

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[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

I watched that episode but it was pretty dumb, because it was just an unexplained dystopia. You can't make much of a point if hinges entirely on a dystopia with no reason to exist with unexplained systems of power to create oppression.

[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 7 months ago

Sounds like Andor in the factory for death star parts