"Close your eyes and think about something that makes you happy," the screen, titled "Savoring," instructs Amazon fulfillment center workers.
  • Missmuffet@lemmy.world
    69·
    9 months ago

    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
      381·
      9 months ago

      So literally the fifteen million merits episode from black mirror

      1000005564

      • morrowind@lemmy.mlOP
        41·
        9 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.

  • RBG@discuss.tchncs.de
    48·
    9 months ago

    Worker, place your hands on the pads and think happy thoughts. You have 10 seconds to comply. Failure to comply will result in complementary reconditioning. Happy birthday!

  • MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works
    18·
    9 months ago

    This is a dangerous mindset, closed eyes aren’t focused on the task at hand and happy thoughts aren’t company thoughts!

    • Missmuffet@lemmy.world
      5·
      9 months ago

      These messages play on each worker’s screen about once an hour. They’re supposed to be wellness checks. Source, former employee.

  • The Doctor@beehaw.orgEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    Great. Somebody thought Paranoia was another RPG to mine for terrible ideas to implement.