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    SpringSprungHamilton Nolan
    7/15/15 2:15pm
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      Tóásó Great PredecessorSpringSprung
      7/15/15 2:24pm

      Irony. 90% off for next 24 hrs.

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      JKohlerSpringSprung
      7/15/15 2:27pm

      comment of the day. bonus points for not using words.

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    Sean BrodyHamilton Nolan
    7/15/15 2:06pm

    Thanks for doing this.

    I was almost going to say something mean on Lacey Donohue’s lovely post.

    “You’re buying from monsters and supporting their evil ways!!!!”

    But you can’t, can you?

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      Sean BrodySean Brody
      7/15/15 2:07pm

      I won’t buy a single thing from fucking Amazon. That is my stated position.

      ETA I just realised that I bought my dad a Kindle at Christmas. But it was at Best Buy, so not from a warehouse.
      Still, I’m part of the problem. Dammit.

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      LangostaSean Brody
      7/15/15 2:26pm

      I buy damn near everything from Amazon - so I cancel you out.

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    onlyinfloridaHamilton Nolan
    7/15/15 2:38pm

    I buy shit from Amazon all the time. From the consumer’s perspective, it’s been nothing short of a good experience from day one. Great prices, free shipping, and uber convenience.

    That said, companies like Amazon and Walmart - companies that have perfected supply chain management - have also destroyed their own corporate cultures, creating dissatisfied workers and slavery-style reputations.

    I’ve worked for more shitty companies in my lifetime than I can even remember...and I quit them all for (hopefully) better jobs. You can’t blame Amazon for being a shitty company to work for without putting some responsibility of the employees to GTFO of their shitty jobs.

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      Nicoonlyinflorida
      7/15/15 2:50pm

      Although I agree with you to an extent, not all people have the luxury of being able to walk away. It's not always easy for a low skilled worker to walk away from a job that is paying over minimum wage. Personally, I would (and have) walk away from any employer that didn't respect me, but I try not to hold that against other people in different situations who possibly have dependents. It can also be hard to get a job while you have a job, employers don't want to wait two weeks for you to give proper notice, but quitting without another job lined up can be quite the risk.

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      onlyinfloridaNico
      7/15/15 3:10pm

      Yeah...that’s fair. Everyone’s situtation is different, and when you factor in kids, the stakes get higher. I agree...it’s not always easy to get a job while you have one. And it’s even harder when you don’t. I’ve taken plenty of backsteps in my life just for the chance to take one forward. It was always risky. I know plenty of people who’ll never take such a risk. On one hand I can’t blame them, and on the other, I pity them.

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    Rom RombertsHamilton Nolan
    7/15/15 2:06pm

    Now is a good time to start a long-running series on companies that aren’t huge and evil. Like Gooberman’s Moose Products, or Sock Factory, or Benevolent Food Brands of America.

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      Tidal TownRom Romberts
      7/15/15 2:07pm

      I thought all large companies are inherently evil?

      Also, I’ve always been curious when the shift from regular, small/medium sized company to evil, large corporation actually takes place.

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      InsaneInDaBrainGamesRom Romberts
      7/15/15 2:12pm

      Don’t forget the benevolent FromUnda Cheese Factory of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. They donate a majority of profits to taint research.

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    mulchmcdingleberryHamilton Nolan
    7/15/15 2:28pm

    I worked in the Amazon warehouse in Fernley Nevada for about 2 years back in 2003 and 2004. It was hard-ass work and I was beat by the end of the day, but as a fucking scumbag I’ve worked worse jobs. The idea that there is any justice or dignity in this world is a sick joke perpetuated by comfortable people. Everything is awful and you just embrace the absurdity like the guy in The Stranger (a book I bought on Amazon).

    I made friends with a couple guys who’d been in the military and at the end of the day would drive the 33 miles back into Sparks to get drunk or just pass the fuck out watching TV (I was big into M*A*S*H at the time). Not the worst $12/hr in the world. They did have cameras pointed at the bathroom doors, which I thought was kind of creepy.

    Oh also one time somebody took a shit in the cardboard baler and it all squeezed out the side when somebody pressed a bale. They never found out who did it.

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      NedSmanksmulchmcdingleberry
      7/15/15 3:23pm

      “Oh also one time somebody took a shit in the cardboard baler and it all squeezed out the side when somebody pressed a bale. They never found out who did it.”

      Hahahahaha. Love it.

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      Gaying Mantis Tobogganmulchmcdingleberry
      7/16/15 5:00am

      Dude, we’re not even out of kindergarten yet. Tens of thousands of brutal years where anything an everything could kill you and an old person was in their 30’s. Then about 10,000 years of assholes realizing they can make others do the work while they reap all the benefits, everybody was a slave save the 1% and even their lives weren’t that great. Finally, 200 years of increasingly accelerated emotional and intellectual growth as a society and civilization—humanity here, not America—to the point where we have nations where more people than not live comfortable lives.

      Granted, life is fairly absurd. Fuck, reality came out of nothing, what do you expect? But that doesn’t mean we haven’t been equipped with brains that can slowly over time tame many aspects of chaos and create a future more weird and wonderful than any of us can imagine.

      For my bona fides, I’m disabled, living off less than a grand a month, and have been in chronic pain for over two decades and it sucks so much in a way that words will never be adequate to describe. Thanks to sister morphine I’m alive and I’m dead although this stranger won’t be killing any arabs. Namaste my beaten brother.

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    BrianGriffinHamilton Nolan
    7/15/15 2:01pm

    But...but...I can get 60% off of baby wipes!!

    Helps clean the tears of the downtrodden.

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      phunkshunBrianGriffin
      7/15/15 2:12pm

      It’s sort of a testament that even on their extraveganza birthday, the deals are shitty.

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    FranklinComesAliveHamilton Nolan
    7/15/15 2:05pm

    For real though, is there any popular thing, or corporation, that Gawker doesn’t want to continually shit upon? You guys are starting to sound like the dude at the bar that “only drinks Jack” in the Ramones shirt talking about how he just couldn’t work for The Man.

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      seeyaFranklinComesAlive
      7/15/15 2:10pm

      And?

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      IAmLiterallyJebLundFranklinComesAlive
      7/15/15 2:19pm

      While I hate the “that thing you think is good is actually bad!” trope as much as anyone (especially when it has to do with art), i think it’s a good thing that Gawker and others shine a light on companies with shitty labor practices. stuff like this being out in the open helps people make informed decisions about purchases.

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    toothpetardHamilton Nolan
    7/15/15 2:06pm

    And people look at the great cascadia earthquake like it would be a bad thing.

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      Sean Brodytoothpetard
      7/15/15 2:20pm

      Some day a real rain’s gonna come..

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    BitchMeeTooHamilton Nolan
    7/15/15 2:12pm

    IDGAF

    GIF

    I’M SHOPPIN RIGHT NOW.

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      Lawyer CatHamilton Nolan
      7/15/15 2:02pm

      Wow, it’s horrible that these people aren’t allowed to quit!

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        NicoLawyer Cat
        7/15/15 2:43pm

        I know you’re being snarky, but it really can be very difficult for a low skill worker to turn away from a job that is paying better than minimum wage. That being said, I would definitely take a cut in pay to leave a place that treated me with no respect and tried to make me wait in line after my shift ended, but I don't have kids and have no one depending on me or my income.

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