• quicklime
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    1 year ago

    Black Friday? Oh, you mean International Buy Nothing Day!

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      I once had to make an emergency Amazon purchase on Black Friday due to needing a cable that was stopping me from doing my job and I felt like an asshole. But it was that or my job.

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    1 year ago

    Thanksgiving should really be pushed to the Friday, why Lincoln went with the damned Thursday of that week I simply cannot comprehend, and why Nixon’s Monday Holiday schtick didn’t affect it too I especially don’t understand

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      It’s 1000 out of about 70,000 actually. Because it’s the UK you need to look at how many people they employ in the UK. This is because Amazon UK can change its working conditions without the need for the rest of Amazon to.

      Once Amazon UK have improved their working conditions, pay and benefits people in other countries may say “well, how come Amazon UK staff have better benefits than we do. Maybe we should do something about it”

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      In 2021, a grand total of 90 QA workers went on strike at Activision Blizzard for 6 weeks. There are 1100 people in QA across the company. Over 400 QA testers worked on Warzone at the time. During the strike, several major issues that normally would never make it to live, went live. We’re talking placeholder art, broken optics, invisible operators, and many more severe issues. The numbers might seem insignificant, but it never is.