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People Are Mercilessly Roasting Amazon For Allegedly Creating These Fake ‘Happy Amazon Employee’ Accounts On Twitter
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Amazon has been in the news again lately, as more and more employees are coming out and revealing details about the inhumane working conditions and quotas that some of them have to deal with. Currently, votes are being counted in an election to determine whether or not workers at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, will form a union. And Amazon is being accused of union-busting.
The company has always been very strongly anti-union in the US and appears willing to do pretty much anything from letting its workers unionize, including (allegedly!) straight-up lying. So much so that among real Fulfillment Center worker posts, they’ve (allegedly!) mixed in completely fake social media accounts where ‘employees’ defend the company and lambast unions. All with a big smile.
Now, people are calling out these fake people and their ridiculous profiles that not only sound fake (corpo-speak much?), some of them actually use stock or manufactured images for photos! Twitter has even banned a handful of these propaganda accounts that were pretending to be happy Amazon staff members. Bored Panda has collected some of the most egregious examples of Amazon (allegedly!) trying to manipulate its employees to have anti-union sentiments over the years. Scroll down to see the Brave New World we’re all living in and have a read-through and upvote the funny comebacks and reactions to the latest Amazon jobs-related scandal.
People have been calling out fake Twitter profiles that rush to defend Amazon and criticize unions
Image credits: timjsully
Image credits: timjsully
For instance, one account used a stock image for a profile pic
Image credits: timjsully
Image credits: timjsully
While another profile, confirmed to be fake by Amazon, used a photo created on a website
Image credits: MunsonGoober
People have been posting jokes and memes about the fake pro-Amazon profiles ever since
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Viviane 4 years ago
This one is an actual joke, but I get why you're annoyed.
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Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Or, Functional change approved for my human profile, live laugh love compute?
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Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
If they used that money to hire more warehouse employees (to adequately staff them so people can take breaks and not be treated as robots), pay everyone a decent liveable wage to compensate them for the nature of the work, and just quit f*****g micromanaging every second of their workday, maybe they wouldn’t have wanted to unionize in the first place. Does management not understand that dehumanizing employees breeds resentment? That it does not make them work harder and give the company 110%, but make them just do the minimum to get by until they can find a better job somewhere else? If companies would treat their employees well, not play “gotcha” games, not micromanage, not waste time and money trying to cheat their employees and dehumanize them, in other words be authoritative instead of authoritarian, they would find themselves with employees who are loyal, who willingly go the extra mile to make the company more successful, and stay employed with them for decades.
In a follow-up interview with Bored Panda, Imgurian Somethingslightlyclever who works at Amazon, told us that it's not at all surprising that Amazon are ducking the serious issues and that they might be behind the fake profiles. "They aren't very inventive with their PR," the Amazon worker opened up to Bored Panda.
The Imgurian is "very pro-union" and doesn't understand the anti-union rhetoric that Amazon and some Americans favor. "I mean, why wouldn't you want a voice? I figure a union is basically turning your job from a dictatorship to a democracy. I think they crush unions for that same reason. To keep us under their heel. It's a lot easier to treat your employees [badly] and pay them less when they have no voice."
The Amazon employee opened up to us about how the company has a "weird environment" and there's always "a camera on you," tracking you "every second" of the day. "For productivity or accuracy or just to know where you are. It does feel like prison sometimes."
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Thalia Lovering 4 years ago
Well, I don't know. If I was a food taster for my favourite restaurant...
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A Cat Named Dragon 4 years ago
How you look when your bottle is full, but you really hafta pee!
If the Bessemer warehouse workers end up joining the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union, this would be the very first union at Amazon in the United States. The situation is different across the pond in Europe where many workers are unionized and the working conditions are, frankly, better than for many Americans.
Some of the fake accounts were spreading straight-up misinformation. For example, Twitter user AmazonFCDarla said that she didn’t like unions because they allegedly don’t give people the ability to opt out of dues. Meanwhile, Alabama, a right-to-work state, allows its workers to opt out of paying these dues.
According to Gizmodo, Darla’s profile photo might look real, but it’s most likely fake, probably created on the Generated Photos website. Gizmodo nearly managed to replicate her exact look.
Amazon confirmed to the BBC that Darla isn’t an official company Ambassador (which are real employees paid to promote and defend the firm). “It appears that this is a fake account that violates Twitter’s terms. We’ve asked Twitter to investigate and take appropriate action,” a spokesperson told the BBC.
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Legen ( wait for it ) dary 4 years ago
Let me guess. It's been 3 years working there. You started with 25 now you are 28 years old.
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Nikki Owens 4 years ago
Kinda ironic that they used "Comrade" here & put a hammer & sickle next to it when any student of history knows unions were basically a branch of the Communist International in the late 19th-early 20th century.
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Emperor Kitten 4 years ago
Absolutely correct. Dropping a few thousand to set up some bots is nothing complained to giving a million employees a 2 dollar raise.
Most of the accounts suspended by Twitter had been made a few days ago, had very few followers, and tweeted out only Amazon-related posts.
However, it’s not just made up, robotic corpo-sounding Amazon employees that have been defending the company. Some real staff members, including executives, have been doing so too. In short, they denied allegations about workers having to urinate in bottles, said that employees are proud of their jobs “and have great wages and health care from day one.”
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Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
This is the first time I've noticed his shirt says "music⚡band'! Awesome :D
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Malek Basata 4 years ago
hello i published my pic for shutterstock and now publishing it on twitter officially a non hooman
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Paul Davis 4 years ago
hundreds of dollars was the smallest amount of money Jeff Bezos could possibly imagine
Lunar Bicycle 4 years ago
Yeah, they actually tried to type “hundreds a minute” but autocorrect changed it.
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They don’t. That’s a load of bullshit anti-union propaganda, intended to scare workers into thinking unionizing will cost them a huge chunk of their pay, when it will actually raise their salary! I was in a union job for five years, and paid dues that were less than an hour’s salary—-after taxes taken out—-every two weeks. I certainly wasn’t making hundreds per hour. I loved knowing the union had my back. I also wasn’t going to freeload either—-unions are forced to extend union benefits to everyone in a particular unionized job, whether they pay dues or not.
The exhausting working conditions at Amazon are probably nothing new to you, Readers. We’ve recently written about them right here and here if you need a refresher about the endless unfulfillable quotas, urinating in bottles, and pressure to work during your breaks.
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Shelley DuVal 4 years ago
In America, the large (and small as well I guess) businesses are terrified of Unions as it means they will have to pay proper wages, correct any unethical rules, all of which is going to cost the company lots of money, and they certainly will hang onto every cent they already have.
Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
So they rather have a workforce of mass murderers (because that's what videogames cause, right?) than a union? Fair enough.
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Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
Are you a dog “doing your business” at a fire hydrant? An Amazon fire hydrant?
Amanita muscaria 4 years ago
It is red customer. I never seeing customer. Why customer not move?
Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
Frigging awesome it's a secret captcha XD btw I hate captcha and the 'if one pixel is in the box what do I do' conundrum
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Bender Bending Rodríguez 4 years ago
Bottom left is a hint. Hang in there bud, I am calling 911 right now.
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Marcellus the Third 4 years ago
How many zebras got killed making your excercise/challenge sea area though!? You murderer!
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somnomania 4 years ago
real amazon employees = sprinklr, down at the bottom by the date, bots = twitter web app
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Let me explain: UNIONIZING GETS YOU HIGHER WAGES, SO EVEN AFTER PAYING UNION DUES, YOU HAVE MORE MONEY. See how that works? And benefits, too. Been in a union, no regrets, no chance I'd go anti-union. Read history. Without unions, you're voiceless, no leverage, nothing. Support the unions. You owe the union movement a lot, even if you don't know it. (Read up on it, please!)
Rae Reyn 4 years ago
To add, Unions are the reason we have weekends, only 8 hour workdays/40 hour workweeks, Walmart can't pay you in Wal-bucks only redeemable at company stores, and children aren't being crushed to death in factories.
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JayWantsACat 4 years ago
Bezos has like $184 BILLION. How much could Amazon going union cost per year and how much money does a single person need?
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
These are actually real people They're being forced to write these, or Jeff gives them the hose again.
El Dee 4 years ago
Are union dues expensive in the US? They aren't here. I've always regarded it as insurance. Insurance against being injured at work, being treated unfairly and/or sacked etc. You'll never need this insurance until it's too late..
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
They’re not expensive here either. I was in a union job for five years. My dues were deducted from my paycheck every two weeks, and totaled less than an hour’s pay each time. Since I did not make hundreds of dollars per hour (still don’t), the ad is nothing more than fake anti-union scare tactic propaganda.
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Casey McAlister 4 years ago
Did someone actually think it can look like a real account? Nevermind stock photos, but a warehouse number in the name? A box emoji? A "happy employee" in bio? Yeah, totally legit.
Jen Cook 4 years ago
My union dues were about $850 in 2019, they were about $1150 in 2020. Huge increase right? It's because I made over $30K more in 2020 and dues are based on your income. My union fought for jobs with positions that include advancement opportunities, paid educational opportunities if you're interested in advancement and the salaries that correspond fairly to education and experience. Find me any non union job where you can increase your salary $30K while working the same number of hours and just work your way up the pay scale. (I did spend extra hours studying to add to more letters after my name, but no extra work hours) do not work any commission type job, just straight salary, I don't sell anything for a living.
RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
I don't understand why people buy so much from Amazon if they're so awful. I've bought once from them in my life. My searches (for things I want to buy) don't usually even bring up Amazon results here in NZ. I can only assume they dominate google searches elsewhere and most people don't bother to look further, or search for the original supplier/manufacturing to buy from.
Just a Marine Veteran 4 years ago
Part of it is the insane convenience here in America. I can have almost any product I want sent right to my door step in 2 days with no shipping cost. They also have a massive inventory, so they can beat the prices of other suppliers as well.
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Wim Cossement 4 years ago
Union is like € 10 a month, I've been unemployed for over 3 years and still a member because they take care of your s**t...
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Let me explain: UNIONIZING GETS YOU HIGHER WAGES, SO EVEN AFTER PAYING UNION DUES, YOU HAVE MORE MONEY. See how that works? And benefits, too. Been in a union, no regrets, no chance I'd go anti-union. Read history. Without unions, you're voiceless, no leverage, nothing. Support the unions. You owe the union movement a lot, even if you don't know it. (Read up on it, please!)
Rae Reyn 4 years ago
To add, Unions are the reason we have weekends, only 8 hour workdays/40 hour workweeks, Walmart can't pay you in Wal-bucks only redeemable at company stores, and children aren't being crushed to death in factories.
Load More Replies... JayWantsACat 4 years ago
Bezos has like $184 BILLION. How much could Amazon going union cost per year and how much money does a single person need?
Bacony Cakes 4 years ago
These are actually real people They're being forced to write these, or Jeff gives them the hose again.
El Dee 4 years ago
Are union dues expensive in the US? They aren't here. I've always regarded it as insurance. Insurance against being injured at work, being treated unfairly and/or sacked etc. You'll never need this insurance until it's too late..
Kathryn Baylis 4 years ago
They’re not expensive here either. I was in a union job for five years. My dues were deducted from my paycheck every two weeks, and totaled less than an hour’s pay each time. Since I did not make hundreds of dollars per hour (still don’t), the ad is nothing more than fake anti-union scare tactic propaganda.
Load More Replies... Casey McAlister 4 years ago
Did someone actually think it can look like a real account? Nevermind stock photos, but a warehouse number in the name? A box emoji? A "happy employee" in bio? Yeah, totally legit.
Jen Cook 4 years ago
My union dues were about $850 in 2019, they were about $1150 in 2020. Huge increase right? It's because I made over $30K more in 2020 and dues are based on your income. My union fought for jobs with positions that include advancement opportunities, paid educational opportunities if you're interested in advancement and the salaries that correspond fairly to education and experience. Find me any non union job where you can increase your salary $30K while working the same number of hours and just work your way up the pay scale. (I did spend extra hours studying to add to more letters after my name, but no extra work hours) do not work any commission type job, just straight salary, I don't sell anything for a living.
RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
I don't understand why people buy so much from Amazon if they're so awful. I've bought once from them in my life. My searches (for things I want to buy) don't usually even bring up Amazon results here in NZ. I can only assume they dominate google searches elsewhere and most people don't bother to look further, or search for the original supplier/manufacturing to buy from.
Just a Marine Veteran 4 years ago
Part of it is the insane convenience here in America. I can have almost any product I want sent right to my door step in 2 days with no shipping cost. They also have a massive inventory, so they can beat the prices of other suppliers as well.
Load More Replies... Wim Cossement 4 years ago
Union is like € 10 a month, I've been unemployed for over 3 years and still a member because they take care of your s**t...
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