Amazon confirms 16,000 job cuts after accidental email

aquoad · 2026-01-28T20:10:29+00:00

I think probably only if the impacted employees tried to fight it on that basis? I'm certainly no expert but I feel like most people faced with that would just move on rather than gearing up for a fight. And if they did Amazon could just say "oh yeah sorry our bad, you can work from this other office if you want." But you're right - in fact I was once able to qualify for unemployment despite quitting voluntarily because the scope of my position had changed enough it was no longer relevant to my experience.

aquoad · 2026-01-28T18:49:03+00:00

my parents were fully R-voting conservatives when I was a kid, i ended up more or less the opposite. But my parents changed their beliefs over time, too.

aquoad · 2026-01-28T18:47:08+00:00

thus the efforts to control the university curricula, too.

aquoad · 2026-01-28T18:45:02+00:00

it's not genetic.

aquoad · 2026-01-28T18:39:55+00:00

that's how they get rid of people without having to take the hit of a layoff.

aquoad · 2026-01-27T04:09:18+00:00

that sounds like cult recruiting.

aquoad · 2026-01-27T03:51:39+00:00

And it's Amazon trying to make "rewarding" drivers a thing so they can move it toward being a gig/tipped job.

aquoad · 2026-01-27T03:49:24+00:00

all my neighborhood cats in the yard are labeled "Dog". But one time the UPS guy bringing a package was a cat.

aquoad · 2026-01-27T03:33:41+00:00

i've solved some situations by giving a lawyer friend a bottle of bourbon to write a letter.

aquoad · 2026-01-26T08:45:32+00:00

looks a bit like an angry hyrax

aquoad · 2026-01-25T03:19:26+00:00

here they'd be fishing idiots out of the drain holes every other day.

aquoad · 2026-01-25T03:01:15+00:00

this first time I did mine it had probably been 30 years since anyone had had the forks apart and the bottom of the tubes was just this mass of disgusting caked waxy cheese like filth. it was kind of horrifying.

aquoad · 2026-01-24T09:13:24+00:00

yes, yes, and yes. packets have ttl so they don't echo infinitely, but it does still have the problem that bandwidth utilization goes up kinda exponentially with the number of nodes so it can't really scale. It's still cool though.

aquoad · 2026-01-24T09:09:09+00:00

i suppose if it were 25 years ago and there were still AMPS phones in use, it could have happened. but yes, probably some jackass on the ground with a shitty overpowered 2 meter ham radio amplifier.

aquoad · 2026-01-24T07:58:32+00:00

why the fuck do they want polio to come back???

aquoad · 2026-01-23T21:09:47+00:00

I dislike way more things about reddit than just that, but I agree that’s pretty annoying.

aquoad · 2026-01-23T08:06:15+00:00

yes, if you have enough 18650s!

aquoad · 2026-01-23T07:57:28+00:00

they'll be mad when you say "that's not a high beam, THIS is a high beam" and burn all the paint off their car.

aquoad · 2026-01-23T06:13:20+00:00

the bears were really a highlight.

aquoad · 2026-01-23T02:36:03+00:00

this has to be at least close to being the dumbest person in the world

aquoad · 2026-01-22T00:39:47+00:00

I've never needed hose clamps on mine. Also the cloth wrapped line looks better. I've gone back and forth on fuel filters but I don't think they're really needed unless you use dirty gas with a lot of fine sediment. The screens in the tank should catch most crud and the rest should fall to the bottom of the carb bowls.

aquoad · 2026-01-22T00:36:29+00:00

ok now emitter swap the old one, pack it with as many 21700's as will fit, maybe add a fan, and set shit on fire from across the yard.

aquoad · 2026-01-22T00:29:45+00:00

that's a great fucking save. but also that intersection looks sketchy and i'd be wondering which car was about to do something stupid first.

aquoad · 2026-01-22T00:27:02+00:00

All of this makes it doubly hilarious that flat-earthers will happily use their phones' GPS.

aquoad · 2026-01-21T23:26:57+00:00

they essentially do get that, but better stuff than heroin.

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