Amazon is working on a chat app designed to be used by its employees with the goal of boosting morale. That in itself is pretty humdrum stuff. But the reason the story is generating attention is that Amazon also plans to make some words and terms off-limits within the app itself. A sampling of them will provide a sense of things:
“union,” “grievance,” “pay raise,” and “compensation.” Other banned keywords include terms like “ethics,” “unfair,” “slave,” “master,” “freedom,” “diversity,” “injustice,” and “fairness.” Even some phrases like “This is concerning” will be banned.
I hate
Union
Fire
Terminated
Compensation
Pay Raise
Bullying
Harassment
I don’t care
Rude
This is concerning
Stupid
This is dumb
Prison
Threat
Petition
Grievance
Injustice
Diversity
Ethics
Fairness
Accessibility
Vaccine
Senior Ops
Living Wage
Representation
Unfair
Favoritism
Rate
TOT
Unite/unity
Plantation
Slave
Slave labor
Master
Concerned
Freedom
Restrooms
Robots
Trash
Committee
Coalition
Sounds like they don’t want anyone starting a union revolution at Amazon.
Trigger them with “Chynah”
How the heck do they, “say” anything?
I use “Robot”, and “restrooms”, and “trash” all the time.
Is it okay to say, “Bezos is being cucked by a homewrecker”?
The employees could throw a monkey wrench in the works by the liberal use of diacritical marks and creative spelling.
Bëzôs suxx diseesed doñkey diques.
But Uncle Al, it appears that profanity is allowed.
“Bezos is a giant motherfucking pervert!” is OKAY!!
My moral is boosted already and I don’t work for Amazon.
(And I apologize for this outburst.)
Man, why they always power tripping and want to control other people?
Other historical labor words to be banned will be any knowledge of labor unions, the AFLCIO, Teamsters, Wobblies (IWW, look it up), any mention of what happened to jimmy Hoffa etc. but worthless govt. unions like the food workers union will be OK as well as teaches unions and other govt. approved Unions. I am too old to work at a breakneck pace for Amazon, I also have OGS (old guys syndrome) which causes me to have to pee all the time and I wouldn’t stand on the assembly line to have to pee into a portable lastic urinal bottle just to keep the frenetic pace without a break.
Why would any of Amazon’s employees even use it?
It’s obviously some kind of weird Orwellian snare.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Looks like “a living wage” is going to be $40 an hour, hey bezos?
Ironically the most professed liberals have become the most ardent slave masters.
It would have been easier for them to put together a list of words that could be used