Amazon's system for tracking its warehouse workers can automatically fire them

[Peachy]

A law which is so routinely and categorically ignored that not even our military follows it for trans people.
Thea law theoretically protects trans people. But it doesn't.

[Pichael Jackson]

I figured everyone knew this already, I was fired from an Amazon warehouse about a year via an automated email bot because I showed up a few minutes late to work on two different days. They also explicitly had quotas and informed us that we'd get points docked for every day we didn't meet our quota (which happened to me just one time and contributed to my firing). Wasn't exactly a secret to anyone there.

[Vuu]

So how long until organized mass quitting?

[SquidsEye]

I don't really think there is anything wrong with a computer system managing staff, it's no different than if a person did it. The real problems are things like unrealistic quotas, unfair hours and shitty pay but they are shitty with or without a computer managed system.

[Cloak_Raider]

I stopped buying stuff on amazon about a year ago - usually there's an alternative website that sources whatever I need

like, it's never going to be cheaper to buy something from not-amazon, because amazon muscled in by cutting everyone elses' bottom line

not using amazon is the right thing to do, but that doesn't mean it's expedient - like most "good" things, it requires some sacrifices

[CaelReader]

Manna is watching you.

[SleepyAl]

State law is different. At least in CT you can't be fired for your gender, sexuality, or if you are trans.

http://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/non_discrimination_laws

[Alice]

Well other than the fact that computer systems are far from immune to making egregious errors since they have no proper method of self-evaluating their decisions.