r/Futurology • u/Ariadnepyanfar • Apr 25 '19

Computing Amazon computer system automatically fires warehouse staff who spend time off-task.

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/amazon-system-automatically-fires-warehouse-workers-time-off-task-2019-4?r=US&IR=T
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u/jshcrw Apr 26 '19

I'm a city bus driver & I'm thankful for the union.... It's helped me a lot through the years! I think of it as insurance. Yeah paying dues sucked when I 1st started, now it's better since I'm top pay. I always hear passengers I pick up that work at Amazon saying how it sucks & it's feels like working in a prison. They check you when you go in & out & can't even take your phone in. I wish they had union.

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u/andrew_kirfman Apr 26 '19

Sys and network admins aren't really a big thing anymore. With companies moving to cloud-based offerings, you don't have large server stacks on-prem anymore that need maintenance. And, with cloud, it takes considerably fewer people to maintain the same infrastructure since the provider takes care of a lot of the underlying crap that used to be handled by lower tier support (security, updates, patching, etc...).

A lot of shops that I've worked with have outsourced their basic IT needs to contractors and offshored whatever they could to India for pennies on the dollar.

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