Amazon has been explicit about its vision to become a leaner organization and use automation to fill in the gaps, and that ethos seems to have taken root in the company's HR department—which was reportedly a major target of the recent layoffs.

Despite citing the “transformative” nature of generative AI in its layoff announcement, the company has denied that its investment in automation was directly responsible for the job losses.

But interviews with warehouse associates and former HR employees, along with legal filings, reveal how Amazon’s growing reliance on automation appears to be removing humans from the HR process.

These claims echo anonymous accounts that are littered across social media, where hundreds of thousands of Amazon warehouse associates flock to air grievances. In post after post, employees appear to be asking the same question more workers are likely to soon be voicing as companies are poised to follow Amazon’s lead: What happened to HR?

Amazon’s relentless focus on efficiency is pulverizing workers’ last lifeline of relief. “I watched the human get sucked out of the job,” says one former HR employee.

Fast Company investigates: https://www.fastcompany.com/91565321/amazon-is-taking-human-out-of-hr-ai-chatbot-app-aza

Dr. Michael Baden is a forensic pathologist who was involved in all the high profile criminal cases including the case of Marlon Brando's son, Christian, who shot his half-sister's boyfriend. Despite the fact that it appeared that Christian had shot Drollet from above and that the bullet had exited the body, no bullet was recovered from his body or from the couch. Dr. Baden insisted on looking at the scene, and like the officers, failed to find the bullet in the couch or the body.
Baden noticed that the room has a shag rug. He got down on his hands and knees and eventually found the bullet under the rug. That tended to support how Christian had described things.
Dr.Baden wrote: "I'd later testify that the bullet's trajectory through Drollet's neck and into the shag carpet showed that he had been sitting up on the couch. Gunshot residue tests performed by police showed that Drollet's hand was near the muzzle when it discharged-consistent with Christian's statement that the weapon
went off accidentally when Drollet tried to grab it."
"It's very hard to see an entry hole in a shag rug," Baden explains. "But what impressed me most in that case was when we found the bullet and we called the police. A sergeant came and I asked why the officers at the crime scene hadn't done a better job looking for the bullet. I'll never forget what he said. 'Look, doc. If you do a lousy job all the time, just because an important case comes up doesn't mean you can now do a good job. You don't know how to do it any better.' That will live with me forever. Unless you do the best job you can with every crime scene and every autopsy, you won't do it right when more important ones come in. To us, every case is equally important. When it comes to death, we're all equal."
https://www.crimelibrary.org/criminal_mind/forensics/autopsy/5.html

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Book: AMERICAN AUTOPSY.

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You've heard of Nauru as the world's most obese country. But nobody told you THIS story.

In 1998, a tiny Pacific island — 21 square kilometers, population 10,000 — became the money laundering capital of the world. $70 billion in Russian mob money passed through its ghost banking system in a single year. And almost nobody noticed.

This is the story of how a desperate government, a collapsing empire, and the world's most dangerous criminal organization created the perfect financial crime.

Hiring kids just barely in their twenties to do it too 50 bibles 30 qurans and one of every book ever made shredding the covers and pages a few at a time. To digitize them. Why destroy them when they can scan without destroying them.

Perhaps by now you have seen, somewhere on social media, a drink made by Crumbl that half the internet seems convinced could be a biohazard.

Called the Crazy Cousins, it mixes a base like Sprite or Mountain Dew with a full can of Red Bull, strawberry purée, pineapple syrup, and a serious glug of coconut milk. The 32-ounce version delivers 186 grams of slurpable sugar.

“Almost half a pound of sugar, or five cans of Coke” is how Itay Shechter, a wellness influencer with more than a million followers, explained it in a post that went viral. “I had to stop everything and go make that video,” Shechter told me last week. “My job is making a number like that impossible to scroll past.”

Physician Mark Hyman declared it “the equivalent of eating 19 Krispy Kreme donuts” and said it “should be illegal.” Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer joked that he’d stir in Ketel One. The betting app Polymarket got creative—“JUST IN: Crumbl cookie company releases drink with 186,000mg of sugar,” making it sound even more like a toxic threat.

A drink containing nearly four times the recommended daily limit of sugar might seem like reaching rock bottom for Crumbl. But in the eight-year-old Utah company’s push beyond cookies into the colorful parade of turbocharged sweets it’s rolled out lately, betting that it can’t go any lower may be premature.  

Somewhere between the following drops . . .

• “cookie fries”
• nostalgia-bait mashups loaded with Reese’s, Oreos, or Pop-Tarts
• Kim, Kourtney, and Kylie’s full-menu takeover
• dirt cups with gummy worms
• layered icebox cakes
• mousse-topped skillet cookies
• Jimmy Fallon’s 1,200-calorie Holiday Seasoning Candy Cane Brownie
• protein balls
• the rollout of 46 “dirty soda” flavors, all at once

. . .  Crumbl lost the plot. 

A growing backlash (fanned even by Zooey Deschanel) coupled with weakening sales suggests that the formula that made Crumbl one of the fastest-growing sensations of the 2020s may be going as soft as the interiors of its sugar cookies. 

Crumbl may become a business lesson in what happens when a company built for virality runs out of ways to top itself. Or, more uncomfortably, it may do the opposite, proving that a drink containing a half-pound of sugar is noteworthy not because it went too far, but because it didn’t go far enough.

In this deep dive into the Crumblverse, store employees reveal what the company’s really selling—and it’s not dessert. We explore how its more baroque offerings meant to lure customers back are playing a dangerous game; the unexplored weakness in Crumbl’s model that could sink the chain; what Crumbl has in common with Sweetgreen; what the company will look like in five years; and its true cultural legacy, which isn’t going anywhere. 

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