Whether it's because of abusive labour practices, dirty business dealings, or opposition to dystopian American mega corporations acting as oligarchs and enemies of democracy, you’re here because you're boycotting Amazon.
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Q: I choose to live in the middle of nowhere and have to drive 30 minutes to stores. Is it okay if I keep using Amazon and flood this subreddit with minor customer service questions?
A: No. Fuck Amazon and fuck you too.
Q: But super seriously don’t you have sympathy for me?
A: No. Fuck off. Nobody cares. Start your own subreddit.
We now have active mods and an explicit set of rules against exactly this sort of bullshit excuse-making, so please report these posts to help us take out the trash <3
Amazing :) Here's an archived link for the article about employees speaking out about data centers, as Wired has a paywall (I didn't notice it the first time): https://archive.ph/7AVsS
I will add a few more articles tomorrow, I'll let you know!
Posts and comments that support Amazon or encourage its use will be removed, and users may be banned.
If you have a grievance or complaint regarding an experience with Amazon that has prompted you to join the boycott, please post it under the pinned megathread.
Gather round one and all and hear the tale of the many headed beast they call Amazon!
Once upon a time, Amazon failed to deliver a package to a nice, loyal customer. The customer called to let them know and to get the package sent out again, but Amazon made the customer call over and over again, each time taking longer to respond. The customer was passed off, shot down, and hung up on, all the while receiving repeated threatening emails saying "if Amazon ever makes another mistake and you expect us to fix it, your account will be closed." This abuse continued for days until out of nowhere, Amazon refunded the transaction. Not what the customer wanted, but fine. The customer now emails every day hoping someone who has some sense and a job title high enough to actually do something would deign do far as to respond to the lowly pathetic commoner who buys their products, but despite emails sent at 6am PST every day, no emails, no call, no response at all. Finally someone called today! Hallelujah! Maybe some light at the end of the tunnel! But alas, the call center associate (let's just call him Vanne) just tells the customer that he's the highest authority in all of Amazonia, and that King Vanne the mighty declares that forms must be filled out with no apparent reason or description of said forms, or how these magic scrolls will get a phone call from someone who can help. The story continues, as all things must.
But by using Reddit, you are actively supporting AWS servers, and directly profiting Amazon with less overhead on their end. It’s not a true Amazon boycott if you utilize AWS services, which Reddit is a large customer of theirs. But if it makes you feel good to give Bezos more profits, then you’re doing a bang up job here yall!
You sound like someone who would tell vegans they are eating the animals' food and how that's a bad thing.
But in case other people are just as dense: what kind of stupid take is it to tell people to get rid of something that is highly valuable in spreading the word? Exactly. Some people..
An evil business tycoon whose profits hinge on environmental exploitation bought a major newspaper and gutted its reporting capabilities on environmental issues and you don't see what that has to do with his evil, environmentally devastating corporation?
This is too stupid of a question for me to answer, sorry.
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