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Inside Amazon’s RV Wonderland: Where Your Christmas Is Packed and Shipped [Amazon]

11 Dec 2009

We saw one of Amazon’s UK centers yesterday, but it’s nothing like this center in Coffeyville, Kansas, populated by dudes in RVs, no doubt lured by the promises of this epic promo video. But man, the jobs looks pretty rough:

During the peak holiday season, for $10.50 an hour during the day, or $11 at night, you need to be “able to stand on feet for 8-10 hours, walk 10-15 miles a day, must be able to repetitively lift, bend, stoop, and squat while selecting items.” If you’re in receiving, it doesn’t sound much better, standing “fairly stationary throughout shift for 8-10 hours” while being able lift, bend, stoop and squat repetitively.

I hope Santa Bezos is offering knee surgery for Christmas, even if there is free RV camping. [Express, via Joel]

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Amazon Clarifies What Can Go Down The Memory Hole

In: web resources

2 Oct 2009

Bezos may have apologized, but the stink of Amazon’s unprecedented act of cyberburglary is still strong enough that people aren’t likely to forget any time soon. It’s a good thing, then, that Amazon has struck while the iron is still slightly hot by announcing the terms under which they will consider themselves justified in making your book an unbook.

Nobody likes the idea of having a corporation forcefully take back something they legitimately purchased (whether it was legitimately offered is not their concern), but the truth is that e-books and other “virtual property” will have to be subject to some of the same laws and restrictions as real property. I can’t think of many situations where the police would be justified in entering my house and removing an item I had purchased, without my consent, but that’s what judges and warrants are for. Amazon is, for the most part, its own judge (and extraction team), but they haven’t left too many doors open for more Orwellian tomfoolery.