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[-] Missmuffet@lemmy.world 69 points 6 months ago

I was working at an amazon, and they made these shitty "games" for you to "play", and you played them by working faster :////

Basically, in one, you'd get a pet and it would grow based on how fast you worked. The games also pit you agaist your coworkers so youd feel pressured to - you guessed it - work faster.

I was doing good one night and told my manager and he went "Nice! Now go even faster!". By far the worst job ive ever had.

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 37 points 6 months ago

So literally the fifteen million merits episode from black mirror

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[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

I watched that episode but it was pretty dumb, because it was just an unexplained dystopia. You can't make much of a point if hinges entirely on a dystopia with no reason to exist with unexplained systems of power to create oppression.

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 6 months ago

Sounds like Andor in the factory for death star parts

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 48 points 6 months ago

Worker, place your hands on the pads and think happy thoughts. You have 10 seconds to comply. Failure to comply will result in complementary reconditioning. Happy birthday!

[-] STOMPYI@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Drink a compliance can of soda to proceed...

[-] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 18 points 6 months ago

This is a dangerous mindset, closed eyes aren't focused on the task at hand and happy thoughts aren't company thoughts!

[-] DestroyerOfWorlds@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 months ago

this is the Dystopian Now.

[-] Icalasari@kbin.social 9 points 6 months ago

What in the dystopian fuck?

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago

what's the context for this screen? A mental wellness exercise?

[-] Missmuffet@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

These messages play on each worker's screen about once an hour. They're supposed to be wellness checks. Source, former employee.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 months ago

Paywall blocks all but the first paragraph and a picture.

[-] drwho@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

Great. Somebody thought Paranoia was another RPG to mine for terrible ideas to implement.

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