Tag: amazon
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Amazon Is Forcing Its Warehouse Workers Into Brutal ‘Megacycle’ Shifts
Lauren Kaori Gurley writing for Vice’s Motherboard tech subsite about a new change for Amazon workers: On January 25, hundreds of workers at an Amazon warehouse in Chicago were presented with a baffling choice: sign up for a ten-and-a-half-hour graveyard shift, or lose your job. Management informed workers that their warehouse, known as DCH1, would…
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The End of Apple’s Affiliate Marketing is Destroying TouchArcade
TouchArcade’s Eli Hodapp talking about Apple shutting down the affiliate marketing scheme that has funded sites like his in a post titled “Apple Kills the App Store Affiliate Program, and I Have No Idea What We Are Going to Do.”: Apple announced that they’re killing the affiliate program, citing the improved discovery offered by the…
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Washinton D.C. is Shutting Down The City’s Largest Shelter to Make Way for Rich People
This shelter doesn’t sound spectacular, but the space provided opportunities for the 239 families living there to have fun activities that won’t be possible elsewhere. Splinter’s Emma Roller: …over the past seven years, the families and organizations that operate within the shelter have created a makeshift community of their own. This is what happens when…