https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueAnon/comments/1gfdqas/an_amazon_warehouse_workers_thank_you_bag_for/

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    • happybadger [he/him]
      hexagon
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      6 days ago

      Oh fuck yeah put me in there I know exactly how I could get the pellet. I'd get so many pellets. I just pull the lever it's literally so easy.

      • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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        5 days ago

        If you pull the lever good enough, one day you could become the principal investigator of an animal testing facility (just like your boss)!

    • merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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      5 days ago

      if you gave the rat an insultingly small pellet after giving them regular sized pellets would they even bother to eat the small pellet?

      • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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        5 days ago

        My rats will act like they're starving and when I open the cage to give them food pellets they'll just stare at them like "oh nvm we thought you had more yogurt treats, no thanks".

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        5 days ago

        There's a whole lot of behavioral science to this, but you're definitely on to something. There are lots of experiments on what it takes to make a rat regard you with disgust as say "I pushed the lever for fucking this?"

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          5 days ago

          There was an art installation thing where you could earn minimum wage by turning a crank continuously that would drop a penny every 5 seconds ish of being consistently turned

      • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        5 days ago

        Animals absolutely have a sense of fairness and equity. They also have a wtf WTF is this shit response. Fine I'll take it, but I know you're holding out.

      • Hexboare [they/them]
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        5 days ago

        Of course not, emotions didn't develop for the first time 100,000 years ago

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    5 days ago

    Some committee somewhere congratulated themselves for this. flashbang

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    5 days ago

    They do this on purpose, right? It's some kind of conditioned obedience through brutality thing?

      • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
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        5 days ago

        Buncha fail children who never had a real job get excited by childish rewards and project that onto their serfs.

  • SSJ3Marx [he/him]
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    5 days ago

    That plastic bag probably cost more (and wasted more in its creation) than everything inside it.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    5 days ago

    I worked at a few places that made these "gestures" to the underpaid/overworked suckers.

    one of the key features of this kind of thing was to make absolutely certain the distribution process centered the experience of the HR shitheads that dreamed it up and absolutely prevented any organized, anonymous rejection of it.

    the last thing any boss wants to see is a shitload of these overflowing a garbage can and no fucking clue who to retaliate against.

    one of my earliest shit jobs they were walking around handing out t-shirts while we were all busy on the phones, hating life, and I told my boss I was just going to hold my trash can aloft and tell them to deposit it there. he said a VP was walking around for the smile parade so if I did, they'd put me on an unrecoverable pip and I'd be gone.

    honestly, receiving little shit like this at a shit job is cruel. instead of paying a bunch of higher salary people to dream this up and put it together, just give us a bonus you assholes. even if it's just a one off of 10 bucks.

    cash is king.

  • Robert_Kennedy_Jr [xe/xem, xey/xem]
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    6 days ago

    They usually just give out stickers and the people tasked with handing them out would be like "Are you sure you don't want one?" Yes I'm sure Janet, I'm not 5. Most warehouse employees would be a lot more happy with a bag of aspirin.

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    5 days ago

    I'm guessing the Starburst and Tootsie roll are behind the label, but it'd be funnier if they were just not in the bag.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    that bag alone is probably worth more than the stuff inside

    Fr though they could spend all this money on some shitty enamel pins or something and people would go nuts for them like those USSR master weed grower pins.

  • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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    5 days ago

    obviously it's ridiculous and the bag is wasteful

    but in terms of the psychology

    imagine if they gave you 5 sweets

    no bag

    they just throw them at you like a neglected dog