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    Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 18 Aug 2015

    Amazon is a worse place to work than anywhere except all the other places employees chose it over.

    2:10 PM - 18 Aug 2015
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      2. Kevin Fox  🦊‏Verified account @kfury 18 Aug 2015
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg Aren't first-time employees as bad at critiquing their workplace as they are critiquing their college? No basis for comparison.

        2 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
      3. Carlos Cunha‏ @ccfontes 18 Aug 2015
        Replying to @kfury

        @kfury @paulg That's what reviews are for.

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      4. Kevin Fox  🦊‏Verified account @kfury 18 Aug 2015
        Replying to @ccfontes

        @ccfontes @paulg My point is that reviews are subjective and without a basis for comparison many reviewers are completely uncalibrated.

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      5. Kevin Fox  🦊‏Verified account @kfury 18 Aug 2015
        Replying to @kfury

        @ccfontes @paulg If you've only ever eaten one restaurant's pizza, reviews from others who have only ever eaten one kind are unhelpful.

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      1. Robert Graboyes‏ @Robert_Graboyes 19 Aug 2015
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        .@paulg @pmarca Revealed Preference not a big part of J-school curriculum.

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      1. Matthew Moore‏ @thewmo 19 Aug 2015
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        @paulg @BenedictEvans yes, because everyone makes rational decisions. :-/ (And the choice for some warehouse workers is public assistance.)

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      1. Sam Rosenblum‏ @sjrosenblum 18 Aug 2015
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        @paulg err no, not really. in my limited experience, humans are not robotic logic machines with access to all relevant info

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      1. Chelsea Rustrum‏ @chelsearustrum 18 Aug 2015
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        @paulg can libertarian technocrats see beyond nose? How we treat people *matters* in all circumstances. Humans > markets = better markets.

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      1. Max Pike‏ @mack_spike 18 Aug 2015
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        @paulg I'm sure Amazon recruiters explain in detail that u have to respond within 15 mins to ur manager on vacation, sick/maternity leave

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      1. Chelsea Rustrum‏ @chelsearustrum 18 Aug 2015
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        @paulg well, when there are 1,000 open recs & your odds are high, that's what you'll go for. When your broke, you go for what's available.

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      1. Paul Burt  🍕‏ @ThatMightBePaul 18 Aug 2015
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        @paulg flawed argument. Willowbrook employed many folks. Truth about amzn is somewhere in the gray, not black&white https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willowbrook_State_School …

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      1. anurag uniyal‏ @anuraguniyal 19 Aug 2015
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        @paulg @pmarca it would be true if there were no entry, exit barriers #H1B

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      1. Srikanth Agaram‏ @aksrikanth 18 Aug 2015
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        .@paulg Their turnover rate shows otherwise.

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      1. Chris‏ @chwolfe 18 Aug 2015
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        @paulg Naive position to take on this one. You're better than that!

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      2. William Saar‏ @saarw 18 Aug 2015
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        @paulg exactly! main issue is the article brings quality of staff into question, top people can find jobs with both good tech and culture

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      3. Carlos Cunha‏ @ccfontes 18 Aug 2015
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        @saarw @paulg Looks like getting the best people is a good incentive for Amazon to change their culture.

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      2. Shu Nyatta‏ @snyatta 19 Oct 2015
        Replying to @paulg

        @paulg Amazon rebuttal today has damning characterization of NYT reporting - are all journalists now tabloidists? http://bit.ly/1W281UC 

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      3. Shu Nyatta‏ @snyatta 19 Oct 2015
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        @blakeross on media skepticism http://bit.ly/1OODyna  - goes back to Crichton and the Gell-Mann Amnesia effecthttp://bit.ly/1eAJ0VV 

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      1. Alex Fajkowski‏ @thefaj 26 Aug 2015
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        @paulg Please publicly criticize Amazon, Paul. Not doing so allows misogyny to spread throughout the tech industry. https://medium.com/@jcheiffetz/i-had-a-baby-and-cancer-when-i-worked-at-amazon-this-is-my-story-9eba5eef2976 …

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      1. Content of Media‏ @ContentOfMedia 20 Aug 2015
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        @paulg @GabrielDuquette Implying they had lots of choices. I know people who have been trying to find work for months, and no offers.

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