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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
This is an important distinction, I think. Things could be different in China, but I can't imagine a) temp workers being paid a "pittance" having this level of access, or b) a chat-type website connecting sellers with those high turnover pittance employees even if they did.
So in my mind, this is just typical corruption -- plain and simple. The poor-indentured-slaves-being-forced-to-accept-bribes-to-put-bread-on-the-table angle doesn't really hold water in my opinion.
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Originally Posted by vrf
Do you really think anyone with the power to delete content on Amazon.com is working in those scary distribution centers?
EDIT: Oops, others making the same point. Should have read the whole thread.
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I think that the bots who write the trumped up reviews would have the power to delete if they made a mistake, so it is actually possible that it is low-wage workers. Even if it's not, Amazon's corporate culture at all levels is absolutely nightmarish. From a Marketplace report:
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“Team members are ranked against each other," she says. "It’s a very competitive atmosphere,” and this can create an uncomfortable working environment because “at Amazon, it’s particularly direct. Because, for example, you can send secret negative feedback about your peers to your peers’ bosses. The bosses see who it’s from but other workers don’t necessarily see it.”
One of Kantor’s more surprising findings was about Amazon’s evaluation system. “The evaluations system is fairly relentless … we found a real pattern of people who had life crises when they were at Amazon; they had cancer, their parents died, they had really bad pregnancy loss. And that they said is that the company did not give them time to recover, and they felt the company was so relentless that they couldn’t pause and get back on their feet,” she explains.
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I have no problems believing that a higher paid employee who had been bitten badly in one way or another would be willing to be a little fast and loose with his account access if it meant stealing a buck from the man.