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Working at Amazon Fulfillment Center - SOUTH PARK

South Park Studios · 6.1M views · 2021-09-06 · 3:30

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Overview

A South Park clip in which Butters' dad takes a job at an Amazon fulfillment center to make ends meet. It satirizes warehouse work conditions.

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HN uses it as a joking reference when threads discuss Amazon warehouse working conditions and surveillance.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2021–2022

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oliveshell · 2022-10 · Joke / meme

For the curious: besides the Pullman towns, there were many other “company towns” [1] in the United States, owned by various companies [2]. Some of the most exploitive ones were owned by mining firms, as immortalized in the famous protest song “Sixteen Tons”, with its refrain “I owe my soul to the company store”. [3] (This song may be familiar to South Park viewers.) [4] [1] [LINK] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK] [4] [VIDEO]

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type0 · 2022-06 · Joke / meme

> many commercials lately about how great it is to work for Amazon. South Park had a realistic vision on how it is to work at Amazon Fulfillment Center [VIDEO]

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philsnow · 2022-06 · Joke / meme

I dunno, it seemed fairly rosy. They could have twisted the knife quite a bit more: there were a couple 3-second interactions where people are buying things [0][1], if they had been denominated in "hours of service" rather than USD, with the Company knowing what their hours balance was, and having the balance tick down and go negative... that would have been dark. [0] [VIDEO] [1] [VIDEO]

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