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Anyone else find this a little creepy?
Amazon must have hired a bunch of newbies. Some stuff I've ordered this Christmas Season never arrived and I got my money back. Then, today I got a $40 portable cell phone charger instead of the $6.00 garage bike hooks I ordered. The same company provides both items. In both cases, when I went to reorder the items were "currently unavailable).
I was going to get one of these portable charges anyway - for traveling (if we ever get to do that again). The question is should I further confuse the newly minted $22 an hour warehouse drones by sending the charger back and asking for a refund. I don't want to upset their well-oiled machine over there. There's a new Amazon warehouse a few blocks from our house and they're probably still working out the kinks in the new warehouse.
I'm afraid I might send one of their robots into a spasm and next thing your know there's a big AI/robot revolt that spreads throughout the nation through Alexa, Siri and Cortana and infects Roomba's and robot lawnmowers everywhere. And I would feel all kinds of guilt because I had caused it.
Amazon must have hired a bunch of newbies. Some stuff I've ordered this Christmas Season never arrived and I got my money back. Then, today I got a $40 portable cell phone charger instead of the $6.00 garage bike hooks I ordered. The same company provides both items. In both cases, when I went to reorder the items were "currently unavailable).
I was going to get one of these portable charges anyway - for traveling (if we ever get to do that again). The question is should I further confuse the newly minted $22 an hour warehouse drones by sending the charger back and asking for a refund. I don't want to upset their well-oiled machine over there. There's a new Amazon warehouse a few blocks from our house and they're probably still working out the kinks in the new warehouse.
I'm afraid I might send one of their robots into a spasm and next thing your know there's a big AI/robot revolt that spreads throughout the nation through Alexa, Siri and Cortana and infects Roomba's and robot lawnmowers everywhere. And I would feel all kinds of guilt because I had caused it.
And I'd hate to see it come to that.
© 2021 by Tom King
© 2021 by Tom King
