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Comment on Maybe, just maybe, a company that refuses to give you time off if you have a bullet inside of you is a really really shitty company

QualifiedKitten@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

According to Huffington Post:

An Amazon spokesperson told HuffPost on Friday that the denial was due to an error in Scott-Windham’s time off request and said she has the company’s “full support.”

What sort of reasonable “error” could possibly deny something like this?

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PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
It’s the “we didn’t expect the news to pick this up and start reporting on it. We don’t want this kind of bad press” error.

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- INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Really though it does sound like a retarded mistake I don’t think anyone was sipping on a whisky, smiling and hitting the deny button.
  
  It’s clearly an automatic deny button.
  
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  - Stern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    You understand how thats worse right?
    
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    INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Yep
    
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leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The sort of error that only occurs when it might become bad PR.

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Snowclone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
The small error that when they decided to violate FMLA laws, they didn’t realize anyone was watching.

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- MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  “Bad, bad, BAD, naughty mega-corp!! That’ll be…$5000, megacorp!”
  
  –The justice system, probably.
  
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Halosheep@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I don’t know how Amazon works but I imagine it’s some sort of form submission and she chose the wrong option.

Don’t think that makes it okay, time off requests should be considered by a human who actually interacts with the employee, in my opinion, but I can see it happening. Dealt with that when I worked for Walmart. I definitely got a few days off that I submitted through the automated system online and have no idea if anyone ever approved.

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- spacesatan@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  My entire impression of HR at amazon warehouses is HR is there to onboard new hires and occasionally act as an equivalent to t1 tech support. You go to the amazon worker subreddit and about half the posts have comments like ‘yeah just call corporate HR they’ll fix it’ because site HR fucked something up.
  
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Kalysta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
It’s a PR lie to save face.

The same thing insurance companies say when people go to the media about them.

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AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
She made the error of neglecting to go public.

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