Josh

I do not recognize the meteorological authority of an animal.

A week ago I was being told to apologize for saying Trump would be worse for Gaza because he faked a temporary pause/pretend ceasefire to coincide with his inauguration.

Now he’s just openly endorsing/encouraging ethnic cleansing.

11/ I guess I’ll close by saying that maybe it wasn’t Jeff who made that donation all those years ago. Based on past behavior, it’s most likely his former wife MacKenzie who did that.

In this house, we stan MacKenzie Scott. Hopefully women can help lead us out of this mess. Lord knows men won’t.

Amazon to halt some of its DEI programs: Internal memo The company said it is in the process of "winding down outdated programs and materials" as part of a broader review of hundreds of initiatives.

10/ I can no longer tell people that I worked for Amazon and truly say it with pride.

Evan and I have cancelled our Prime membership and are pulling away from shopping with Amazon as that membership ends. I hope that Amazon realizes their mistake and reverses course, but I won’t hold my breath.

9/ Amazon had so many programs like this for years. I was part of that group a decade ago. It felt awkward to do, but I threw away my Glamazon shirts. I still fully support the group, but I won’t do anything to support Amazon moving forward. And that stings a little. Why change now?

8/ To watch a man who once donated huge sums of money to marriage equality not speak up now that Amazon is scrapping its DEI initiatives - programs that I once enjoyed being a part of - was disheartening. After I came out, I was proudly a member of Glamazon, their LGBT affinity group.

7/ Jeff has always been a little kooky, and seemed to be getting more out-there as his mountain of money continued to grow. But I didn’t have any reason to dislike the man, really. He was just your average run-of-the-mill zillionaire.

But I feel like I’ve gotten whiplash over these past few weeks.

6/ I tried to not let that skew my opinion of the company. I could eventually get things fixed, even if it meant calling or chatting in multiple times until I found someone who knew what they were doing.

I’m not trying to speak badly about outsourcing jobs, but I do think it’s affected quality.

5/ I eventually left Amazon - on good terms. I got a job that I knew was a much better long-term fit. There was no bad blood. I was still a loyal customer with a Prime membership.

In the years after I left the company, my interactions with Customer Service kept changing, and not for the better.

The 2014 customer service Hall of Fame CEO Jeff Bezo's company leads the 2014 Customer Service Hall of Fame for the fifth consecutive year.

4/ I moved to middle management in the company and was honestly proud of the work we were doing at the time. This is from a time when Amazon still valued being voted the Best Customer Experience.

The people I worked with were good at their jobs. We legitimately wanted to fix each customer’s issue.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos, wife, make $2.5 million donation for gay marriage Amazon Inc founder Jeff Bezos and his wife have made what may be the biggest donation to the cause of gay marriage, contributing $2.5 million to a Washington state campaign to legalize same-sex nuptials there, the campaign said on Friday.

3/ I was strangely proud that Jeff was donating to a cause that was so close to my heart, even if I didn’t have the courage to publicly say it to most people at the time.

Even though it wasn’t his intention, I was a fan of Jeff from that point on. I’ve been an avid Amazon customer for a LONG time.

2/ I worked the earliest shift offered. When you showed up before 7am, the first hours of the day were slow. You could browse the web and read news between calls. I came across a story about our then-CEO donating to the cause of marriage equality. I was still mostly in the closet at the time.

7 Years At Amazon, or How I Lost Faith in My Favorite Online Retailer, a thread. 🧵 1/

Just after Memorial Day Weekend, I started working in Customer Service for Amazon. I’d had a few jobs before, but this was different. It felt like my first real job, even if I was only a front line worker.

‘Abbott Elementary’ renewed for Season 5

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

You know what’s kind of wild? I’m sure someone smarter than me has said this already, but I feel like our online third spaces are disappearing.

So many social media apps were started as a way to build community, and the corporate overlords are wrecking them one by one.

Time to de(Tik)Toksify. I hear that Candy Crush has thousands of levels.

I don’t know if I’m more sad or angry right now. Those usual places where I could find solace on the internet are gone.

The old Twitter has been dead for years, and now TikTok is gone. 😕

And dont yall go getting on no damn IG or FB right now. Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t deserve an influx of users.

I don't really give a fuck what people who never used it or who lack the skill or discernment to build social communities, but I'm genuinely devastated at losing TikTok and all the people I'd never have found otherwise.

The new Mario Kart will seemingly feature 24 racers at the same time!

This is a first in the series history.

US release when? I’m gonna make this my whole personality for a few weeks just like I did when the Waitress pro-shot dropped. 👑

Officially making the jump from Twitter. It’s hard saying goodbye to more than 13,000 tweets and almost 20 years of scrolling.