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    Fired by Bot at Amazon: Its You Against the Machine

    (Bloomberg) -- Stephen Normandin spent almost four years racing around Phoenix delivering packages as a contract driver for Amazon.com Inc. Then one day, he received an automated email. The algorithms tracking him had decided he wasn’t doing his job properly.


    The 63-year-old Army veteran was stunned. He’d been fired by a machine.

    Normandin says Amazon punished him for things beyond his control that prevented him from completing his deliveries, such as locked apartment complexes. He said he took the termination hard and, priding himself on a strong work ethic, recalled that during his military career he helped cook for 250,000 Vietnamese refugees at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas.


    “I’m an old-school kind of guy, and I give every job 110%,” he said. “This really upset me because we're talking about my reputation. They say I didn’t do the job when I know damn well I did.”


    Normandin’s experience is a twist on the decades-old prediction that robots will replace workers. At Amazon, machines are often the boss—hiring, rating and firing millions of people with little or no human oversight.

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    I give every job 110%
    He had to go.

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    That's what happens when you outsource you HR work to Cyberdyne Systems.

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    on the plus side

    he has a car he can sleep in

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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    on the plus side

    he has a car he can sleep in
    The definition of upwardly mobile IMO

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    Quote Originally Posted by misskit View Post
    priding himself on a strong work ethic, recalled that during his military career he helped cook for 250,000 Vietnamese refugees at Fort Chaffee in Arkansas.
    A cook . . . migrationpolicy.org puts the number at 125.000 but that's still a lot of Phø

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