New 8TB HDD arrived!

[Caring1]

If you're expecting a delivery, place a large cushion under the slot, and hope your cat doesn't rest there.

 

[Ruru]

Yeah I can imaging dropping a mechanical hard drive through that

Exactly. I've also bought few older smartphones just as an emergency phone; they've came in working condition at least.

If you're expecting a delivery, place a large cushion under the slot, and hope your cat doesn't rest there.

We have usually also an inner door on apartments, to reduce the noise coming from and to apartments. Pretty tight fit for a cat.

e: typo

 

[Valantar]

More like way way overworked and have a crazy high quota to meet.

Don't forget grossly underpaid and not allowed adequate breaks and facilities to maintain proper health and safety. If you want warehouse workers to take good care of the products they handle, first make sure the workers are taken good care of. Not only does treating workers like sh*t logically lead to them not giving a damn about their job, but it also directly impacts their ability to be thorough and careful. A sick, injured, uncomfortable or rushed worker can't be expected to do as good a job as a well cared for, healthy worker with a manageable workload. Amazon's quota policy is a classic example of measuring the wrong thing leading to that measurement itself becoming the chief goal: when what you measure is time spent on the warehouse floor (meant as a proxy for "efficiency", though in reality just a way to punish people for needing bathroom breaks) and number of boxes filled (again, supposedly efficiency, but how efficient is it if quality suffers to the degree that you drastically increase breakage?), you are deluding yourself into thinking these measurements are valuable data when they really just serve as meaningless goals to show irrelevant "improvements" over time, and inevitably lead to various ways of gaming the system (why carry a box when throwing it is faster?). It's very similar to how "number of published papers" becoming a measure of productivity for academics has lead to an immense rise in junk "academic journals" publishing unreviewed papers for money, and to the rise of a practice where the findings of a single research project are split into as many papers as possible rather than being grouped into a much more useful single article. Which of course means that any researcher who might be able to make use of these findings must now spend their time reading 5-10 papers (that are often highly repetitive and filled with filler material to have sufficient length) rather than 1-2 dense high quality ones.

The neoliberal obsession with measuring stuff is one of the most paradoxical and infuriating developments of the past few decades.

 

[R-T-B]

I'm pretty sure that all the RMAs from HDDs packaged like this will just increase that.

Different department / pass the buck syndrome.

Don't forget grossly underpaid and not allowed adequate breaks and facilities to maintain proper health and safety.

I don't forget, but somehow such statements have become "political" to certain types, so I avoid them.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Well, I just rec'd 2x 25LB pags of cat food today, no boxes or plastic covering at all, just shipping labels slapped on the outside....

good thing they didn't arrive yesterday when it was monsooning outside or the stuff would have been a complete loss, and I would have had to yet A>G>A>I>N send off a fresh copy of my very loud and very strongly-worded complaint letter to the bezoboy .... for like the 6th time in 4 months for exactly the same shitty crap......

Last month it was my wireless keyboard that arrived cracked to hell & back, in December it was a very expensive present for my wife's birthday that got smashed into miniature pieces.......

Ha, you worry about cat food, I got a graphics card shipped without any packaging when I lived in the UK last time around. It was also just left outside the front door. Luckily it was a block of flats with a front desk, so not anyone could walk in there, but still, several other flats on the same floor.

Then again, I've had tiny things shipped in huge boxes with no extra padding as well, so whatever was in that huge box got knocked around like nobody's business.

Before Amazon, I had a PC delivered once that looked like someone dropped down a few flights of stairs, as it was shattered into so many pieces that it wasn't even worth taking out of the box it came in.