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Alexa Personality Writer? Count Me IN!

Dear Amazon: Consider this my official job application for your LinkedIn Alexa Personality Writer Ad.

Charles Bastille
Ruminato
Published in
7 min readJan 23, 2022

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Image is screenshot of Alexa Ad (Fair Use)

Dear Amazon:

First off, let me say that I myself have no personality.

Image by Ollyy: licensed via Shutterstock

That shouldn’t be a bad thing, though, since I’ve heard that you run a sweatshop. Like, everywhere. Warehouse workers? Sweatshop. Delivery drivers? Sweatshop. Amazon store and merchandise centers? Sweatshops. Engineering and dev centers? Sweatshops.

I can only imagine what conditions are like working for your logistics operations:

Original Photo by Ian Taylor on Unsplash: Photoshopped by author

“Hey, boss, another crew member jumped overboard.”

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Charles Bastille
Ruminato

Author of MagicLand & Psalm of Vampires. Join me on my Substack at https://www.ruminato.com/. All stories © 2020-24 by Charles Bastille