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0 pointsgoldenkey4y ago0 comments

HR at Amazon is a shit show. I had $100 of pizza stolen from the fridge at Amazon and I mentioned it casually to HR, as something notable but not too important. And HR then decided to tell my manager without my knowledge. The manager then berated me over communicating about a "trivial matter." So yeah, wouldn't put much stock in HR at Amazon.

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dec0dedab0de4y ago

I know it's not the point, but how/why did you have $100 worth of pizza in the refrigerator?

Edit: I'm trying to imagine scenarios where that could happen, I have two so far. You ordered pizza for a meeting that got canceled, and the office refrigerator was huge. Or you ordered from a fancy pizza place that had waygu or something as a topping. I'm sorry, I don't know why this is bothering me so much.

goldenkeyOP4y ago

It was 5 of the expensive pies from https://www.seriouspieseattle.com/serious-take-out-ballard/

I had gotten them for myself and a friend. They are small pies so a single person can easily eat two of them.

dec0dedab0de4y ago

Ok, so that explains how they fit in the refrigerator. Though it's still confusing why you would buy 5 pizzas and put them in the fridge. Is it common around there to buy pizza in advanced and reheat it? Or were they just leftovers, and I was thinking too much about it?

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oceliker4y ago

Maybe it was paid for with bitcoin, like the infamous case: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/cryptocurrency/bi...

cerved4y ago

it's clearly a lie!

The value of pizza is inversely correlated to the time it's been out of the oven. Once it's in the refrigerator it's worth max 1%

Balarny4y ago

I mean ... one of my guilty pleasures is leftover pizza straight out of the fridge. Something about that chilled, congealed fat and sugar ... mmmmmmmmm

So to me it makes perfect sense that it's $100

goldenkeyOP4y ago

I for one like leftover pizza if it hasn't hardened into a rock. In this case, the pizza had only been in there for less than a day.

rendall4y ago

Maybe original cost had been $10,000?

orlp4y ago

Or it was $100 worth of pizza spread over a longer period.

akomtu4y ago

You should've played the game and claimed you've never said what HR says you've said and in fact (here goes the distraction part of the lie) you heard another guy was talking about pizza, so HR must've overheard that conversation and misremembered the details.

winrid4y ago

The problem is the manager would probably start with "did you have a pizza stolen?" without mentioning HR

psd14y ago

The stolen item needs to slightly vary in each telling. Catch a mole 101.

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akomtu4y ago

From this question alone you could figure who's trying to backstab you.

rendall4y ago

Maybe manager stole the pizza.

goldenkeyOP4y ago

Well, I left because of him. He stole my dignity.

rendall4y ago

Dignity and pizza.

danjac4y ago

$100 of pizza? Isn't that a whole AWS service's worth?

goldenkeyOP4y ago

I was making good money. And this chef makes pizza to die for: https://www.seriouspieseattle.com/serious-take-out-ballard/

danjac4y ago

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/introduction-...

Seb-C4y ago

If you had got an NFT for your pizza, this wouldn't have happened since this would prevent them from... Oh wait...

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dec0dedab0de4y ago

I know it's not the point, but how/why did you have $100 worth of pizza in the refrigerator?

goldenkeyOP4y ago

It was 5 of the expensive pies from https://www.seriouspieseattle.com/serious-take-out-ballard/

I had gotten them for myself and a friend. They are small pies so a single person can easily eat two of them.

dec0dedab0de4y ago

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oceliker4y ago

Maybe it was paid for with bitcoin, like the infamous case: https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/cryptocurrency/bi...

cerved4y ago

it's clearly a lie!

The value of pizza is inversely correlated to the time it's been out of the oven. Once it's in the refrigerator it's worth max 1%

Balarny4y ago

I mean ... one of my guilty pleasures is leftover pizza straight out of the fridge. Something about that chilled, congealed fat and sugar ... mmmmmmmmm

So to me it makes perfect sense that it's $100

goldenkeyOP4y ago

I for one like leftover pizza if it hasn't hardened into a rock. In this case, the pizza had only been in there for less than a day.

rendall4y ago

Maybe original cost had been $10,000?

orlp4y ago

Or it was $100 worth of pizza spread over a longer period.

akomtu4y ago

winrid4y ago

The problem is the manager would probably start with "did you have a pizza stolen?" without mentioning HR

psd14y ago

The stolen item needs to slightly vary in each telling. Catch a mole 101.