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> It doesn't help that Amazon retail has a good amount of its workforce based in India and seemingly disconnected from the Seattle based leadership.

Could you expand on this a bit, please?

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An Amazon manager, full of shit, once tried to tell a joke at a social gathering. He claimed that he and friends removed the engine from someone's car over lunch as a prank. This is the education level that some of them have. He literally didn't think people would know he was full of shit.

Gullibility has little to do with 'education level'.

You misread it - the manager wasn’t gullible, he was the one telling the fib.

It would be technically possible to remove a car engine during lunch. However, that's not so much a prank as malicious damage. You'd also have to be a very skilled mechanic, familiar with that specific car, to do it that fast.

Not to mention you'd drop a lot of polluting fluids on the ground if you did it in a parking lot.

Honest question: education level or mental developmental level?

Mental health is enough of an epidemic that $company_with_exponential_scale is most definitely going to pick up a fair chunk of people with various issues, cognitive included.

Chances are this is even part of why the bar is a bit lower.

(Said as someone with mild high-functioning autism)

My point is Amazon has hired some managers that have really lowered the bar due to the environment they are from and people they are used to dealing with. Imagine someone from a place where you could tell a preposterous lie and 50% of people would believe you.

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