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sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your photo “Listen I didn’t have very much stationery hoarded after all so we’re…”
This is fantastic and I may steal your idea.
I think it’s a fantastic trend! Like… just cross out the weird greeting and go for it. I decided in mine it was funnier to write “pandemic” than “quarantine” where it had said “holiday” but the one set of cards says “This holiday season, it’s all about going to parties” and I’m not even sure where to start so I’ve just been leaving it and drawing a line around it and being like “OK hilarious”.
clotpoleofthelord replied to your post “ancient sea update”
loved this chapter. It made me cry into my muffin.
Aww, I didn’t intend for it to be a tearjerker– but also, I got your card, and yes it got glitter everywhere, and no I don’t care, but I think this means we’re idea twins or maybe you came up with this first because that is really a beautiful holiday card. Anyway, I hope this is the trend the history books pick up on, because I think it’s hilarious and obviously isn’t a huge leap for most people to come up with.
Spontaneously, most of the Western world started sending one another repurposed holiday cards during the quarantine, because it was no longer a custom for people to keep large stocks of stationery in their homes apart from holiday cards bought on clearance or just in case.
Apropos of neither of these replies, I stopped by my workplace yesterday to grab my paycheck, and the other guy in my department was there– the online department is still technically operating– and he was flustered and exhausted because for some reason over the weekend Amazon had turned off their own listings, and had let everyone shopping purchase the independent sellers on the site’s listings instead, and that meant that he, by himself with no warehouse employees working, suddenly had peak christmas-season level orders to process with no warning? And then I saw a post that Amazon warehouse workers were on strike.
So that’s why. Amazon turned off the orders going to their warehouses to cut down on the influence of the strike, making all their independent sellers into scabs, and when those independent sellers aren’t prepared for the huge influx of orders, it’ll reflect poorly on those sellers’ metrics instead of their own. (Two months ago they stopped removing poor service reviews from Amazon warehouse-fulfilled orders– the reviews complaining of being sent the wrong item etc., on things that we independent sellers had pre-sent to the Amazon warehouse? Those would be the fault of the Amazon workers picking and packing those items, not the independent seller who owned the item, right? But poor reviews de-rank a seller in the algorithm and can lead to them being entirely removed. Sellers are motivated not to make mistakes picking orders because of that, but Amazon’s warehouse workers have literally no connection to the independent sellers. In the past, Amazon would remove the reviews that were for things that clearly weren’t the sellers’ fault, but now they don’t anymore and it’s just tough luck. So we’re always on the verge of falling out the bottom of the algorithm due to circumstances beyond our control, and now they’re using that same algorithm against us by just not taking orders while they’re overwhelmed. A seller doesn’t have that same option– we’d have to turn off our listings individually.)
Anyway. Amazon is a fuck, please don’t keep shopping there.
sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your photo “Listen I didn’t have very much stationery hoarded after all so we’re…”
This is fantastic and I may steal your idea.
I think it’s a fantastic trend! Like… just cross out the weird greeting and go for it. I decided in mine it was funnier to write “pandemic” than “quarantine” where it had said “holiday” but the one set of cards says “This holiday season, it’s all about going to parties” and I’m not even sure where to start so I’ve just been leaving it and drawing a line around it and being like “OK hilarious”.
clotpoleofthelord replied to your post “ancient sea update”
loved this chapter. It made me cry into my muffin.
Aww, I didn’t intend for it to be a tearjerker– but also, I got your card, and yes it got glitter everywhere, and no I don’t care, but I think this means we’re idea twins or maybe you came up with this first because that is really a beautiful holiday card. Anyway, I hope this is the trend the history books pick up on, because I think it’s hilarious and obviously isn’t a huge leap for most people to come up with.
Spontaneously, most of the Western world started sending one another repurposed holiday cards during the quarantine, because it was no longer a custom for people to keep large stocks of stationery in their homes apart from holiday cards bought on clearance or just in case.
Apropos of neither of these replies, I stopped by my workplace yesterday to grab my paycheck, and the other guy in my department was there– the online department is still technically operating– and he was flustered and exhausted because for some reason over the weekend Amazon had turned off their own listings, and had let everyone shopping purchase the independent sellers on the site’s listings instead, and that meant that he, by himself with no warehouse employees working, suddenly had peak christmas-season level orders to process with no warning? And then I saw a post that Amazon warehouse workers were on strike.
So that’s why. Amazon turned off the orders going to their warehouses to cut down on the influence of the strike, making all their independent sellers into scabs, and when those independent sellers aren’t prepared for the huge influx of orders, it’ll reflect poorly on those sellers’ metrics instead of their own. (Two months ago they stopped removing poor service reviews from Amazon warehouse-fulfilled orders– the reviews complaining of being sent the wrong item etc., on things that we independent sellers had pre-sent to the Amazon warehouse? Those would be the fault of the Amazon workers picking and packing those items, not the independent seller who owned the item, right? But poor reviews de-rank a seller in the algorithm and can lead to them being entirely removed. Sellers are motivated not to make mistakes picking orders because of that, but Amazon’s warehouse workers have literally no connection to the independent sellers. In the past, Amazon would remove the reviews that were for things that clearly weren’t the sellers’ fault, but now they don’t anymore and it’s just tough luck. So we’re always on the verge of falling out the bottom of the algorithm due to circumstances beyond our control, and now they’re using that same algorithm against us by just not taking orders while they’re overwhelmed. A seller doesn’t have that same option– we’d have to turn off our listings individually.)
Anyway. Amazon is a fuck, please don’t keep shopping there.
