Posted on 04/14/2009 6:20:59 AM PDT by steve-b
I've spoken to an Amazon.com employee who works closely with the systems involved in the glitch. The employee asked me not to share his name because of company policies on talking with the media.
On Sunday afternoon at least 20 Amazon.com employees were paged alerting them that items, possibly many, were incorrectly being flagged as adult. The employees also received links to the Twitter discussion AmazonFail.
Thousands of people were angry that gay-themed books had disappeared from Amazon's sales rankings and search algorithms. The number of Tweets on Sunday afternoon that had the term "AmazonFail" surpassed even those with the words "Easter" or "Jesus."
By this time, Amazon.com had upgraded the problem to Sev-1. (Amazon.com breaks down its operational issues in terms of severity levels. Sev-3 means a problem affects a single user. Sev-2 is a problem that affects a company, or a lot of people. Sev-1 is reserved for the most critical operational issues and often are sent up the management chain to the senior vice president level.)
"People got pulled away from their Easter thing when this whole thing broke," the employee said. "It was just a screwup."...
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.seattlepi.com ...
As a veteran of .com retail IT, all I can say is ouch!
Stuff happens.
Well, now we know..., for Amazon...
Gay = Sev-1
Also, we’ve discovered, that for Amazon...
Gay > Easter
Gay = Sev-1 = Industrial Sabotage = FACIST...wth is it with the idiot gay agenda.
A bunch of mentally ill narcicists got upset that “their” stuff didn’t rank where they thought it should... that’s not remotely a SEV-1 that should be calling folks in on the weekend. Fix the problem on monday, when folks get back to work.
This nation in all ways continues to let the nut jobs on the far ends of the bell curve dictate how the rest of us should be living. Insanity.
Now THAT is funny.
Oh! The Howwow of it !
The big bwute took away our picture books.
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