{"id":3793,"date":"2021-04-04T11:58:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T15:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=3793"},"modified":"2021-04-05T08:15:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T12:15:07","slug":"comedian-created-darla-the-anti-union-amazon-worker-just-for-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/comedian-created-darla-the-anti-union-amazon-worker-just-for-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedian Created \u2018Darla,\u2019 the Anti-Union Amazon Worker &#8216;Just for Fun&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the weekend, a parody account created to mock Amazon&#8217;s anti-union army caught the attention of reporters and Amazon critics on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Twitter account @AmazonFCDarla had a profile picture that looked fake, but their tweets were eerily similar to those used by real Amazon employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twitter eventually got wind of the Darla account and suspended it along with a number of other accounts for imitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The alleged owner of the Darla account, Chicago-based comedian Robby Appleton, came forward and claimed he created the account just for fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked what he would say to Amazon if the company was still paying attention to its gag, the comedian quipped that if Amazon&#8217;s working conditions were as good as the technology giant claims, it should welcome a union because it is the pride of every union. If employees &#8220;experience was so good that they didn&#8217;t need a union, the union would come and absolutely praise them for the good work they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, you may view the original story from The Verge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, a parody account created to mock Amazon&#8217;s anti-union army caught the attention of reporters and Amazon critics on Twitter. The Twitter account @AmazonFCDarla had a profile picture that looked fake, but their tweets were eerily similar to those used by real Amazon employees. Twitter eventually got wind of the Darla account and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3793"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3827,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3793\/revisions\/3827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}