Amazon tries to prove it’s not a Dickensian workhouse: opinion

You can identify companies’ sore spots by what gets them angry.  

Last week, the executive in charge of Amazon.com Inc’s logistics operation tweeted a rebuttal to a television show. Comedian John Oliver had devoted one of his trademark scathing and hilarious HBO segments to the working conditions in warehouses that handle e-commerce orders. Amazon was not the only company pilloried, but it was the most prominent.