[hehebbssjj]

If your employment was entirely piece-work driven by "the algorithm", which is completely opaque and subject to change at any time, what other recourse do you have? They're basically trying to reverse engineer the weights of various inputs in Amazon's scheduling algorithm to try and have some control over their lives.

[dpeck]

I think it is a perfectly natural and very human reaction. But that doesn’t make it any less in the realm of superstition.

[rightbyte]

It is not superstition if you have a valid theory of why it might be. I mean they don't claim the phones in the tree are charms that give good luck as a token sacrifice to Mammon.