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like i get asked about amazon a lot like do i disagree with how amazon has run and my answer is always the same which is they never lied
they didn't tell you it's a magical place to work where it's all kumbaya and we all like you know we all hang out with you know unicorns every day it's
really amazing they're very up they're very open about it that it's very very aggressive and very rough and very competitive and even the people who love it only
Listen to native speakers pronounce “kumbaya” as a adj in real conversational contexts with synchronized timestamps and subtitles.
Used to evoke spiritual unity and interpersonal harmony, with varying degrees of sincerity or sarcasm, as referring to the folk song.
“Dr. Hoffman told me the word kumbaya was originally an African American spiritual, a song that was also a prayer asking for divine intervention, asking for help in dire times, and that then the hippies in the sixties took it and sang it to mean unity amid protest, and then it got played out and became a stand-in for corniness about togetherness.”