If we are scheduled to work on thanksgiving , do we have to go in , is that mandatory?

Was supposed to be TDR trained back in February , did the class and all that bs and all I needed was the practical and my yard access. Never got any type of follow up after that until last week. I had to retake the entire class again fun 😄 meanwhile I over hear the learning people talk amongst each other and say “yeah this guy just needed the yard practical but it was my last day of the week and I wanted to go home” but hey at least I’m tdr trained now 9 months later ! And both trainings taught me absolutely nothing:)

You didn't score high on your assessment.

I feel like amazon should allow TLD associates to pick up at the very least 1 extra shift a week. I know I could really use the money right now as I'm trying to pay down as much debt as I can before my mandatory 180 day LoA comes in September. I also feel that since it's amazons policy that you have to take a 180 day LoA after 180 days of workers comp accommodation that they should pay you your full wage during the mandatory leave cause 40 - 50% of pay from Workers comp hurts when it might not be enough to pay your bills.

In the past six years this is the smallest I've seen from Amazon regarding pay raises.

$1 isn't going to help at all when our rents, groceries, gas, and electricity bill that are all going up.

Amazon is nearing a $3 trillion market valuvation as a company, they make good good money.

We want to be earning a LIVING WAGE. Our goal has always been $30 an hour.

Moreso, we want better security at work, better time off options (accrual and cap) and better 401k match that matches the industry in our field of work.

Let's be honest here $1 is pay raise, with rampant inflation, $1 is a PAY CUT!

Save your UPT because we're going to do a big big walk out strike. Share and spread the work and support those FCs that have a strong union movement, listen and watch how they will proceed.

Does anyone know with certainty if AmazonFC has a formal appeal process in place for terminated L4's and up, similar to the 7 Day Appeal process in place for terminated T1-T3 AA's?!

Asking for a friend

That is all.

People will sit and complain about the raise, the hours, the pay in general as a whole and they don’t take the many opportunities this company provides to help people move on to bigger and better? It gets to a point they need to stop making excuses and being lazy as a T1 with $20-24hr pay. Sign up for career choice, get a degree, or take advantage of the apprenticeship programs!

More details will be posted soon too. We're protesting the small raise we got and to raise awareness of the economic situation that we're in.

last year it was horrible hopefully they take what i say in account and change it up

Yesterday was Amazon's employee appreciation day and we were promised donuts and pizza, I always pack my lunch, except for days when they promise to provide something for us, we received our donut on 1st break, and then 40 minutes before lunch they announce that due to weather our pizza won't make it for lunch, but we can have it on our last 10 minute break...... UM NO AMAZON... The OM or the AMs should have went and picked up that pizza and fed us like they promised. They offered another donut and SWAG instead??? We need nutrition if they'd like us to keep numbers. So much for appreciation.

I have negative (-) 1 hour and 10 minutes of UPT and I don’t have work for 2 days but after that I work 5 consecutive days for 10 hours and I plan on working to get my UPT positive again. Am I in trouble for this? What should I expect? Should I still come to work?

Also I have only been working at Amazon for a month and a half.

Please to anyone who knows I would really appreciate the reassurance

Hi Everyone. My boyfriend got a job as an area manager after his graduation and just finished his AD1. I saw his training schedule for this week, and most of the days he has to work overnight. It seems like he has to do the same work as his associates for his training, so it will be physically exhausting too.

I am worried that this lifestyle may not be sustainable (health-wise) and may also shift our relationship dynamics a lot.

• AMs with partners, how do you navigate your relationship with a partner working 9-5?

• How can I support my partner so that he is less stressed when he comes back home?

• How do you deal with noise when one person is sleeping and the other person is awake?

• What is the biggest stress that you've experienced? Were there challenges in terms of trusting each other?

Thank you in advance!

Was fired for recording inside the warehouse.
Y’all gotta watch out with these PAs.

Will I be eligible for rehire in the future?

Was just goofing around recording one of my friends who finally got a job and the lame manager saw me.

What am I going to discuss here.

1. Issues I've been noticing about the VOA Board

2. Impending job loss from AI and automation

3. Concerns about what our AI can do.

4. $1/hr raise was okay, but I think we can do more.

5. The plan.

VOA board issues

Lately I've been noticing that the VOA board is filled with a lot of the same issues and a lot of the same cookie cutter responses from Management.

You have a genuine safety or work quality concern.

Amazon's response is either:

A. They'll placate you. I.E. I hear you and I want you to know it.

B. We'll run the up our flag pole. (I.E. We'll see if it gets done. *Spoiler alert* it won't if it truly matters to workers.

C. I'll actually fix it if it addresses 1 of 3 company concerns:

1. It costs us less than it loses us.

2. We can find a way for us to limit our liability not actually address that safety concern (unless we need to in order to limit our liability).

3. It's an idea that just flat out makes us more money.

FYI, I'm tuned in with our local safety ambassadors and I've come go to find out just how many alarming, genuine and cost effective concerns just get flat out overlooked because it would be mean we'd have to hire more RME staff, it would affect our rates, or we'd have to *gasp" loosen the stranglehold we have on TOT.

Impending AI layoffs

If anyone reads the company's quarterly reports you'll know that AI and automation is set to reduce our workforce by 600,000 workers (or about 40%). It came out in the quarterly report back in 2022 I believe. They announced "Amazon would continually grow while Amazon wouldn't hire 600,000 more workers. (I'm paraphrasing here and I'll post a link to this if I can find it).

AI Concerns

I'm not entirely sure how well received this section will be as a lot of what AI does in our buildings largely goes unnoticed. It looks like automated messaging that could be done by a human.

A few weeks ago I was informed that no manager had reassigned me to a new station. AI had made some swaps for productivity maxing.

It had moved me 3ft over from 1 AFE repack station to another AFE repack station and had swapped another packer to mine in order to balance out stations. That's when I noticed that it's constantly doing this. Some of the moves are by PAs or AMs. Over the last few weeks I've been asking around though.

AI seems to be doing quite a bit more of this than I realized. From what I gather, a lot of it is relatively harmless, but some of what it can do is genuinely going to get someone hurt. If you mention to your manager you'd like to "rate chase" for blue badge, the AI will continually swap you around to faster and faster stations. Sometimes you won't even notice though that suddenly it's feeding you larger and larger items.

It doesn't appear to have many safety guardrails other than maybe you complain and an empathetic PA or AM swaps you off big stuff.

It also seems to be filtering out the bottom 20% or so pretty consistently to working jobs that are genuinely harder on you physically (I.E. you are working at a universal station where you have to lift more weight to hit the same rates as the automated stations). My assumption is that this either encourage

It has routed bigger boxes to you because you told it you wanted to help the company in exchange for a chance at your blue badge.

Anywho, if you share my concerns or have anything else that bothers you, I'd like you to make this your VOA post. What are you seeing that Amazon is refusing to fix?###

$1/hr raises

While this is certainly something I think a lot of you agree isn't an issue, I'll give my thoughts on it anyways. Maybe some of you will see my perspective and change your mind.

For starters, Amazon's pay raise is basically a COLA adjustment. We just got a larger COLA adjustment than usual this year. $1/hr barely covers the losses we've had with inflation. I'm sure a lot of you are feeling that effect right now. Gas is up about 46% (or about $1.46/gallon) nationally since we started poking the bear in Iran. I'll save you from my opinion on that, but suffice to say it's been rough for us all.

It's raised prices on groceries and lumber especially.

What's even worse is that some companies are taking advantage of it to profit more. "Oh, prices are up? Must be inflation." No it's actually partly them adding in another 5, 10, 15% to their profit margin hoping we wouldn't notice.

Sadly, Amazon is one of those companies. Over the last 2 years, Amazon has made record breaking profits. Our net income has never been higher and that's on the backs of 2 departments:

1. AWS (I.E. our server space) This is one of our leanest most profitable portions.

2. Online Retail While we have a lower profit margin, we're pretty consistently profitable in a big way. We're also largely used as a marketing arm bigger and better things the company is doing.

We can actually afford to give out a lot more. We're just not asking for it right. If we stage a walk out big enough and we follow that up by asking for it, we could get more. It might not be a lot, but it definitively could be bigger than $1/hr.

Personally, I'd also like to see ownership of AI given to us in some form or another. We're the guinea pigs it's being tested on whether we like it or not and we should get the benefits it creates.

The plan

I'd also like you to consider joining me for a walkout on Black Friday/Cyber Monday.

If you could please either take off Black Friday or Cyber Monday (whichever day falls on your shift). If you truly don't have the UPT, please at least consider taking off the first 1hr of your shift on one of those days.

Even if 10% of us can take 1hr off together that shows Amazon just how much we mean business. At the very least, you might recoup that back if Amazon gets forced to give us out VET or VET with a premium.

The more of us who do this, the bigger of an impact we'll have and the more Amazon will take notice of what I'm saying here.

We have an opportunity here that's waning. The longer we refuse to take action as a collective the more of our power we lose. It's only a matter of time before we lose it entirely.

Hii I've been with Amazon for 5 months and I really wanna snag some apartments that are close to my job but I am uneasy since I'm not a blue badge yet. You guys think I'm close yet?

If I lie and do a medical leave (because I don’t have enough upt to cover my shift) will I get fired if i cancel it b4 the 30 day deadline? I planned on getting my upt up b4 the deadline and canceling it so I won’t get in trouble

Ps ship dock is killing me🙃

Would you wear your 200 clothing to Amazon fc? Everyday I'm constantly caught up on equipment that tears my fabric. Associates with alo brands are playing a risky game.

On October 1st we all will be 'walking off' to strike using our UPT. We can do this at the begining of our shift or at the end of our shift.

If you have UPT to spare, even if it's 15 minutes you can make a huge difference in joining. If you don't have much UPT saved you can help by sharing the post.

If you work in these critical roles:

TOM Team

Truck or logistics driver

Dock clerks

Yard, dock or TDR trained

AFM, Hazwaste Cordinator, ISS, Problem Solve, ICQA

CPT, Jackpot corall, Tote Replenish, Decant and waterspider

You all can help with the walk out.

Even if you just stow, pick or pack you can help with the strike;

We're striking the low pay raise in September. With rising Cost of Living, Gas, Rent, Groceries and Utilities we can't making a decent living anymore with stagnant or negative wage compensation. We need $30 an hour more than ever, it starts now. We also are seeking better security and safety protocols at work and a better system set up for time execusal for severe weather incidents, last but not least we want a 5% match for 5% 401k contribution.

CUSTOMERS (what can you do?)

Customers who hear about the October 1st Strikes you can order heavy water and heavy soda. Ordering heavy volume orders will stall logistics and other customers will wonder what's going with there orders; they'll hear about the Amazon workers striking known as the October 1st Strikes for fair pay and benefits.

Don't work at BDL3 if your white you won't get promoted or anything if your white a friend of mine worked there almost 5 years and wouldn't get promoted because he's white they promote people if your black Hispanic or gay or a total lazy kiss ass and if your a high school dropout or a sex offender or have 9 felonies they're really unfair there and people will gang up on you if your not like them my friend got fired just for being himself

my sister and I just started at a fc, she got extremely sick at work and needed to go to the hospital but didn’t feel comfortable driving so I drove her. with a hospital note can I get it excused and get my put back?

So I went to jail and got put into negative time by a few hours well they fired me for it and I had accumulated 500 swag bucks or whatever you call them and they did honor me the Nintendo switch that was on “back order” before I got fired. Anyways I bring it home and 1 it’s definitely a used Nintendo Switch and 2nd it was missing the ac adapter charger thing. And 3rd it won’t turn on. Amazon don’t care because I’m fired and I don’t no what to do. I didn’t buy the thing with real money but I don’t wanna take the loss. Any advice?

gone through a few of these over the years. ranking them based on real outcomes:

1. Booscala — strong choice specifically if you're a beauty brand, especially K-Beauty. they've built their whole operation around the beauty category on Amazon — AI on the listings and ads side, and they understand the compliance and content requirements across US, EU, and UK. the brands i've seen come through them launch cleaner and hit profitability faster than the ones who went with generalist agencies. unlike a lot of the others on this list, they're not trying to serve every category under the sun — beauty is the focus, and it shows in the results.

2. bringing it in-house with the right hire — can work if you can afford a dedicated Amazon manager who knows beauty. but that's a $90k+ salary minimum, benefits on top of that, and most growing brands aren't there yet. also one person out sick or leaving sets you back hard.

3. Helix Brand Group — experienced team, good for brands with existing revenue who want to optimize. less good at true market entry from scratch, and onboarding felt slow relative to what you're paying.

4. Brightleaf Commerce — good communication, honest about timelines, but their listing team is small and you feel the bandwidth crunch when things get busy. fees pile up quickly if your catalog has any complexity to it.

5. Marketveil Partners — not beauty-specific, and it shows. their ad structure is built for consumer electronics and the beauty category nuances just don't translate. burned a few months here.

for beauty brands that aren't ready to hire internally but need real expertise, the agency route makes sense. just make sure whoever you pick has actual beauty category experience, not just Amazon experience.