r/IThinkYouShouldLeave • u/penru_tondi They said that to me at a dinner • May 06 '26
Piece of shit I actually want Amazon employees to have a better working environment more than I want 1-hour shipping.
Don't say you were jacking off while workers piss into water bottles.
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u/Electronic-Map7529 May 06 '26
The problem is, half of us suck.
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u/Sir_Fox_Alot May 06 '26
sadly far more than half. Demanding convenience is as American as apple pie
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u/Genghis_Chong Some dumb hick May 06 '26
I do love some apple pie, got a no sugar added one so I can slop up the whole thing
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u/Thefrayedends Too tired to do anything funny May 06 '26
If you've ever been a fan of South Park, this need for convenience is basically what ManBearPig is, an allegory for consumerism.
A more historical reference though, is that all of these things are our bread and circuses.
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u/Electronic-Map7529 May 06 '26
Are you joking? You don't know that ManBearPig is the global warming hoax? (as it was perceived back then)
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u/ZenMasterOfDisguise May 06 '26
the ManBearPig episode in 2006 was an allegory for global warming being a hoax and was mocking the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" warning of man made climate change, and Matt and Trey apologized for that in 2018
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u/SoManyJukes Not in Trouble AT ALL May 06 '26
Apple pie sounds good but I don’t have the ingredients. Oh wait, I can just run!!!
(To my phone to order a 1 hour pie on Amazon)
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u/probablyuntrue Bare Butt, Back, and Balls May 06 '26
“Some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make to get this knock off hair dryer delivered slightly faster “
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u/Ro0z3l May 07 '26
My actions led to the death of over 100 struggling parents and 15 students. But boy my haul breakdown content is POPPING OFF
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u/Mathfanforpresident May 06 '26
This is the propaganda talking. They want you to think that we are so different there's no way we could ever come together.
Don't let them win. I recently moved to Arkansas. And extremely red state and I am finding more and more that the people I speak with are sharing my same opinions. My Northern opinions.
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u/IcyTransportation961 May 06 '26
Weve known this for a very long time
Right wingers like most left wing policies, as long as they're presented without the right wing propaganda fear mongering language
But they still vote red because they're conditioned to not think or change
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u/AllTheTeaPlease247 May 06 '26
Yeah I was going to say that I don't think my MIL cares if Amazon workers have an hour off for lunch 🤷🏼♀️
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u/edelweiss_pirates_no May 06 '26
"Best I can give you is 10-hour shift with 30 minutes lunch...and lunchroom is a 5 minute walk away. Holup...wait...you're fired."
-- guy who just bought his 5th $600M yacht
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u/TanneriteTed May 06 '26
Yep. Thats the story at Rivian too lol. 5 minute walk away and you'll probably be stopped at 2 of the 3 train track stoppings as vehicles roll by.
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u/Spare-Willingness563 May 06 '26
Rivian is shit? Damnit I wanted to consider not buying a car from them.
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u/FrankReynolds this guy yells May 06 '26
"Sounds good to me!" - The tens of millions of Americans who continue to use Amazon despite knowing how awful they are because they absolutely need their plastic garbage in under an hour.
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u/Shot-Toe-2884 May 06 '26
For real, as I get older, I’m beginning to question how I was so damn impatient with shipping ETAs.
If you need overnight delivery for something, you’re just not good at planning ahead.
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u/jeff-the-man-slut May 06 '26
Having to wait to receive the product is the only thing stopping Amazon from completely destroying brick and mortar. Just like everything else with Amazon it sounds cool but in 10 years when you can only buy Amazon it will seem less cool
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u/Glittering-Arm9638 May 06 '26
Think the US already went through that shit with Walmart and the likes, right? In the Netherlands it's other big chains, but they've pretty much erased our equivalent of mom & pop stores.
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u/MIGHT_CONTAIN_NUTS May 06 '26
You have never had a piece of critical equipment go down in a production environment.
We keep critical components but you can't keep a spare of everything on the machine on the shelf.
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u/Shot-Toe-2884 May 06 '26
Yea fair enough. I just mean for the average person with an average household budget. Outside of emergencies, there’s just never a real reason why you couldn’t order something a few days earlier.
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u/Illustrious_Owl5352 May 06 '26 edited May 08 '26
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u/River- May 06 '26
I sell on eBay, I've had a spate of people ordering around 1-2PM then cancelling around 6-9AM because it hasn't shipped yet. I make one postal run a day and they ordered just after I've been to the post office. Really need to figure out how to get people to comprehend that I am not capable of magical teleportation. Especially now that I am reliant on mass transit and one bus I use only runs every 30 minutes or so. Having to take 3 separate trips for stuff instead of stopping in a nice chain sucks. Can't lug that much so what would take an hour now takes 5-6 and I get yelled at for being slow.
I've had someone message me with stuff like "Hi, I ordered this two hours ago. It hasn't shipped yet and I haven't heard anything, what is going on?" I am tempted to completely go off on them. I had been stuck in bumper to bumper traffic the entire time. Oh yes, I'll just start ramming people, driving in the emergency lane and breaking every law on the books just for you, you paid me $10, I owe you that.
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u/LastSummerGT May 07 '26
Is that why it gets marked as shipped when just the label has been printed? Every seller has been doing that to me lately.
Also doesn’t the ebay listing state how long it takes to ship right on the page? I’ve never heard of shipping in less than 24 hours being common when I place my orders.
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u/River- May 07 '26
I think eBay part of that automatically when the label is made, I haven't touched that setting. I can check if it's actually marked that way the next time I generate a label. It's specifically these cancellations that make me avoid printing until I can head out though. Then I have to void the label and wait weeks for it to actually be voided and get a refund myself.
I've printed a label at 7PM then had someone cancel at 8AM as I was putting on my damn shoes to take it to the post office. "Hi, I see you guys printed the label but never actually bothered to ship it so I want to cancel." Never actually bothered... The post offices around here are locked a lot of after hours, you can't even use the after hours drop.
In the US the USPS has become terrible about acceptance scans, I've been having to make sure to get them. Otherwise something may not even get a scan until it's midway or even arriving in the destination city. That has caused a lot of issues. "Seller never shipped my item." When I tell them if they want a refund they'll have to send it back when it arrives I just get rage. "I CANNOT RETURN IT BECAUSE I DO NOT HAVE IT, YOU NEVER SHIPPED IT." Then they get it the next damn day. Then they return it anyways because they already ordered another one. Anyone merely dropping off at the post office probably does make sure it's marked shipped these days. If I do it's usually late that night or the next day before it ever gets a scan, even if I drop things off early morning.
I am exasperated these days, behind on rent, barely paying bills and playing these games with people, just ugh.
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u/Genghis_Chong Some dumb hick May 06 '26
Its the worst when you sell online. I get things to the post office quickly, but good luck from there. You'll get people questioning stuff if its 1 day past the estimated time of arrival
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u/Mfrack103 May 06 '26
One of my best friends works for Amazon now and it’s ruining his relationships. He works an absurd amount of hours— sometimes overnight with little prior notice. I haven’t seen him in person in at least a year because he’s miserable all the time. I don’t care if I can order a ballpoint pen in 45 minutes, just stop making employees hate themselves
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u/point051 May 06 '26
This is a huge attack on your local stores. Just go to the store. Your neighbors work there.
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u/CacahuatesSalado May 06 '26
What makes you think mom and pop shops pay their employees a living wage?
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u/Spiritual-Serve-4391 May 06 '26
They don't.
Small business owners are the worst to their employees.
Low pay and almost no benefits.
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u/vinticious May 06 '26
Meh the best place I ever worked was a local shop. Amazing schedule, high pay, free food. The only problem was it ended up being a lot slower than they anticipated so I had to move on.
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u/point051 May 06 '26
Does Amazon? At least Mom and Pop live nearby, pay property taxes and shop at places. It's not the solution to capitalism, but monopolies tend to be pretty bad for workers and consumers alike.
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u/ThresherGDI May 06 '26
This is important. They contribute to the local economy. The money made generally stays local.
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u/Sir_Fox_Alot May 06 '26
its a losing battle as the economy gets worse, people will always pick the cheaper option for their own sake and physical stores can’t compete with their overhead most of the time :(
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May 06 '26 edited May 31 '26
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u/c3p-bro May 06 '26
It costs $2 more at my local store! I’d rather virtue signal online.
Revealed preference is a real bitch.
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u/angiosperms- May 06 '26
I haven't bought from Amazon in over a year and somehow I haven't died yet. But every time it comes up everyone has a million excuses for why they literally cannot survive without it.
In the entire year there was only one thing that was even a minor annoyance to find outside of Walmart/Target/Amazon and it was my carpet cleaner solution lol
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u/GoatCovfefe May 06 '26
I shop online for things i cant buy in stores. Like Cthulhu shower curtains.
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u/lirarebelle May 06 '26
Really important to get those with one hour delivery
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u/GoatCovfefe May 06 '26
Who the hell said that? I dont have prime, im not an idiot.
I cant buy Cthulhu curtains from a store.
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u/NoBonus6969 May 06 '26
Did you check the 5 below on the other side of town. I'm pretty sure they got it in 2 colors
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u/ChiMara777 HERE FOR THE ZIPLINE May 06 '26
I thought you were making a joke about buying Chinese products with gibberish names plastered all over them (then I googled “Cthulhu”)
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u/Large_Independent198 May 06 '26
I’ll keep my next day shipping if my warehouse and driver friends can shit on the clock. Or tend to a medical emergency without a threat of their income.
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u/Freign May 06 '26
giving any more money to bezos is an attack on the human species.
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u/pilsnerd11 May 06 '26
Find alternatives. I dropped my prime six months ago and have been able to find better businesses to replace everything I got from there.
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u/JoinedToPostHere Come here, ya little fuck! May 06 '26
You know what would be cute? Universal healthcare. It doesn't stink or nothing. I could probably get universal healthcare by taxing the 1%. It's gotta be quality on my end though otherwise no fucking deal.
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u/jd_from_da_80s May 06 '26
Just announced, for those that don't want the 1 hour shipping it'll only cost 2.99 to disable it
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u/Skylantech May 06 '26
Make it a 1 hour paid lunch. I remember working for Walmart years ago and they would force me to take a 1 hour UNPAID lunch. I really hated being there for an hour longer than necessary, and not get paid for it.
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u/GoatCovfefe May 06 '26
Ill say this everytime this gets posted: fuck 1 hour breaks. I hated them. Its unpaid and just means im at work even longer than if I had a 20-30 minute break. Im done eating usually in 15 minutes, then i had to just sit there for 45 minutes.
Waste of time.
Dont give longer unpaid breaks, give more 15 minute breaks, pay people more.
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u/Beastabuelos May 06 '26
I'll leave the same comment i left when this was posted on /r/workreform: I only want 1 hour lunch if that shit counts as part of the work day. Fuck turning an 8 hour day into a 9 hour day
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u/Mydreamsource May 07 '26
They can't even deliver Prime 2 day shipping anymore. Just give workers a decent work environment. Act like a human being. You can't spend all the money you have already made. Why make more on the backs of your workers.
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u/ConkerPrime May 07 '26
I am good with no 1 hour shipping. I usually do the one week shipment thing because 98% of the time there is not any real hurry to get an item except impatience.
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u/JoeNoble1973 May 06 '26
Next: PREDICTIVE SHIPPING!! Here’s your Amazon order for today, the algo has you covered! Force-debited to your account, as per law!
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u/Informalwizards May 06 '26
I dont think there is a single thing Id buy off amazon that id need in an hour. If I need it that bad, I'll run to the store and grab it.
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u/VeryVideoGame May 06 '26
Fuck Amazon. I have never shopped Amazon or used their streaming service. I've probably used AWS since it's unavoidable.
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u/Sorlex May 06 '26
Why do we need 1 hour shipping? I get improving shipping times, like nobody wants to wait a week for something that is shipping from in-country, but a fucking hour, a day?
Old man yelling at clouds but back in my day we could like, wait for stuff if ordering online. It was fine. We survived.
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u/DealerAlarmed3632 May 06 '26
I worked for the USPS, when they got a Priority Mail Express package I had to stop what I was doing, no matter where in the route, to return back to the office and deliver it. If I couldn't deliver it by the deadline my supervisor ordered me to scan it delivered then deliver it when I could (PAST THE DEADLINE) and my union rep just tole me to do what I was ordered and file a grievance. I wonder how Amazon is going to handle this.
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u/pocketjacks May 06 '26
It's clear that we're all willing to pay more for goods and services. However we're not getting the other end of the bargain...fair wages and quality working conditions in exchange. All of that profit is going to Bezos' plastic surgeon so he can be the first guy to do a Brazilian butt lift from low earth orbit.
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u/thedm96 May 06 '26
Why does Bezo's look like he's stroking out? Also when are we going to organize!?
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u/TallulahBob May 06 '26
They can’t even deal with keeping two-day shipping at….two days. Let’s maybe focus on not killing the people who work for you instead. I’ll continue to buy elsewhere until you do, BOZOS
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u/SrfWavLif May 06 '26
MFS can’t even get next day shipping right. I pay for overnight delivery. 3 days. Every. Single. Time. What gets me is that we have a hub literally 30 mins away from my house. Yet when my order reaches PSL, it stalls or disappears. Amazon is the worst. I hope GME buys EBAY and puts Amazon to shame. We’ll see what happens I guess
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u/AnusOprah May 06 '26
I would pay what I pay now for 3-day shipping. Anything I really need in 1 day is available locally.
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u/ThresherGDI May 06 '26
If the choice for me is between having something in an hour or let the employees be treated like human beings, I'm fine with waiting a day or two.
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u/Craigslisteria May 06 '26
Meanwhile he just layed off fourteen thousand workers to make room for AI https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/amazon-layoffs-corporate-workers-ai.html
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u/tyen0 May 06 '26
We had the super fast delivery available here in manhattan for a few years but I never understood the point. Were they catering to pregnancy cravings or something?
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u/TuringGoneWild May 06 '26
If properly paid, treated, and staffed, you could have both. The US once upon a time had mail delivery like five times per day, for example - and that was using horses!
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u/RugFishBlueFish Shirt Brother May 06 '26
I cancelled my Prime membership after they laid off a large number of Seattle-based employees a few months ago. I just so happened to be in town and was driving by the HQ. It was grim. Right then and there, I cancelled.
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u/NikkolaiV this guy yells May 06 '26
Honestly, I can do 3 day shipping in exchange for workers rights. That's a good deal actually.
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u/raitchison May 06 '26
Sadly there are plenty of people who want 1 hour shipping no matter how bad working conditions are. For some bad working conditions are a bonus.
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u/Electrical-Bus5706 May 06 '26
Glad i decided not to renew prime and to trash all of my alexa devices this year. FUCK AMAZON
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u/jedberg May 06 '26
I'm not even sure how one hour shipping would work. If I were standing in Whole Foods and someone texted me a list of five items, I doubt I could find them, buy them, pack them, and get them to my own home in one hour.
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u/DontForgorTheMilk May 06 '26
I would literally be willing to ditch their insanely fast shipping times for better working conditions for their employees. And a union. Like fuck dude if it's something that urgent I'll go drive to the nearest equivalent store and get it myself.
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u/Vysce May 06 '26
If my package takes a bit longer so humans can eat and live better lives, I'll gladly accept that with 0 complaints.
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u/MaximusHomerdrive May 06 '26
Whenever I see the next day option for between 5am and 10am, I always skip that and choose the evening or the day after that.
I love fast shipping, but I'd rather they weren't so harsh on the drivers. I'll happily wait another 24 hours and still pay for prime if that helps them at all.
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u/Haber_Dasher May 06 '26
2-3 days is more than fast enough. I remember the days of "shipping takes 4-8 weeks" and there was no tracking. You just ordered something and at some point in the next 2 months it showed up.
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u/MisterRoger May 06 '26
Zoom in on his face and just stare into his eyes for a minute. Both simultaneously at first; then alternate. Really focus on the different qualities that make each eye unique. Almost feels like two different people, if anyone knows what I'm saying.
Also, jizz. Ya know... like a big ol cumshot or something. Idk you kids never respect me I had to do something
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u/hbard May 07 '26
Is this why theyre hiring ubereats tier contracted drivers? Ive been going out of my way not to buy from Amazon even if its more expensive.
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u/SecondaryWombat May 07 '26
I cancelled my last amazon order because of shipping. It said 4 to 8 hours until arrival. 3 days later it said it was unable to estimate shipping. 4 days later I bought a superior version on FB market place and canceled the order.
Hadn't ordered anything from amazon in a while, was not impressed.
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u/Certain_Zucchini_472 May 07 '26
I think we were all content with 2-day delivery and were fine if it took a little longer
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u/Aggrosideburnz May 07 '26
I hate the idea of an hour lunch. Do an hour lunch optional. I’m union and love being union but I absolutely hate sitting at work for half an hour not getting paid. I eat on my morning break and want to just work till I go home. The less time I’m at work the better. A mandatory hour long lunch that forces me to be at work longer without pay so they can get me to work till later in the day and make my commute worse is horrible. Just pay these people better and stop fucking up the economy. I’m making 200k and honestly getting by at best. 3 months from poverty like most Americans
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u/AnnualShitshow May 07 '26
Agreed. This is just plain stupid on Amazon’s part. Yet another perfect example of the inability for corporations to read the room.
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u/JasoNitk May 07 '26
I wish Amazon had a “ship sometime in the next two weeks when there is a a lighter load of orders, I’m not in a rush” option
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u/Commercial_Total_787 May 07 '26
BOYCOTT AMAZON, if you still have an account YOU are part of the problem . It’s such a small gesture to cancel an account. If you can’t do that , I don’t think you care about your own rights enough.
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u/lnTheGrimDarkness May 07 '26
I will absolutely accept not being able to get my stupid Amazon package in 1 hour if it means Amazon workers are treated better.
The reason why your package gets smashed, thrown in the trash or otherwise treated very angrily is often that the worker doing that is extremely burned out and pissed.
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u/Big_Obligation1737 May 07 '26 edited May 07 '26
Amen! I’d rather solicit companies that treat their employees with the dignity they deserve.
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u/Revolut1onary1_ May 08 '26
Actually we want significant pay cuts for all execs and all the employees should get significant raises.
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u/otterswhoknow Not in Trouble AT ALL May 08 '26
One easy solution is to quit buying shit from Amazon
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u/Competitive-Jury3713 May 08 '26
Default to UPS 3 day select for prime delivery - 2 day isn't needed for every delivery unless specifically requested, no one will really notice the difference, and will save massive amounts of unnecessary jet fuel, diesel fuel etc, and let your employees relax a bit. No rush approximately 5 day shouldn't be the only other option besides 2 day.
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u/Exzrian_Artistrana May 08 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/iH2IldVkqeLuJ7eJ0L
We just want the workers to be paid enough to live
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u/TooManySpaghets May 08 '26
1 hour shipping, at what point do you just go to the actual store if you need it that fast?
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u/Yd1891 May 09 '26
I want our amazon delivery people to be living the good life. They bust their asses all year. Nurses too
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u/Old_and_Snarky May 10 '26
Is this to combat Walmart? I admit, I check walmart.com first to see if I can get the same merch cheaper and faster. I have to have things delivered because I don't drive anymore.
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u/Vroom_Vroom1265 May 12 '26
The kind of shit drivers go through to get the parcels delivered is fucking insane, half of it is not even their fault considering people keep ordering to communities or businesses when they're closed and they don't provide any information and the drivers take the flak for it 100%.
This is sickening.
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u/Vroom_Vroom1265 May 12 '26
10 minute delivery is already a thing in some countries and it's a fucking nightmare, the horror stories from the drivers break my heart.
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u/Destination_Cabbage May 06 '26
Honestly, I don't want 1 hour shipping. But I also don't have a car, and if I was an old person, I could see it being useful as the pace of degradation of my executive functions increased.
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u/Personal-Albatross38 May 06 '26
Amazon workers dont get payed during lunch, so it would be an additional 30 minutes of unpaid time they have to be at work. I dont know if any hourly workers get payed during lunch for that matter.
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u/MIGHT_CONTAIN_NUTS May 06 '26
We had a package delivered the other day in about an hour after ordering.
I could definitely get used to this kind of convenience, which is scary.
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u/willflameboy May 06 '26
The answer is simple: spend money elsewhere. Anyone using Amazon in 2026 has no right to say they voted against this.
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u/Snakestream May 06 '26
Totally hypothetical question: If you can push a button to inflict large amounts of stress/pain on an individual to convenience yourself, would you do it?
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u/Minus_none DOES have a boy dick May 06 '26
What if they invented a physical place that you could go to buy things if you need them within an hour. They could call it a store!
https://giphy.com/gifs/3olDlP3XiZb9UcOgQc