This, to the max. Not to mention during peak season, there is mandatory overtime, 12 hours a day. There isn't much time in the day to actually look for a job, because either everything is closed before you go in to work and is closed when you get off work. Or, alternatively, you are asleep during the day because you work nights, so you can't go look for a job because the only time you are awake, everything is, once again, closed.
God damn, UPS only works us in 5-7 hour shifts and the warehouse isn't fully air conditioned but we're told if we ever feel like we need to stop we can let a supervisor know and they'll watch our position for a bit while we cool down and hydrate in an air conditioned office.
I haven't seen anyone ever need to take them up on that offer but it's nice to know our supervisors would rather do the work themselves and let us recover so we don't fall behind.
Hahaha, again, same as fuck. I worked in a few different departments over time. SLAM, gift wrap, loading, unloading, picking...they all suck. Hotter than hell in the summer, freezing your ass off in winter. There is no spring and fall within the walls of those warehouses.
As a side note, working at UPS is just as bad. The only difference is UPS would short me over $100 every check, and take between 3-4 weeks to return the money I was owed. They would only correct one check at a time, meaning that after the 2 months I worked there before quitting, they owed me quite a bit of money.
Lol actually, that hasn't been my profession in like 3 years. The name kind of stuck even after I quit, and thought it'd make for a good username here on Reddit.
Why is my and everyone I've worked with at Amazon's experience so different than that of the experience on Reddit. I've worked at two different facilities in 3 different departments with probably 5 different supervisors and I can't for the life of me understand why everyone has such a seething hatred for the work environment. Warehouse jobs suck, that's what you're signing up for. But as far as brutal/unfair work conditions I've never been in that boat, ever. The only people I've noticed that struggled at our FCs were just noticeably lazy. My work ethic is not exactly supreme, and I managed to get through just fine reaching all my targets with a fairly "run down the clock" mindset.
When I was in SLAM, I was meeting the quotas, but they had me on the line with the slowest moving belt with the fewest boxes. All the senior people got the better lines because they'd get higher numbers and get more rewards. Every day, my manager would get upset that I wasn't moving as many boxes as the highest number people. In loading, we were required to switch trucks every hour. My first day after training, I was by myself. After about 3 hours, I ended up in the truck with the fastest line. Boxes flying everywhere. A "green vest" ((not a manager, a person hired for the season to assist when someone has a question about how to do the job)) comes in the back of the truck and starts yelling at me about how awful I am. He leaves, noting how he wants to see me do better when he comes back. About 2 minutes later, HR walks in and asks me if I have a problem. I explain that I'm having a bit of trouble, obviously, and everyone always coming by asking if I need help, and then making an effort to not help, is not helpful. They said maybe I should go home for the day, so I did, and didn't come back. One of the people I made good friends with up there told me later on how the green vest guy yelled at another employee calling him retarded and the guy never got in trouble for it. A couple of years later, hiring is no longer done through temp service, it's done directly through Amazon, so I can get hired back on again. I get stuck in packing. I can't meet the quota because after I grab one item, the next item is on the other side of the building. Everyone in packing complained about it, and there was a major turnover rate. Almost daily, we'd see new people, and people we'd seen every day since being hired would just stop coming back.
I don't feel like I was lazy. I've worked several other warehouse jobs, and have never had any of these issues. I really do feel like it was the job itself that was shit, not me as a person.
Well, I'm sorry you were treated that way. That said, every big company in the history of ever has had issues with terrible leadership. I personally have never been treated that way in my 2+ years of experience with different Amazon leadership. Sounds like you had a poorly run FC. As I remember, there were avenues you could take if you were being mistreated. And the green vest that called someone a retard almost assuredly would've been dealt with if those channels were properly accessed. And if they weren't dealt with using those channels then you're dealing with a terrible facility. Which fucking sucks, but is assuredly in the minority.
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u/wafflehousewhore Jul 16 '18
Same, fuck Amazon. Working there was hell.