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bfk
#620
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bbb
#624
I gave an Amazon driver a bottle of Coke at 10pm tonight. Dude is still out delivering, like a boss.
Isn’t much but that’s super late.
Jayson
#625
NICE!!
Always do nice things for Amazon folks.
Their working life is a nightmare!
Google it if you don’t know their work conditions…it’s insane…and depressing.
Cheers,
Jayson
bbb
#626
I imagine it’s similar to UPS and FedEx but more of us use them during the next month period. Just crazy. I came out for a smoke, saw him, decided I’d grab a soda and leave it by his door. I saw him on thebway out and he was confused at first and said, “oh thanks man”.
Unless he started late, like a night shift type thing, which is possible for the black Friday/cyber week stuff, that’s too late. I work late alot but 10pm is nuts.
Jayson
#627
Way, way worse than ups and fedex.
“Ambulances have been called out to 14 Amazon warehouses 600 times in the past three years.”
That is just in the UK alone.
That says a lot, but that’s not the whole picture.
This isn’t much different in the US.
Cheers,
Jayson
Jayson
#629
In some ways possibly worse because not only do their warehouses have serious quality of life issues, at the least, Amazon outsources a huge swath of its work and repeatedly cites that it A) isn’t them, and B) contracted employees of an outsourced company have an Amazon help line to submit complaints.
A) = We’re not to blame, only the people we keep contracting.
B) = If employees are suffering, it’s their fault for not using the help line.
Cheers,
Jayson
White_Noise
#630
https://gfycat.com/joyousinsecuregannet
Saw that last year and it scared the bejesus out of me. Thought about it and realized that Amazon basically made their own shopping season in the middle of July in about 5 years cuz they felt like it and it scared the bejesus out of me. Every time I buy something on Amazon I’m a little dissappointed in myself. Haven’t gone there for anything music yet, at least.
I have a friend who started driving delivery for them last month, checked in after a week and he was liking it. Need to check in again and see how he’s doing, but he dropped out of college and has higher take-home pay and equal benefits to me, a college grad. Maybe he’s just lucky, IDK, but I intend to keep an eye on him.
Jayson
#631
For drivers, the biggest issues seem to be with outsourced contracted companies.
Amazon doesn’t seem to have a strong policy control of work conditions for them.
I haven’t seen as much on drivers directly under Amazon. Mostly the direct employee issues I see here are at warehouses.
Cheers,
Jayson
