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My son worked as a delivery driver for one of Amazon's contract delivery companies while going to college. He worked when on summer break and weekends and xmas break. He seemed to like doing the job.
Amazon job: good or….
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I've seen drivers come down our street delivering on the opposite and spend ~15 minutes making drops to other houses (there's ~75 homes in our neighborhood and I'm on the only street into it) so they're at least consolidated many of those deliveries. One day the driver parked and carried packages for our house and 4 of the immediate neighbors. What are the odds of that ?
I guess it depends on the area. We get deliveries out of 3-4 different "hubs" for some reason so there's a lot of overlap. It certainly provides us FAST deliveries too.
I don't believe the drivers are Amazon employees either, by the way. They are at least hourly workers but they're employed by various different "logistics" companies that pop up around every Amazon delivery hub. To the contrary of Fedex Ground drivers, they are contractors of a contractor. They are paid XXX dollars per day. If it takes them 6 hours to make all their pickups and deliveries, good for them. If it takes them 12 hours, it hurts.... Driver we have at work told me how much he makes a day and it's not much. If he works 10 hours, he only makes minimum wage. 
I have several relatives who have worked there. The this statement says it all...
"Amazon has a high employee turnover rate, with some estimates suggesting it's double the industry average among equivalent jobs. According to a New York Times investigation, Amazon's annual turnover rate is 150%, which means the company replaces its entire warehouse workforce every eight months. Leaked documents obtained by Engadget also claim that 70% of new hires leave within 90 days."
"Amazon has a high employee turnover rate, with some estimates suggesting it's double the industry average among equivalent jobs. According to a New York Times investigation, Amazon's annual turnover rate is 150%, which means the company replaces its entire warehouse workforce every eight months. Leaked documents obtained by Engadget also claim that 70% of new hires leave within 90 days."
My brother in law is a shift manager at Amazon and is very happy.
When my sister-in-law was in a tragic accident and he needed months of work off, they gave it to him. He was treated very well during that hard time.
Your friend will want to know that he will have no life in November and December, including not being home on Thanksgiving. That is peak shipping time and it’s all hands on deck.
When my sister-in-law was in a tragic accident and he needed months of work off, they gave it to him. He was treated very well during that hard time.
Your friend will want to know that he will have no life in November and December, including not being home on Thanksgiving. That is peak shipping time and it’s all hands on deck.
They do this on purpose so people don't get to know each other well and unionize.
Well friend applied at the Lnd OnLakes place and local glass plant nearby and few others. Didn’t ask if he appplied at Amazon yet or….
Amazon robot maintenance & repair can also be an option.
https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/career-programs/us-rme-apprenticeship
https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/career-programs/us-rme-apprenticeship
Depends on the job. They have employees making 200k/yr and 25k/yr
We just got a new warehouse locally. I'm not really sure what to think about the amazon jobs ... On one hand, I've heard they're just you're standard warehouse job. But other people complain about a lot of things that seemed fairly normal for a warehouse job for me.
Amazon monitors/micromanages every movement every second of the time that you are on their property. One of my relatives described the place as a "cyber sweat shop", another likened it to "modern-day slave labor". Nobody wants to be treated like that, and obviously the vast majority of the people that go to work for them don't put up with it for very long.
They have metrics to meet whether it’s picking customers orders or stowing products on the racks.
Some workers walk 10 miles a day inside the warehouse.
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Several of my family members or close friends have worked for them and didn’t have much good to say. Apparently they pay well but also will work you to death. All of them completely burned out and quit eventually. Some lasted longer than others.
And all of them said that place is all about appearances and politics. Your “demographic” and/or how much your manager likes you is more important than anything.
And all of them said that place is all about appearances and politics. Your “demographic” and/or how much your manager likes you is more important than anything.
Yep. The drivers do NOT work for Amazon and employed by a contractor….. similar to FedEx.
My nephew tells the story about a woman he worked with who came to work with diarrhea. Her supervisor would not allow her to leave her post to use the restroom, she lost control and went in her pants, diarrhea running down her legs and onto her shoes and floor. Humiliated, she left work immediately and never returned. They had to call in a hazmat cleaning crew to clean-up the mess. As far as he knows her supervisor was not reprimanded.
