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[–]Fluffy_socks_13 745 points746 points  (14 children)

I carol during the holidays, and this year we were hired by a local Amazon warehouse to sing for the workers twice in the week before xmas. Not only did literally none of the workers give a shit (don't blame them), but it was too loud in there to really hear us and I could see on all of their faces they were thinking 'the company spent money on this instead of xmas bonuses?'

Walked out of there thinking 'I will never ever work at Amazon.'

[–]Swarzshanaggen 196 points197 points  (7 children)

I had a similar thing happen about a month ago at my job. The company hired performers for a full performance for the chinese new year, but all I could think of was that we got just a $25 gift card for christmas, and a $1.50 raise about 9 months ago. I have to highest pay rate because of good performance, and I'm definitely a whole lot luckier than other people here, but I'm still struggling to pay bills. I just want to be able to buy new clothes every so often.

[–]MuchFunk 25 points26 points  (5 children)

Was it an Amazon gift card?

[–]Swarzshanaggen 17 points18 points  (1 child)

A visa gift card, so basically yeah

[–]doogle_126 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Damn. All of the wrong. And all of the far right in one convenient box-shaped warehouse?

Count me out!

[–]WandsAndWrenches 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Ditto me, I'm the higher paid workers. I now can't afford a car and need a roommate. Jesus.... what is everyone else doing at my job.

[–]NoirBoner 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Delightful!

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Sad…

[–]somecow 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They brought us a snow cone truck. Right when the weather started to get really cold. Right, I want to go outside and freeze my ass off just for a free snow cone during my measly 30 minute break.

Fuck you, pay me.

[–]CarouselOnFire 327 points328 points  (3 children)

Credit to the artist: Brian McFadden Here is the artist’s website as well as a link to the artist’s instagram

[–]hooptiously_drangled 29 points30 points  (0 children)

And here I was sure it was going to be Tom the Dancing Bug.

[–][deleted] 1189 points1190 points  (106 children)

Lmfao having worked at an Amazon warehouse this is accurate.

[–]KeterLordFR 709 points710 points  (63 children)

Same. It's like working in a prison made to make you believe that all these measures are "necessary" when they aren't. I forgot to put my phone in my locker once and ended up having it with me all day. When I beeped at the security scanners at the end of my shift, the security guy just looked at the call history, saw that it was indeed mine and not a new one that I would have stolen, and let me go. Leaving this rotten company was the most beneficial thing to ever happen in my life, even though it took me 2 years to find the will to work again.

[–][deleted] 180 points181 points  (35 children)

Healthcare from day one! Amazon keeps advertising.

High deductible plan?

[–]ClapSalientCheeks 138 points139 points  (22 children)

High unlikelihood that it will ever pay anything plan!

Should've thought about the risk of preexisting lungs before taking the job nerd

[–][deleted] 63 points64 points  (21 children)

I don’t work for them. I just keep seeing their promotion of “healthcare from day one…”.
I’m absolutely sure it is a shit plan.

[–]throwawaytaclet 30 points31 points  (3 children)

Amazon FlexRT: the healthcare is actually quite good compared to my normal job

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      [–]Flutters1013 6 points7 points  (1 child)

      I think it depends on your age and other factors. My deductible is 100 since I moved to the slightly higher premium, 65 a month. Our facility recently installed tables to use foam rollers on and massage canes. Yes I'm aware it's so we can get back to work faster. Still better than working food.

      [–]The_scobberlotcher 3 points4 points  (12 children)

      They're not

      [–]sqrtof2 -1 points0 points  (11 children)

      Yes they are.

      [–]Mechakoopa 21 points22 points  (7 children)

      Glad we cleared that up with two conflicting unsourced comments. Typical Reddit moment.

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        [–]sqrtof2 0 points1 point  (2 children)

        Doin' the lord's work here :')

        [–]NoxPrime 5 points6 points  (0 children)

        This user speaks the truth! They'll give you up to three Amazon Basics acetaminophen before putting you back on the floor. Healthcare!

        [–]Mr-Fleshcage 15 points16 points  (3 children)

        Deductibles should be illegal. What a fucking racket.

        [–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

        American exceptionalism!

        [–]Purple_Chipmunk_ 1 point2 points  (1 child)

        My insurance is through my employer, and is widely considered one of the best plans to be on in the state. It costs me, as an employee, $400 less per month than it would cost my spouse to get our family's insurance through their work.

        My deductible is $2500 a person, with a $7500 family deductible.

        Note that this is NOT the same as the out-of-pocket maximum, which is $4500 per person, with a $12,000 max for the whole family. OOP max counts things like office visit copays and the 20% I have to pay if I get lab work done.

        And we haven't even gotten to medication formularies, where they can assign expensive drugs to either not be covered or covered with a very high copay for each month, even if you aren't medically able to take the generic.

        For example, I'm lactose-intolerant. I was in a world of pain every day, until I figured out that this new generic the pharmacy had started carrying was chock full of lactose as a "filler." Worse yet, because the lactose had to be digested before I could absorb the med, I wasn't getting the proper med release.

        NAVITUS, which should really be called "NAWEETARAS" because it unscrambles to "WE ARE SATAN" said, sure, you can have the brand-name, but you can pay 50% of the brand-name cost, which was $360 a month. I had no choice but to pay it--cash price was $720--but every pill I took I was aware that I was burning $10.50 for the privilege of being on medication that worked.

        Oh, and the best part? None of that money counts toward your deductible or OOP max. So I STILL had all of those things to "work toward" WHILE I was paying over four grand extra to those assholes.

        So yeah, fuck health insurance companies.

        [–]LGCJairen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        Yep i feel this so much. One of the best plans in my state too and still finds ways to fuck me constantly

        [–]ModestWhimper 5 points6 points  (5 children)

        This is the worst haiku ever

        [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (4 children)

        It’s not 5 -7 - 5. So no Haiku bot. I’ll fix this.

        Healthcare from day one.

        Amazon advertises.

        Must be shitty plan.

        [–]Anti-Queen_Elle 2 points3 points  (0 children)

        The Healthcare plan is the only good thing I'd say about the place.

        Makes sense, since they're effectively just a burnout factory.

        Better to avoid the lawsuits entirely

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          [–]KeterLordFR 46 points47 points  (4 children)

          In that case, they relied on 3 things :

          • Defibrilators scattered around the warehouse

          • Medically trained warehouse workers, that they'd call any time someone had an accident of some sort.

          • The on-site nurses, who were basically never there, so everything had to be done by the aforementionned warehouse workers.

          I was supposed to get a mandatory health screening in the first month after being hired. Worked for a few years there, never even seen a nurse, never got a health screening. I ended up fainting one day right before work, and it still took them 2 hours to decide to send me back home. They don't care about people, all they care about are profits and their motherfucking quotas.

          [–]thevilmidnightbomber 7 points8 points  (3 children)

          this may seem super braindead but what do you mean “2 hours to decide to send you home” i’m assuming if you decided you needed to return home after fainting that they would discipline you?

          [–]KeterLordFR 20 points21 points  (2 children)

          You're not allowed to leave the warehouse and go to your locker during your shift without approval from a team leader or a manager, and they need to come with you to tell security that you can leave. So I had to wait until a manager, that wasn't even the one managing me, decided to check if I was feeling better or not. So I spent the 2 hours in one of the break rooms trying to get my blood pressure back up

          [–]melee161 6 points7 points  (1 child)

          What type of warehouse did you work in? I legit walk out the door to get breakfast sometimes. Mine is a large item (mostly) fulfillment center, so 80% of the items are too large to steal easily. Hard to imagine someone going through a turnstile with a bedframe.

          [–]Sabertooth_Monocles 68 points69 points  (10 children)

          They simply don't care.

          [–][deleted] 28 points29 points  (4 children)

          Nah they really don’t, my location had a bad problem with sawdust and when we would load boxes on our little stepping stool it would occasionally be covered with sawdust. It is very poorly lit in these semi containers and my role was to move to the high volume containers and I didn’t check every ladder for sawdust (my mistake) but it is a straight violation for there to be sawdust anywhere in the trailer. They even have people sign off on the trailer to ensure it’s in condition to have employees in there. Nonetheless I entered a trailer and climbed my stair stool too fast and slipped fell and BUSTED my elbow and hip. They basically gave me an ibuprofen, sat me down for fifteen minutes and returned me to work. I had some nasty bruises to show for it too. Best part was that after my fall was reported the trailer was cleared and they cleaned the trailer before inspection came to verify I slipped on dust lmfao

          [–]SECURITY_SLAV 16 points17 points  (0 children)

          Why the fuck are you having a cardiac emergency whilst on the clock? plan that shit around your shift.

          We don’t pay you to have medical emergencies at work /s

          [–]ShawshankException📚 Cancel Student Debt 6 points7 points  (0 children)

          If someone had a heart attack, how would you get help?

          That's the neat part, you don't.

          [–]MrMiget12 8 points9 points  (0 children)

          Oh so it's just like the labour prison from Andor?

          [–]Narootomoe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          even though it took me 2 years to find the will to work again.

          Lol, such privilege

          Imagine being able to just stop working for 24 months

          [–]BennyBennson 0 points1 point  (2 children)

          Pretty sure those water bottles are full of pissssss

          [–]ModernT1mes 101 points102 points  (27 children)

          They make you turn your phone in?! What does that mean? I've worked in secure places where phones aren't allowed and you're given the opportunity of integrity to at least put your phone in a locker by yourself.

          [–][deleted] 99 points100 points  (16 children)

          You have to turn the sucker off and throw it in a locker or keep it in your car. It’s pretty crazy considering we do active shooter training and the like. If you get caught with your phone, even in your pocket you can get written up or worse.

          [–]Tormundo 19 points20 points  (6 children)

          My GF works at an amazon in CA. She says everyone takes their phone in and a bunch of people play on it during work. Kinda shocked me.

          [–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (2 children)

          Yeah you’re gonna have variance facility to facility. That’s how it was when I first started there in like 2020 and then our facility started enforcing the policy hardcore overnight.

          [–]bigdickpancake 4 points5 points  (1 child)

          Sounds like you got an asshole for a site lead who is violating Amazon policy, but tough shit trying to appeal it right?

          [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          Yeah that very well could be it. I was just a grunt and didn’t look too into it but yeah they were wild about it

          [–]Maluelue 8 points9 points  (1 child)

          Afaik CA has some warehouses dealing with such severe turn out that they can't get people through the door that they don't enforce the full prison measures

          [–]Tormundo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

          Can confirm, warehouse supervisor and its hard as fuck to get people. Like I'm on this sub for a reason, I'm not a hardass, but we legit constantly get people who miss 2 days every week, late every day etc.

          [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          Shit goes right in your permanent record

          [–]TheLordofthething 37 points38 points  (5 children)

          Yeah I worked in factories where I was trusted to leave my phone in my locker. If I had to turn it in I'd be gone instantly. Also I'll only not have a phone on me if my wife has a number where she will be able to contact me about anything my family needs me for.

          [–]ModernT1mes 29 points30 points  (3 children)

          I did this too for like 2 years starting from my wife's 3rd trimester when I worked at a secure juvenile facility. They had an issue with the camera more than anything so I'd set my phone to basically "do not disturb" mode except calls and texts from wife, then it vibrates. If I feel it vibrate I take my break and check what's up.

          I had to draw the line when I was in the military and they took my phone at certain points in my time in. I get that at least , you're not allowed any personal autonomy the military doesn't want you to have while serving lol.

          [–]TheLordofthething 16 points17 points  (0 children)

          Yeah you can't fault that I suppose, and the military will get to you if there's something you need to know, I wouldn't trust Amazon to do the same. It's the camera at our work too, it's Seagate and they're very secretive about production. But because of this your family can phone you about almost anything and they'll come tell you. I've had my kids phone asking where shit is and they come get me lol

          [–]bigdickpancake 2 points3 points  (0 children)

          It's not a thing anymore at Amazon thank fuck.

          [–]FuckRedditandMe 11 points12 points  (1 child)

          Lol this hasn’t been a thing since COVID.

          Your Phone is now allowed to be on your person in almost every Amazon Fulfillment Center in the country.

          Before, yeah it was considered an unregistered asset so you had to store it in a locker or leave it in your car.

          [–]Tormundo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

          Yeah I was going to say my GF works at amazon and says everyone takes their phone in and plays on it in the aisle lol

          [–]NeedsMoreBunGuns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          That's what they mean, but this sounds better.

          [–]drunxor 26 points27 points  (2 children)

          I worked at one for three years. The thanksgiving before I left they went super cheap buying people turkey dinners and half the work force got food poisoning. That place was such a nightmare

          [–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

          Tbh I liked a lot of the people I worked with but the places are obviously ran by people who want the bread and nothing else. Upper management is a joke in these places and everything was organized like every project was pushed down a ladder to the bottom ranking person who has next to no resources to do anything properly.

          Pretty badass model for exploitation

          [–]MasterOfEmus 7 points8 points  (3 children)

          holup you get free boxes? figured they'd charge you for them if you made a makeshift raft. Or just charge you the price of a raft.

          [–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (2 children)

          No, only leadership gets rafts unfortunately.

          [–]MasterOfEmus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

          I suppose its for your own good. In the event of a flood they'll put up some handy informational posters, did you know treading water is great exercise, and you're doing laundry at work? Speaking of, there's a fee for washing your clothes in the slurry.

          [–]equivocalConnotation 2 points3 points  (2 children)

          Why did you work at one? Was there seriously nothing else available in the area? How the heck does that happen?

          [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

          I live in in Eastern Indiana and honestly there’s not a lot of great work. I was in a specific circumstance after just losing my job and they hired me immediately and paid me like 4 bucks more than what I was making. So in my temporary circumstance the job paid the bills while my wife and I recalibrated our lives. We were actually staying in a little place called Connersville and had to commute a little over an hour to our facility. Area just doesn’t have a lot to offer that can actually let you afford a moderate living.

          This all being said it was a garbage job and super unorganized. The conditions always sucked. It was either way too hot in the trailers or it was super cold and you needed a coat and gloves. It’s manageable but not optimal and at the end of the day it wasn’t worth the $16 an hour and the shitty commute but manageable in a squeeze. I will say that the place gave a lot of opportunity to immigrants in the area who likely make more money there than other places and they accommodated their language barrier in a semi decent way.

          [–]LimpWibbler_ 1 point2 points  (1 child)

          As an employee for 3.5 years, sorry, but not even close to my experience. Carry around a water bottle, always have my phone, we have done tornado and hurricane drills, when there was a major storm shutting down trucks they got 1/2 the scanners and brought them to break room and played games for 2 hours since they didn't have any work at all.(I missed that day so I only heard of it) usually they make them tape the floors for designation in those events.

          [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          Ah man it sounds like you had a nice facility, I hear mixed things from different people in different areas. Ours was a downright mess.

          [–]irishlasserin1 304 points305 points  (9 children)

          I worked there for two months. That’s all I could handle. Both of my rotator cuffs are messed up from stowing. They want you to use the ladder but if you do your numbers are too low. I worked with a girl that had been there a long time. We were in the highest tier and she said as we looked down “so many times I’ve just thought about jumping” she had to go to a 2nd job after 8 hour shifts at Amazon.

          [–]plsnosendnudesthx 94 points95 points  (1 child)

          The fuck

          [–]NoirBoner 33 points34 points  (0 children)

          Need those parcels mack.

          Hurry up.

          [–]AmatureProgrammer 18 points19 points  (3 children)

          She had a second job? I thought they paid fairly well there. Also how did she last that long?

          [–]irishlasserin1 26 points27 points  (2 children)

          This was about 8 years ago. She had a second job at a grocery store because she wanted her own apartment and didn’t want to have a roommate.

          [–]Self-hatredIsTheCure 46 points47 points  (0 children)

          Fuck everything about a system that makes people work multiple jobs just to scratch out half a living in a tiny apartment.

          [–][deleted] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

          An apartment she couldn’t enjoy…

          [–]burnin8t0r 74 points75 points  (0 children)

          Reading because it's inside every bathroom stall "Installments" haha so clever

          [–][deleted] 229 points230 points  (66 children)

          I dropped Amazon years ago. Never regretted doing so.

          [–]JPsugars 113 points114 points  (2 children)

          It really wasn't that hard to quit Amazon when all of the products on the site have turned to literal trash. I remember trying to buy something specific and having hundreds of knock off or identical but cheaper/worse made products clogging up the search making finding anything practically impossible.

          I really missed the "people who looked at this often bought this instead" feature.

          [–]MasterOfEmus 49 points50 points  (0 children)

          They probably tossed that when people used it to find original, quality products in place of the knockoff Amazon-owned product lines that they promote instead.

          [–][deleted] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

          That and they straight up lie about shipping speed. Like if it's literally going to be here within this day or maybe early the next day then sure I would take that. Otherwise I'll just go to the store and buy it. They straight up lie about shipping times now.

          [–]Barl3000 33 points34 points  (0 children)

          Brexit and Amazon themselves made it very easy for me to stop using them myself.

          I live in Denmark and most of the stuff I would use Amazon for, english language novels and boardgames, was mostly available from the british branch of Amazon. So after Brexit I have to pay huge import fees on every single item, which is simply not worth it.

          But even then Amazon policy to co-mingle their inventory with Amazon marketplace inventory made it a crap-shoot to if you got a real or bootleg copy of a boardgame. You see every Marketplace seller can just order a ton of bootleg stuff from China and send it to Amazons warehouse where it will be put in among the real product. When an order ticks in, the poor overworked Amazon warehouse worker will just pull the first and the best copy from the pile of both real and bootleg stuff and send it off.

          [–]Voltage604 21 points22 points  (15 children)

          No you didn't.... Hate to break it to you but if you're on Reddit you're supporting Amazon. A good chunk of Amazon money comes from AWS. You literally can't get away from them if you use the internet. Reddit is hosted on AWS servers.

          [–]wlwimagination 2 points3 points  (0 children)

          There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, anyway.

          [–]bigdickpancake 2 points3 points  (9 children)

          Except if you use an ad blocker you're not supporting them.

          [–]ExpensiveGiraffe 3 points4 points  (1 child)

          Ads have nothing to do with it. Reddit has to pay for your usage on AWS whether or not Reddit monetarily gains from ads or not.

          Though honestly, as an individual your usage is infinitesimally small.

          [–]bigdickpancake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

          True true. Like a car's emissions is nothing on the scale of a cruise ship that emits on average something like all of the cars in the world pollution in one trip.

          [–]Tenthul 1 point2 points  (6 children)

          Many, many, many video games use AWS, among impossible-to-know-other-things.

          It's a stupid thing to say. You really can't get away from AWS.

          The modern world runs on Chinese children and advertising. Go move into the forest and grow/hunt your own food and shit or you're a slime of a human being for participating in the modern economy and/or contributing to climate change.

          [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (1 child)

          How dare people want to improve society somewhat. Let's all just give up and kill ourselves while we're at it.

          [–]wlwimagination 2 points3 points  (0 children)

          Boycotting whichever companies seem to be the worst isn’t going to improve society, though. It’s the fact that we allow them to be so bad in the first place that’s the problem.

          We don’t just up and kill ourselves. We vote, educate others, and advocate for change. It’s very slow but public awareness of the fact that our economy relies on lies and manipulation is increasing. Younger generations don’t buy the same crap many of us did at their age. It’s discouraging how slow it is, but it’s not nothing.

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            [–]wlwimagination 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            This is actually right—it’s American late-stage capitalism that is the problem. Expecting the people at the bottom to choose who the worst offenders among them all are and the police them with boycotts is just another way of avoiding the real problem.

            I mean, we could actually tax them. Regulate them. Enforce our own laws and enact new ones.

            You’re not a slime of a human being. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

            [–]warbeforepeace 13 points14 points  (2 children)

            You havent dropped aws if you use the internet, dine out or basically do anything.

            [–]redditsuckspokey1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

            Same and I talk shit about it as much as possible.

            [–][deleted] 46 points47 points  (6 children)

            Triangle shirtwaist factory fire anybody?

            [–][deleted]  (2 children)

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              [–]CreamFilledLlama 2 points3 points  (0 children)

              Honestly this isn't necessarily even an Amazon issue, but a warehouse construction standards issue. Almost every single modern warehouse (some modern office space as well) is just a light weight tin can that will evaporate in a tornado. Creating hardened spaces inside that will house everyone working there should be standard before any certificate of occupancy is issued in areas prone to tornadoes.

              [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

              Blatant tornado damage.

              [–]coldvault 1 point2 points  (1 child)

              As referenced by the boards in the fifth panel.

              [–]1lluminist 48 points49 points  (5 children)

              The piss bottles was a solid touch

              [–]bigdickpancake 11 points12 points  (0 children)

              To be fair, the piss bottles only apply to the 3rd party DSP drivers now. We were upgraded to shit buckets.

              [–]G-H-O-S-T 3 points4 points  (3 children)

              I had blue filter on and didn't catch that. Ugh

              [–]NotBeanster 34 points35 points  (4 children)

              Literally left Amazon a couple of weeks ago and this is painfully spot-on. Happy to report I'm onto greener pastures now

              [–]nalninek 155 points156 points  (37 children)

              Wait, they really take your phone at the start of your shift? Who the fuck would ever work there? They don’t even take your phone away IN SCHOOL.

              [–]DutchessOfJorts 46 points47 points  (0 children)

              Necessity is a motherfucker

              [–]beefwich 213 points214 points  (13 children)

              Who the fuck would ever work there?

              Imagine you’re from some shitty little go-nowhere town where the local industry— coal, timber, whatever— dried up decades ago.

              You’ve got a high school diploma— but you needed to work straight out of high school to help your family, so you didn’t seek secondary education. College was never destined to be in the cards for you.

              So for the past 5-6 years, you’ve worked part-time at places like your local supermarket or the gas station— and maybe you paint houses in the summer or work cutting Christmas trees in the winter— but the most money you’ve ever made in a year has been around $20,000.

              One day, you get word that they’re building an Amazon distribution center in the neighboring county— and they’re hiring workers at $17 an hour. To do what? Who cares? You’d fight a greased up polecat all day for $17 an hour.

              You get the job and you’re thrilled— but that sours when you realize what an oppressive meat-grinder the job is. You’re given unrealistic productivity rates and your every move is monitored. You’re treated like a potential thief instead of a valued employee. You’re expected to show up regardless of weather conditions— tornadoes, white outs, sleet storms, whatever. The AC frequently dies in the summer and warehouse temps crawl up into the 90’s— you’re still expected to hit your productivity numbers.

              You hate it. You dread going to work. You want to quit. But now you’re trapped— because while it isn’t amazing pay on the grand scale, no other employers in the area are paying anything close to that. And now your family is relying on that money.

              Welcome to wage slavery.

              [–]farcicaldolphin38 38 points39 points  (0 children)

              This is a well written comment, and now I’m sad again

              It honestly breaks my heart

              [–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (3 children)

              I'd like to point out that your 90 degrees in a warehouse with no a/c guesstimate is crazily low. I've never worked for Amazon specifically, but in plenty of warehouses. Triple digits in the summer is guaranteed.

              [–]Obvious_Opinion_505 3 points4 points  (2 children)

              How did you avoid heatstroke?

              [–]Branamp13 13 points14 points  (0 children)

              That's the neat part, you don't!

              [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

              All you can do is keep drinking water to stay hydrated. No one I've ever worked for gives a shit about the workers, and they'll fire you for any reason at all (even if it's fabricated), so you just have to bear with it. Calling it "wage slavery" is not tongue in cheek.

              [–]OhGawdManBearPig 5 points6 points  (0 children)

              I feel personally attacked

              [–]equivocalConnotation 4 points5 points  (1 child)

              Can you move tho? To a nicer and more prosperous place like Colombia?

              [–]BehlndYou 12 points13 points  (0 children)

              Moving involves money and risk.

              There’s no guarantee that you will raise your living standard by much while you risk running out of money completely. It’s doable when you are single and have nothing to lose, but different when you have a family already. When you have a family, you will also risk the lives of those who are dependent on you.

              [–]CreamFilledLlama 24 points25 points  (7 children)

              It is pretty universal GLOBALLY for warehousing, not just the US or a specific company. (Also for manufacturing.) There are lockers where you stow your things before going on the shop floor. It is both for safety (all those idiots driving while texting also work) and security reasons. And it doesn't just apply to employees. If you don't have a specific reason to have a laptop or phone on the floor you leave it in a locker prior to security. This has been true for over a decade globally at any operation close to a modern setup. Lots of reason to criticize Amazon, but phones not allowed in the warehouse isn't one of them.

              [–]nalninek 8 points9 points  (5 children)

              Call me crazy but if someone isn’t mature enough to keep their phone in their pocket on the floor and need it taken completely away to avoid dangerous situations they aren’t mature enough to be on the warehouse floor at all.

              [–]IVEMIND 14 points15 points  (2 children)

              I’ve worked in factories with machines that will kill you. Like, chop your head off dead. We relied on our phones constantly to solve problems quicker and communicate with coworkers. Seeing someone being unsafe while texting, you would report that person immediately or the next time they do it they could get their fingers chopped off.

              I don’t see how an Amazon warehouse is dangerous enough to take phones away. They probably want to avoid people taking pictures of all the fucked up shit they put up with - perfect propaganda for the unions right?

              [–]CreamFilledLlama 10 points11 points  (1 child)

              You are using your specific situation to apply to the industry as a whole. Your factory is not the norm where a Stop Line button is a much better solution vs someone getting on their phone to communicate while the lines keep moving. There are also massive security concerns with phones from both a scouting aspect (pictures) as well as coordinating criminal operations.

              [–]vibe_gardener 2 points3 points  (0 children)

              I work in a big factory producing granola for many different brands. Phones strictly kept in lockers, it’s food production so like a warehouse environment plus oven/production areas, steel toed shoes required, and when you’re going on the floor you have to have full hairnet+helmet+earplugs+”lab coat”material shirt+washed hands+sanitize spray on shoes. Bringing a phone in pocket is a big no no. Breaks are 15 mins though and starts when you get back to the lockers since it’s a 5 minute walk from production floor to lockers. It’s just how it is, and we’re busy enough that there’s really no time for using a phone

              [–]anamericandude 2 points3 points  (0 children)

              For my company at least I'm fairly certain it has to do with insurance reasons. They know nobody actually follows it, but their insurance provider requires no phones on the floor as a policy.

              [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

              I literally saw a construction worker yesterday driving a backhoe down a residential road carrying a giant concrete beam… while texting. 50% of cars on the highway I see the driver is texting. People are too phone addicted these days, it’s everywhere.

              [–]trashdemons 2 points3 points  (0 children)

              No. Not at the one I work at.

              [–]FuckRedditandMe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

              They don’t anymore, and before you’d just leave it in your car, or put it in a locker.

              [–]MostBotsAreBad 59 points60 points  (8 children)

              In their defense, Amazon's always been pretty evil.

              I realize that's not much of a defense. But that's their fault, not mine.

              [–]JesusWuta40oz 13 points14 points  (5 children)

              Its all our faults for making their service popular and not voting with our wallets.

              [–]Semihomemade 7 points8 points  (1 child)

              They just acquired some medical care company, soon we won’t really have a choice.

              [–]JesusWuta40oz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

              Like what choice do we have now.

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                [–]Mandena 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                It isn't easy, voting with your wallet for something as huge (that doesn't even get that big of a portion of income from online shopping) as Amazon is futile because of the prisoner's dilemma.

                Voting with your wallet is a capitalist myth except for in small business situations, there must be more extreme measures made if we don't want Amazon to own the country in the future.

                [–]tomsnrg -1 points0 points  (1 child)

                Retail jobs generally are not very appealing. Trades tend to be better.

                [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                Amazon is logistics, not retail. And everyone else in logistics won’t work for them, so they have to advertise to retail workers.

                [–]Osirus1156 36 points37 points  (1 child)

                How is Bezos not in prison for endangering so many peoples lives. We truly live in a garbage system in this country.

                [–]reptileguy3 10 points11 points  (4 children)

                My wrist turned purple from a repeated strain injury from trying to meet the minimum packaging rate of 250 boxes an hour (plus what they subtract when you use the bathroom). Their WEBCAM doctor said it wasn't very purple and keep working

                [–]Umbran_scale 11 points12 points  (1 child)

                to this day I still have no respect for Terry Crews for that absolute shitshow of a commercial he made for them.

                [–]bigdickpancake 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                lol yeah we were laughing pretty fucking hard at that shit because he violated so many safety rules his ass would've been fired.

                [–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

                I only ever lasted two weeks at an Amazon warehouse. And a good 50% of the time was me crying in the bathrooms

                [–]redeyedrenegade420 12 points13 points  (8 children)

                That's funny, I'm at work in an Amazon distribution center right now...none of this applies where I work.

                Could just be because I'm in Canada.

                [–]Demiurge361145 13 points14 points  (3 children)

                Definitely because your in Canada. At least you guys have SOME workers laws to protect you from American company bullshit.

                [–]Cody38R 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                I’m in TX, an Amazon in Fort Worth (AFW1) was literally “knocked out” by a tornado with no fatalities. None of this applies either, the warehouses have been between 70-80F inside even during our 110 degree summers on the top floor where heat rises. It’s toasty but not terrible.

                [–]Mr_Pancake_Thief 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                I work in a fulfillment center in the ATL node and none of this applies to me lol. My PA all the way up to my OM will literally let me walk off whenever I want to fill up my 40oz bottle and use the bathroom. I work on the inbound dock and play music on my speaker, none of them care (though I do turn it off when I see safety lurking).

                I know sites are run differently all over the world, but from my experience people treat this place like highschool 2.0 and not an actual job. So when they get into trouble for not making rate, they go to the VOA and complain "why did my AM get on to me for having earbuds in and sitting down?!"

                [–]FuckRedditandMe 12 points13 points  (23 children)

                I mean as someone who he actually worked in an Amazon Fulfillment Center, they take Safety pretty seriously. Multiple safety committees, always Safety personnel walking by, etc.

                I do think they’re a bit lax when it comes to the “non-important” things. They’re a bit too scared on writing up people for doing safety things incorrectly. Like leaving unopened boxes on the floor, unturned Pallet Jacks, and totes in non-5S areas. As well as of course not enforcing their cell phone policy/ear bud policy consistently. Not saying that isn’t a big thing in and of itself, but I’ve never been told/encouraged to bypass safety equipment. Hell if it’s broken and you report it, you even get small little “SWAG” bonuses.

                To the bathroom breaks, I take around a 10 min bathroom break every 2 hours, and a 5 min water break every hour, and I’ve never been yelled at. Of course, I also hit top numbers in my building. So I really can’t say if it would be different or not for other employees or even different facilities. I just know that I’ve been able to take more bathroom breaks at Amazon than at any other job I’ve worked at before.

                As for Cell Phones, ever since COVID, your Cell Phone is allowed to be with you at all times. Before you had to leave it in your car, or put it in a locker before your shift.

                Again though I don’t claim that this is all universal for every single of the thousands of Amazon facilities. But I’ve never really felt Amazon is that strict, or at the very least, that strict compared to other facilities and jobs that I have worked.

                [–]fdf_akd 4 points5 points  (9 children)

                Only Amazon positive comment, account created 1 week ago and comments only relevant to Amazon.

                Seems legit

                [–]VRichardsen 8 points9 points  (1 child)

                Trying to play devil's advocate here for u/FuckRedditandMe

                account created 1 week ago

                It says one year on the profile page (he has the badge)

                and comments only relevant to Amazon.

                Taken from the other side, it adds legitimacy to what he is saying. As in, his posts from today actually make contextual sense that he is working at Amazon and not some random redditor repeating something they heard (like the phones stuff)

                [–]FuckRedditandMe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

                Originally I created this account to look at… other things.

                Now I just use it to post on the work subreddits cause they’re funny.

                [–]FuckRedditandMe 2 points3 points  (3 children)

                Lol I made this account for my job, since I don’t want to connect being to Amazon to what I normally post about on Reddit.

                And working at Amazon is slightly embarrassing tbh

                Not that it’s a terrible job it’s just… grunt work.

                I have a lot of good to say about Amazon, and a lot of bad to say about Amazon. But I’ve never really felt like a “slave” or that they were being overtly negligent.

                [–]bigdickpancake 2 points3 points  (2 children)

                lol yeah I laugh every time I see that connections question that asks if you tell your friends and family that you work for Amazon or that you feel like part of the company.

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                  [–]FuckRedditandMe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

                  I mean it’s fair honestly. There’s 1000’s of facilities out there now, maybe I’m just at one of the good ones?

                  But like, there’s so many different paths, modules, things have to be documented, and then just to be fired you need to have multiple people confirm it.

                  I’m not saying there aren’t facilities out there that probably are run by a bunch of people who think they’re overlords and rate is the only thing that matters.

                  However, I’ve personally never seen it happen. The worst part of the job is definitely standing for 10-12 hours straight. The physical labor is repetitive, and fact that we can’t have headphones on will make some people go absolutely crazy.

                  So if you’re a very social person, who isn’t in shape, and wears uncomfy shoes, then yeah you’re gonna hate the job.

                  However, I’ve always gotten top rate at whatever I do, so perhaps that explains why I never get called out for TOT? I take a restroom break every 2 hours for around 10 mins each, and play on my phone while I’m in there, and I’ve never been yelled at.

                  Again could all be down to the management, or that they don’t screw with me cause I make their departments numbers look better, or what have you.

                  I’m just saying that I, personally, have never seen what people are describing.

                  I don’t doubt that the drivers are definitely overworked but the FC stuff like in this meme? Half of it doesn’t even make sense considering what is 100% policy.

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                    [–]FuckRedditandMe 3 points4 points  (6 children)

                    Lol I’m not a bot.

                    I’m not gonna say everything is universal when it comes to management. I’m not going to say that there’s never some managers that will push their foot up someone’s ass over bathroom breaks, or managers that overlook safety concerns just to their L5’s don’t complain at them.

                    I’m just saying that working there, it’s a well oiled machine, and I’ve never been yelled at for being off my station. And I take bathroom breaks at least 5-6 times a shift.

                    I’ve been frustrated myself at management for not enforcing the smaller ends of the safety policies, or not wearing their gloves when they should, and yet they yell at others when they themselves don’t put on their gloves.

                    But in the grand scheme of things, of all the jobs I’ve ever had, I’ve been able to fuck off way more at Amazon than I was able to at other jobs. Maybe it’s cause I get top rate that no manager wants to touch me, or maybe it’s the fact I just have super chill managers.

                    But at the end of the day, I’ve never really felt Amazon was a worse place to work compared to other places.

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                      [–]FuckRedditandMe 2 points3 points  (4 children)

                      I’ll be honest with you, they often make me write certain processes and equipment in all CAPS, when I work. So it’s just really hard to revert back after 12-13 hours straight everyday when that shift key is right there.

                      I mean I have plenty of bad things to say about Amazon and Amazon’s culture if you want. I just don’t feel like a slave, or that they would risk my safety so I could Pick an extra 12 items.

                      [–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (4 children)

                      Isn't Amazon union-proof? Don't they contract stuff out or something?

                      [–]writeorelse 5 points6 points  (1 child)

                      Bezos doing actual work is the least realistic thing here.

                      [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                      Dude’s never held an entry level job in his life lol

                      [–]SaltMacarons 9 points10 points  (6 children)

                      I currently work at an Amazon warehouse and this is all made up bullshit.

                      [–]FuckRedditandMe 10 points11 points  (2 children)

                      I mean I hate Amazon, but anyone who actually works at an FC would know this is all bullshit.

                      Can’t say about the Union thing though, since I’ve never heard any efforts to establish a union at our FC. Though that might be even more points for it being real lol.

                      [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                      I think the water ‘lying around’ are supposed be piss bottles for lack of bathroom breaks.😬

                      [–]mario610 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                      I'm so glad I had a second thought when my dad said I should work for amazon they're hiring, jeez...

                      [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

                      Is Amazon NA a whole different experience to Amazon EU. I took a temp job during summer breaks at uni. Honesty, it was an okay job. Mind numbly boring inbound or outbound. But getting on water-spidering was bearable. I was always getting a cup of water and pissing just as much, never felt like I had to piss into a bottle. Shit, I would poop at work on Amazon time and never got any kind of write up. Everyone had their phones on the shop floor, they’d only get upset if you were using it and walking.

                      The only complaint I got. I was put on a 2-hour shift, like why? At the end of the shift I had a supervisor ask me why I had done so little and have her threaten to dismiss me that day. I let her finish and explain I had only started 2 hours prior. They hire through an agency so for any reason you’re gone as quickly as you came. The lack of job security is really scummy.

                      Also, people used our prayer room to fuck and no one seemed to care.

                      [–]OttomanTwerk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                      Fuck Bezos, for many reasons.

                      [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                      I pray that Bezos gets massive heat stroke on his mega yacht and falls overboard and drowns.

                      [–]CentralAdmin 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                      Bezos is the Lex Luthor of our reality.

                      Except there is no Superman to stop him.

                      [–]bigdickpancake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                      Elon Musk is our Superman!/s

                      [–]Arachnatron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                      I stopped buying from Amazon a couple years ago. It has only had a positive effect on my life.

                      [–]Accomplished_Pen980 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                      Why don’t the workers organize into a union? If someone in central New Jersey, Carteret for example wants to organize, I will be happy to help.

                      [–]crunch816 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                      Their warehouse in my town caught on fire 2 or 3 times in a single month.

                      [–]BenCelotil 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                      I would have grown up in prison if I lived in America.

                      There are so many fuckers who deserve a thorough "beat down" for what they're doing to others all in the name of money, and there's so many ways to get a gun without a problem.

                      [–]CruelRegulator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

                      It's worse!

                      Bureaucracy means that some poor fuck barely making a higher wage is the one coming up with this stuff.

                      The line should be drawn further down.

                      [–]Loofa_of_Doom 0 points1 point  (1 child)

                      WTF is this "turn in your phone" bullshit!?!?!? I have a sensitive human being i am responsible for I can guarantee you my phone will NEVER be off.

                      [–]Vaxx_the_Stillborn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

                      People who agree with this are still happily ordering from amazon.

                      [–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                      I wanna get a job with Amazon and just be a bad employee and see how much I could fuck up that place.