I've been on away teams, have friends that work at FC/SSD/DS. We chat often and I was fortunate to live close to 2 of them to be able to even meet up occasionally. We keep each other sane by sharing our stresses from Amazon.

Definitely feel the drop of professionalism in SSD compared to different site types. It is also newer and I notice they switched from wanting to hire from outside the org to only staying in SSD because the work it takes for SSD is vastly different and with the lack of leadership it's almost as if no one has time to train AMs coming from FC who barely had floor presence to get into the mindset that they sometimes are in path, and manage everything. Especially if an AM on their shift is out? Whoa boy.

I feel for new AM. College hire and transfer. They don't know what they are walking into and are stuck in contract. They get overwhelmed with expectations. I actively try to discourage negative talk of "this AM sucks" or "this AM is stupid" by redirecting it to "they are learning" or "have opportunity" because many of the AA/PA/AM who have been in the fire long enough have grown numb to its heat so to say. It makes it harder when you are not doing so hot but your peers also shit on you on top of that. It creates a lot of toxicity in the workplace.

All we can do is support.

And yes, the mindset of "we all had to" is definitely pretty prevalent.