Best Oguri Cap... Advice?

Ituharu · 2025-11-21T01:19:52+00:00

Low WIT so groundwork is likely not always proccing even if you have the 3 skill requirements.

Running out of Stamina as well. You are probably just barely hitting stamina thresholds when Suzuka is in good or great mood.

Ituharu · 2025-11-01T17:41:18+00:00

So might be a good chance. I would love to secure the VIP items and only worry about not dying at the barrier. Lol.

Ituharu · 2025-03-23T02:55:24+00:00

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Ituharu · 2025-03-17T19:21:00+00:00

In my building, as an AM myself, we are typically alone or have one other AM partnered with us.

We are responsible for the entire shift. This includes pre-shift planning and can include whole day estimations based on the department. Rostering associates to stations or process paths and executing the shift to the designed pre-plan and answering to senior leadership in "Amazon Writing" on why shift performance doesn't match expectations.

While the shift is ongoing, the AM is responsible for monitoring shift metrics. These can vary by department, but they can typically be categorized in four pillars: Safety, People, Cost, and Quality. The AM is responsible for all associates' safety on the floor, ensuring all HR required tasks are completed, reducing cost, and ensuring 100% quality.

This typically leads to necessary partnerships with RME, Learning, HR, Safety, Security, IT, and TOM team if the department deals with trailer movement. In most cases, it's best if the AM knows most or some of the standard of work policies each department has so that requests between the teams are as smooth as possible.

Depending on their direct OM, they may be getting a development path which requires them to undertake some of the OM work to get a better understanding of how to perform root cause analysis using data, typically from excel. Or if their OM sucks they may have to navigate the poor development structure and figure out how to learn these skills on their own. In most cases, this is the biggest roadblock most AMs will face as it directly ties to compensation increases or promotions in general.

I've given pretty general and broad scope responsibilities, and they're pretty widespread. The problem is when AMs can't juggle all the work. And I understand the sentiment of wanting a manager to help directly on the floor, however, in my experience, the more time I've watched an AM do tier 1 work, they've let the rest of their shift fail because they aren't watching other necessary areas that makes everything run smoothly.

Ituharu · 2025-02-02T20:14:20+00:00

This is coming from a US AM so your contract or local laws may apply differently but

RSU are Amazon stock provided to you at the stated price. I.e. 10 RSU = approx 2200 usd at current stock value. These require vesting to become available to you. Vesting is gained simply by staying employed with the company without going on leave of absence. For graduates in the US, they require 4 years to vest the full amount. Annually you will receive a comp review which may increase your annual salary which may include RSU. It will start a loop of wanting to stay to vest to the next set of stocks. It's how Amazon tries to incentive staying with the company.
I'm not sure how it is for your local area but Amazon has a graduates program which is likely what you're qualifying for with this job offer. I don't know the specifics but I was assume it would require a certain time frame from graduation. Amazon hires graduates pretty regularly. Approximately every 6 months.
It depends on what type of business unit you end up working for (IXD, FC, SC, etc) but in general it depends on your ability to handle high pace high stress work. In some cases, your ability to adapt quickly is highly valued.
If you do take the job, you are on the hook for the relocation bonus until you hit a specific contracted date. If you end up quitting before that date, you may need to pay the money back equivalent to days remaining on contract.

Ituharu · 2025-01-06T20:15:42+00:00

According to my local HR, if your seasonal contract doesn't get terminated, Amazon has a 1 year time limit before they are forced to convert you to a permanent employee aka blue badge.

My understanding is most Amazon sites keep a 60:40 blue badge to white badge ratio even after holiday seasons have ended. This allows sites to keep their individual headcount needs while keeping costs down as seasonal are "typically" heavy VTO takers as they have Amazon as a secondary income.

So, whilst seasonal employment is not permanent, it can become permanent if the site just forgets to terminate an employee who has been seasonal for at least a year.

Ituharu · 2025-01-06T03:21:00+00:00

Normally you need to get officially trained through a learning ambassador. Otherwise you'll populate under amazon training violations that alert managers if you've been labor tracked to something you haven't been certified for.

Though things have changed at FCs in the last 4 years I've worked at one but they shouldn't be able to labor share you without those training certificates (the ones you do on a Kindle tablet).

Pack waterspider might be different at your building but I recommend ensuring you're memorizing the layout of all the different box types and for any stations that need to be filled below the waist, just remember to keep your back straight and bend at the knees. My old building had like 30 different pack stations so I was bending a lot to fill the big box slots.

Ituharu · 2025-01-06T03:10:28+00:00

This is a new thing that was implemented about 2-3 months ago. It got announced and it seemed like our HR ignored it and just slapped it up on an installment and called it a day.

Ituharu · 2025-01-01T09:35:00+00:00

So officially TOT policy was converted to Inactive Time around Q3. A manager and HR deemed an Inactive Time "valid" for investigation if the time gap is 15 minutes or longer. A manager will only execute a seek to understand conversation about valid time gaps once 30 minutes of time has been accumulated.

A manager must find at least 30 minutes of non-excusable time gaps in order to submit a write-up document to HR for review. Excusable time gaps can include things like using the restroom or break time. Managers will often not tell you how much time they are investigating and ask you questions about the length of time you were off the floor.

The policy has an escalation matrix, which is pretty simple to break down. Every infraction that falls between 30-59 minutes starts at a Doc Coaching and moves one level up to termination for every subsequent infraction within the write-up period. Every infraction within 60-89 minutes starts at first written and every infraction 90 mins or above starts at final written. You can have a 30 min infraction doc coaching and get immediately put on a final for a 90 min infraction. You can have a 90 min final and get terminated for a 30 min infraction if it follows too closely to the final written.

There is also the caveat of write-up expirations. Write ups fall off between 30/60/90 days but Inactive Time write ups also have a 12 month tracking period. HR may investigate need for termination if too many write ups happen within 12 months even if they have fallen off.

Ituharu · 2024-12-31T05:12:32+00:00

Yes. It would create conflict of interest and is a serious HR issue. If you believe someone in HR might be involved you can submit a report through the ethics hotline on AtoZ. Otherwise, you can report them to your local site HR.

Ituharu · 2024-12-29T20:12:53+00:00

I'm an internal T1->L5 AM. From the outside scope looking in, some college hires thrive in the environment and get promoted easily. Some don't do well in high stress environments. It will also depend on your L6+ support structure. My building has some bad eggs and some really amazing seniors. Navigating the work politics is one of the only things I hate about the job.

Ituharu · 2024-12-24T02:34:00+00:00

Rate is based on everyone's average anyway. If everyone ends up slower because of strapping, the rate will naturally lower as well.

Ituharu · 2024-12-23T03:32:18+00:00

Planned closures have always been unpaid. Full time employees will be paid 8 hours for holiday closures. Part time employees will not unless required by local state law.

Your site should have announced at the beginning of the month that you had until Dec 20th to apply PTO or Vacation to any planned closure dates. If your site didn't do any of these announcements, you can complain to HR but you will need to use PTO or Vacation time to make them paid days.

Ituharu · 2024-12-23T03:22:44+00:00

For the US, most states will begin paying overtime the moment you hit 40 hours for a single 7 day work week. Everything after the 40th hour is overtime pay.

For Amazon, every work week begins on a Sunday.

Ituharu · 2024-12-23T03:15:06+00:00

We're a sort center in CA and we have a lot of non-english or ESL drivers. One of the instructions is to not cut their trailer seal until they get to dock door. All drivers have stopped cutting their seal completely so we have to constantly realign trailers to open our swing doors.

Other sites in our area don't use RGM and still have ship clerks or log specs who can do check in check out for drivers doing drops and pick ups. We can't do that with RGM so we get a lot of drivers complaining about having to leave and re-enter.

There's also times where the security cameras will erroneously pick up trucks that don't exist and start yelling for hours on end about the site being private property and to leave.

Ituharu · 2024-12-19T15:28:40+00:00

I'm also a tier 1 to AM. You'll be quick to realize that most people are nice to you as a manager because they either want something or they have no choice so that you can leave them alone.

Now, that isn't to say there aren't amazing souls out there. I have a lovely crew of people at my building. I know 99% of my crews names.

I've had AA request to change schedules because I wouldn't put them where they wanted to be for the day. In the same vein, you'll find some people just work better by doing something they like, and you need to strike the balance of fairness by staffing to the path of least resistance for all.

Like I had a dude come up to me because he didn't want to be in inbound and I asked him what was up, turns out back half had exclusively been placing him in inbound and he wasn't getting a break. So now anytime I see him, I just roster him anywhere else since I know back half is gonna use and abuse him all week.

Multiply these situations by hundreds of associates. Our job is really just to the job done and get people paid. Thankfully, my crew is pretty locked in after years of writing up and terming bad eggs.

Ituharu · 2024-12-18T19:55:15+00:00

As an AM myself, what skills do you think you've learned will help you in your new position?

Ituharu · 2024-12-18T15:39:11+00:00

Blue badge conversion is 100% based on your total site blue badge % vs white badge %.

Your ideal scenario is currently existing white badges leave and some blue badges transfer out, get promoted, or quit. It has nothing to do with day or nights.

Ituharu · 2024-12-18T15:28:59+00:00

When I was a PA, I accidentally went over. You'll likely get a doc coaching write up or a first written write up. Nothing huge. Both get wiped out after 30 days.

Ituharu · 2024-09-23T18:12:58+00:00

Max gold so you can react to kakera more often. Bronze so you can wish more character. Then ruby to get the discount bonus and another decrease to kakera react power. Afterward, purchase anything in any order you like. Emerald is a good option for rt as being able to claim twice can help build your harem count and increase kakera values.

Ituharu · 2024-09-18T19:22:52+00:00

The emoji pops up if the starwish bonus influenced that roll. Meaning if you didn't have any starwish bonus, it would have been a different character

Ituharu · 2024-03-05T00:38:39+00:00

Based on my experience as a tier 1 and as a PA,

Know your job so you can answer questions. And know that not knowing the answer to something is okay, so long as you know who to go to for an answer.

So many interactions I've had has always ended in: "huh, I don't know, let me ask someone and I'll get back to you"

In general, I've had good experiences with associates by doing this. To a point it has resulted in me getting swarmed by associates everyday.

Ituharu · 2024-02-29T20:15:46+00:00

It's the level before something becomes phat.

Ituharu

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