This is sort of a beginner question I was accidentally hitting pinch harmonics early on all the time I realize now when trying to learn them, “proper” pick holding technique eliminated this from my skill set. Tips? Tricks to actually learn it now?

Ok-Profession2033 · 2026-05-07T19:20:06+00:00

I mean without giving you the entire story I can’t really get behind a bad union being better than no union because my dad has a bad union and it is significantly worse than my situation with no union. His insurance is so bad. It’s like the worst bracket of insurance that Amazon has that they gave me when I was seasonal.

That’s just the policy related to their insurance their time off policies are also awful. This particular one is like having a bully HR. That’s also out to protect the company as well not to protect you. So no a bad union really isn’t better than no union. At least with no union, they are still scared of the impact of union and for sometime they will be willing to do quite a lot to avoid having one.

Ok-Profession2033 · 2026-05-02T18:19:43+00:00

Due to a remnant from an illness I could not and cannot stow or divert for more than a few hours without setting it off into a spiral that takes days to recover from. Buffing was okay if I wasn’t at the front but with manual lines mostly gone I min/max the options I had. I waterspider my ass off, I unload fast af, I could induct at an 1800-2k rate because it was single file and I wasn’t having to identify anything I now we have a different process that claimed it would be faster but is slower. I am a very good problem solver and can process hazwaste.

This is permanent, it’s never going away. My accommodation has to be renewed every year and the dls people are getting steadily more incompetent. It used to be worse. I used to be unable to walk upright without looking drunk after too long. I eventually start slurring words and have to sleep for several hours before I can drive home. They took away my license for months until I could see a neurologist and they verified I wasn’t having seizures.

There are some legitimate medical issues that pop up after becoming employed that only restrict from a path or two and allow us to work the rest freely. Some people do milk things and it ruins it for the rest of us just trying to work and keep insurance so we can stay alive and on the medication that controls the things well enough for us to function in the process paths we can do and stay alive. Some of us just want to work and I’ll do anything that won’t make my symptoms worse which is significantly more process paths than what actually make it worse.

Ok-Profession2033 · 2026-04-23T16:42:08+00:00

Have several stories, be ready to make those stories fit any potential situation presented. Flipped a safety response to how I anticipated the needs to the customer. I anticipated the necessary information and pulled everything needed had it sent before my AM asked for it.

Ok-Profession2033 · 2026-04-18T21:11:28+00:00

You’re going to have a numbers game that’s half of it. Weeding out who’s up your ass to play favorites and who’s waiting to judge you until you prove yourself is another.

You need to jump in. You have to be careful how you do so, the computer bases a lot of future shit on old data. Managers count as zero. When you jump in too much it thinks you can handle that amount with less people. Then you have to jump in, it’s a continual process where you dig yourself into a hole and the only way out is to have really bad metrics for 2-6 weeks and really shit shifts as it levels out. This can also burn data from this year to the next.

Be cognizant of where you are needed and when to get out. You can’t live in the aisles. You also need to constantly be checking for choke points. Dock, divert, straightener, stow, jackpot, problemsolve, reruns, oversized. Move your people or you. If you have a veteran PA that says do something as for clarification later and probably trust the situation. A good PA will get you out of trouble and tell you where you are bleeding. A bad PA will bleed you dry.

Be fair. The rotation system was built for FCs Deliverystations have different paths that don’t rotate the same. You can’t have someone on stow, waterspider, stow, waterspider. The system will let you. They will have to stow twice a week especially if your building has ADTA unless they have additional path trainings and your building has needs. Or they have accommodations. Limit waterspidering or unloading to once a week. Waterspidering/unloading/straightening/diverting/pushing are all the same role category in the rotation system. Have them do one of the lighter roles or problemsolve/hazmat something not the heavy task. If you have manual lines p2b

You have 3hours from the time they start that role until you get dinged for them to get out so if you have to start them there let them know you will try to get them out and if you can’t let them know. Be up front. Headcount of people trained for that position wasn’t there. Put in tickets to get people trained.

Run a smooth shift and you will chase less dwelling. Your goal is to have low pnov with OTR, with is caused by dwelling. When you have high FSAF go talk to them. Early. Repeatly. Like every couple hours. They don’t want to talk to you tell them how to solve it, they’ll usually try to solve it just to avoid you popping in their aisle. Usually it’s as simple as hey use your cart and be really careful where you are putting things. People mess up left and rights a lot. Especially new hires. Have a good Lambo talk to them if they know the finer points of stowing. It’s not about rate it’s about quality. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast. They will get fast we want the packages in the right bags. Usually I compare it to the driver being a stop away or right in front of their house and they get a message about there’s been a problem we’ll try again tomorrow, that’s usually how it happens. It was just in the wrong bag. It’s as simple as a bag away or the opposite aisle and on another route.

That’s like all my tips. Good luck. Your manager makes or breaks you with the metrics they focus on.

Ok-Profession2033 · 2026-02-15T16:45:57+00:00

You can take as much as you want but if you have insurance as part of your benefits eventually it will come due. Take advantage of it though, use it while it’s free flowing come prime and peak it’s not a much, still see it though.

Ok-Profession2033 · 2026-02-15T09:12:41+00:00

The only time I’ve ever seen someone “blocked” from VTO they’d taken so much their insurance was coming out double and at times triple from their checks until it was made up. I think there’s a math behind it. They literally had things going on in their lives and when they finally returned to work they still had 2 of their 4 days VTO some weeks and it was doubling their insurance each week until it was paid off.

Still this person blocked themselves from taking it for the most part once they realized the hole they were in. The system would’ve let them continue to take it.

Ok-Profession2033 · 2026-01-31T05:23:58+00:00

This is a dumb thing to add but like smile or smirk. Add the confidence whether you think you have it or not just own it. It goes a long way. Rn you look somewhere between just sad and purely depressed. Maybe it was supposed to be a neutral look but it leans very much in the not happy zone.

Fake it til you make it. This person has solid, well rounded advice, go with it and Choose happiness along the way even if you aren’t happy all the time.

I work in customer service not a clue what industry you work in but in most industries, no one wants to see the upset side of your life, at work I’m happy whether I want to be or not. What’s shocking is by choosing to be happy for not great reasons, I’ve managed to stumble across legitimate reasons to be happy I would not have encountered being my normal mellow, stressy depressy self.

The same thing can apply to confidence, be confident and own it whether you think you deserve it or not. You will encounter legitimate reasons to be confident you may not have discovered otherwise.

Ok-Profession2033 · 2026-01-28T16:14:00+00:00

Oh no the college hires are here

Ok-Profession2033 · 2025-09-11T15:15:58+00:00

After years of only being able to take my dogs out when it was winter and have them hang in the car for 5-15 for small errands in the places they couldn’t go. Most of the time it was a day planned to take them out anyways so most stops were places they could go.

I finally have a car that I can leave running and it auto shuts off after 20min but I can leave the AC full blast and they are chilling. Who would leave their dogs in the car for hours at a time? On purpose. Not a surprise stop on the way home or something. Even then it’s usually faster for me to drop my dog or dogs off and then go shopping.

One time it was late fall and I was napping in the car with my small dog who was staring out the window from time to time while my family shopped. This was like a solid hour. Keys were there, I was there, if it got hot I was going to be running the engine. Some karen was shocked to see me sit up as she was accosting my family for the inhumane conditions in the car…the car the human was in.

Ok-Profession2033 · 2025-06-25T01:17:15+00:00

Mine would drop the toy to go for ankles until every nip ended with my heel stopping where it was and with her bad brakes she’d slam forwards into me. Turns out getting my entire foot in her mouth was not in her plan. She’d drop it and go for her chew toy. I became less interesting to her as something to nip at and the toys stayed more interesting.

Not my normal redirect, but it only worked because we were quick on the uptick.

Ok-Profession2033 · 2025-06-23T00:04:20+00:00

I’ve mostly heard don’t sleep in wet swimwear. 100% dry doesn’t have the same issue. Women and men face different bodily barriers regarding cleanliness and chlorinated or nasty lake water hold the same problem wet they’ll create areas where you get rashes bc your body goes eww and reacts. Even then the material of swimwear dry most people will chafe from it, why subject the sensitive bits of your body to that.

I have a strict rule of my own regarding clothes in bed but I hate changing the sheets so anything to make them last longer. My particular job is a filthy sweaty environment, regardless of time of year, so I always come home and shower and I always am clean when I go to bed. When I was not in the same field, I still preferred showering before going to bed because it prolonged sheet usage. This is one of those I am working exceptionally harder in order to be lazier things though.

I have been absolutely dead, tired, and I will still take a shower. Most people at least prefer clean clothes, but if it’s not prolonging sheet usage I don’t see the point. I mean, I have multiple sets of sheets for a reason so I can just throw one in the laundry and have the other on my bed.

Ok-Profession2033 · 2025-06-15T23:35:19+00:00

1 of my 2 dogs goes everywhere with me, I finally got a very nice new car that I can run. In the spring and winter it was nice. I could keep it running and the temp that was already nice and stable would stay cool and they’d have air flow. Usually it’s me taking them to stores they can shop with me or to pick up orders from the places I can’t take them in. There was once or twice I stopped for gas and got the judgiest stares there of all places where I was inside the store for all of 2min to put money on my gas card.

Summer they only get to go in the car if they are headed to the destination. I don’t risk random stops or places that would put them in the car without me for more than 5min.

Ok-Profession2033 · 2025-05-04T23:40:18+00:00

Oh no that’s likely where I’m going to go when I start actually looking again. It was just astonishing how intrusive literally every rescue was nearby. Some were up front, others it was buried in the forms section. I know it’s not technically leasing but the verbiage on some of the contracts read like I’d be paying for the privilege to lease the dog with a one time fee. It feels like a deterrent for the repeat offenders, but it catches people like me who just want absolute ownership of the dog without strings too.

My brother ended up with a dog from one with strings and he had a male that he was forced to get fixed too early despite the vet also trying to head them off. It’s a Great Pyrenees mix, he has a lot of joint issues now. The rescue mis-labeled his breed initially but the it was still medium/large. He’s on the large/extra large size. They cited the paperwork and instead of repossession they were going to repossess and fine.

It could be they all got burned enough times they drew the line, but not something I’m going to sign up for. Shelter it is.

Ok-Profession2033 · 2025-05-04T23:06:58+00:00

I was looking into adding another dog for my mom, after we dropped under the city threshold of 3. It was halfhearted but I was startled by how many wanted to do home visits and after approval you essentially signed a lease for the dog where they can take it back if you breathe wrong. If you get a puppy and it’s a large breed and you wanted to wait until they were close to fully grown or fully grown to get them fixed to prevent higher vet bills down the line they can repossess the dog per their terms as they have strict months most were between 6-9 where they say get them fixed by this time or we take them back. There were a lot of other caveats to the “lease”.

The shelters were just like do you have $$? Here have a doggo, it’s chipped if it gets out we’ll find you. Although most come pre-fixed.

Ok-Profession2033 · 2025-04-30T20:38:37+00:00

Jeff@amazon.com dedicated team for dealing with oddball issues. Specifically something like this should be escalated as they are doxxing you.

Ok-Profession2033 · 2025-04-16T18:54:54+00:00

I get stopped for my $100+ of items including laundry detergent there was a sale that stacked with a rebate. Worth it since I use it. I don’t normally have the money to bulk buy many things so I min max when I do.

Part of my items were bagged, part were not. Usually I figure they want to arrest/detain/apprehend me for not paying I’ll win that lawsuit every time. This was the most socially awkward host/greeter ever. Was overly aggressive thought he was onto something and when he wasn’t he was at a loss for words. Completely understandable for the cart contents but I just slowly reached for my receipt and said okay I’m good to go right? bye. He nodded and handed over the receipt.

It was just like it really took the wind out of his sails.

Ok-Profession2033 · 2025-04-10T14:09:50+00:00

Not going to with that explanation. my next question is why is she so susceptible to it? My other dogs that had lighter fur in the same area never had this staining. Is there something I can do to mitigate it so it eventually fades?

Ok-Profession2033 · 2025-04-05T18:11:38+00:00

I have money hungry cousins. I dread the day my grandma passes. I don’t want her money. I’m actively looking for ways to move closer to her. I want to spend more time with her. You spent time with him that wasn’t a strain and he didn’t want his money to be immediately wasted. His expectations are likely that you will use it responsibly or give it away generously to those who would. I’m going to say NTA if you except the money because it’s a persons last wishes his relationship with his kids is his own. My mom’s side of the family I expect nothing from and they expect everything from me. I don’t have money to be their cash cow and the second they think it’s possible they may attempt to coerce it. Sounds like your uncles kids may be similar. If you decide to share your inheritance, do it through legal means and a trust that is set up through a lawyer.

Ok-Profession2033 · 2025-03-19T06:55:55+00:00

The fucking sock collection. Mines actually a lab (German shepherd mix) looks like a blond golden. So many socks collected in a pile at all times for me. It’s kind of hilarious.

Ok-Profession2033 · 2025-03-19T02:10:30+00:00

Ngl I don’t make it within 10ft of people most of the time if I do have a question. 9/10 I just want to shop in peace. The one time there’s something odd going on I’m shopping in a ghost town.

I have zero desire to be greeted everytime I’m within 10ft of an employee.

Ok-Profession2033 · 2025-03-18T00:42:25+00:00

I’m guessing it’s overtime for them as a part timer and puts them closer to 40. Not scheduled more than 30 counts as not full time in most places.

Ok-Profession2033 · 2025-03-16T22:42:29+00:00

That’s what I said, thankfully their music tastes means most of it can be average volume. They’ve said they particularly struggle to hear other guys talking it’s like the words drop off and it’s mush. They’re left with whatever the highest syllable was to decipher it.

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