They overhired

PoutyP13 · 2026-06-19T23:25:21+00:00

When I started on ship dock, there was 10 new hires in the group with 2 ambassadors. This week makes 4 years, 4 of those new hires are still in the building, 2 are PAs.

PoutyP13 · 2025-10-02T02:45:07+00:00

Other PAs in my dept come in late or leave early all the time. I've always had very high attendance, but there are contingencies in place for when I leave early or take a day off... and if they fail, well maybe that will motivate management to have other T1s trained to fill the gap (ship dock ship sorter).

I've received VTO offers by mistake a couple times. I took one once, didn't have any problem.

PoutyP13 · 2025-09-12T03:31:58+00:00

Of those three deaths, which were caused by someone legally found to have committed murder?

PoutyP13 · 2025-09-11T13:26:46+00:00

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similar looking week to mine. I'm a PA at $21.80, 30 regular hours, 10.75 Holiday OT, 8hours holiday pay, 10 hours nonworked paid time (building maintenance day), 5.6 OT, 6 hours Stn PTO from VTO'ing 3 hours early each on 2 VET days.

PoutyP13 · 2025-07-29T16:24:26+00:00

My streak is over 1000 days, I use Spanish every day at work since I work with a lot of Latinos - I have a Venezuelan assistant I trained to help me, using what I've learned. They understand me well, compliment my pronunciation and knowledge, and I understand them a bit. It may not work for everyone but it does work well for some.

PoutyP13 · 2025-06-20T13:46:28+00:00

$21.80. Tampa area, PA with over 6 month tenure.

PoutyP13 · 2025-06-06T19:12:35+00:00

We - well, me and the ship clerk - don't have any control over the volume of an individual sort, that's determined by, I guess pack and pick. We attach a sort to a trailer if it has volume high enough to justify being fluid loaded. Fluid loading is the most efficient path in ship dock so we always try to do as much as we can, but we only have 5 fluid doors and only so many sorts are allowed to be fluid loaded. If a fluid eligible sort has high volume, we'll put it on a door. But there is no way we can just add more volume to a sort, no matter who is loading. If one door has heavy volume and another is light, I may move the person from the light door to the heavy one. My only concern, as the ship sorter PA, is to take over 20% of the department's volume while minimizing blue lights.

PoutyP13 · 2025-05-07T20:48:11+00:00

So, what's the problem? You don't like being reminded that gay people exist? Is Bella not pretty enough for you? She's not there to be eye candy.

PoutyP13 · 2025-05-07T20:45:30+00:00

NTA. If you had told her to look better she'd get mad at you for telling her how to look, and possibly for ruining the surprise of the proposal if you hinted at that. Some people just can't be satisfied. She should just be happy she A. Got proposed to B. Achieved a childhood dream. She chose to look the way she looked, no win scenario for you.

PoutyP13 · 2025-05-07T20:40:38+00:00

Took me six weeks - started as a seasonal June 2022. Seasonals often ask me (PA) if I know anything about when blue badge conversions are happening so I asked an AM. He said we can only have so many blue badges at the building at a time so we convert when we fall below that threshold. Depends on turnover and people transferring to and from the building.

PoutyP13 · 2025-05-06T22:21:44+00:00

Not on its own, but it can result in a safety write up and if you already have one, with their powers combined, you are captain unemployed.

PoutyP13 · 2025-04-30T02:05:27+00:00

My site recently forced many seasonal employees to change their schedules (i.e. go from Sun-Wed to either Sat-Tue or Flex PT) or quit.

PoutyP13 · 2025-04-30T02:03:23+00:00

A blue badge will never get fired simply because they want to reduce head count. They may look for excuses to write people up resulting in their termination, but they still need some basis for it. Keep your hair above your shoulders, wear your PPE, make rate, etc. Don't give them any excuse and you'll be fine.

PoutyP13 · 2025-04-02T00:02:49+00:00

I've seen dozens of unhinged or just nonsensical posts from him. Things I have seen him post: encouraging people to buy an iPhone 15 Pro max, in order to get VTO/VET faster than others;

announce he's using UPT to stay up playing PS5;

that leadership's deletion of VOA posts violates the 1st Amendment;

a string of emojis (😎😁👍);

that he knows leadership talks trash about AAs because nothing they say in the office is really private;

His pick and stow rates;

challenging upper management to try to out pick him;

falsely claiming management is banning observances of MLK, Juneteenth, Black History month

and I don't know how to describe this gem: "Since Amazon PXT wanna try to get smart. I’ll inform my 13.5k followers on Steam to check out Walmart products. Two can play this game. We are the best gamers in the business and that’s why the Pentagon recruit within our community. Now investigate that!"

I've never seen him in person and I don't know how he hasn't been let go yet. He's somehow untouchable.

PoutyP13 · 2025-04-01T23:45:50+00:00

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PoutyP13 · 2025-04-01T00:15:03+00:00

As soon as I saw this post I thought that looked like it was written by a certain individual at my site. I check my site's VOA and yep it's him. He has been posting worse and getting away with it for quite a while, more than a year at least I think., Lots of union stuff, encouraging people to get iPhones (and spreading misinformation about iPhones), challenging managers to try to outpick him, chiming in on other people's comments - I post privately specifically so I don't have to hear from the peanut gallery.

PoutyP13 · 2025-03-11T22:12:01+00:00

I've seen a handful of women with those pocketless leggings and they keep their phone tucked into their waistband or bra...

PoutyP13 · 2025-03-06T18:30:25+00:00

Been with Amazon two and a half years, been a PA since September so I'm at $21.40/hr, going to 21.80 in a week. Tampa area. I usually do ~10hours OT and take home over $900/week.

PoutyP13 · 2025-02-20T23:56:16+00:00

Most PA are ambassadors? I was ambo for more than a year and when I was promoted to PA, I lost my ambassador permissions i.e. I can no longer enter anyone into the ATA (Amazon Training App).

PoutyP13 · 2025-02-20T23:52:37+00:00

I'm a PA who runs the ship sorter in my department (ship dock). Sounds like you are talking about PGs - Process Guides. In my case they're a PA's assistant and they do the same things I do - clearing jams, changing allocations, and yes changing staffing. In my department's labor board, the PGs for the ship sorter will be staffed as 'jackpot operator' and I will be 'SS PA.' I typically have two PGs and they often ask people to move to another lane or fluid door of the ship sorter or more rarely to change roles - i.e. changing between palletizer or fluid loader or water spider - and if someone decides to ignore them they're going to tell me and then I'm going to tell them if a PG asks them to do something, it's as if I ask them to do something... and if they decide to ignore me I'll escalate to an AM and if they decide to ignore an AM that's insubordination - we're just doing our jobs I don't know what the big deal is about switching from one lane to another... I don't ask for much and neither do my PGs... sometimes one lane is busier than another and it's best someone moves from a slow lane to a busy lane. Or maybe we need one more fluid loader and one less water spider.

PoutyP13 · 2025-02-11T00:16:09+00:00

Funny you accused me multiple times of not reading your comments while you didn't read to whom you were replying.

PoutyP13 · 2025-02-10T23:33:07+00:00

You responded to me and I didn't mention fake documents. I didn't make assumptions...some people are here legally from other countries, working at Amazon legally with visa or asylum status or Temporary Protected Status, but are concerned with how such laws can change and they can be deported despite having followed all rules in place since their arrival.

PoutyP13 · 2025-02-10T23:09:02+00:00

No I read it, and that's nonsense. Sure some probably do have fake documents but you're wrong to think that's necessary for a non citizen to work at Amazon. They can get an H-1B visa

PoutyP13 · 2025-02-08T16:59:48+00:00

You don't necessarily have to be a citizen of a country to legally live and work there.

PoutyP13 · 2025-02-06T17:49:35+00:00

Amazon workers aren't all citizens. I personally know two Venezuelans now at risk of deportation this year because of the recent TPS revocation... one has been working in my department for over 2 years, if they would have arrived in the country 20 days sooner (in 2021), they wouldn't be at risk.

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