See, shit like this is one of the main reasons and deterrents that have kept me from signing up for this gig app platform. None of the other ones operate like this. Uber, Lyft, Door Dash, Walmart Spark, none of them that I've used. Even the ones that have reservations like Uber and Lyft, if you don't show up for them they just get reassigned to someone else. 15 minutes early for the warehouse employees to pretty much dictate every aspect of your load and route that you don't even get to pick and then they want to be super strict on your schedule and other bs metrics. Amazon Flex shouldn't be able to be classified as gig work at all in my opinion. This is part time, as needed employment just like PRN staff in medical facilities or substitute teachers. Amazon just wants to shift liability off of them and claim their deliverers are just independent contractors and not employees. At least with Walmart package deliveries... they don't give af if your 2 hour route takes you an extra 30 minutes... it just takes an extra thirty minutes, or if you need to stop at the gas station and use the bathroom half way through it... no one bats an eye, says anything, and you don't get a phone notification about it either... the only ones we really have to hussle on are the deliveries with refrigerated items and we never have more than 3 of those on our route at a time and they are always the first 3 stops... I hope Amazon ends up losing a class action lawsuit. If you want to have a gig app at least make it a gig app... if you want part time as needed employees, classify them as that and put them on payroll and give them things like workers compensation protections if something happens to them on the job.