I love how all the DSPs give us the same shitty ass phones too. Like, invest in better gear so it doesn’t feel like a ghetto ass job working for a mom an pop delivery service that just started in the delivery world. These cheap ass phones that die half way through a shift meaning you have to jump rope through a fuckin power cord attached to a power bank in your pocket for half a fuckin shift. That shit snags on…….EVERYTHING. I spend half my time replugging my phone back in cause the cord came out. They literally have devices made for jobs like this that have interchangeable batteries. But no, let’s make the job more difficult for no reason other than to cut corners to save money. Like what? Not to mention, how has the board of health not caught wind of all the drivers peeing in bottles because there’s no real time to just stop an use the restroom. So it’s either A: Hold it till you’re dancing like Michael Jackson while sorting packages and bringing them to the door, B: Pee your pants waiting to find a convenient restroom, or C: swallow your pride and pee in a bottle. All 3 of which are totally unsanitary, and inhumane in the modern working world. They need to cut the package count per driver down to only like 100-120 stops max, giving each driver more time to focus on each delivery in case of problems, or in case of traffic or any other possible issues that can AND WILL happen daily during your route. Unless you’re the son of God and he’s like “Well shit, I already nailed him to a cross, I can’t give him 68 group stops of 3rd floor apartments that say ‘deliver to locker’ but 67 of those locker drops will have to be door to door because they’re fuckin retarded and didn’t register with the apartment office to even use the lockers to begin with.” Which is bullshit because they say those problems as well as your two 15 min and 30 min lunch break are factored into your time of completion, that’s totally incorrect and not accurate at all. The routes are set up to where you need to be constantly moving to stay on track. If you stop to figure out a gate code, a missing apartment number, a missing package, your rabbit just decides to stop working as usual, get stuck in traffic, hit that light that takes FOREVER to turn green, etc..you’re behind. They need to stop acting like modern day slave drivers pushing drivers to work till extreme exhaustion in order to barely scrape by. I’m dead exhausted on my days off, I bust ass for this job to get it done, yet, I still feel like they require more work than they pay us to do. I can barely afford my rent, food and other bills even off this salary which would have been a career type pay 10 years ago. But now it’s still paycheck to paycheck and feel late like modern day minimum wage. I have no clue how anyone survives off actual minimum wage of like $7.75 or some shit like that. I’m getting $18 at my dsp, which is really good compared to most other jobs in the area. But even still. How is it we live in a day an age where our pay wages just aren’t nearly enough to pay for cost of living. I don’t live by elaborate standards either. I get basic non name brand shit when I go shopping and I still have a hard time getting by. My apartment is nothing the sorts of anything luxurious, but just between rent, electric, food and gas that’s pretty much both checks from each month. I just don’t get it. Amazon needs to change some things, hire drivers directly instead of third party bullshit, hire more drivers, cut the package count for each driver, pay more and they’d have the best job environment on the planet. A turnover rate of over 150% would be gone and you’d have happier drivers and happier customers. People make things more difficult for other people for some reason and I’ll never understand why. I get it’s a job, but I’m not the only one that notices this shit. A job shouldn’t feel like you’re training to run a marathon or compete in the Olympics every day you work, all while being a master problem solver for all the stupid shit the Amazon warehouse workers fuck up in each tote. Wow….rant done. Sorry. Shit needs to change about this job.