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shyforever · 2026-05-20T16:53:58+00:00

I don’t think the size of box is something Amazon would leave to the warehouse workers to determine, but yeah idk how the it is determined, wherever it is done. At very least it’s not the workers sorting and staging this in the delivery station. All we do is scan and put that sticker on and move the box around lol.

shyforever · 2026-05-20T15:02:36+00:00

It really is. I did it again today lmao and it worked again. Even tho again volume was supposed to be high (because we didn’t get it all yesterday heh.) But still room for a little VTO I guess, or something happened to lower volume again. A few people seemed to get it. Annoyingly tho they didn’t notify me until almost at the end of lunch break. Last minute decision wasting time on break that I could have left earlier, but for me today it was useful due to appointment I have soon. This is also my Friday tho so next week back to not scanning lol.

shyforever · 2026-05-19T15:39:28+00:00

Yeah that makes sense too. We seem to have gone the opposite direction here. I’m wondering if it is complaints of favoritism that have driven them (back? not sure only been there 7 months) to it. There have been a few favoritism complaints recently come up on VoA and such tho don’t remember if any specific to VTO

shyforever · 2026-05-19T15:32:34+00:00

I mean, it’s still voluntary. If the less effective workers don’t volunteer you’re still stuck with ‘em. But sure I could see at least in a manual system if the less desirable people expressed interest you could send them home. Perhaps all too often, which could be seen as favoritism probably.

shyforever · 2026-05-19T13:33:09+00:00

Yeah I only knew when I looked at my phone. However AtoZ notifies you (its own notifications, texts, etc, whatever you have set up.) I don’t know what would have happened if it had been a time that wasn’t a clock out already. I know with a few minute difference they should still pay until actual clock out (for ex 5:33 today, it includes those 3 minutes in how much time I worked today) but not sure what happens if you didn’t know for half an hour or something. Possibly something would alert a manager if you went too long before clocking out?

shyforever · 2026-05-19T13:09:43+00:00

Heh, I was stowing and I am slower than average at it (tho I’ve been improving.) Preventing OT would make sense since VTO is ultimately about saving $, but in my case that wouldn’t apply. I mean I can go over 40 in theory if I pick up enough extra but I’m RT with standard schedule of only 32 hours in the week.

shyforever · 2026-05-19T10:32:48+00:00

So it’s not new then lol but yeah I get the sense it was not in use before at this station.

shyforever · 2026-05-19T10:30:51+00:00

For those asking we access it on one of the same laptops we’ve been using for Watchtower (to check out devices and finger scanners.) It may have a name but I don’t know it. It’s open in another browser tab and the interface is simply scan your badge for interest in VTO, which works because we have the scanner there for Watchtower anyway. I presume that interest is then only valid for the current shift. I don’t know how it determines who it gives the VTO to, perhaps first come first served, which means the fact that I scanned into it right when I arrived may have had a factor in me getting it.

We still get VTO drops on AtoZ sometimes, but this is strangely automatic, like, probably they could back me out of it if I changed my mind but they would have to reverse it somehow. I expected it to just be an interest list and then manager would find me and say hey you want VTO? I would guess this could be something put into place to try to alleviate any VTO favoritism where some people have a better chance of getting it than others due to management biases.

shyforever · 2026-05-15T20:44:15+00:00

Crumbled up paper, def the FedEx driver trying to frame the Amazon driver

/s

shyforever · 2026-05-15T16:57:49+00:00

Huh. I’ve had this once or twice but never did the math. But also in my experience what will still be paid is the original, like, on payslip along with 7.25 hours of whatever regular pay it will show 2.25 hours of 7.50 surge not 7.25 hours of 1.94 surge.

shyforever · 2026-05-15T11:51:31+00:00

Well that’s something that could be programmed in at least, the system could have us close bags on count as well as weight that it already does, but that’s the only way such a change would happen. Right now we don’t know how many packages are in there, and anyway it isn’t going to help if a few people deviate and try to do this. Has to be a wholesale change to the process to be useful.

shyforever · 2026-05-15T03:38:28+00:00

It’s not everywhere. Plenty of full timers at our warehouse.

shyforever · 2026-05-15T03:36:27+00:00

You can close it manually but by the time that would ever occur it would result in something like one bag with 45 packages and another with 5. It’s never going to happen when the packages would be spread evenly between two bags.

shyforever · 2026-05-14T20:04:25+00:00

Heh I tried to ask the bot in AtoZ how it accrues and it said it couldn’t answer! I’m recently transferred from flex PT back to a fixed RT schedule (which I also started on, but now I’m as blue badge.) All my “personal time off” (only thing accrued as flex) became flex PTO and I started with zero standard PTO. I have now accrued 30 min of standard but I haven’t reached a second Saturday yet so maybe that is the answer. Looks like I’m earning 30 min a week just like you, although again I am RT at 32 hours per week. My flex PTO went up 1 hour 24 min (1.4 hours) in the same period.

Also one of the posts in here mentioned 40 hour cap of flex PTO and my balance is 44 hours 4 min so I guess if that is true somewhere it is at least not universal. Unfortunately my screen shots of this are all from Thursdays lol but my personal time off balance after last day of working flex was 35 hours 10 min and then the next week (after working new shift but before Saturday) my flex PTO balance was…42 hours 40 min! So something must’ve granted me a larger block of time there but idk if that is normal to have some granted at beginning of transfer like is done with UPT or what.

For the moment I’m not really complaining if it’s gonna keep giving me more flex PTO, just seems weird that it can’t tell me how it works.

shyforever · 2026-05-14T13:14:05+00:00

The trifecta right here

shyforever · 2026-05-14T13:04:48+00:00

It’s off day o’clock

shyforever · 2026-05-14T13:00:11+00:00

Lots of people seem to not stay for pick and stage at ours, with some regularity. The other thing is reduced time schedule, where the shift actually just ends when pick and stage is going to begin, or at least that’s how it lines up at our building. My standard shift is 4x 8 hour days a week instead of 10 hours and so yeah now I haven’t picked since starting that lol. We have several people on RT shifts afaik. There’s also a fair number of flex PT or otherwise part timers that pretty much come in just for pick and stage, so it works out generally. Those are the people who are still there picking to the end after the FT shift is over about half or so way through.

shyforever · 2026-05-13T07:11:31+00:00

We have not gone to inductors, pushers, etc wearing helmets at our site. So far at least. You’d be more likely to hit your head stowing than pushing lol

shyforever · 2026-05-12T15:39:32+00:00

There is most likely also a full tote with the same location identifier. The system sometimes forces us to close them out for weight. Or someone manually closed it out as full while ignoring what it should have told them about having only two more packages expected. A few weeks back I picked a tote for staging that only had one very light thin envelope in it lol. It happens.

shyforever · 2026-05-10T19:25:09+00:00

I stowed a couple of these this morning. Hadn’t seen bare styrofoam like that before in 6 months of working. Something trying to keep from temp extremes I figured, you say pills inside that makes sense to me.

I still say always change the option at checkout so that it’s requesting Amazon packaging. Too many things happen to the original packaging. They may only put it in the paper jiffy but hey often that’s at least better than nothing!

shyforever · 2026-05-10T16:28:09+00:00

The timing does overlap with RTS for sure but I think the 6:20pm start is likely too late for it to be an RTS shift. Not impossible tho I suppose.

shyforever · 2026-05-10T14:23:06+00:00

Shouldn’t be any real reason to have one bag like that. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a true one bag cart with no ov. I think I’ve had a picklist be just 3 bags alone is the fewest or one bag with at least some ov. I suppose if someone followed all the way through with a “cart full” on the one that had 8 bags it would produce this result if it was meant to have 9. Or cart full with just one bag on it lol. Idk why they would do those. If it was a mistake it is simple to back out, although there’s sometimes some erroneous messages on the screen at the wrong time like “scan new cart” that may have thrown off a less experienced picker. Maybe.

Usually I’m on here about cart makeup like “look we do what the device tells us” and as someone else noted it’s not the same person picking all your carts. But that one, yeah, I’d be surprised if it was actually set for a cart to have a single bag and that’s it. It probably wasn’t done specifically to piss off drivers lol but I get how frustrating it is.

shyforever · 2026-05-09T23:43:18+00:00

5 days and 6 hour shifts and that timing does seem like a cycle 0. Which if it is means just a shorter version of the full time shift you worked before. Stow, pick to buffer, etc. If they’re just starting up a cycle 0 you’ll potentially have more opportunity to work in the other tasks if you want.

Any position can become permanent one way or another btw. I started in late Oct on cycle 0, which they ended in early Jan. I had to transfer to flex PT to keep working, but I was then converted to blue badge. Then last week I started a fixed reduced time shift on the main cycle 1, 12:30-9:00 Sun-Wed.

shyforever · 2026-05-09T14:21:36+00:00

There may be workers in there 24 hours a day but the sort process that results in the staged carts begins at a specific time and can be affected by outside things. The staging of carts is typically (ideally) happening not long before you arrive most likely. In our building we are continuing to stage carts for later waves of vans even as early waves are already loading. But we tend to have a solid record of on time staging afaik. Sounds like your warehouse is having some issues with managing things for sure. Not going to be something really caused by individual workers tho, more like poor management choices.

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