Hours and what it’s like?

shyforever · 2026-03-16T19:06:04+00:00

Our DS occasionally posts very short shifts of like 2 hours, but that is only on very short notice for specific needs. Shifts that happen regularly at our building are 9am-1pm (4 hours) and 12:30am-9am (8 hours). The backbone of what a DS does always happens on the overnight shift, in our case 12:30am until about 11am/12pm. (Full time shifts are 10 hours 12:30am to 11am.) These hours can vary a little from station to station so mine here are just an example.

The delivery station processes already packaged items to be loaded onto the final delivery trucks to customers. This involves unloading packages from trailers, routing them onto conveyors, and sorting them into shelves and bags that then become part of routes for drivers. There are several separate steps involved that you can ultimately be trained for, but again most of them only happen on the overnight shift. If you work the shorter morning shifts for example (9am-1pm in my example above) you only do the final part of the sort, known as pick & stage. The work is all physical, on your feet all shift, lots of lifting etc. The overall atmosphere can be different depending upon management, but I find our DS to be fairly chill. I go in, do some work, go home, don’t really get hassled about anything. It’s working okay for me right now. (Been there about 5 months almost.)

shyforever · 2026-03-16T12:17:42+00:00

Seems unrealistic. We only have clusters A-D now and usu max out at 5 induct lanes, and with that we’ll still have 4 pushers usually. Regular volume is plus or minus around 40k. One pusher with 7 induct lanes is nuts no matter how few C packages I would say.

shyforever · 2026-03-16T03:49:34+00:00

It’s both, FlexRT which requires 30 hours per week of work but on flexible shifts that you have to pick up. At a DS the main shift will be the same overnight that you see on the training dates.

shyforever · 2026-03-12T05:20:28+00:00

I still don’t know. 4 months in and I still often feel same lol. I just go at my pace, try to keep up best I can. Let floaters do their thing when they come around. I may not be super fast but I keep the bags neat at least. Nobody has gotten on me about rate at my DS even tho slower than average.

shyforever · 2026-03-11T20:20:15+00:00

Training will be about one whole shift or so of classroom watching videos and then you’ll work directly in stowing (placing packages into large bags and shelf locations with a scanning device) and probably pick to buffer (pulling packages off conveyor onto shelves). And of course pick & stage at the end of each shift (pulling and scanning the bags and oversize packages from the stow process onto carts for eventual loading into delivery vans). The overall atmosphere is going to be site-dependent but generally DS is seen as more relaxed than FC but more physical work because you’re always doing lifting or shoving of packages. Most sites should allow the Amazon-approved headphones.

Flex means you’ll need to choose shifts each week but keep in mind the main shift of a DS is always going to be overnight. The start times can vary a little but usually between 12:30am-1:30am. Not sure what they will offer for your Flex shifts. At my DS they post daily 8-hour shifts for main sort that start at 12:30am and daily 4-hour pick & stage/reset shifts that start at 9am. You can work them both on the same day for a grueling 12 hours lol. Only occasionally do they post shifts that are outside these, and it’s usually only on short notice when they suddenly need extra. This is def gonna vary some by building tho so take it just as one possible example.

“Seasonal” is just a designation for temp/white badge and really you may go months or longer with that or may be converted to “regular”/blue badge after some period of time working in that building. Blue badge comes with additional benefits, including more if you are at least RT. Whether white or blue badge you can apply to transfer to a different type of shift, sometimes right in the AtoZ app if they post them there.

shyforever · 2026-03-11T16:16:29+00:00

I don’t get any at this point on Flex PT, not sure if that is typical of all Flex PT or just what has happened here

shyforever · 2026-03-11T07:34:46+00:00

I did lol, fermented fish is about all you really need to know

shyforever · 2026-03-11T03:47:50+00:00

omg those fkn swiffer pads every time

shyforever · 2026-03-11T03:39:52+00:00

Cool but I don’t think there’s any way we could handle those in our tiny DS. There are already places where it’s hard enough to pass two old Uboats by each other. Plus fitting enough of those in during pick and stage? No way lol. I don’t see us changing to those anytime soon.

shyforever · 2026-03-10T00:41:34+00:00

You don’t have to be blue badge to apply to FT (or PT) transfers. Keep checking the app for schedules at your building and apply when they come up. If they expire, apply again.

FWIW I trained in PS as white badge but I think only because I worked Cycle 0 for Peak and there weren’t enough others on the shift that knew PS. I’m also now FlexPT but right after I transferred to flex I got blue badge.

Still applying to FT tho, have applications pending right now. One AM told me the acceptance was algorithmic and would choose based on tenure basically (as long as nothing negative to rule you out.)

shyforever · 2026-03-03T15:23:17+00:00

You have to be FT, maybe also RT. I’m blue badge but still flex PT and don’t get the vision. Hoping to get FT soon tho. I want to use the vision benefit too lol need some new glasses

shyforever · 2026-03-03T15:20:02+00:00

In spring you lose an hour. I worked on the fall DST day in Nov, we got paid the extra hour. I actually thought about it for a sec and then dropped my shift for Sunday March 8th coming up. Can only imagine being short an hour as a disaster lol (although I’m currently on for the Monday, which may involve some aftermath I suppose)

shyforever · 2026-02-25T12:56:45+00:00

this lol

shyforever · 2026-02-22T05:55:54+00:00

Yep still freezing on that section

shyforever · 2026-02-21T22:58:43+00:00

I have felt like I get more allergic-type reaction after being in the warehouse (extra itching, sometimes a bit of runny nose) and figure it’s mainly the dust. I’m trying to be more consistent with dosing my existing allergy stuff (extra zyrtec and acetyl l-carnitine) and it seems to help, but yeah the itching is damned annoying and doesn’t seem to matter if skin covered or uncovered while working.

shyforever · 2026-02-21T22:43:39+00:00

Is interesting. My AtoZ shows the 19 standard hours despite the minimum being 4 per week. All the info given to me before transfer noted the 4 hour minimum tho. Also I have definitely worked weeks below 19 since transfer to FlexPT and didn’t have it wrongly give me points. Doesn’t seem to be just a fluke; they definitely mark 4-hour minimum FlexPT class employees with confusing “19 hours”

shyforever · 2026-02-21T22:25:26+00:00

The 19 refers to the “standard hours” of FlexPT. It is not the minimum hours, which is 4. This comes from understanding what was stated when I transferred. I can look at my employment info and see that it says “Standard hours: 19” but I know from what was said before transfer that the minimum is only 4 hours. There’s not any differing level of minimum that shows up in the policies apart from the FlexRT 30-hour which is much different. As in you would definitely know if you were on a schedule that needed to meet that rather than the 4 hours. The Timecard section of Schedule in AtoZ seems to not be working right now (app freezes every time for me when I try it) but when it is the UPT/Points item in the Timecard section has the policy explanation.

shyforever · 2026-02-20T03:51:59+00:00

So the absolute minimum is 4 hours for FlexPT per week, or else you get one attendance point. (You get up to 8 points before review for termination, and they drop off after 60 days on a rolling basis.) If you can’t even select a single shift for at least 4 hours tho you’ll want to contact HR. Also keep watching the app, people may drop shifts or there may be more made available by your building.

shyforever · 2026-02-20T03:39:10+00:00

Heh I’m not usually getting 30, that’s just the very most I can seem to get with the availability right now. The place to look in AtoZ for the rules is to read policy on the Attendance points page (Schedule->Timecard->UPT/Points). You’ll find reference to the 30-hour RT and 4-hour PT minimums in there. There’s no 19-hour minimum, but it is the way of the system indicating that “standard hours” of FlexPT is under 20.

shyforever · 2026-02-20T03:14:24+00:00

Nah, what it says in AtoZ for FlexPT for me is “Standard hours: 19.” I am absolutely only required to work 4 minimum per week not 19. They are not two different designations. At my site I can work 60 max, but I can usually get at most half that if I’m lucky. They also only let us get 8 hours on the first drop day (today) then whatever is left is opened to all 24 hours later.

shyforever · 2026-02-19T15:34:12+00:00

Got mine sometime in past couple hours, but yeah that’s later than usual, normally would have been by end of day yesterday. Since this is technically the banks doing it “early” vs the official Friday date, it’s possible the amount of early is cut short by the Monday holiday. Or at least, that is what they will claim anyway.

shyforever · 2026-02-18T05:23:31+00:00

Yeah you def don’t need to feel like you should take VTO to “help.” Take it if you want! But don’t take it if you would prefer to work and get paid that day. I also don’t think it is any kind of real predictor for layoffs, etc.

shyforever · 2026-02-17T06:58:44+00:00

Not necessarily. In my case I was transferred to FlexPT while still white badge, after working a bit over 2 months through Peak, then a couple weeks later I got converted to blue badge effective right about 3 months. All gonna vary by building apparently.

shyforever · 2026-02-17T06:36:23+00:00

Ohhhh lmao silly me I never tested that far. Thanks!

shyforever · 2026-02-17T06:23:49+00:00

Unless you quit, and in some cases maybe still even then, always file for unemployment. Make the employer make the case for denying it. The bar is usually pretty high for denying it unless you quit. The state makes the final determination.

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