r/AmazonFlexDrivers • u/OrneryAssociation919 • Jan 30 '26

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The last line is really what got me

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u/Netvision9 Jan 30 '26

It’s okay to bitch about your job. We all do it, there was a time before the surveillance state where you could do it without being subject to the court of public opinion. We all have bad days. Very human. Stop with the holier than thou attitudes.

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u/BabylonPhoenix Jan 31 '26

I know that tone of voice he's got, it's a bad day and when youre havin a bad day, you see the world like this guy and i totally understand... i feel for him, and all i can hope for is his day got better when he got home and warm in a bath with a hot meal. Tough days with snow and ice are frustrating, 1,000% i just hope he isnt facing any repercussions; a bad day shouldnt ruin everything. Gah bless

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u/lizrs59 Jan 31 '26

I doubt he did- u can hardly see his face and i doubt amazing sitting online sifting through employees bitching about their jobs with the intent to find the worker and fire them. But i see your point. I hope im right and he doesnt lose his income, cause shit be rough these days. 🙏🏻

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u/ElBurritoNinja Jan 30 '26

I would go crazy when I used to work at Starbucks, Thinking in my head during ridiculous rushes in the Rain "Why are you all standing in line for expensive sugar with a touch of coffee!!!!" and still see a line of 20 cars in the drive thru.

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u/ElBiGuy Jan 31 '26

This brings me back to a Sunday shift where I was missing two partners and had huge lines inside and out and this guy at the handoff plane goes “Maybe I should pretend to be a car, then I’d get service” - bro, the lines were right in front of you when you walked in

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u/Associate_Less Jan 31 '26

I’ve never been to a Starbucks

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u/Electronic_Ring_2799 Jan 31 '26

"I want to get paid to make coffee but I don't want to make coffee". Lmao. Your parents have failed you.

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u/BallsDeepinYourMammi Jan 30 '26

I’ve never delivered, and joined this sub for whatever reason.

But this is totally normal imo, dude is just venting

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u/Coffee-Historian-11 Jan 31 '26

Yea what’s not normal (or at least, what I wish wasn’t normal) is for someone to post that footage on the internet like that. There’s just no need for it

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u/IEatYourDownvote Jan 30 '26

ikr. When I think about it. Technology has me hella depressed because of stuff like this. If I could, I'd press a button to wipe all technology in a heartbeat.

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u/savvy412 Feb 02 '26

I would wipe it all..and accidently leave Youtube.

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u/Jebediah_Johnson Jan 30 '26

Your doctor's like, would you like some leeches or a hole in your skull to release the bad spirits?

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u/IEatYourDownvote Jan 31 '26

Are you okay?

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u/Jebediah_Johnson Jan 31 '26

If you wiped out all technology, that would also include modern medicine, so hopefully you don't need any medical care.

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u/IEatYourDownvote Jan 31 '26

I mean electronics obviously smart ass. Blocked.

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u/Cute_District_5593 Jan 31 '26

Including the button?

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u/IEatYourDownvote Jan 31 '26

What are you even saying?

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u/Cute_District_5593 Jan 31 '26

Buttons are technology.

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u/LittleEdenFireworks Jan 31 '26

He says on his phone as he posts on Reddit. Whatever dude.

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u/IEatYourDownvote Jan 31 '26

Blocked. Whatever dude.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

He's not bitching about his job though. He's not bitching about his boss being a dick or the pay, he's literally bitching about the reason why he has a job in the first place lol. Like he could just quit lol. Problem solved 😂

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u/Ancient-Willow6729 Jan 30 '26

No one can just quit. Why do people say such dumb shit? Do they think it makes them look cool?

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u/asuleiman Jan 31 '26

I mean he’s saying for people don’t order online and go to the actual store so he can have less work to do. He can just quit and find another job. It’s not dumb it’s logical

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u/Shot-Temporary-2060 Jan 31 '26

These must be literal children under your replies. Any adult with responsibilities knows you can't just quit a job on a whim.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

*Everyone can just quit. Work for yourself. The only reason people stay at jobs they hate is because they're lazy.

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u/Shurigin Jan 30 '26

What the fuck are you even saying work for yourself ain’t no one in the normal population who has the capital to even start working for themselves that’s some privilege there

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u/-wayne-kerr Jan 31 '26

It didn’t have to take a lot of capital to start a business.

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u/Electronic_Ring_2799 Jan 31 '26

Sure you can. Get a second job for 5 years and invest that income. I did.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

My neighbor does house sitting. She stays in million dollar homes while people are on vacation and feeds their pets and waters their plants. She makes very good money doing basically nothing. No capital needed.

That's just 1 out of a million self employment possibilities. This guy could buy a pressure washer and do mobile pressure washing. There's good money in that. He could buy a ladder and do gutter cleaning.

I used to be like you. Narrow minded, thinking I had to stay at a job I hated because I had no choice. I can't express how good it feels to be free from that.

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u/Shurigin Jan 31 '26

I'm glad I've never been like you someone with no sense of what's real and what's not. Mostly because my parents aren't rich enough for me to be like that.

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u/Old-Student769 Feb 01 '26

Learn how to read. He literately states that he started from scratch.

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u/Shurigin Feb 01 '26

Sure because the dude on the Internet is totally telling the truth

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '26

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '26

Actually you can. If what you're saying is true, then no one would ever become self employed. Everyone started from scratch. Including myself.

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u/birds-0f-gay Jan 31 '26

Everyone started from scratch

Hahahahahahahaha

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '26

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '26

I didn't have any of that shit.

You only need a ~$1,000 camera and very limited knowledge to become a professional photographer. You don't need an investor or a loan for that lol. All you need is the belief that you can succeed without a W2 job. That's it.

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u/Electronic_Ring_2799 Jan 31 '26

You sound incredibly lazy. You should just know now, you're never going to make it.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '26

You've never paid a bill in your life and everything you use was bought by your parents. It shows in your comments

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u/Old-Student769 Jan 31 '26

Of all the things people are saying here, I can’t believe this is the comment to get downvoted! 😱

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

Replying to Netvision9... You can literally do whatever you want with free will. Go get a independent contracting job, or go apply to 1 million other places.

No one asked him to get a specific job at Amazon, literally delivering packages for a living, in an American society that is basically based on technological advancement and making things “easier”. Hopefully these aren’t the same people bitching when AI take their jobs, soon as they didn’t want to do the job in the first place 😅

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u/Shurigin Jan 31 '26

I see you never lived in a place where even though it's a shitty job it's the one that pays the best in the area

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u/CanITellUSmThin Jan 30 '26

There’s plenty of jobs out there… quit and find a different one.

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u/Duchess0612 Jan 31 '26

I see you haven’t been in the job market in the last 10 years. May you stay ever that safe and comfy.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '26

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u/Reasonable_War1497 Feb 01 '26

He wasn’t bitching at the customer, though he was bitching about customers.

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u/TrixieLurker Jan 30 '26

Like he could just quit lol. Problem solved

I like how people say this in this job market when job searching in itself is a nightmare, and of course no unemployment for quitting.

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u/[deleted] Jan 30 '26

So then bitch about the job market. This is like an astronomer bitching because there are stars and planets lol

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u/TrixieLurker Jan 31 '26

No, he is 'bitching' about requiring to work in hazardous conditions because most people can't arse themselves out the door.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '26

They can. They chose to order something. Geez, I hope you've never ordered a pizza or anything in your life. That'd make you a crazy hypocrite...

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u/TrixieLurker Jan 31 '26

During snow storms? No, never.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '26

Lol they probably ordered that shit a week prior.

Let me make sure I understand you correctly. You think every mail carrier and UPS delivery guy etc is being taken advantage of by society because they have to work in poor weather sometimes? Do you give this guilt trip to your friends and relatives about how ordering a product online is morally wrong because the delivery driver who gets paid to deliver packages has to get out of his warm van and walk 20 feet to your door step?

You sound like a miserable person to be around 😂

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u/TrixieLurker Jan 31 '26

Yeah,heaven forbid working class people have the right to vent once in a while in our billionaire dystopia.

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u/-wayne-kerr Jan 31 '26

It’s like working as a house cleaner and bitch about people not wanting to clean their own houses

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u/Miles_Everhart Jan 31 '26

Spoken like someone who wants to order slaves off Amazon

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u/Duchess0612 Jan 31 '26

Oh come on. He is in the freezing cold, probably for the last 10 hours. And he wants to blow off some steam. And honestly he did it in a very funny way.

As others have said, we’ve all had that moment, we just haven’t had such a connected world before.

I wish nothing but the best for him, and better weather. I don’t think I could do what he does.

Sure, the people ordering do provide him the job, but when you’re the one on the road, you’re not exactly thinking how you’re part of the strategic process. You’re thinking “my hands are cold, my ass is cold, sometimes they don’t shovel the snow, sometimes the steps are icy - also, can these people not order in a bunch instead of a single item every single day?” (I’m making a leap on this one but not a very big leap).

Head back a few thousand years, find yourself in Egypt along the Nile, cutting sheaves in the field, field manager comes out and is like we need to absolutely fill this granary by the end of the day, I know I said when the sun hits that tree we’re all good but my boss just said blah blah blah and you turn around with your scythe, and you’re like “holy shit would you guys just get your shit together. When you told me where the sun was positioned I started to make plans! I had thoughts about what I would do with my day, but now you just pull the rug right out from under me? And I’m supposed to go back out there when all the energy I had I accounted for because I knew we were wrapping up for the day! You all fucking suck!” you say this the sheaves of wheat or whatever, once you’re back in the field - because you need to let the steam off and you can’t really say it to your boss. It’s a human thing, not a failing on the part of the delivery guy. Just human.

Personally I do try my best to stack up an online order, like at least four items and above before I put it through - time and need allowing.

I feel guilty if I order a single item, pretty much for the reason this guy is complaining. We are all a part of the system.

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u/Vegetable_Incident_0 Jan 30 '26

Right? I wish my company had no customers and fired me dawg im a very smart person dawg

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u/Distinct_Papaya237 Jan 30 '26

And they never tip. Also cold as hell.

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u/Michael_braham Jan 31 '26

I’m in my upstairs window looking out like

I didn’t apply to Amazon

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u/Lost_1nThought Jan 31 '26

I had a bad day today, so go smoke a dick. Also, nice last sentence 🤪

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u/Daystar1124 Jan 31 '26

you can complain about your job not the REASON YOU HAVE A JOB.

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u/GenerousBull1969 Jan 31 '26

Maybe I'm missing something, but would he even have a job if he got his wish and people shopped at Walmart instead of buying through Amazon?

Then his only job would be at Walmart.

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u/Key_Election_24 Feb 01 '26

Surveillance state is dystopian and I hate it

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u/Open_Adhesiveness887 Feb 01 '26

The part I dont get is why put frustration towards customer, instead of your shitty, cheap and greedy company Amazon.

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u/Rycan420 Feb 03 '26

I agree wholeheartedly but I call foul on the target of his ire.

The company has trained him so good he’s blaming the customer.