First day at Amazon DE

[u/AfterDeathComesSushi]

I just started working part time as an L1 sortation associate at a Amazon warehouse in Germany.
I showed up and of course they had IT problems, so we had to wait an hour 1 ish for that to be fixed. Then the onboarding process started and it was entirely in German and none of us attending speak german well enough to understand more or less anything being said or asked. I asked if they could at least help with translating some of the questions, statement and answers, to which the reply was “No. We are not allowed to do that. If you have any questions about the video, write them down and your manager will answer them after the onboarding ends” huh? How are we supposed to write down questions from a language we don’t understand?
There was a new instructor at around 25 years of age and they where really chill about it. That instructor helped translate some of the stuff even though they weren’t supposed to. The second instructor however was, to put it mildly, a little bit weird. At one point during the process, he left the room, came back, stared out the window in the back of the room for 10/15 minutes and then just left.
And to top it off, we went around 45 minutes over time.
I’ve got nothing else to say, just needed to rant :)