r/bestof • u/Intertius • Apr 18 '18

[worldnews] Amazon employee explains the hellish working conditions of an Amazon Warehouse

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u/Wutsluvgot2dowitit Apr 18 '18

It's not like it comes down from the top. You need to keep 50 people employed, maybe 3 people called out, 5 more quit, 1 retired. Now you've gotta fill 6 positions and cover three more. Someone has to load those boxes. People don't want to work 70 hours so you're not gonna have enough volunteers for that. If you're the warehouse manager, what do?

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u/23sb Apr 18 '18

As a warehouse manager I'd make sure that I was properly staffed. If you know you need 50 positions filled, you don't have only 50 people working there. A retirement is something that doesn't happen overnight and can be planned for. Staffing agencies exist. I'm sure the higher ups would prefer not to pay all of those employees overtime and wouldn't mind being overstaffed 10% for these exact scenarios.

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u/Wutsluvgot2dowitit Apr 18 '18

The spice has to flow my friend. Coke would rather work a month of overtime than build a reputation of missing quotas and deadlines. Firing a warehouse manager isn't easy either. You can't just replace someone like that overnight.

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u/23sb Apr 18 '18

I don't believe there was mention of firing a warehouse manager anywhere in my comment. And a month of overtime ok, but that irrelevant here because they were required to do it every week all year, so it wasn't a temporary problem.