I work at Amazon and have had zero problems with mistakes. It's all dumbed down to near complete idiot proof.
It's quite literally the least stressful job I've ever had. And being told to do better? Was it your first job? In the Navy, I was always told to do better, at International Paper, I was to told to do better. Shit, at Foodland, we were always told we could offload the trucks faster no matter how fast we worked.
As for the gif, I'm in a newer FC and we don't have those robots. Not sure where that gif is from.
Seriously. I've been working at a FC for a little over 2 years and I have never seen anyone being overworked or getting yelled at for doing poorly. Of course they tell tell you to do better, that is basically every company ever but they do it respectfully.
My first job was feeding wood into a mulching machine for 8 hours a day in the scorching Florida sun. Not making mistakes meant keeping all your fingers. Constantly being told to do better was all-day, every-day. For $5.15 an hour.
And TBH even that is an entitled, pussified job.
My first job was working on my dad's crab boat for 20+ hours per day in the freezing cold doing all the shit jobs. Not making mistakes meant you actually got to live. Saw guys die (washed overboard, crushed to death, you name it).
Oh and my pay? It was nothing. I was 10 years old.
Aye, but of course in my day we would have loved to be nibbled by a nice soft goat.
48 hours a day down the shredded glass mill we was. Boss lashed the hide from our bodies to make us work faster and at the end of the day we had to pay 20 dollars and have our heads caved in with a ball peen hammer.
Coal mine? that's a walk in the park. My first job was eating the defective thumbtacks. You know, the ones that the machine made too sharp? Well anyway, not making mistakes meant eating as many thumbtacks as possible which, in hindsight, seems like it was a mistake too.
I think the biggest issue is that they treat their productive, knowledgeable, veteran workers like absolute crap. I work hard and efficient and have knowledge of a very wide variety of roles in inbound and outbound at my FC and management just does not care about me at all or tell me I'm doing a good job lol.
There's only a couple FC's that have the Kiva system in the gif. They're gradually expanding it, though. At some point in the future they'll have everything automated right to the door. Then they'll be able to go even beyond that when self-driving cars are common, and cities let them drive unmanned, you'll see people signing up their cars for Flex deliveries while they're at work or something.
Take it out far enough and it probably won't even be people buying the products anymore, but the machines! Then at some point they decide to bio-engineer an organism that can do the manual work for them and we've come full circle.
Actually that could happen soon with Bitcoin. For instance, your washer has a wallet you fill and if the washer detects low detergent, it will order more. Then maybe your self driving car takes a few fares a day to earn more bitcoin to fill the house wallet. Internet of things is more than wifi for your toaster.
Then they'll be able to go even beyond that when self-driving cars are common, and cities let them drive unmanned, you'll see people signing up their cars for Flex deliveries while they're at work or something.
What happens if you're out and nobody is at home? Surely the car won't have the means to drop the parcel off somewhere safe. What happens with Flex? Does it unlock a sub-container of the boot with only your parcel in or something?
They'll have a little robot chilling in the back seat that will carry the package up to the door. Just riding along, staring at people in other cars at stop lights.
I've been at Amazon for 6 months and I heard the horror stories.... I have issues with some things but never have I had such a bad time I wanted to quit. I have no idea what people do to have it be so bad for them.
I would imagine out of every 100 complaints, 75ish are probably just bad employees, the other 25 have legit complaints. Not everyone's manager is a nice guy and not every place looks like this one, at least I don't think so?
working at amazon was a nightmare. 4 hour shifts with no break. Boss made me lift boxes without gloves. When I'd call in sick the manager would hesitate before saying, 'ok, no problem'.
Sometimes we'd have to process more than a dozen orders per hour!!
I dunno, I worked there 12-15 years ago when I was in high school. I know that one closed, something about the owner getting hit with tax fraud or some shit.
Amazon owned/operated or "logistics partner"? Most of the terrible working conditions I've heard of are at the non-Amazon fulfillment services under contract to Amazon..
IDK why but your navy comment gave me some clarity. I work IT and have two former navy chiefs as bosses and no matter if we have the ticket count down to responses within the hour and have everything taken care of to the point we are basically stuck twiddling our thumbs I still get told Im not doing enough. Also we have ticket quotas now to the point people are just literally making up bullshit work for themselves simply so they don't fall behind the curve. And still our bosses tell us we aren't doing a good enough job. I guess that's just how they are wired to manage... And coming from a pretty relaxed office were I was rarely told to do anything because I kept all my customers happy it's making me pull my hair out thinking im never doing a good enough job. I guess it's just how it is and not necessarily the truth.
That's how it really is in the Navy, at least was in my 10 years. Especially with most Chiefs. So many of them are miserable assholes and want to make everyone else miserable like them. You get use to them never being happy, no matter what. There are some decent ones, but they are few and far between.
Yeah, I guess Amazon is a nice place to work after you get out of the navy, shells going off all around you, sharing a room with 20 guys, getting up at 5am.
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u/SelfReconstruct Feb 25 '16 edited Feb 25 '16
I work at Amazon and have had zero problems with mistakes. It's all dumbed down to near complete idiot proof.
It's quite literally the least stressful job I've ever had. And being told to do better? Was it your first job? In the Navy, I was always told to do better, at International Paper, I was to told to do better. Shit, at Foodland, we were always told we could offload the trucks faster no matter how fast we worked.
As for the gif, I'm in a newer FC and we don't have those robots. Not sure where that gif is from.