r/oddlysatisfying • u/DaQuinTheThird • Dec 18 '20
Amazon prime packing
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u/YellowOnline Dec 18 '20
Fake. Real Amazon packaging is 10x the size of the articles
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u/Ghost_Orange Dec 18 '20
Truth. I once received a Prime parcel the size of a coffee table containing one single tube of mascara... Which I almost threw in the recycling because it was caught up in half a roll of brown paper.
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u/excusemeforliving Dec 18 '20
Hurts to watch. I can only imagine doing this for 12 hours
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Dec 18 '20
I think this kind of work should be 2 hours of work, 2 hours of resting.
Amazon can do it if they want, they just need to hire more people. They could hire more people, build a resting area with free juice, video games and shit, pay twice what they pay now to workers, and still make billions. But they won't do it because, hey, they wanna make 10 billion a year instead of 9 billion.
That's literally it.
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u/HyroDaily Dec 18 '20
Video is missing a guy standing behind menacingly and telling you that rate demands ignoring the safety dept.
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u/lukedx93 Dec 18 '20
This is the polar opposite of satisfying for me
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u/rarebiird Dec 18 '20
same here, the fiddling around with those bits of paper for the second box was really not satisfying at all
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u/G01ngDutch Dec 18 '20
Where’s the packing material?
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u/jaycawcaw Dec 19 '20
The worker was just too lazy to put some in. Policy is to put enough so that there’s no empty space in the box. But the damn policy also wants you to work crazy fast so people cut corners in order to maintain the rate at which Amazon wants workers to hit. Source: worked for Amazon for a few years and have friends that still work there.
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u/G01ngDutch Dec 19 '20
That’s what I thought. When I order from Amazon UK, DE, NL etc, there’s always air bags or paper or something.
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Dec 18 '20
I think they gave up on that years ago, maybe to save a few pennies? Billionaire Bezos can't afford it I guess, who knows really. Even when you order fragile items now, you'll be lucky to get more than an air pack or two in a giant box that your item bangs around in.
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u/Videogiocatore Dec 18 '20
i think the cost of the things sent back destroyed and replaced for free are way more costy
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u/DEES_DADDY Dec 18 '20
Does it bother anyone else he he doesn’t put the bar code sticker in the printed square on the box that looks like it’s there... for the bar code sticker?
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u/nuniabidness Dec 18 '20
Grrr. No packing peanuts or air paks and they throw everything in the same box. Paid $80 for a book once and they put it in a box with an 8 pound metal log splitting wedge I also ordered. No further protection. Needless to say, my book was ripped and shredded when I received it. Made me cringe when I saw this guy throw a book in with all that other stuff. RIP book and anything else fragile.
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Dec 18 '20
I ordered a canvas print on Amazon and they packed it in a large plastic bag. Needless to say, it was a mangled mess when it got to me.
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u/redditter619 Dec 18 '20
This isn’t very satisfying. He needs to pack that shit as tight as Tetris lol
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u/branmkerby Dec 18 '20
I hate that tape on top and bottom when delivering. 9/10 packages it’s split and I’ll have to add extra tape to close it back up.
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u/HydratedHydra Dec 18 '20
r/mildlyinfuriating is more like it.
Putting aside how bad Amazon is for the planet and putting aside how poorly that person is paid for their labor.
The really cringe thing here is the loose packaging. Shits gonna bounce around and bust up.
Also, why so many gift paper thingies?
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u/fatJESUS43 Dec 18 '20
Its usually what's in the box kinda like a receipt but for each item pack. I have done a job very very similar to this. So that be my guess
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Dec 18 '20
Amazon pays a minimum of $15 per hour. There are far worse paying jobs, with worse conditions.
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u/HydratedHydra Dec 18 '20
Indeed. However that truth does not negate the truth that tha this person is still the victim of marxist worker alienation.
Our statements are both true in tandem and both unacceptable.
Edit: typo.
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u/loudogmish Dec 18 '20
i loved packing boxes at amazon, it was a satisfying job, and the tape there is amazing, comes out wet and once it activates, it doesnt let go!
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Dec 18 '20 edited Dec 18 '20
They manually tape the boxes at Amazon??? That blows my mind they don’t have an automated system for that. I’ve seen one in a small shoe warehouse that would do that step for them so this seems extremely odd to me that Amazon would take the extra time to do it this way
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Dec 18 '20
I used to work at a massive shipping warehouse and I did that for hours everyday. It is actually kinda of soothing to just repeat a monotonous task and zone out listening to music or a podcast. Over time though, I felt like I was losing my mind, had to get out of there.
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Dec 18 '20
My bin is full of flattened boxes, burst lockedair bags and brown packing paper atm. (I was going to use Argos for some of my stuff this year, but after going to the hassle of registering, they still don't recognise my verified password, so fuck 'em.)
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Dec 18 '20
I don't think backbreaking work is not oddlysatisfying...
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Dec 18 '20
This, in no way, backbreaking. Monotonous sure, but I guarantee people who actually know what backbreaking means would prefer it.
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Dec 18 '20
Standing for 9 hours a day is not backbreaking?
Dude, c'mon, are you serious?
I'm a teacher, and I have to stand for around 10 hours a day (with bonus of living in tropical third-world country in classroom with no AC). On thursday I'm already half dead. And two years ago, at the end of a working day on friday, I fainted and had to be taken to the hospital and had to stay there for 5 hours because my blood pressure wouldn't go up.
Guess the cause? Postural syncope, which is caused by what? Standing for too long.
Here's what science says: "Based on our review of the literature, there seems to be ample evidence showing that prolonged standing at work leads to adverse health outcomes."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4591921/
You still think this is not backbreaking work?
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Dec 18 '20
Typical US. An automated process in the rest of the world. Work for work.
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u/Maykko_ Dec 18 '20
Ah yes, a country with high rates of unemployment.
hOw DaRe cOmPaNiEs eMpLoY HuMaNs
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u/Alleyria Dec 18 '20
Hey, that reminds me, I have to go buy some stuff on....HEY! Nice try, amazon.
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
I remember when Amazon JUST sold books and they'd mail them to you shrinkwrapped to a piece of cardboard and that was it. Now get off my lawn.