I've been a picker and counter for over two years at an Amazon warehouse. "Counting" (there are 3 types, Simple Bin, Simple Record, and Cycle) is about the easiest job you'll ever have. The only thing is that it's really, really boring and a bit more time in a bending/crouching position as you spend more time on a particular bin cuz you always put item(s) back INTO the bin after removing as opposed to just tossing an item(s) into a tote. Anyway, on one knee (or both, lol) it can be very tiring and depressing the first week until you build up physical and mental endurance. In any event, the optimum task would be "counting" the full shift interspersed with maybe 3-4 hours of "picking" to break up the monotony and get the blood flowing again. Lol. Trust me on this.
But they asked you to pick 10times faster than shown in this video..... so profit oriented company that pressures employes to meet 320 items pick in an hour or 6 items in a minute.
I was packing...loved it..they just moved me upstairs to stow and now I hate my job..its so physically demanding I have to go up stairs 100 plus times a day. I stowed 677 items in 5 hours...I. soo slow now that im never gonna keep up...fucking sucks...
@@lifewithmejessiemarie2570 i just started and i stow one thousand a day. im fucking slow lmao i think after 2 weeks imma get fired for not keeping up 💀
Im starting here and I feel so nervious. Hope to learn and become more fast . I need to work in all stations. Stow, Pick, Pack y Dispatch.. decant too. Im still a training .
I'm a stower and the job can suck somedays and be good somedays. We are to stow 12 items per pod. That is easy unless ALL THE POD COMING IN IS 90% FULL AND STUFFED! The robots are bringing you pods that have no room to stow but they want you to stow anyways but you can't overstuff and stow 12 item or more. This can go on for the full 10 hour shift. Nothing but 90% full pod that you can stow maybe 1 item if you're good. Amazon needs to get their brains check.
I feel ya. I never stowed and would never want to switch over as it appears that stowing could have bigger issues in regard to "favoritism" than picking (I'm a picker and also a counter). Anyway, at my warehouse I'd noticed recently that picking was a bit faster and easier and found out that the pods were averaging 90% capacity as opposed to the usual 110% capacity. Perhaps Amazon finally realized it's better for all involved that lesser filled pods "increases" productivity and PROFITS.
Me too !! Although I do ICQA, didn't see anyone doing that in this vid.. I want to film the pods whizzing about and put it to some classical music, they are very exciting and graceful in my opinion ! 😅 I love watching them speeding towards each other, and then suddenly stop ! I am done with peopling jobs , right now I prefer to talk to computers and robots 😂
Amazon jobs are super labour intensive. It’s like prison work. You get paid just that little bit more to work your ass off 4 plus times. Good if you need work because they always hiring, but not healthy for long term. If you thinking of loosing weight this is the place to do so. Also affect you mentality due to 10hrs straight standing on the same spot doing the same thing. I call this the mental institution.
@Jarod Armstrong not exactly true. It can be a career. 15-16 bucks 4 days a week for 10 hours is liveable. That’s 2400 bucks a month if you times 15 bucks times 40 hours. 2400x12 months = 28,800 plus the overtime employees have to do at least once or twice a month bumps it to 30,000 a year. That’s average salary.
@@natechenry Exactly. In Amazon, you have accountants, marketers, programmers, software developers, warehouse assistant, delivery drivers, lawyers, business analyst, technicians, quality control, so someone can build a career without problem. And they pay very well. In spain for example , most logistics companies pay between 7 to 9 euros an hour, Amazon pay 11,45 euros an hour day shift, night shift 13,45 euros. that is double minimum wage in Spain.
@@natechenry 30,000 a year (before or after taxes) is close to the lower bound of "lower income" today. For the amount of work you're talking about, putting in overtime, etc. You should be getting paid at least 45k a year, starting pay. Inflation has been so rapid the last couple decades that 30,000 a year just isn't good enough anymore. And with wage stagnation, people keep thinking that what used to be passable, still is. It isn't.
@@chasenicholas6724same...I'm actually transferring to a newly built facility that has robots I'm about to experience history in the making...our future
Ever notice that Amazon is really into "numbers" in regard to their laborers' production value but nothing is ever said regarding the size and weight of those individual numbers? Lol. Go call up Amazon and pretend you're a manufacturer and say you're considering Amazon to ship your products. Then say, "by the way, it doesn't matter how much my product weighs. Right?" Lol
That portion of the warehouse would be a mess if people were maneuvering hundreds of those yellow stacks. Amazon employs plenty of people so it's just a matter of working together with the assistance of technology.
The union is hammering amazon too much up to the point wherethey just simply starting to reduce human with machine,. Overtime they will replace those union workers with Mexican who could read and write english
I am leaving the CNA world to do this until nursing school is over. I can’t take another day trying to roll a 500 pound patient by myself, smelling their shit and dealing with running out of N95 mask because almost every patient on my damn floor has COVID. I don’t mind the hard work but I am sick of patients not being grateful. I could give two shits if management at Amazon is not grateful, I came to make my coins and go home lbs!!😂
