@@pearliedunklin9436 10 hour shifts. 7 seconds to pick an item. 30 min lunch break. You are always monitored by cameras. Minimum 4000 units per night. No music. Don't you dare go to tha bathroom during shift or you will get written up. 15 min break. Nearest break room is a 5 min walk. You cant sit anywhere except a brake room. Managers always pushing you for more. It's hell my dude.
It's funny they make it sound like the best job in the world... They don't show the supervisor behind the workers screaming about 'rates' every 3 seconds, and threatening you with write-ups.
Brandon Aguirre my manager is kool dosnt stand behind us let us roll and chill rates easy . Rewards of candy helps and good people to talk to wile u work makes it super fun.
Dude, that's EASY!!! WTF? I mean, Amazon's not for the lazy, but peak is only for 2 weeks 4 times out of the year lol. You make it sound like peak is all the time.
@@emi2759 You shouldn't be. I know every site is different, but in my experience, i've never had a problem doing what they want. I'm 44 yrs old and the only difference i see in the job is the people, younger people. A lot of them quit so fast without ever trying. Now they have new stowing stations called NIKE. it lights up the bins where you can't put things, makes things so much easier for stowers i swear.
I work at Amazon doing exactly the job that the people in this Warehouse to and it is nowhere near as fun and nobody is in a good mood at all. People get written up and fired every single day for not meeting quotas that are nigh impossible. If you take a bathroom break your rate for the day is boned. Enormous numbers of people quit during the first week and most people don't last more than 4.
@@MemoryLane77852 mentally; physically it's an easy job but (my opinion) it's super boring since its repetitive and they dont even let you listen to music (like headphones)
“There’s not a lot of room for human error.” Keep that in mind when you’re waiting for your order. So many errors happen throughout everyday in every warehouse. When you’re pushing people to make rate and when people are being careless it’s bound to happen though.
He probably got a write up for his TOT😂 the shit they don’t know man. We should be getting paid at least $20 for the amount of work they put us through
glimpseofeverything lol are you serious? When I worked there I got paid $12. After a year I was up to $12.50. When I left, a month or two later they raised it to $15. Now y’all want $20? What’s next? After you get $20 you want $25 then $30 then $35? If that’s the case then nurses and telemetry techs and pt doctors should start out at $25 or $30. Working at amazon is awful yes but it’s not as mentally exhausting as being a nurse or respiratory tech or telemetry (ekg) Tech and people’s lives depend on you and you risk getting sued if you mess up.
Dre Hamraee lol what makes you think peoples lives don’t depend on getting there package on time, they’ll freak out if it’s not on time just like a resturant worker or any other job, one job requires you to go to college while they other one doesn’t. Both jobs are equally stressful and yes I’ve been threatened to be sued over a damn bagel before when I worked at Dunkin’ Donuts. 🤷🏾♀️
Dre Hamraee Registered nurses on average make around $30/hr. They should definitely be making more and so should the other workers in the hospitals that are getting underpaid and making what Amazon is paying as the minimum now. Amazon is the type of company that will announce $15/hr minimum pay all while in the same breath announcing that permanent employees will no longer receive RSUs and monthly bonuses. Had they kept those incentives then I’d say they’re at a good position as a company. I was already making $15/hr last year (Reduced time with that $2.50 shift differential) before they announced the increase, then they decided to also get rid of my department on my shift. That would have been fine but they forced me to transfer to either day shift or a regular non-RT night shift. Also that occurred only into the new year, so I was enjoying my last couple of months making $17.90/hr. At that moment I didn’t care much about bonuses and VCP because all I could think about was that $17.90/hr on regular hours and $26.85/hr on OT and working on holidays. I worked most of last year with overtime so my checks stayed looking well. Another downer is that OT opportunities have drastically cut down because they’ve reduced the amount of work coming to us and making the majority of our inventory clothes and they’ve had to shut down a decent portion of space to have bins reconfigured specifically for clothing. Fortunately they decided to allow me to transfer back to RT so I’m at $17.90 but since there isn’t as much work I’m damn near forced to underperform to stretch work out the entire shift to make a full paycheck or leave early with a lower paycheck. Amazon is full of it and they been trying to show off for the media acting like their $15/hr move made them wonderful gods. 🙄
It looks inhuman. The sounds and glare just watching this short video is enough to do my head in. I’m fortunate that I’ve never worked in such a soul crushing place. The newscasters did themselves no favors laughing it off. I’d hope they would give the job a 30 day trial and then come back and try to laugh.
I work at a manual building and y’all numbers sound insane. Like I can pick around 400 for like a singular hour if I’m lucky and get sent to pick a lot of quantity picks in books in the same section. However my average is around 150-200 uph and that’s with me sprinting around a building. You’ll never know the pain unless you work in a building where the shelves DON’T come to you and you have to go from the back of the mods on the third floor ALL the way to the front of the mod far away from a conveyor just to pick ONE item, and then go right back to the same path you were picking on the third floor. Rinse, wash, repeat, and STILL be expected to make rate. Sometimes they’ll also have you go from one side of the building(over 1m sqft mind you) all the way to the other side with making your next pick in under 5 minutes. You use up most of your energy just doing the travel without picking a damn thing in between. Y’all gonna hate me because I’m gonna be at a 450 UPH when it’s expected at 380. I was at 225 UPH the other night for the first half(my luckiest night ever) and when I checked the rates everyone else was at like 110-150 UPH. I picked like 1200 and not a single person picked over a thousand. I was honestly shocked because normally on my shift there are like 5 people that pick over 1k in the first half and normally I’ll be one on a couple of nights while my last night I’ll fall behind slightly because of constant shit paths. This was me working VET(they haven’t offered this in months because of lack of work) I love to work hard and get good numbers, but I can understand how it feels to have rates raised. Sometimes it isn’t even about people themselves just being high performers. Amazon CONSTANTLY does things to make those numbers better, even if the overall scheme of things doesn’t make sense. For example there’s another Amazon warehouses two doors down that just prints books. They would print and ship the books themselves, but all of a sudden last year they decided to have them send the books to our warehouse, have our stowers stow them, have our pickers pick them, have our packers pack them, and people on the dock put them in trucks. That helped everyone’s numbers out and everything, but that made rates go up while the ability to get those numbers isn’t even. They like to stow the books at one location. Nights and days typically have different locations. Honestly I feel like days stows some on both sides, while the night shift just keeps it wherever most of the stowers are going to be. The like to make that same floor the one where much of reactive and replen is stowed. So pickers move from floor to floor, but sometimes pickers can remain on the same floor for the whole night. So when they’re stowing on the second floor I can easily pick extremely high numbers without effort, but when I’m at the first floor and maybe just one or two stowers doing replen and it’s been like that there for weeks I know I’m going to be sprinting and will make a mediocre rate for myself. I love a challenge but one of the most discouraging things is seeing yourself making a shitty rate in comparison to someone that had excess long picks and high TOT make a higher rate than you because they were just blessed with a good pick path/location. I swear the leaders intentionally lock that shit in specifically to ensure people slacking actually make their rate by the end of the week. Because they’ll let me be a high performer with good paths that seem to automatically come eventually, but then that last night it will be like I’m locked on a floor. I will gladly go to a robotics building and pick damn near 4K in a night. 🤷🏽♂️
I’ve never worked at an Amazon warehouse, but I have a friend that fell on hard times and dose. Let me start by saying this shit is fucking hilarious how they make this shit seem “fun” or “warm” in any kinda way. “Fulfillment center” 😂😂 nothing is fulfilling about working at an Amazon warehouse my homeboy come home hurt everyday he look older, and only been there 3weeks smh ima cut him slack on his half of the rent just cause I can tell he dying on the inside.
It’s crazy I do the same shit for my own eBay store lmao 😂 I just wish I had this many orders sheesh. I get about 10 orders a day and I’m usually exhausted 😩
I just begin to work at amazon as a picker with covic 19 the rules have changed they are more Linear you can carry your cell phone and you don't have to meet quota.. i really like picking everyone been nice maybe thinks will change after covic 19 is over so far i really like working at amazon picking is sooo easy..
It is a job. You go clock on and work your shift and they pay you. When you walk out after your shift you don't have to think about it until you clock on again. A job is a job. If you get vacation pay or other benefits it is a big plus. Not everybody can be a Playboy photographer.
Drake Howell ICQA is when you have a small cart and a little stool underneath and you go around to scan items and put the total amount of it into the scanner. It’s just counting/reviewing.
approaching 5 years at amazon. i work at a heavy bulky facility so only heavy shit, ie: kayaks, canoes, weights, tv's, etc. its not a hard job, just monotonous and depressing like most jobs are. people of course get fired on a daily basis for not hitting rate, but rate isn't impossible to hit at 16 uph. (i'm a picker). yes i hate every waking moment of it but it gets the bills paid 🤷🏽♂️
At Amazon they want us to pick 300 a hour. I'm a picker and I love it. I could get 430 items a hour not even really trying that hard. If I do try a little harder and push my self I'll could get around 653 to 715 a hour. Easy job and know one bothers me. I just clock in do my job and clock out.
It's really not that hard guys. I mean yeah it's physically demanding and the work is repetitive but as long as your a hard worker you shouldn't have issues. Also depends on which site u work at. And it also depends on the managers as well.
They know to show a athletic in shape guy cause thats what it takes. You gotta have a six pack and a strong core.. And be well conditioned cause youre gonna earn every dollar u make believe that
I’m in MCO AND I DO 450 the hour, takt time of 4.90 and it feels like hell, I haven’t been called for another position and I’m getting crazy right now , I’m working btw , PEAK SEASON OHHH WAIT TOT IS COMING
"There's not a lot of room for human error" .....oh you'd be surprised. I work as a Shipping And Delivery Support Associate and there would be deliveries that are sitting at these warehouses or delayed with no specific reason. Its frustrating having to tell a customer that we don't know why it's just in the warehouse and not already assigned to a driver for delivery.
Stowing is simple, you just put items in the pod, the total opposite of picking lol. However managers always checking for your production and it gets boring real quick and yes im a stower lol
@@erics8524 so it's not bad the work is easy well I just pack boxes it's not hard it is hot and you have to move fast your everything will hurt toe, eyelid , everything lol 10 hours on your feet but the benefits and pay are amazing
@@erics8524 it's Amazon warehouse fulfillment center when you apply it doesn't have a specific title to apply to you just apply to a warehouse and then on your second day they will assign you to the department
Trust me I’ve been at amazon for almost a year and you get 2-3 30 min + breaks and the work is so easy that a toddler can do. People call it hell because they are unbelievably lazy. It literally takes no brain.
What does a stower do? Sorry if this question comes off as rude, I am incredibly misinformed about the subject. Also, how are the working conditions at Amazon? Is it as bad everybody says it is?
@@AR-yl7fz a stower is the persons that put the items in the pods so Amazon is available to sell those items and the work conditions is horrible you can't take longer than 10 minutes on the restroom cause then your boss comes up to you and says what toke you so long you can't even sit down cause they bitch at you too and let me not even get started on productivity and quality you have to do over 10000 units each week and out of those 10000 units you can only make 4 errors and if you don't hit those numbers you get a write up is horrible working the only good thing about it is the insurance
@@albertogil7965 Jesus Christ dude that's horrible, how can anybody even achieve a target of 10k ?? That is humanly impossible. And aren't bathroom breaks a right granted to every person? A person should be allowed to take however long he wants. Amazon really is a bad company .
@@AR-yl7fz they don't even care the only thing they care about is getting the job done and like thing is lets say you going at a 350 uph if you take 10 minutes or longer at the restroom those 350 drop to a 240 or less and to pick it up again shit us hard
I work for Amazon and it’s great, pays 18.50 for me , there is a lot of work but if your lazy then it’s not for you , I guess it all comes down to where you work
I work for 15/hr. Just started. But my supervisors aren't anything people in the comments make them out to be, if anything they're the complete opposite. Really chill, even getting us donuts
These comments are tripping me out. I start Friday. I have a funky back so I bought expensive insoles. I did Construction is this really that hard besides having to be up on my feet?
0:56 The pickers don’t get names of who the products are going to, and a ton of people use Amazon, so they’re not going to recognize a random customer’s name
That's funny we have all types of responsibility, such as missing items? Adons? Unscanble? Totes jammed up? Ect. That screws your takt. Time up. My scan to tote is 0.60. people don't have a clue!
Where i worked at they didnt have machines bring you the shit you had to run up and down that fucking warehouse and grab shit and it was beyond not easy..
This is NOT a hard job. I've had far worse jobs. Amazon is rate work, and that's easy once you get what you're doing down, it's easy. That being said, i know every site is different. I'm a stower, it's cake. 6 seconds for smalls, 15 for heavys. We have to be at a 10 second tac-time for the day. It's just repetitive that's all. With that being said, i know every site is different and everybody experiences that. I'm in Tracy, Ca. It's the best. Hot chicks walking aroung in leggings with their ass poppin out, eye candy everywhere. Respectful glances everywhere lol. Join us.
Buddy can’t transition totes properly . Take the tote from the top and use it to kick the old tote out, to lower tote transition time. My tote transitions will be 0.12 -0.4 if I have no issues with the rack lights
My takt time on a regular basis is 7.10-7.50 , (lower than 8.5 , the better) the robots have been messing up lately A LOT at our facility so they’re extremely slow. And I got in trouble for not “scanning enough” I was like HOW THE HELL is my takt time so low (which means I’m finding the product and scanning it in fast.) but I’m not scanning enough ?? Lmaoo MAKE SENSE AMAZON !! Stop firing people for no fucking reason
I think the tank time needs to change I mean come on and definitely give you a break after 2 hrs and an hour lunch for a full shift and then another break
