They don’t show the ambassador and his/her manager walking around with a pho ken laptop 💻 pulling them aside and making sure you’re hitting your rates and whipping you to move faster.
Omg 😂🤣🤣 Relatable. I work at a Amazon fresh location and that’s all the managers do. I was stowing at 143 and the manager came down my aisle asking if “do you have any barriers? because your rate is low” then he said he was gonna come back in an hour to see if I’m hitting the 250 rate 😂
@@jurnee-y and if the waterspiders bring you cases of Gatorades/sportsdrinks or fn dog food to stow, or boxes of chocolates, you may as well kiss those rates goodbye because there's no way in hell you'll be hitting those numbers. That's what made me quit...that and just the entire BS that happens in an Amazon warehouse.
When they trained me to stow, it was just before prime week and the shelves were completely full. We had to literally cram and squeeze the merchandise in, which made it very difficult and dangerous for the pickers. When I questioned this practice, the trainer said 'do what you have to do.' so when amazon preaches safety, pls know it's just lipservice. They don't care.
Same here. I'm being trained in stow right now and not only do they not train worth a damn but you tell them there isn't any room and they're just like "whatever you've gotta do to make it fit" I'm hating it so far and just wanna go back to my department.
I started work at Amazon yesterday and was assigned stowing. Jesus the amount of stuff you need remember, I thought my head was going to explode and the constant beeping when you are looking for a shelf to put it in.... EEEEKKK!
Im a picker. what happens if you cant find the goddamn item? I had 3 missing items on my first training run and i had to check each item. Now I know why lol. taking items out and puttjng them in and still nothing. I just put missing. How much does it count against you to put missing?
@@yelloe I mean if they're actually missing, nothing. But a high amount of "missing items" can cause alarm and make them think you're just overlooking stuff. Seeing as you're new I would expect someone to go behind you and see if they can find them or if they are actually just missing. I wouldn't worry about it too much either way if you're not even a couple weeks in.
Mad respect for you folks working for Amazon. Those were all small items, but I know I’ve ordered some really heavy stuff from Amazon, and with what y’all are saying about productions speeds, the job is way harder than this video makes it seem.
That's because this is a sortable warehouse where most of the items are under 50 lbs. When you work at an AMXL like I do. Everything is on a pallet and stowed by heavy machinery.
Same i used to order loads from Amazon and moan about the tape or how an item was packed until i joined Amazon as a picker but was rotated around to all sorts, firstly i was stowing then picking and i had to drive these forklift things around that i had 10 mins training for...not even joking! worst job i ever did and i quit after a week...its basically modern slavery
@@iTzCorey Yep, I'm being trained in stow right now and they literally showed us how to drive it for like half an hour, if that and then just threw us in with everyone else and said get to work. Tomorrow is my 2nd day on my own and I'm still hating it and just wanna go back to pack. People act like you're in their way and I'm like dude, I literally have done this for 10 minutes, chill.
@@qxcue6406 Well it also depends on your shift a little bit. Amazon has what is called a "Shift Differential" which is basically a small portion added on top of your normal rate. Different shifts have different shift differentials which could range from .40 cents more to an extra $1.30 also depending on the location of your facility. I make about as much as you and a normal work week could net about $520 if you don't have any type of insurance through Amazon and if you don't take any overtime. But that's just a rough estimate. Hope this helped!
I’m a tier one Base pay at my Amazon building is $18 hourly I work overnight We get $3.50 Extra Total I make $21.50 hourly Weekly about $700 plus after taxes, 40 hours Time and half for over time And double pay for holiday, $43 hourly Since November through January 1 I’m working 60 hour a week Making abt $1300 after taxes Again IM JUST A TIER ONE
Looking at the comments here, your warehouse is outdated. Jeff Bozos can afford a 90 million donation but not good equipment for the people making him money.
Hey man i work for him, he my people we cool. He says he tryna put us in the moon and a make a long ass ladder to just drop all the boxes straight to are homes and elon is going to help out with some crazy ass delivery spaceships! GOTTAA LOVE EM MANN
When I started Amazon in 2016 the pay was $11.75, it’s now up to $17 starting. There is also now shift differential pay as well. Amazon is not a bad job. You just need to be able to keep up and be fine on your feet.
I don’t work for Amazon but at my place of work we have a barcode scanner attached to our knuckles that is activated by forming a fist. Then a screen on the other hand’s wrist that shows what to do with the scanned item. This way we have both our hands free and no need to move a portable scanner everywhere
Gabriel Aponte that’s cool and hilarious. I go to the recruitment center tomorrow. I heard picker is the easiest and they give it to newbies. Is that true?
I worked at a prime now FC and the -12 degree freezer sucked. I could do chiller all day though. I'm now going from low hour caps to full time picking and robotic shelving.
Hi! Thank you for asking!🙂 It went very well. Today we are training on driving the machines. I am a little intimated. So much to learn and I am nervous about riding in the Very narrow isles. Today we will be driving back and forth and figure 8s.
Ok. So you had said that when you place the item into the bin, it should not be hanging out that it should be an exact fit. Well when you went up in the rainbow asle I seen quite a few items hanging over the tape. 🧐😳😂
I don’t know about other warehouses but the location I’m at which is an Amazon fresh location, especially the baby aisle and the dog food aisle you see a lot of stuff sticking out the bins, on the floor, overstacked etc and managers don’t give no rats ass about it. Only time they care to fix is it when the multi site leader comes to visit then they want everyone to clean it up that way they don’t get chewed out
Very interesting video but I noticed at the end of it as the various bin names were being described I saw a lot of items sticking out farther from the bins than they should have been.
Second day (picker) and both learning ambassadors were TERRIBLE and they threw us into the floor the second day without mentioning so many details and got upset at us for making mistakes based on things they didn’t let us know about. Overall the cherry picker is legit scary idk how anyone says it’s not but you are safe if you make sure to check your harness and machine but yeah not a job for everyone , just stepping stone to go back to school.
not to mention your fellow associates messing with you by following too closely , aggressive passing you, putting you in situations that are most likely going to cause a newbie to have a difficult time maneuvering if not crash , and all management does is supposedly talk to the person about not behaving that way towards new associates. They rather write up the new person for productivity than the other person for harassment/hazing at least at some sites.
Im a stower and just started ab 2 weeks ago and I can confirm this is very true, they throw to work after two days of training but they throw so much info at you in one go that it’s hard to memorize everything then when I have questions or run into some problems and go up to ask them they seem very annoyed, like I’m sorry Idunno what to do lol.
For people saying Amazon is hard are soft, yall never tried construction or at a shop. Amazon is my far the easiest job I had even better than being a waiter
I would say a lot of that depends on multiple factors. As a former stower: 1. What’s the volume of the warehouse (how full is it) and 2. What are you trying to stow. 3. Where are you trying to stow it. You can call Amazon easy all you want, but it all depends on the situation. Ex. Stowing in library D on the main floor in a non sort facility. If you have odd sized or shaped stuff, say a lamp shade, you can spend 20 minutes walking around looking for a place to put it. Exactly like going to the mall the Saturday before Christmas and trying to find a good parking place.
Got fired in a week. Lol. Pallet clamps weren't secured. My trainer didn't even help me or cared. Amazon is probably one of the shittiest companies to work for. I barely got trained.
I did stowing in 2019. We had automated robots. No aisles. You had a computer, a scanner, and a work station. Waterspiders brought totes for you to store. I quit after 1 week. I was just re-hired in boxing. Which is a much nicer job. Amazon will hire you after 1 year. They are always hiring. We have 2 modern distribution facilities in my city. The people are more helpful and want you to have a job. It is killer on your feet and legs. My first week back and all my body was sore. No talking on the phone or going to the bathroom. You have 10 minutes each day for being off task. It is a place of work and they expect you to work. No standing around to hit the goal.
i get anxiety about my stow rates, but im actually starting to get the hang of it just after like a month + 1 week.....also getting much better at ASIN and bin collions, but i almost always end the day with a few of those still......im just happy to end the day with 0 over/unders. Edit: ALSO, i learned that i shine at stowing in rainbow/LPN/pass-through over library deep. When i first started i only liked library deep stowing lool Edit 2: still dont know wtf is going on with damage stow cages, they're almost always messed up where i am, i try to avoid them
dude, stowing relo damage cages is a fucking nightmare. but the PA's usually make your mistakes not count to the system when doing those. Usually relo part of the warehouse you stow with LPN's that can ignore ASIN stow restrictions, so the bins in relo are not designed for asin stowing. So when you do a damaged cage with no LPN's and get a high value item that goes to drawer and there are no HRV bins for drawer in the damn unsellable section of the warehouse ... yea
At least you've given it a go unlike some people. Of course the work won't be for everyone but you'll get used to it then it won't even be hard no more
Hey there! Just curious how this stowing is different than the stowing where the robots with bins come to you? Been watching a couple different pages because I start in a week for stock team in a FC
You probably wouldn't like working at warehouses, then.....Lots of distracting noises there....would make it difficult for you to focus on your work....😕🙁😢😭🤣🤣🤣
Am i the only one who watched this and had zero idea what to even do? i applied at amazon a few days after watching this and the role was for picking but was put on stowing and its awful! no space to put anything, others in your way, managers onto you 24.7 while their doing nothing....managers are basically paid to shout at people...worse place i ever worked and i quit after a week, Amazon is modern slavery, all these amazon videos you see where it looks chill and quite straight forward should be taken down...just a trick to get you working for them i mean if the job is so good and chill whys Amazon like one of the worst companies in the world for staff turnovers?
It really depends on the warehouse and the managers in it. I worked for a fc where it is chill and they got you for tot as long as youre trying hard and hitting rate. That was best fc. But another one theyre always on you about rate all the time. I still made rate but place super boring. And now i just started a new fc place and here safety is super important and i feel like im fucking up cause u have to operate the OP like this lady in video and I feel like I cant find the goddamn items. Im a picker using OP btw.
I literally said this in the feedback form after I left within a week 🤣 there's managers telling you to cover other aisles that you're not assigned to while they walk around doing fuck all
@@nahg3204 Not one manager in my local amazon warehouse spoke English so was massive language barriers, managers shout at everyone and keep reminding you your boxes per hour is low etc while they stand doing nothing, pretty much is modern slavery not to mention the stress and actual damage your doing to yourself to please them so for me it wasn't worth staying.
I work at Amazon in France, and all that you say, it's false in my Amazon. Managers are very nice and calm, same when you make errors. Maybe difference between USA and France. But few Amazon's site in France have a bad reputation.
Is it just me, or did she give an example of how not to let items overhang the shelves, then show an aisle full of items overhanging the shelves 🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
I scanned this laptop and said it should be placed in high value and for us 607 is the high value asile but it still wouldn’t let me stow and I gave up on going to ask an ambassador since they always look annoyed when I come up to ask questions(I’m a new hire)
Those calling it a leash obviously don't know shit about working in a warehouse or never worked in one before. You gotta wear that harness so that if you fall away from your machine, you won't get hurt.
In my opinion Amazon is disorganized af. I can compare it to a cluttered garage. You can have 10 shirts in isle 100 and another 20 of the same shirts in isle 114 and another 6 shirt on isle 122.. those who have worked stowing and picking understand what I mean. At least in my opinion the current procedures Amazon has, does not make it easy on the employees..
YES!!!, develop the system to have the ability to tell the showers EXACTLY what bin to go to and you’d have a LOT more people making rate and less errors. A
I agree with all of you. There is no rhyme or reason to the stowing or picking system. If they stowed everything logically and not randomly they could streamline the workload and make everyone's job easier and more efficient. But they don't seem to do things logically.
robotic fullfilment center I think. The robots bring you bins for you to stowe in, so you're not up on a lift driving down aisles, way up in the air with a harness on your back. You're basically at your own station, and the bins come to you.
Thank you. Could you tell me how to drop a cart at problem solve? I just need to know what to do on the scanner. Select m, d, then what? I didnt do it right and scanner wouldn't let me stow from next cart I picked up
Then if you get a new cage all you need to do is scan your container , after scanning press 2 to start stowing . After that scan your container again then scan item to start . Very easy
They may accommodate you for that. Depends on the building you work. Say you can't do it, you'd need to bring in a doctor's note to hr and they'll have a team that deals with that type of stuff and will let you know if its approved or not through a call. And that will exclude you from the OP, but you could drive anything else.
Today was my 3rd day doing it , it’s easy as fuck I don’t understand why people don’t Act like this lmao I mean overall its easy , you’re first 2 weeks are literally training after that you’ll deadass know everything and should be able to hit your rate , anytime I have a problem I just ask and it gets fixed fast , I just drive a more advanced looking PIT and just scan and stow , just get your money and go bruh
I work 6pm to 4:30am with a break at 10:30 and a break at 2:30 , it’s so easy , you just gotta ask when something is fucked up and pay attention when you’re driving and looking at the scanning , other than that your speed at witch you stow should increase after 2 weeks , im still new asf but I’m already doing shit alone now it’s easy bruh
@@apparition333skaters3 standing & working for 12 hours a day 4+ days outta a week including weekends with lil breaks. and being watched & monitored & timed. is modern day slavery, u can “it’s easy” all u want to but u gone be burnt out & looking old
@@milanozz8202 feel you 100% left after 5 days. Needed to hear this rather than doubt my self for being a pussy 😂 if they lowered the rates I might have stayed.
@@nahg3204 lol nah u definitely not pussy, i look at anybody who says they like the job or last more than a week crazy. the pay ain’t even worth the stress & health. i wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. they have a high turnover for a reason
No that is your fall protection. So if something happens and you slip off of the platform it prevents you from falling to the floor of the warehouse which could be up to 35 feet in the air depending in which bin you are stowing in.
I am too but I felt nothing while on the order picker. You’re attached to the lanyard so you can’t fall and surrounded by shelves so you can barely see down
There's nowhere to fall to in VNA. You got the PIT platform, the cage, the VNA shelving on the sides. Out of VNA you got the harness so if you fall the harness locks up like a seatbelt when you yank it fast.
Yeah robots are different bc they have smaller items. With these ones to operate OP with cage, i notice more big items so you need to drive the OP cause bigger space.
What's a PIT? At my facility you haul what ever the package is 49 lbs or 2 ozs over to the the bins that are over 6' or very low that are beneath your knees. YOU use a clicker on your right hand that scans your item and a cell phone in an arm band on your left arm that registers what you just scans. They still think you should stow at 250 within a few weeks. All strain is on the human body and the equipment doesn't work most the time.
all isles are not the same. So here you see the bins look the same but we have rainbow isles and VNI isles which stand for "Very Narrow Isles". So we start from the bottom like we have just done, half vertical, library deep, drawer, back bin and library deep at the top. Over here where the rainbow isles start, its rainbow from the bottom and all the way to the top. Hope this helps
Wait a sec. It looks like someone was holding the camera when you stowed in vna. Which means.... you took someone with you in the aisle???? Sounds dope.
Our facility even vendor returns are PIT stowed. Looking at a lot of comments on this video im surprised how others have no idea what other facilities do.
