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re: Amazon has a Big Brother system that tracks and fires unproductive workers
Posted on 4/27/19 at 10:22 am to member12
Posted on 4/27/19 at 10:22 am to member12
I would think they are likely people working the bins. As in pulling product manually within a specified area of the DIst Ctr. Moving from row to row, find the right shelf and bin placement, pull and get it off to the next step.
I can't think of the documentary I watxhed about Amazon and Walmart distro systems for the life of me. It's been at least 5 years ago. But they showed, even back then, how both orgs really worked the hell out of people in a DC environment. Dog tired people.
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Posted on 4/27/19 at 10:25 am to member12
For every person here that works their fingers the bone coding there are an equal number that dont. The average employee is in right at 9 and leaves between 4 and 5. But people like to talk like their work life balance is shite, in reality it's just young people that have a deadline so they cant drop everything and go to Coachella or skiing or whatever.
And the majority people who are truly stressed, its largely self inflicted. Either not knowing how to manage their work or, if you're an overachiever, drowning in endless amount of work exists. It's largest company on the planet, theres always work to find if you go looking.
Our tech teams have told us to literally f**k off, its after hours. Our Europe teams have closed laptops mid meeting because it's been 8 hours, time to go home.
And the majority people who are truly stressed, its largely self inflicted. Either not knowing how to manage their work or, if you're an overachiever, drowning in endless amount of work exists. It's largest company on the planet, theres always work to find if you go looking.
Our tech teams have told us to literally f**k off, its after hours. Our Europe teams have closed laptops mid meeting because it's been 8 hours, time to go home.
Posted on 4/27/19 at 10:27 am to member12
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I don’t know about their warehouses
Most likely people who aren't accustomed to working real full time jobs complaining. For every Amazon employee who complains you have dozens who do not, and many seem content.
Lets just say online employee reviews don't reflect what you read in the shock journalism industry.
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Pros
Pay benefits management was okay
Cons
Workers were lazy sometimes due to shift times
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Pros
Pay, hours, exercise, benefits after converting to blue badge
Cons
Co-workers not friendly; they act like first graders
Posted on 4/27/19 at 10:30 am to 777Tiger
Well, off to Home Dept. Have some shite I have to buy.
Posted on 4/27/19 at 10:30 am to 777Tiger
Amazon comp is still designed so anyone that sticks it out long term ends up a millionaire. Dont use the stock portion of your comp and everyone would be there in 10 years. L7 managment innthe $250k annual range, L8s over half a mill, not counting the one off bonuses
Posted on 4/27/19 at 10:31 am to Sao
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but we're starting to become familiar with and even lazy enough to use curbside pickup and delivery of toilet paper and sugar for Heaven sakes
Yeah, we need to go back to the old ways dammit! Hitch the mule to the wagon and make the trip into town to get our sugar and flour for the month.
Posted on 4/27/19 at 10:34 am to bostitch
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Amazon comp is still designed so anyone that sticks it out long term ends up a millionaire
it's a good opportunity, there are quite a few retired millionaire former Southwest Airlines baggage handlers that took stock in lieu of pay rises/retirement plans and held it until the time was right(for them)
Posted on 4/27/19 at 10:39 am to Sao
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Well, off to Home Dept. Have some shite I have to buy.
order it on line and have Lyft bring it to you, are you crazy???
Posted on 4/27/19 at 10:46 am to TigerinATL
Walmart would run out of cashiers with this tech.
Posted on 4/27/19 at 10:50 am to OysterPoBoy
Gender and Race Neutral Computer ....
Posted on 4/27/19 at 10:53 am to Tulane_STEM_ALUM
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. I can honestly do my job in 20 hours a week.
So, you’re stealing 20 hours per week from your employer?
Posted on 4/27/19 at 11:02 am to TigerinATL
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Wait until they start selling this technology to other businesses. Is this the beginning of the end for TD?
This already exists in other companies. I was at a company tour this week and they track employees with RFID...it can predict when an employee is going to quit based on data and algorithms over time. Pretty scary stuff. Bye bye privacy
Posted on 4/27/19 at 11:14 am to TigerinATL
Get ready, comrade. It's coming.
Posted on 4/27/19 at 11:15 am to TigerinATL
Good.
That means anyone that hustles is going to get ahead fairly quickly with the amount of firings
That means anyone that hustles is going to get ahead fairly quickly with the amount of firings
Posted on 4/27/19 at 12:36 pm to Sao
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May be in the minority but I think that's bullshite. Churning workers like that isn't cool. I can't imagine what the pressure would feel like to constantly be tracked by GPS in a warehouse environment like that. Really starting to abhor our American model of consumer consumption overall. Nobody needs the shite we all buy for the most part.
Curious...How do you feel about other workers, specifically in the public sector(police/EMS etc) being monitored by gps?
Posted on 4/27/19 at 12:46 pm to brass2mouth
They've been doing this shite to healthcare workers for a while.
Posted on 4/27/19 at 12:51 pm to castorinho
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Damn, I'd be fricked.
There is a strange eloquence to this statement, and also a fair attitude about it.
Posted on 4/27/19 at 1:03 pm to Meauxjeaux
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I can honestly do my job in 20 hours a week.
If you eliminated time wasted in meetings, I can do mine under 40.
But my company loves long, vague meetings.
Posted on 4/27/19 at 1:09 pm to Dixie Normas
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They've been doing this shite to healthcare workers for a while.
I know. The same with the professions I listed as well. There are even some departments that have an alarm if the unit is stationary longer than a certain period of time, but we take that same accountability from the public sector and implement it into the private and suddenly its blasphemous.
Posted on 4/27/19 at 5:03 pm to VABuckeye
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Amazon is horrible to work for but they pay well.
You think $11 is being paid well for having every move you make tracked? Plus, their warehouses are notoriously terrible work environments.
This post was edited on 4/27/19 at 5:06 pm
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