I just started delivering for them a few weeks ago and it’s decent pay and easy work. In fact I’m scheduled 4 10 hour days of my choosing and I usually get done in 8 but still get paid for 10 hours. $24/hr.
I don’t know if I just work out of a good location but like 90% of what that video said is bullshit… and our location definitely is not striking.
Like the video hammered on carbon footprint, meanwhile Amazon is completely converting its fleets to electric vehicles. I’m in one right now, on my lunch break, typing this.
Feel free to AMA. Dumbass people downvoting because reality doesn’t align with your misguided, counterfeit morally superior anger. Nothing says bitch like downvoting without engaging.
How close am I with those?
You couldn’t have been further off. I am a liberal progressive, by far. I worked since I was 14 remodeling houses until my early 20s. I worked my ass off. Then I did low voltage wiring for like 8 years mostly working for an actual company that treats their employees like shit, you may have heard of them. Spectrum. They require you to work Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, News Day, all the holidays, weekends. I worked 6 12hr days, my only day off was Sunday.
So next? Care to miss so wide again?
Lol shilling for the biggest company in the world for $24 an hour? Calling people bitches for calling out your bullshit? Fucking shameless lack of dignity. I can’t imagine someone being this much of a dumbass, thinking your anecdotal evidence means anything when we have so much verifiable, proven scumfuckery from amazon. Piss bottles on shelves? Warehouse workers being locked in during storms?
No one called out my bullshit, neither have you? Everything I said was factual.
Lol shilling for the biggest company in the world for $24 an hour?
Let me ask you something, do you buy things from Amazon? If the answer is yes, then the hypocrisy is off the charts.
The cheapest 1BR apartment within a 40-minite drive of my local Amazon distribution center is about $1700/month, and they require you to make triple your rent in order to apply to live there.
So until every worker is making at least 60 grand a year they aren’t being paid a living wage here.
Your personal experience doesn’t matter when people that have much more experience than you and actually understand what’s happening in the company tell you.
You’re just too stupid to know, Dunning-Kruger effect here.
I can give plenty of examples of bad employment practices working at Amazon. Your one little example is literally meaningless.
You’re just too stupid to know, Dunning-Kruger effect here.
In what way am I wrong? I’m willing to hear out your counters. If you have none, then that “Dunning-Kruger effect here,” applies to you.
There’s things you can talk about on here and there’s things that you can’t. If you mention that you like Amazon, everybody that has no clue about anything and that just reads articles with no real experience anywhere will down vote you. With that said I hope this strike works out for them. Anybody have the actual numbers? Hundreds or thousands definitely ain’t enough.
Honestly, Lemmy seems worse than reddit, people actually just upvote and downvote based on feels instead of facts. Or things that sound good regardless of accuracy. Probably going to be done with it. Too many idiots here.
It has been pretty rough when it comes to talking about anything of any significance. You have first hand experience that should mean something. These people read an article and it somehow means more. A real downer especially running your own instance in the fediverse.
You should see the account history, lol - it’s pretty much ALL “trust me bro” and anyone who factually calls them out on their shit gets told they’re an idiot, a moron, a “dumb dumb,” etc.
Give it a minute, the “you’re an idiot” replies are incoming . . .
Since you went into my comment history, I would really love for you to actually provide a valid counter to something you think I am incorrect on… because I can assure you, that “trust me bro” will be backed up by factual evidence if you enter a discussion with me. The only thing I can think of offhand is someone I talked about Linux with, who was most definitely wrong. And I can educate you on the topic if you care for it.
If you’re not afraid of being embarrassed, please… please make a valid counter to something I’ve said that you disagree with. Otherwise, you with the deflective counter, “trust me bro,” position is a bit hypocritical, don’t you think?
Personally, I have too much integrity for someone to call me out to be a hypocrite, or not to enter a factual based discussion. We’ll see how much you regard yourself in the like manner. Because I’m calling you a hypocrite right now.
Dumbass people downvoting because reality doesn’t align with your misguided anger.
At the time of my reply your comment is only 7 minutes old and you have no downvotes. Very weird thing to try to preempt.
You’ve worked there for… a few weeks? And you’re declaring that the reasons for the strike are bullshit? Bless your heart and good luck being exploited.
Stating your “fact” as if it’s fact for everyone. That’s why you’re being called out, bro. Your asserting your individual singular experience as universal truth.
I never did delivery but I was a packer running 4 10s at 14 an hour and god it was unbelievably unbearable. I constantly had to hold my piss and the job was so boring just standing there in a line, unable to listen to music or even talk to your neighbors most of the time without getting a talking from your manager. Seriously worst job I ever had, if I was still working there damn right I’d be out there striking.
Delivery must be a much nicer department than packing. Also I know for a fact the strikes are real I have a friend in it currently.
Why the fuck would they not let you talk to people around you? How does making you miserable increase productivity?
I imagine music, if it’s on headphones, might be some kind of safety hazard.
I would think a good manager might allow a speaker at a reasonable volume, provided a group in the area will not complain about the music choices of others. Then you have arguments the manager has to deal with. So I might understand the reason for that policy.
EDIT maybe you give each person an hour to play the music they want. At their station, on their device.
You aren’t allowed to have any electronic devices, they are crazy about not letting anyone record things or show the outside world what it looks like inside the warehouses. Something about a ‘state of the art’ conveyor system.
So no phones, watches, jewelry of any type. Also wasn’t allowed to have super baggy clothes or big jackets.
Ok guess my remaining gifts will be late.
If BF has lower volume due to inflation, this will actually result in more profit for Amazon due to reduced wages.
This strike is sponsored by Amazon so that 99% of their business keeps on making money by creating a distraction.
It only really works if they keep striking. A one day strike is lame
Let’s hope the striking workers can afford to live without pay before Amazon cave in and pay up!
…Oh wait I forgot it’s 2023
