I worked at Amazon and it’s just a hierarchy system. Most people who work there either do drugs or drink excessively (unless you’re older and you have a family to support). It’s just a depressing place to be
My hat's off to anyone who can stay there for long. I had a job there a handful of years ago, and I just did not last. The pay was shit, at the time. It drained me, every single day. Not to mention the job could be pretty disgusting, but that's another rant.
As a truck driver, I had to make a delivery to Amazon. I had to use the restroom, and was denied!! I in turn refused to unload the goods, and management got involved. I told them refusing someone access to a restroom is in humane treatment!! Finally, I was escorted by two employees who stood guard outside of the restroom, then escorted back to my truck. I refuse to do business with this evil fucking company.
Jesus, I bet it was a new location. I work at BFL1 Bakersfield, CA I started on the first day it opened, it’s been nearly 5 months and NO ONE KNOWS wtf they’re doin bro
It's a Newspeak redefinition of worker/employee. They aren't employees they are simply "associates," which means they only associate with the company. Therefore employers have no obligation to take care of them or treat them decently because they are only just associated with the company. It's gross.
I worked at one of the Amazon ‘fulfilment centres’ in the UK when I was younger. It was a temporary job to make some extra cash at Christmas. I still can’t believe how bad the conditions were - even the hiring process was mad. We were treated like cattle - herded through several rooms in huge groups to complete forms and drug tests. It was just about manageable for a short period - the people who worked there full time were so depressed! All the ‘perks’ are pointless because you don’t have time to enjoy any of them! The shift patterns were so brutal that people started camping outside the warehouse to cut out travel time - it was all over the news here!
Used to work at Amazon. All true and they take you money from your check. They bumped up the pay to 15$ but took our stock sharing and bonuses away. But what do the customers say? " but the prices are great."
Former Amazon employee here. The abusive husband thing is hilarious and too true. There was always a noticeable pall of despair hanging over the station I worked in lol
I remember Freedom Fries. At our school lunch, they made us say that. If you said French Fries, you'd get a detention or in some kind of trouble. The thing is, we were just acustomed to saying French. When the "good kids" got in trouble for saying it, they knew something was wrong. Needless to say that didn't last very long.
I still say freedom fries just to watch people get their panties all jammed up. It truly is amazing how soft people have become. Like, I’ve seen people become enraged about the name of a piece of food. Their lives must be so empty and without meaning they glob onto the only thing that presents itself as a potential issue that’s so minuscule as to match their potential to squash it. Hilarious.
worked at whole foods while it got bought out by amazon. amazon wouldnt replace employees if they left the company (its a supermarket, young employees come and go constantly) and they tried to force other employees to fill the missing roles. Caused for so much internal fighting over whose job was what. I quit without notice. Now im a butcher at a supermarket with a 90ft+ counter. treated with respect, not yelled at, not fighting with coworkers, better wages.
@@kiddisley5890 go apply for a job at a super market as a meat clerk or meat wrapper. Work hard, You clean and customer service for 3 years than when theirs an opening they train you
This reminds me of when I took a tour of UPS when I was applying there at the fulfillment center and a bunch of the guys were yelling DONT DO IT with depressing looks on their faces. that's kinda how I imagine this is
Customer service in Mom n Pop shops: Oh don't worry, I can fix it, Look there we go. Money? nah its on the house Customer service in big corporations: *_Hello welcome to underpaid overworked service hotline, How may I inconvenience you today?_*
Unfortunately, costumer service isn’t as important to people as price. The only reason Amazon exists is because they are undercutting the mom and pop’s. The little guy couldn’t compete with Walmart and Walmart can’t even compete against Amazon. The biggest fish in the sea is about to eat all the other fish. Capitalism! Here is what you do. We need to creat a online trading place like Amazon. Great idea, now we need to nationalize it. The people need a place to trade over the internet. We then use that money taken from each transaction that would have just gone to Amazon share holders but instead go to infrastructure, healthcare, and education. The little guy would be free trade without competition from Amazon. Nah it’s all BS. The future will be less centralized. In a moneyless society automation will allow goods to be delivered before you even know you need it. Because of neurolink, crispr, and advancement in medicine we will beyond this endless suffering and live forever. Our ego will collapse in on itself. The crazy thought is, we are already there. This is a distant representation of the past. We are trying to remember what it was like before the internet. A child In the good times. This is a 12 monkies plot almost. Billions of people are about to die and on,y a few wealthy live
I haven't gotten anything from Amazon that was made anywhere other than some fuckwad's garage and then marketed as a brand name product... 🤣🤣🤣 Mom and pop shops NEVER fucking act like that unless you live 100 miles from any town over 10,000 people... Do you live on Walton Mtn pre WW2?
As a former “same day delivery driver “ for Amazon, we literally had 4 hours to deliver all 30-50 packages before 9pm In LA traffic, and not so safe neighborhoods, with nowhere to park. If you brought too many packages back throughout the week, regardless of reason, you were fired. Luckily, I always made my quota.
Reminds me of a holiday job I had back in high school, they advertised the position as Warehouse Superstar lol. Needless to say it was a very tedious job and the full-time staff looked drained of life
I worked at amazon for 7 months working 6:15pm till 4:45 am with two 20 minute breaks and one 30 minute lunch break 4 days a week getting paid 16.50 an hour. I was an order picker so I worked on a machine by myself and did my work and as long as i kept my numbers up and mistakes down I never even had to deal with talking to my managers. I definitely think i was lucky and got a lenient warehouse but the work is really not as bad as people say. Theres a whole store/cafeteria with cheap snacks and meals the bathrooms and whole warehouse itself is so clean you could lick the floor, and maybe this is just because where i live but working with a bunch of thick spanish women isnt that bad lmao.
Then you wake up and realize that you're practically isolated for 10hrs picking items and any breaks(bathroom or whatever) is documented as time off task that can accrue until you get fired. I think your threshold for acceptable work is just very low tbh
@@JoeMama-house oh nah I definitely agree i already quit and moved on im just saying that the work itself is not hard especially compared to 99% of all jobs for all of humanity. Amazon is definitely a mentally draining and depressing job. But it is not a hard and difficult job its a mind numbing robot job. Im just sick of people complaining about hard work
@@JoeMama-house also my girlfriend worked with me as well which does make a huge difference seeing her on breaks and lunches. But I appreciated the 10 hour isolation especially when i got home and was able to enjoy my 3 day weekends
@@JoeMama-house also also as long as you dont spend more than 2 hours off task you wont get in any trouble and ive accrued more than that in one day and was only given a warning
Hilarious how Bill is misunderstanding what fulfillment means in shipping, like next thing you know, they’re going to be calling gas stations enlightenment clinics.
Hilarious how you don’t get that Amazon is using it as a double meaning. They had no reason to change the name from Distribution Centers, which is what most of those places are called, to Fulfillment centers. They have ads “come work at our fulfillment center” , and that sounds way better than “come work at our distribution enter”. It’s amazing at how little people think these days, it’s pretty obvious that Amazon changed the name of their warehouse centers for a very obvious reason and yet you can’t pick up on it
@@southpark645 Dude, I work in a business that delivers physical products. We have "fulfillment centers" too and believe me there is no double meaning. It's just a place where orders are "fulfilled". You're right that it sounds better in hiring ads, but that's not because people think it will be a "fulfilling experience". It's just a piece of jargon that shifts over the years. "Warehouse" starts to sound old and lame, so they switch it to "distribution center" and "fulfillment center" etc. The new term doesn't have the negative connotation so it sounds better to our lizard brain and works better in ads, but everyone going to work at one of these places knows it's just another warehouse job.
@@frankjennings4489 Not everyone, I have friends that are excited to go to work for Amazon. Young people are quite impressionable, and to be Frank with you, I’ve never seen any other warehouses use the term “fulfillment center” with such a positive connotation that Amazon has. Amazon is a global multi million dollar company, they know what they’re doing by calling it that. You even said so yourself “it sounds better to our lizard brains”
@@southpark645 Lol Frankly, you are right that Amazon has done a lot to popularize the term. My point is just that "Fulfillment" in this context isn't what Bill thinks they are trying to say. They are talking about "fulfilling" orders, not fulfilling their employees' life purpose. I see the double meaning, but it's just incidental in this case. There wasn't a double meaning when companies started calling web design "user experience". It's just what businesses do: take something old and boring and give it a shiny new term to sound like it's "cutting edge" (which Amazon is to be honest). Amazon wasn't the first company to call their warehouses fulfillment centers, and once that gets old, they'll start calling them something else. Obviously I didn't mean that every single new employee knows what they're in for at Amazon, but I have to think that most people do. If hordes of people are really misinterpreting fulfillment center and thinking that it means their job at Amazon is going to be fulfilling, then I have once again overestimated the cognitive capacity of the human race.
It would be hilarious seeing Bill work as a picker in an Amazon facility for a week. Anyone who has worked there knows anyone can get a job there just by applying, wouldn’t be difficult. Its a really depressing environment full of people who look mentally and physically exhausted.
Grow up. They're not vile just cus your son is a whiney kid who didn't want to work. It's a factory job. No factory job is glamorous or desirable but it's a job someone has to do. So if you have 0 fucking skills in life, prepare to do a shit job. Don't like? Go to school or find someway to better yourself. It's not Amazon's fault you have no skills and they're not evil for paying you accordingly based on that.
@@chrish4439 Agreed. Some people are not for it, but theres many people who are lucky enough to work a job that doesent require much skill or experience.
I remember when I worked in a factory and union talk started. They made a video where they made employees high five each other dance around and be joyful. Then they put it to the Starship song "Nothings Going to Stop Us Now". Then they put the video out to the media about how great their company was.
I worked as a Driver Associate in Seffner Florida. From what I can tell it’s a lot like high school. And it’s ran by a bunch of younger people with colored hair and sagging pants who seem to report to managers that are never present. There’s no real direction and a long list of rules called metrics to follow. It’s even worse when they aren’t even adhered to. 70% chaos and 30% structure. They do keep it really clean though.
I know someone who developed a lot of the algorithms and mathematical theories that are used in modern-day facial recognition. This data is widely collected and is being taken very seriously all around the world in government and corporate sectors, and it is in fact extremely valuable to these people.
Hahaha! That time travel video comment is hilarious! That guy sounds kinda crazy but he’s not saying time travel will happen, he’s just saying that people are dumb enough to believe it!
Worked at a new one for three months. Tbh the one I was at wasn’t terrible I worked at Walmart and went back to Walmart (which was a pay cut) just because I couldn’t work 10 hours without being able to listen to music/podcasts while stowing. Time was good (usually around 7-10 Sec if items weren’t terrible) but it did make me want to drink and I don’t drink.
I have to do a class in business in college and the amount of bullshit phrases and buzzwords involved is ridiculous. There literally has to be a bunch of people just coming up with this crap in a room somewhere.
The army has that too. They sit around coming up with TLA's (Three Letter Acronyms) to save time on speaking. They had so many, they had to print a manual for new people.
Amazon is using it as a double meaning. They had no reason to change the name from Distribution Centers, which is what most of those places are called, to Fulfillment centers. They have ads “come work at our fulfillment center” , and that sounds way better than “come work at our distribution enter”. It’s pretty obvious that Amazon changed the name of their warehouse centers for a very obvious reason and yet no one seems to pick up it
I work for Whole Foods which is now a part of Amazon and they are fucking with employee morale so much. Taking away our old dress code where we could wear anything we want as long as it's safe and socially acceptable, unpaid breaks, worse benefits, streamlining EVERYTHING so there is no more individuality, cutting a bunch of unique products, a complete disconnect between the corporate part of WF and each store where its Profits over people. It really suck this place used to be unique, fun, and cool albeit overpriced but the employees were paid well, taken care of, and had many incentives to working here long term. Fuck Amazon.
I’ve worked in warehousing all my life most of these jobs are like this. Amazon is one of the more stricter companies, but for the most part every warehouse is filled with people with substance abuse problems and ex convicts. These warehouses will hire anyone from people who just graduated school to someone who just got out of prison.
@@haydenbrophy9460 I like that you think having a job means having direction. They all hold down those job to fuel drug addictions and never work as hard as the rest. Fuck em
Definitely depends on the location and demographics. Put an entry-level job in an area with those people... You'll get them. That's not an "Amazon" thing
@@haydenbrophy9460 It sounds like a good thing until one of your coworkers snorts coke and constantly tries to start fights every week. Only to then get fired and threaten to shoot the place up. Some people are nice in warehousing but there's always one nutcase.
I can listen to Bill while doing cardio but if not weights. Almost killed myself on the bench one a while back during one of his rants lol. Same for Tim Dillon when I'm editing the clips.
I worked at an Amazon XL warehouse for a few months. I got lucky because everyone there was cool as hell and laid-back, and that was including the managers. We weren't a high volume warehouse since most things were oversized. But lifting heavy boxes all day got old fast. It was a good learning experience though, as I wanted to understand the inner workings of a big warehouse.
I work at a fulfillment center in Michigan (I’m a picker if you know what that means). The entire employee network is a hierarchy. There’s the untouchables, then the untouchables with vests, and then the “careers” who make actual money and always work behind fenced off areas (literally they have chain link offices so they don’t have to interact with us). There’s no incentive to do good at your job besides an occasional notification from your station computer, which means no one gives a fuck what they’re doing while they’re doing it. The parking lot smells like weed every time I go in, and the “supervisors” are really just people who’ve worked there for longer than 6 months and haven’t quit yet. The plus is they pay $15 an hour even to the untouchables like me. I’m only powering through it so I can pay for college and eventually med school.
Amazon was using it as a Double Entendre here. Saying that they also call it a Fulfillment Center because their employees are fulfilled by being there.
I work at a delivery station for Amazon and if they let customers walk our facility many of them will be shocked and appalled and probably will stop ordering from us. Just to clarify there are usually two types of Amazon facilities. fulfillment centers are they first step where all of the products are held and packed into boxes. logistics centers are where those orders are sent to to be sorted for delivery drivers to pick up.
The “fulfillment center” thing reminds me of what George Carlin used to say about the evolution of terminology to wash the meaning and comprehension of what’s going on to confuse people.
A fulfillment center is just a type of warehouse in the network. There are also distribution centers and sort centers. I think bill was confusing the term fulfillment to mean as a fulfilling place to work.
Makes me glad I never had one of these places in my area up until the last few months. Luckily I have a great job and have no need to apply. It always seemed like hell
I burnt out after working 2 years in one. It's definitely a sweatshop, depending on which department you're in. I did stow and waterspider, if you have a low tolerance for repetition and mind numbing boredom, spare yourself the trouble.
@@occipitalneuralgia2339 Stow is mentally draining. It's where you take the items that customers order and place them in the moving robots. Like sorting mail, you scan item and then scan the cubby hole you place the item in. Normal rate is 350-400 items per hour depending on size of item. Waterspider is physically draining. You deliver the pallets of containers and boxes for stowers to work out of using pallet jacks. There's roughly 15 stowers per floor and you work with 1 other Waterspider, You receive the work and send down trash from industrial size elevators. If you slow down even a little bit, a stower might run out of work and then you're stuck playing catch up for awhile. Both jobs were/are very tedious.
I worked at Amazon for about 8 months throughout the pandemic and all I can say is. Fuck that place. I’m so happy I got a new job and never have to step foot in that fucking place again.
They have the same tour at the BMW Plant & they never showed the tourist the assembly lines & how hard/fast they make employees work... Once the BMW President came from Germany to speak to the Plant & said he expects us to work faster ..I think we had less than .90 seconds at each station
So true you ever go to download instagram or Facebook off google play store the need you to click its ok to give them permission to have all the information off your phone pictures everything it's crazy that's why when someone I know says did you see such in such post on facebook no I don't do Facebook cause I don't feel right giving all the information off my phone to a person or multiple don't know but never met.
Support your local businesses....and if you online shop try to find the local shops that have online places....OR another thought is Ebay(a lot of stores have ebay stores aswell because it is an easy way to have an online store for mom and pop stores...ebay stores are mostly run by small business people)....remember that you will not get 2 day shipping because these are not warehouses .these are actual people feeding there families....so if it takes a week to get your item don't blame the small stores as they are only able to get you the things as fast as the mail will allow.
I worked for Amazon in vancouver for almost 3 months. When a suicidal man who had just committed a break and entry to a lone shark place. Clearly disturbed. Pressed the crosswalk button. I come to a stop. He seriously slit his throat from ear to ear with two box cutters. Then dove under my stopped Amazon van. Amazon then fired me for wanting to take a single day off work.
Amazon was using it as a Double Entendre here. Saying that they also call it a Fulfillment Center because their employees are fulfilled by being there.
This reminds me of the Knorr chicken bouillon tour I was forced to take during a tour to Shanghai 😑 It was so creepily fake, from the color-coordinated Disneyesque “kitchen,” complete with copper cauldron full of “chicken broth” bubbling away, being stirred by weirdly happy “chefs;” to the “hatchery” full of Rhode Island reds being pampered in individual cubbies, decorated in the same soothing color palette as the “kitchens.” Whoever designed that place deserves a medal for Penultimate Dedication to Absurdity. And it’s the perfect metaphor for the CCP, in general. Christ. 🤦🏻♀️
I worked at a place where management insisted that employees weren't "employees"... instead we were called "associates". Pay was shit, had to wear a uniform the way they wanted you to wear it, they followed their "associate" hand book like it was the bible, people got written up for every mistake (3 in one year and you get fired), they played favorites with shifts (1st shift got treated like loyalty while 2nd and 3rd shift got treated like shit), just to name a few things. That company is still in business but the plant I worked at was shut down lol. Big companies really do think grunts are dumb
'Fullfillment centre' that sounds straight out of a 1970's utopia sci fi movie.
Or 2021 China
The word “fulfillment” in the title is referencing delivering online orders not fulfilling their employees
@@adamdietz3922 it’s the same at target
Sounds like something from Portal game
What do you expect from bezos and his worker bees
Listening to this while installing furniture...
Keep calm..
Shit hahahahahha
"Where the fuck did I put the fucking...
"Oh, there it is."
Hehehe.
😊😊😊
Lol 2 days later, it falls apart.
Fuck 🤣
@@stoneg.barrow9991haaaaa🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Do you know what I saw yesterday balls on a dog I haven’t seen that since the late 90s
Maybe Amazon can hang an inspirational sign over the employee entrance. Something about work and freedom maybe. Oh, that's been done? Nevermind then.
maybe something strong like German
Something that just incentivizes work, like if you work hard enough you get freedom...to live
I worked at Amazon and it’s just a hierarchy system. Most people who work there either do drugs or drink excessively (unless you’re older and you have a family to support). It’s just a depressing place to be
Welcome to having a job
Don't forget stealing. Yes, it happens.
Also, drugs rock.
My hat's off to anyone who can stay there for long. I had a job there a handful of years ago, and I just did not last. The pay was shit, at the time. It drained me, every single day. Not to mention the job could be pretty disgusting, but that's another rant.
@@savagesalvage9449 then they cant dismiss you from work...
It sure is a depressing place.. I'm on lunch there right now..
Just got off my shift at Amazon. This is awesome lol!
Are you fulfilled sir.
Fight the power my man 💪🏻
As a truck driver, I had to make a delivery to Amazon. I had to use the restroom, and was denied!! I in turn refused to unload the goods, and management got involved. I told them refusing someone access to a restroom is in humane treatment!! Finally, I was escorted by two employees who stood guard outside of the restroom, then escorted back to my truck. I refuse to do business with this evil fucking company.
thats weird at mine they have a truckers lounge. Made specifically for truckers.
Woooowwww
Wow that is fucked up
If it was during COVID it’s because the sanitation companies that have to clean there clean the bathrooms at least 6 times a day
Jesus, I bet it was a new location. I work at BFL1 Bakersfield, CA I started on the first day it opened, it’s been nearly 5 months and NO ONE KNOWS wtf they’re doin bro
Nothing beats calling warehouse wage slaves “associates.”
It's a Newspeak redefinition of worker/employee. They aren't employees they are simply "associates," which means they only associate with the company. Therefore employers have no obligation to take care of them or treat them decently because they are only just associated with the company. It's gross.
What a self pitying perspective omg
The time travel guy is from another dimension.
I worked at one of the Amazon ‘fulfilment centres’ in the UK when I was younger. It was a temporary job to make some extra cash at Christmas. I still can’t believe how bad the conditions were - even the hiring process was mad. We were treated like cattle - herded through several rooms in huge groups to complete forms and drug tests. It was just about manageable for a short period - the people who worked there full time were so depressed! All the ‘perks’ are pointless because you don’t have time to enjoy any of them! The shift patterns were so brutal that people started camping outside the warehouse to cut out travel time - it was all over the news here!
Used to work at Amazon. All true and they take you money from your check. They bumped up the pay to 15$ but took our stock sharing and bonuses away. But what do the customers say? " but the prices are great."
Former Amazon employee here. The abusive husband thing is hilarious and too true. There was always a noticeable pall of despair hanging over the station I worked in lol
been there for years without a problem. LOL
I remember Freedom Fries. At our school lunch, they made us say that. If you said French Fries, you'd get a detention or in some kind of trouble. The thing is, we were just acustomed to saying French. When the "good kids" got in trouble for saying it, they knew something was wrong. Needless to say that didn't last very long.
In France we just say "fries" (frites) lol you should have kept it simple after this fiasco
It’s not “breast feeding” anymore, it’s “chest feeding”. Ya know, to be inclusive...
I still say freedom fries just to watch people get their panties all jammed up. It truly is amazing how soft people have become. Like, I’ve seen people become enraged about the name of a piece of food. Their lives must be so empty and without meaning they glob onto the only thing that presents itself as a potential issue that’s so minuscule as to match their potential to squash it. Hilarious.
Are you fucking kidding lol. Must've been a southern state, sounds like some North Korea shit
@@krisryan9181 It was in North East Ohio
Listening to this at my amazon job, what a dream😂
At Amazon I used to hide my headphones listening to billy freckles, got me through the 10 hr shift
Sounds like how North Korea shows people full grocery stores
worked at whole foods while it got bought out by amazon. amazon wouldnt replace employees if they left the company (its a supermarket, young employees come and go constantly) and they tried to force other employees to fill the missing roles. Caused for so much internal fighting over whose job was what. I quit without notice. Now im a butcher at a supermarket with a 90ft+ counter. treated with respect, not yelled at, not fighting with coworkers, better wages.
If you dont mind me asking, how did you get into being a butcher ? Is it something you go to college for ?
@@kiddisley5890 go apply for a job at a super market as a meat clerk or meat wrapper. Work hard, You clean and customer service for 3 years than when theirs an opening they train you
@@MrLiveWest awesome thanks man
This reminds me of when I took a tour of UPS when I was applying there at the fulfillment center and a bunch of the guys were yelling DONT DO IT with depressing looks on their faces. that's kinda how I imagine this is
Lmao this could have been my building, we have guys here that do that.
Welcome to every factory job lol
"Faaak youu" - every corporation ever
I wish people took what Bill was saying about Mom and Pop businesses more seriously.
Customer service in Mom n Pop shops: Oh don't worry, I can fix it, Look there we go. Money? nah its on the house
Customer service in big corporations: *_Hello welcome to underpaid overworked service hotline, How may I inconvenience you today?_*
Amazon pays good, but I also don’t know the working conditions.
Unfortunately, costumer service isn’t as important to people as price. The only reason Amazon exists is because they are undercutting the mom and pop’s. The little guy couldn’t compete with Walmart and Walmart can’t even compete against Amazon. The biggest fish in the sea is about to eat all the other fish.
Capitalism!
Here is what you do. We need to creat a online trading place like Amazon. Great idea, now we need to nationalize it. The people need a place to trade over the internet. We then use that money taken from each transaction that would have just gone to Amazon share holders but instead go to infrastructure, healthcare, and education. The little guy would be free trade without competition from Amazon. Nah it’s all BS. The future will be less centralized. In a moneyless society automation will allow goods to be delivered before you even know you need it. Because of neurolink, crispr, and advancement in medicine we will beyond this endless suffering and live forever. Our ego will collapse in on itself. The crazy thought is, we are already there. This is a distant representation of the past. We are trying to remember what it was like before the internet. A child In the good times. This is a 12 monkies plot almost. Billions of people are about to die and on,y a few wealthy live
@@generaljellyroll8737 Is that the company’s fault or the consumers for wanting to go to these places?
I haven't gotten anything from Amazon that was made anywhere other than some fuckwad's garage and then marketed as a brand name product...
🤣🤣🤣 Mom and pop shops NEVER fucking act like that unless you live 100 miles from any town over 10,000 people... Do you live on Walton Mtn pre WW2?
All I see are mom and pop bullshit when I look at Scamazon, unless you are looking for big ticket items...
Freedom fries hahahaha the amount of disgust ol billy said it with made me chuckle hahahaha
Nah, I came across a good dude like that at Home Depot in Daly City, CA once. Taught me about dowels. Had no I idea those things had a name.
Big fan of your channel 🔥
das a lot of toys for a grown man dammmm
The regular or the pro store?
Also thats crazy how the hell did you not know what a dowel is lmao
Ok i take back my shock bill wasnt even sure about dowels fuckin a
As a former “same day delivery driver “ for Amazon, we literally had 4 hours to deliver all 30-50 packages before 9pm In LA traffic, and not so safe neighborhoods, with nowhere to park. If you brought too many packages back throughout the week, regardless of reason, you were fired. Luckily, I always made my quota.
Dude. Fuck that, Jesus Christ, that's straight out of a book or movie holy shit
I do it in Australia and it’s dope, I generally make 50 an hour
Holy shit... I feel sorry for the girl at the end... when you're asking Bill for advice, you really have burnt through all you other options 😂😂
I used to work at Amazon as a route driver and saw the factory bee workers in there...those poor bastards.
My husband runs one of the oldest famliy hardware store in chicago and helps the elderly in the community.
Reminds me of a holiday job I had back in high school, they advertised the position as Warehouse Superstar lol. Needless to say it was a very tedious job and the full-time staff looked drained of life
Hahaha the pic of bill burr packaging boxes in a warehouse is fuckin HILariius
I worked at amazon for 7 months working 6:15pm till 4:45 am with two 20 minute breaks and one 30 minute lunch break 4 days a week getting paid 16.50 an hour. I was an order picker so I worked on a machine by myself and did my work and as long as i kept my numbers up and mistakes down I never even had to deal with talking to my managers. I definitely think i was lucky and got a lenient warehouse but the work is really not as bad as people say. Theres a whole store/cafeteria with cheap snacks and meals the bathrooms and whole warehouse itself is so clean you could lick the floor, and maybe this is just because where i live but working with a bunch of thick spanish women isnt that bad lmao.
same i work at amazon rn same shift and I just mind my business and keep my work up and no one bothers me
Then you wake up and realize that you're practically isolated for 10hrs picking items and any breaks(bathroom or whatever) is documented as time off task that can accrue until you get fired. I think your threshold for acceptable work is just very low tbh
@@JoeMama-house oh nah I definitely agree i already quit and moved on im just saying that the work itself is not hard especially compared to 99% of all jobs for all of humanity. Amazon is definitely a mentally draining and depressing job. But it is not a hard and difficult job its a mind numbing robot job. Im just sick of people complaining about hard work
@@JoeMama-house also my girlfriend worked with me as well which does make a huge difference seeing her on breaks and lunches. But I appreciated the 10 hour isolation especially when i got home and was able to enjoy my 3 day weekends
@@JoeMama-house also also as long as you dont spend more than 2 hours off task you wont get in any trouble and ive accrued more than that in one day and was only given a warning
Got one opening up near us down south. Ran by alot of ex military. Fun fun fun...
That tour is like getting a tour down the one road in North Korea that has shops with stuff in them and food with people paid to look happy 😅
Super cool of that guy to help you out.
I haven't ordered anything from amazon in over a year now. Going to try and keep the streak going.
Hilarious how Bill is misunderstanding what fulfillment means in shipping, like next thing you know, they’re going to be calling gas stations enlightenment clinics.
Hilarious how you don’t get that Amazon is using it as a double meaning. They had no reason to change the name from Distribution Centers, which is what most of those places are called, to Fulfillment centers. They have ads “come work at our fulfillment center” , and that sounds way better than “come work at our distribution enter”. It’s amazing at how little people think these days, it’s pretty obvious that Amazon changed the name of their warehouse centers for a very obvious reason and yet you can’t pick up on it
@@southpark645 Dude, I work in a business that delivers physical products. We have "fulfillment centers" too and believe me there is no double meaning. It's just a place where orders are "fulfilled". You're right that it sounds better in hiring ads, but that's not because people think it will be a "fulfilling experience". It's just a piece of jargon that shifts over the years. "Warehouse" starts to sound old and lame, so they switch it to "distribution center" and "fulfillment center" etc. The new term doesn't have the negative connotation so it sounds better to our lizard brain and works better in ads, but everyone going to work at one of these places knows it's just another warehouse job.
@@frankjennings4489 Not everyone, I have friends that are excited to go to work for Amazon. Young people are quite impressionable, and to be Frank with you, I’ve never seen any other warehouses use the term “fulfillment center” with such a positive connotation that Amazon has. Amazon is a global multi million dollar company, they know what they’re doing by calling it that. You even said so yourself “it sounds better to our lizard brains”
@@southpark645 Lol Frankly, you are right that Amazon has done a lot to popularize the term. My point is just that "Fulfillment" in this context isn't what Bill thinks they are trying to say. They are talking about "fulfilling" orders, not fulfilling their employees' life purpose. I see the double meaning, but it's just incidental in this case. There wasn't a double meaning when companies started calling web design "user experience". It's just what businesses do: take something old and boring and give it a shiny new term to sound like it's "cutting edge" (which Amazon is to be honest). Amazon wasn't the first company to call their warehouses fulfillment centers, and once that gets old, they'll start calling them something else. Obviously I didn't mean that every single new employee knows what they're in for at Amazon, but I have to think that most people do. If hordes of people are really misinterpreting fulfillment center and thinking that it means their job at Amazon is going to be fulfilling, then I have once again overestimated the cognitive capacity of the human race.
@@southpark645 I didn't even know it was called distribution centers prior to being called fulfillment centers.
It would be hilarious seeing Bill work as a picker in an Amazon facility for a week. Anyone who has worked there knows anyone can get a job there just by applying, wouldn’t be difficult. Its a really depressing environment full of people who look mentally and physically exhausted.
One of my sons worked at a fulfillment center for a day. He told me he imagined it had to be just like prison. Fuck that company. It's vile.
Grow up. They're not vile just cus your son is a whiney kid who didn't want to work. It's a factory job. No factory job is glamorous or desirable but it's a job someone has to do. So if you have 0 fucking skills in life, prepare to do a shit job. Don't like? Go to school or find someway to better yourself. It's not Amazon's fault you have no skills and they're not evil for paying you accordingly based on that.
@@chrish4439 Agreed. Some people are not for it, but theres many people who are lucky enough to work a job that doesent require much skill or experience.
I'm listening to this while on my lunch at my Amazon job 😒 just my quit today
Bill. You make my day.
I remember when I worked in a factory and union talk started. They made a video where they made employees high five each other dance around and be joyful. Then they put it to the Starship song "Nothings Going to Stop Us Now". Then they put the video out to the media about how great their company was.
Walmart? 🤔
There’s no pulling the wool with Bill 😂
I worked as a Driver Associate in Seffner Florida. From what I can tell it’s a lot like high school. And it’s ran by a bunch of younger people with colored hair and sagging pants who seem to report to managers that are never present.
There’s no real direction and a long list of rules called metrics to follow. It’s even worse when they aren’t even adhered to. 70% chaos and 30% structure. They do keep it really clean though.
Can't be that chaotic and disorganized if it's that clean.
The Amazon add that played rn while I was watching 👀
I know someone who developed a lot of the algorithms and mathematical theories that are used in modern-day facial recognition. This data is widely collected and is being taken very seriously all around the world in government and corporate sectors, and it is in fact extremely valuable to these people.
CHARLIE M!! lol
Casino Reference
The price of convenience is high, for the highly unconvenienced.
Bill’s back is absolutely killing him
Like that scene out of goodfellas "fuck you pay me"
Listening to this while operating CNC machines
Hahaha! That time travel video comment is hilarious! That guy sounds kinda crazy but he’s not saying time travel will happen, he’s just saying that people are dumb enough to believe it!
Worked at a new one for three months.
Tbh the one I was at wasn’t terrible
I worked at Walmart and went back to Walmart (which was a pay cut) just because I couldn’t work 10 hours without being able to listen to music/podcasts while stowing. Time was good (usually around 7-10 Sec if items weren’t terrible) but it did make me want to drink and I don’t drink.
Listening to this whole currently on my break from job for Amazon lmfao
shouts to that scouser. Dio-goals should return very soon!
I can't even make a profit in a virtual business in a video game, you make your own empire and keep your employees "happy"!
I saw bill in Liverpool , it was cool I got a selfie with him after the show ,
I have to do a class in business in college and the amount of bullshit phrases and buzzwords involved is ridiculous. There literally has to be a bunch of people just coming up with this crap in a room somewhere.
It's like Court words are used to manipulate humans
The army has that too. They sit around coming up with TLA's (Three Letter Acronyms) to save time on speaking.
They had so many, they had to print a manual for new people.
It's called doublespeak, it's the language of corporations and politicians for manipulating the unknowing( general populace).
@@JoeMama-house renaming stuff, so it means smth else for them but nice to you
Walmart distribution centers are the exact same lmao
I always took the fulfillment center to be a reference to fulfilling orders not 'being fulfilled"....
He might have been being sarcastic...
Amazon is using it as a double meaning. They had no reason to change the name from Distribution Centers, which is what most of those places are called, to Fulfillment centers. They have ads “come work at our fulfillment center” , and that sounds way better than “come work at our distribution enter”. It’s pretty obvious that Amazon changed the name of their warehouse centers for a very obvious reason and yet no one seems to pick up it
@@southpark645 Fair enough man! I buy it. That's that neuro-linguistic programing....
I work for Whole Foods which is now a part of Amazon and they are fucking with employee morale so much. Taking away our old dress code where we could wear anything we want as long as it's safe and socially acceptable, unpaid breaks, worse benefits, streamlining EVERYTHING so there is no more individuality, cutting a bunch of unique products, a complete disconnect between the corporate part of WF and each store where its Profits over people. It really suck this place used to be unique, fun, and cool albeit overpriced but the employees were paid well, taken care of, and had many incentives to working here long term. Fuck Amazon.
Anytime a corporation buys out another one, it's almost always for the worst........
I’ve worked in warehousing all my life most of these jobs are like this. Amazon is one of the more stricter companies, but for the most part every warehouse is filled with people with substance abuse problems and ex convicts. These warehouses will hire anyone from people who just graduated school to someone who just got out of prison.
Isn't that a good thing? Would you prefer ex cons be homeless and directionless?
@@haydenbrophy9460 I like that you think having a job means having direction. They all hold down those job to fuel drug addictions and never work as hard as the rest. Fuck em
Definitely depends on the location and demographics. Put an entry-level job in an area with those people... You'll get them. That's not an "Amazon" thing
@@haydenbrophy9460 It sounds like a good thing until one of your coworkers snorts coke and constantly tries to start fights every week. Only to then get fired and threaten to shoot the place up. Some people are nice in warehousing but there's always one nutcase.
@@monkeymilk8060 yup, I ageee
exercising's become really fun once i started doing it with mmp playing in the background
I can listen to Bill while doing cardio but if not weights. Almost killed myself on the bench one a while back during one of his rants lol. Same for Tim Dillon when I'm editing the clips.
Currently at Amazon, going on 4 years, I simply stow and vto and pto when I can, its a difficult job if you ain't physically or mentally fit.
I worked at an Amazon XL warehouse for a few months. I got lucky because everyone there was cool as hell and laid-back, and that was including the managers.
We weren't a high volume warehouse since most things were oversized. But lifting heavy boxes all day got old fast. It was a good learning experience though, as I wanted to understand the inner workings of a big warehouse.
I work at a fulfillment center in Michigan (I’m a picker if you know what that means). The entire employee network is a hierarchy. There’s the untouchables, then the untouchables with vests, and then the “careers” who make actual money and always work behind fenced off areas (literally they have chain link offices so they don’t have to interact with us). There’s no incentive to do good at your job besides an occasional notification from your station computer, which means no one gives a fuck what they’re doing while they’re doing it. The parking lot smells like weed every time I go in, and the “supervisors” are really just people who’ve worked there for longer than 6 months and haven’t quit yet. The plus is they pay $15 an hour even to the untouchables like me. I’m only powering through it so I can pay for college and eventually med school.
Fuck scanning, picking is so much easier for the same pay lol
@@BlueElitefromHaloCE facts whenever they try asking I just say I was never taught it so theyll stop bothering me 😂
Warehouses are called Fullfilment Centers because they fullfill orders. It's a common term not exclusive to Amazon.
Naw its a conspiracy maaaaaaan
Thank you!! Exactly @aaronsilva
I just looked it up, you're right
Amazon was using it as a Double Entendre here. Saying that they also call it a Fulfillment Center because their employees are fulfilled by being there.
Watching George Carlin's stand-up routine unfold right in front of me, not as funny...
"Freedom fries" 🤣🤣
I work at a delivery station for Amazon and if they let customers walk our facility many of them will be shocked and appalled and probably will stop ordering from us.
Just to clarify there are usually two types of Amazon facilities. fulfillment centers are they first step where all of the products are held and packed into boxes. logistics centers are where those orders are sent to to be sorted for delivery drivers to pick up.
The word "fragile" has no meaning at Amazon lol
The “fulfillment center” thing reminds me of what George Carlin used to say about the evolution of terminology to wash the meaning and comprehension of what’s going on to confuse people.
A fulfillment center is just a type of warehouse in the network. There are also distribution centers and sort centers. I think bill was confusing the term fulfillment to mean as a fulfilling place to work.
Makes me glad I never had one of these places in my area up until the last few months. Luckily I have a great job and have no need to apply. It always seemed like hell
I knew some people that worked as box throwers for ups and Amazon and fed ex. They are all potheads.
Talking to some old guy who can barely read out loud..... I’m fucking dying over here 🤣🤣🤣
I worked at one....nightmare. Tough job. Tough tough job
I burnt out after working 2 years in one. It's definitely a sweatshop, depending on which department you're in. I did stow and waterspider, if you have a low tolerance for repetition and mind numbing boredom, spare yourself the trouble.
What the heck is “Stow and waterspider?”
@@occipitalneuralgia2339 Stow is mentally draining. It's where you take the items that customers order and place them in the moving robots. Like sorting mail, you scan item and then scan the cubby hole you place the item in. Normal rate is 350-400 items per hour depending on size of item.
Waterspider is physically draining. You deliver the pallets of containers and boxes for stowers to work out of using pallet jacks. There's roughly 15 stowers per floor and you work with 1 other Waterspider, You receive the work and send down trash from industrial size elevators. If you slow down even a little bit, a stower might run out of work and then you're stuck playing catch up for awhile. Both jobs were/are very tedious.
It’s called a fulfillment center because they fulfill orders there . Process orders
They have tours to show you how great it is, just like North Korea !!!
Listening while working at Amazon 😂😂😂
Ol' Billy Box Mover
Which episode is it? Any frequent listener? Would like to hear the story about the depressed person
Same
check the next upload after this one. It's the story.
Duuude, again with those thumbnails 🤣
Work is freedom
- a sign in a camp in the 30s
Filled with bodies
I worked at Amazon for about 8 months throughout the pandemic and all I can say is. Fuck that place. I’m so happy I got a new job and never have to step foot in that fucking place again.
Listening to this AT amazon
AAAAYYYYEEEE x possessed billy blueballs im so proud
Bill you legit put an amazon add in this video
They have the same tour at the BMW Plant & they never showed the tourist the assembly lines & how hard/fast they make employees work...
Once the BMW President came from Germany to speak to the Plant & said he expects us to work faster ..I think we had less than .90 seconds at each station
It`s not a fulfillment center to fulfill the employee`s . It`s for fulfilling the Orders that customers make .
Fulfillment center just means a place where they fulfill orders. Supply chain speak
So true you ever go to download instagram or Facebook off google play store the need you to click its ok to give them permission to have all the information off your phone pictures everything it's crazy that's why when someone I know says did you see such in such post on facebook no I don't do Facebook cause I don't feel right giving all the information off my phone to a person or multiple don't know but never met.
This is becoming the norm in warehouses. Tom Thumb warehouse is not paying any employee for a personal day if they missed during the storm last week.
They try to bust your ass in uncomfortable stations. Always talk about safety first and that shift goes out the window as soon as if gets busy
Listening to this while working at amazon
So, total recall?
Bill, you have to go to Mars!
Literally taking a shit at a fulfillment center right now.
Rvrry ikea around the world has a sale section in that section you can get FREE bolts nuts and screws hinges anything .. yeah cost you trip to ikea
Support your local businesses....and if you online shop try to find the local shops that have online places....OR another thought is Ebay(a lot of stores have ebay stores aswell because it is an easy way to have an online store for mom and pop stores...ebay stores are mostly run by small business people)....remember that you will not get 2 day shipping because these are not warehouses .these are actual people feeding there families....so if it takes a week to get your item don't blame the small stores as they are only able to get you the things as fast as the mail will allow.
I worked for Amazon in vancouver for almost 3 months. When a suicidal man who had just committed a break and entry to a lone shark place. Clearly disturbed. Pressed the crosswalk button. I come to a stop. He seriously slit his throat from ear to ear with two box cutters. Then dove under my stopped Amazon van. Amazon then fired me for wanting to take a single day off work.
Pretty sure it’s called a fulfillment center because it’s where orders are fulfilled, but ok
Fancier word for warehouse
Amazon was using it as a Double Entendre here. Saying that they also call it a Fulfillment Center because their employees are fulfilled by being there.
there was no reason to change the name from distribution centers though.. its corpo speech and there are reasons behind it
Lol it not called a fulfillment center because it feels fulfilling. It's called fulfillment center because they are fulfilling customer orders lol
This reminds me of the Knorr chicken bouillon tour I was forced to take during a tour to Shanghai 😑 It was so creepily fake, from the color-coordinated Disneyesque “kitchen,” complete with copper cauldron full of “chicken broth” bubbling away, being stirred by weirdly happy “chefs;” to the “hatchery” full of Rhode Island reds being pampered in individual cubbies, decorated in the same soothing color palette as the “kitchens.” Whoever designed that place deserves a medal for Penultimate Dedication to Absurdity. And it’s the perfect metaphor for the CCP, in general. Christ. 🤦🏻♀️
I worked at a place where management insisted that employees weren't "employees"... instead we were called "associates". Pay was shit, had to wear a uniform the way they wanted you to wear it, they followed their "associate" hand book like it was the bible, people got written up for every mistake (3 in one year and you get fired), they played favorites with shifts (1st shift got treated like loyalty while 2nd and 3rd shift got treated like shit), just to name a few things. That company is still in business but the plant I worked at was shut down lol. Big companies really do think grunts are dumb
Listening while delivering for ups