Why I Quit Amazon After 2 Years
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- My experience working at Amazon for almost 2 years, From a level one worker, With stories from my coworkers as well.
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I hated working at Amazon. It was like going to hell each and every day. I was in constant pain and hated it.
you just said it perfectly!!! I used to spend my day trying to meditate while I was working because I just couldn't stand it, right now I try to only remember the good memories with coworkers, thought it really was a living hell, im trying to write down whatever I can remember now to make another video like this
this video was at least 2 years coming, lots of feels here for me 👍
I work for a delivery warehouse in Texas. Huge, long walks, lots of doing jobs you’ve NEVER been trained to do, and no one will want to help you either. 😑
One day I had to pick , and load all the Amazon flex routes, take them outside and distribute them to the drivers. I turned around and was ALONE🙄 50-70 cars, all walking toward me wanting routes/questions! I did that for almost 3 hrs, whilst the SA and Operations manager stood there and talked about employees, on their Voice enhancements so I heard everything 😑🙄😒
My second day I was very discouraged because I never knew what to do. Another coworker jus said look busy, move around like you’re doing stuff 😅 I’m 2 Mos in, and actively looking for a new, full time job.
I’ve since learned how to become invisible, but with these last few days due to peak, holidays, that’s impossible now. WE DO IT ALL, AT ALL COSTS. No break? No one cares 🤷🏻♀️
I knkw what it’s like man, where I worked, the 15 mins breaks weren’t real 15 mins, maybe 5 because it took so long to get to the break room, and would see managers all day looking like their just trying to look busy on their computer when they didn’t have much to do
@@OurWorldShifted exactly. 5 mins is all you get.
Then asked to stay 4-5 hrs longer with the exact 5 min break hours later. Sorry not sorry I won’t work 8-10hrs with a 10min break 👏🏽
I quit after a month bro. Im happy as hell i did. Ppl always looked deppressed
I like how this comment got a lot of likes compared to the others one
I just started today n they told me I had too learn everything n 2 days or I'll get a warning 🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️😏🙁
@Jose A Castillo what does your mesg mean, I’m not following the first word in it
@Jose A Castillo it’s hard to last their that long, I don’t think it’s worth staying if you work as a laborer, it takes too much of a toll on your body
@Jose A Castillo theirs a video online I saw where Jeff bezos was saying his only interest to do with all his money is space exploration, so, all he cares about is completing with Tesla and being number one richest man, I think it just sad honestly
I Quit today. I was a packer. After my first 3 weeks I was told I was moving too slow. at least 2 twice a day. I was packing at 160 a day. If you've worked at amazon you know. I was expected to work at 210 to 240 a day. If you're a normal person it can't be done. They'll harass you every day that you aren't fast enough. I can't move as fast as a 5ft little machine. The best workers are short little machines that don't stop.
They told me today my 1st day at work u have 2 days too learn everything or I'll get a warning 😏🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
I'm a 5 ft little machine. Wish me luck.
Packing 160 a day or hour? If you're talking about 160 a day then damn.. I have no words to say but you need to be fired lmao
That doesn’t make any sense at all, pack is the one job I actually never did, and I’ve done over a dozen different jobs their, so I can only relate so much, this make no sense, theirs no way you can insure good quality with a pack rate that high, you would have to just throw everything together as fast as physically possible
@@robinly you might be better off being a smaller person, if your not struggleing too much with the weight of objects, being smaller means you’ll use less energy to get things done
4 months as a packer and now 2+ years as a picker . I’m done! I signed up for the truck driving class I’ll be out of here soon.
that's exactly what you should do 👍👍👍👍
im very happy to hear that, good luck to you 🥳🥳🥳
@@OurWorldShifted thank you!
I was a packer for walmart distribution i was so stressed i couldn't make the rate per hour and im a hardworker
I work at Amazon now, and I absolutely hate it. It’s hell everyday, and I’m in the pack department.
You still their?
@@OurWorldShifted yep! Same shit shit new day every night
@@ctcdarkness have you made any plans to change this
@@OurWorldShifted update no longer work for Amazon Lol
@@ctcdarkness what are you doing now?
Human resources are NOT your friends. They act like they are but they are not TRUST me.
Yeahhh, I’ve learned that most HR people are a part of the business side of things as well.
The ones who truly care about the well being of the people actually don’t last too long in HR
I’ve heard stories from friend and former coworkers about bad experiences dealing with hr, and after all the emails I sent them, most of them go nowhere,
I’ve gotten two real responses, and a lot of no responses from the corporate office
I never met a person that worked in Amazon that didn’t become highly depressed, highly unmotivated. They completely switched off ,a totally different person. Some people would throw up in the parking lot in the morning from anxiety knowing they’re going to have to pull another shift. It’s such a fucked up job it should be closed down, that kind of work deserves 50 bucks an hour and a regular eight hour shift if you still decide to do it
To those who don’t like me calling amazon modern day slave labor,
if you look at the logic behind the minimal wage, making enough money to only survive, and return to work the next day, struggling to save up any money, never being able to retire, and having to spend your work life destroying your body doing abusing manual labor, is modern day, legal slave labor,
I would highly recommend looking into the slave labor that built Dubai, the people who built the city are so poor, they can never leave to return to their countries, all they can do is survive, and it’s a compete injustice to them, to tell one of them, their not a modern day slave, because they can legally try to walk away, though their stuck Sharing one room, with 20 other people, and only make enough money to buy just barely enough food to survive,
When slaves were first set free in America, they were given slave contracts, which basically said they would be given food, and shelter in exchange for work, they weren’t actually technically slaves anymore, because they agreed to work, though they were still real slaves,
The benefits amazon offers are only so you feel like your stuck working for them, and to convince you that you can’t find better work somewhere else,
Sure I can rent a room, and maybe save up to buy a cheap car with a minimal wage job, though I can never retire, never afford to take care of my family, and have to spend my life working for someone else, with the illusion that I’m free,
Why don’t you tell the old couple in their 60s, that was working at my amazon site together, struggling to save 50 dollars a month to retire, while the man can even work anymore, and he faints on the job, how he’s not a slave to a corrupt modern day society,
Or explain to my friend who came here from Africa looking for better opportunities, how he has a great benefit plan, when amazon is trying to not pay him any workers compensation for legitimate injuries he got from working at amazon,
And explain to him, how it’s his fault amazon has him waiting several months to get the surgery he now needs, in serval different parts of his body,
Tell them, their free people with great benefits, don’t waste your time on someone who doesn’t need it,
I understand being a legitimate slave is a much worse condition, though if your so blind, you can’t see how we created a system where everyone, everywhere is now just a slave to someone else, who’s aloud to go home at the end of the day, told who to vote for, told where to spend their money, and how exactly they should live their life, even down to what they should watch on the brainwashing programs of television, and what music they should listen to because it keeps minorities down,
If you don’t see all this,
It’s because you haven’t had it so bad in your life,
You have no idea what it’s like to really struggle and work hard, to get no where in life, not move forward even on inch, no matter what you do and how hard you try, and to actually feel like something in life is just pulling you back, and pulling you down, and keeping you down,
Privilege people don’t like to talk about how their privilege, they just want to blame other people for not being born in a better environment for their growth,
Minorities, go to worse school, live in worse towns, and work jobs that keep them stuck where they are,
I ain’t no government conspiracy theorist, I just see the plain and obvious truth written all over the walls,
Companies like amazon should be held more accountable for their actions then a smaller company, theirs no way you can have a fair balance for the simple reason that most small companies, can’t even afford to be held more accountable.
Jeff Bezos is such a piece of ****, the only thing he wants to do with all his money, is compete with Elon Musk, because he wants to be the richest most powerful man in the world, he has very little consideration for starting a homeless shelter, for creating better working conditions, for sending money to countries that simply can’t help their selves, for looking for ways to improve the planet, for the sake of living creatures on it now, or in the future, like why amazon need to go to space, Elon Musk is light years ahead of amazon, he ain’t doing anyone any service or justice, at least Elon Musk wants to create a way for people to live on other planets to increase the life expectancy of the entire human race and all life on earth, Jeff Bezos just wants to be a F****** A******,
Theirs still actual slave labor going on today, theirs slave labor in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 Britain, right now, who are being used to grow drugs, who do get paid every once in a while, though not enough for them to actually do anything besides survive with, slave labor isn’t limited to what America and Europe did in a not so long ago past, it’s been going on since Egypt, and still going on today in many different parts of the world,
And to tell people they can survive off the minimal wage, or two dollars above it, is just an injustice,
We went from a society where woman complained they couldn’t work fairly among men, to a society where now most women have to go to work, and most men can’t afford stay at home wife’s anymore.
While men get disrespected by society for not being more rich and successful, without any knowledge on how to achieve such goals, just endless motivation videos telling them all they need to do is work harder, as if hard work alone is how the rich get rich, and it has nothing to do with what their working hard on.
Dang man I wish I found this before I worked there, I was on shipping dock the two weeks I was there during peak and it was rough 12 hour 6 days loading trucks and everything without many breaks. I resigned after my second week there, Honestly I found it very easy to get in trouble just from small things like water breaks or even using the bathroom. All in all man I appreciate the content, you’re saving many people from the slavery work with this information. I always found too many good reviews and hardly any bad things people were really willing to say about this company.
Thank you very much big James. This means a lot to me, I hope these videos help someone, and maybe gets attention from amazon to look at their working conditions, it’s truly a modernized slave labor
wow thats crazy
12 hour 6 days a week? I'm not even sure that's legal. Their policy is no more than 60 hours a week.
@@TotemoGaijinI think those hours are legal,
Though it does sound beyond the amazon standard time policy as far as I know
When i started working there a trainer told us they sometimes overhire and have to look for ways to force new hires out, lol I got a write up for getting 5 errors in a 195 pick day, 2 of them were missing items that were literally missing from the bin.
I worked at Amazon......THAT WAS THE WORST FUCKIN JOB I EVER HAD IN MY 51 YEARS OF LIVING. THAT SHIT NEED TO BE CLOSED DOWN EVERY WHERE.
Don't forget Amazon call centers, brother; it's horrible as well.
Worst part is when the individual that gets the promotiom is not necessary the most capable of leading people, but I just saw this meme that said that stupid people get the promotions cause they are easy to manipulate.
never really thought about the call centers, I dont hear much about it, I can totally agree with the promoting tactic, at my site, they used to make jokes that people who get promoted just knew how to interview well, they gave me a interview with a guy I never met, who didn't even look at my resume, or work ethic, managers promote people who they believe will follow them, not lead as they should
damn i love that...makes sense why i see ppl get promoted who have no business getting promoted lol
@@OurWorldShifted I was working as a dispatcher for Amazon...a nightmare job.
@@oliverpetroski4205 I still have a friend who works their, he really doesn’t like to ever talk about work, besides me asking how people are doing I used to know
@@OurWorldShifted I have the same thing. I find someone I used to worked with and ask hows at the office and their face just changes from "happy to be out of there " to omg its my funeral again". Lots of us were working 9 people jobs and still got fired for doing nothing wrong just simply because some of us were not related in any way to the management. Yes that is still a thing in my country. I even reached a position as manager for North Carolina but I wasnt a robot. Imagine almost everyday overtime, hollydays not paid, and sallary cuts for just everything they could think of. Gaslighting was constant thing. Often even drivers told me the problems they were facing.
I work at Amazon as a Area Manager, because of poor training and not being able to do my job well my employment has been questioned. I'm going to quit as soon as I get a new job. I HATE AMAZON.
$15 Wasn't worth my sanity. You're just a number to them, I didn't feel appreciated, so I had to dip
I completely agree with this, not just for your mental health, though also for the physical damage your body with experience from working their
I now see how toxic the culture is. After being at many of their fulfillment centers and delivery stations (the most recent one in Edison, NJ) I finally made the decision to quit working for the company permanently, never ro return. I dont even order anything from Amazon.
Most people will just refuse to believe how bad it really is until they actually see it their self, I’ve worked a lot of different job, including construction work, jackhammers, shovels, etc…
Amazon was by far my worse work experience of my life, I really want to explain to people so much how your truly treated like a real life slave their, and everyone just gets upset and say, if your a slave, why do you get a paycheck and the illusion of freedom, when the only freedom you get is to make the choice to go to work every single day you can, and every single hour you can, because you make so little you can barely even survive,
While they make sure get make every single penny they possibly can out of you, and stretch, and abuse you as much as they possibly can, then discard you when your either of no more use to them, or simply can’t keep up with their ever growing demands, with what seems like no time to catch your breath because you can’t even enjoy your break time when you waste most of it walking back and forth inside of such a large building
If I may ask, what did you do their, and what make your experience so bad
I could listen about this Amazon situation for hours
I could tell stores for hours if I made this video right after I stoped working their,
It would never end if I actually remembered everything
Ive never worked at Amazon but I wanna try it for these stories. Keep em coming. I am sorry
😂 me too. I’m at work
Great video
@@doomtomb3 thank you very much for your comment
The facades and the figuratively maskes that the supervisors , managers and the "higher ups " is in insane. That's why i I Quit too.
I was their for almost two years, I just couldn’t take it anymore, besides being physically beat up, mentally I couldn’t do it anymore, I just saw so much done wrong their, and I couldn’t just stay their, complain about what’s going on, and see nothing done, and have managers I trusted show they only care about productivity
More and more people/ workers need to rise up. Sadly, Amazon has too much influence in government, so obviously our representatives couldn't give two shits, unless we MAKE them
I completely agree with this, though in reality, people seem so afraid is the system, and so dependent and held down by it, it’s hard to actually organized everyone, unless something as big as COVID-19 happens,
At least in my experience,
Everyone was ready to tell me their stories, though no one was ready to talk to the management about what was going on, and the ones who do look like their their problems because no one else speaks up
Should do what Canadian truckers did stop working all at once
“This is isn’t a perfect system” in reference to the computer is so true and yet they rely on it so much. The tracking is so insane and creates paranoia
Half the time tracking dont work the machines they have is useless
@@yonatanmakara6856 I got a friend who told me he thinks the new computers they use where he is got worse
@@OurWorldShifted omg there going to be so many unwanted and unneccesary checks ups.
This is the exact problem people just don’t understand, it’s the way Amazon works that makes it so hard, it’s not just because it’s a labor based job
My area manager told us” the scanner is smarter then us”. Senes I started working I just wanted to laugh in here face about it
you quite after 2years?? I quit after 2 days lol
Same here :)
3 weeks here bud
Lol quit after a day 😭
Your not the only one, I’ve scene a lot of people not last their over a month
I actually really left after a year and a half, though officially I wasn’t lay-off for about two years after I quit, so officially I worked about 3 years, though I only actually worked about 1 and a half
Go work at Lowes delivering appliances. 14 hr shift. Fridges washers and dryers going to second and third floors. Everyone that goes to Amazon complains waayyy to much.
These people obviously never worked a warehouse job before. Only reason they applied to amazon is cause it's a known company and they thought it would be easy lol well to them atleast. Lol a job is a job and these people cant handle it.
I hear you bro. I worked at an amazon FC for 9 months in 2019. I used them to pay for a surgical procedure that i needed done. Thx suckers. Lol if they are going to use us, then why not use them for money or health insurance and then get out? Don't stay. The biggest BS they pulled on me was that they wrote me up when I didn't make rate one night that I had kidney stones and was in a lot of pain. I told the mgr beforehand I would do my best but couldn't move very well, he said ok, do your best (he denied saying that later) and then wrote me up for my troubles. Total dick move by a guy who got arrested in college for underage drinking..(yeah, Amazon don't background check the mgrs either). I paid them back on my last day when I misplaced items all over the warehouse (guess I was confused) then 'accidently' tripped over a safety rope to stop one of their conveyer lines.
I’ve heard plenty of stories of people in their 50s, saying they never gotten a write up in their entire life, and were receiving multiple write ups at Amazon, it might actually really be the easiest place to get a write up in the entire world
@@OurWorldShifted yep... that's how Amazon keeps workers from getting promotions, bonuses, raises. By keeping their workers in a perpetual state of probation. It also scares workers into working harder because they think they will be fired next. But they won't fire you unless you violate their attendance policies. Most of their write ups are production related. You don't make rate for one day or one hour, they write you up. I just laughed in their face because I knew they wouldn't fire me for that. Management is taught to do this. And I say shame on the managers for playing this idiotic game. ... also, for pickers, your pick paths aren't randomly selected. The manager who assigns them can tell which ones are easy, and which ones are slow. And they can give their favorite workers the easy ones so they can get a higher rate.
@@frankpalancio8471 this sounds odd, I’ve done pack, though I only know so much about it personally
@@frankpalancio8471 I actually knew someone that when I worked their, suddenly got a write up when they were up for a promotion, and it was the first one they ever got after being their for possibly at least two years at the time
@@frankpalancio8471 your definitely right about it scaring workers to work harder, it’s design to filter out the weak so much, that no one is left being strong
It crazy how Amazon offers so many things and has become very popular, yet people
Shop there and spend their money there likes it’s the best online store.
But treats employees like another replacement and the labor work like slaves.
All about business period. This makes me not want to shop at amazon anymore.
I quit after 1 year and 2 months; felt my back was gonna give out again.
Thanks for sharing this video. I hope you are okay. And stay safe. God bless you
thank you very much, I hope you stay safe and well too ☺️☺️☺️
Good for you amazon has way too much control!
thank you very much, if I made these sooner, I would have probably remembered enough to make 100 videos about them
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I quit after 2 days !!!!! Walk forever to get to location that your working at. Can’t go to bathroom 🚽 !!!!! I was a counter !! Amazon sucks !!
Yeah, a healthy human response to working at an Amazon FC would be "F this. I'm out." I almost walked out the first week, but toughed it out for 3 years out of stubbornness. I was burnt out on corporate office work and just wanted to try a basic job for a while. I don't regret it, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Depressing, damaging, soul-less place.
@@garybeltrand5802 I really feel your comment, I really appreciated everything I learned from amazon, and all the experiences I had, though in a logical stand point, I should have left much sooner, and only stayed because I had a overly demanding gf at the time
I'm a stower at Amazon 6pm to 230am easy ass job, I don't understand all the complaints I guess I should be glad I've had much harder jobs before,🤣
These people that complain should go work in the fields 😂
Been at amazon four years now,started at fresh site,to a fulfillment center now at a delivery station,might go back to fulfillment i did enjoy it
@@kennedyvang5143it’s called ‘having different experiences’. Life is not a one size fit all. 🙄
I worked for Uline, which has warehouse space the size of Amazon's warehouses. They make their money on the backs of the hardest workers, and they are not compensated fairly for the work they do to keep the place running. Keep you head up bro!
ive heard stores of other company's running the same way amazon does, would have been worth mentioning in the video if I had remembered, ive been told the shop rite warehouse near my amazon site was even worse, be nice if more people just starting talking about these company's, I don't work there anymore though, I couldn't take it anymore
I have picked up freight from Uline big space something like 100 docks ...they are always hiring too.The feeling I get is what you described, plus the experience of someone I know during a interview, they sounded like a robots.The workload of most workers is a marathon, exhausting.
ULINE?!?!!? If I could get a nickel for every complaint from a USPS carrier or resident, for having to deliver or receive your damn catalogs... I wouldn't be working or commenting here. I'd be Bezos rival in wealth.
I can’t remember for sure, if it was stop and shop, or shop rite, though I know someone had a warehouse near my old amazon warehouse, and I was told the working conditions were even worse their,
And the managers bring you into their office for a meeting over being 1 min late
I worked at Amazon through a temp agency called Integrity Staffing in 2017, and I remember when I went to the bathroom because my stomach was hurting bad. I was in the bathroom for more than 5 minutes, and then the next day, I was pulled aside by an employee of the temp agency, and she told me that Amazon said I left my station and thought that I left, I told her I had a bad stomach ache and went to the bathroom. Luckily, I didn't get written up. There's people who have bladder problems or something else that makes them go to the bathroom. Amazon needs to get rid of the stupid ass TOT rule. I quit after 7 months.
Thank you very much for this comment, I hope other people are able to see this
Ummm... slaves are forced to be slaves.. people are not forced to work for Amazon.. I never worked for Amazon but I applied and got hired but didn’t take it.. Amazon is a great job for people that don’t have college degrees.. or high school drop outs.. just being honest
you literally get hired online with no interview.......i know, cause i just did. i start thursday lmao. that alone is a red flag. but im just gonna work weekends for extra cash :)
Day one i was in pain. My lower back in pain. Coulnt rest or nothing. Day 2 i got in trouble for slacking and had to use restroom. Day 3 i didnt show up. I quited it went back to security. Those jobs need to be automated. No one should be force to work like that. Especially the quota they want you to reach each hour. Kudos you and those who do it for a long time i salute you very much.
It’s not worth it, if you don’t have to do much working as a security guard, not to offend you, just figured some of them might not have to do as much labor work as an amazon employee
Yo!! Your volunteering for this. Don't like it? Quite!! I bet you can do a video on 100 jobs in your state. All jobs suck ass!! Some are less stressful. Understand. I am 56 and I have had many and I mean many bad jobs, owners and managers. That's life. It sucks but some of us swallow our pride for the good of our family. Supporting kids is not a joke. :). Good luck brothers. :)
So, what your saying, is you never actually worked for Amazon, and you have no idea what it’s like to have a computer watch your every move
I’m not 56, though I’ve been a life guard, movie theater usher supervisor, construction worker, school bus driver in New York City, FedEx door to door delivery driver, delivery new papers over night out of a box truck, worked at amazon, worked at target doing the same job I did at amazon, and not I’m trying to get back into being a school bus driver, I intentionally only made a video about amazon because it was the worse working experiences of my entire life, coming from a company that claims to care about their workers so much, it’s posted on the walls inside the warehouse
It sounds like your bullying me because your older
When I worked at amazon, I lived with my girlfriend who didn’t work, and took care of her son who wasn’t mine, and took care of her mother, who wasn’t mines, and the son was the only one who wasn’t crazy, including me 😜,
On top of the fact, that my gf, wanted to have a dozen pets,
It had nothing to do with pride, I still have problems with my hands, after leaving amazon for several years, and doing stretches and exercises to specifically fix my hands
What’s your pride have to say about my CDL, when I could make more money leaving amazon
I don’t understand why corporations don’t treat their employees better. You are nothing without your employees (until they make the robots to replace all positions) and eventually, everyone who’s interested in a job like that will have worked and quit so what happens when there’s no one left to work there?
There are always people looking for a job, there will always be someone who will do the job you dont like or dont want to do. Thats why this is still going on
I completely agree with this, theirs a lot of super success small companies that make it far because of their workers, and because their managers was actually a good one
Oh my gosh exactly the very last thing you said how many times do we hear that at work. When you make this and you make that right then you can break the rules to. Because the problem is is when they’re breaking the rules is how they make the rate that’s it so that means everybody should just be breaking the rules every other chaos people getting hurt possibly even dying it’s just disgusting
I actually really tired to explain to the upper management that everyone, everywhere was breaking at the very least, quality rules to make rate, and they wanted to act this is was impossible
If the pod is full you can not stow, it does not matter how fast you scan and stow, the pod is full is not your problem is Amazon problem solving to put empty pods for you to stow at the rate Amazon wants you to stow and the rate happens sometimes for about 10 seconds and no matter how fast you want to stow you will not see that rate again,
Thanks for posting this video! Very informative! I am so glad I left. Nepotism and discrimination is a major problem at former site. Very sickening.
Man I respect for you I can tell by your body language and voice that you were at your wits just talking about us in the video I'm currently unemployed thought about applying for Amazon been out of work since the pandemic it I had a job for 3 weeks during the pandemic that was way out of my skill set my personality was changing stressful roof everyone told me try to construction I didn't it didn't work I don't want to put myself in the same situation again I have a lot of respect for the people that do that job even for a short amount of time the only time I order off of Amazon is if I can't find something even then that's not very often so respect I've been in bad situations like that before too not as bad but workplace political stuff so I hope you're doing better now thanks for the video
Thank you very much for this comment, my personal recommendation is to not go their, theirs plenty of jobs of their that will pay you the same amount of money, or more, for less work, I really don’t think it’s worth it, First Student will train people to get their Commercial Driver License with paid training, just a suggestion, though theirs plenty of other options out their, you can be a security guard as an example, if you work for the right place, you’ll make the same check amazon will pay you, and not have to lift anything up, keep looking, get on ziprecruiter, and indeed, apply to a lot of places, front desk office jobs, delivery drivers that don’t require special licenses, USPS front desk assistant that talks to customer’s face to face, school janitor, theirs endless options out their you can work instead of amazon, where you won’t have to kill yourself, and damage your body to make a living, I had a friend who was working for Amazon for around 5 years, and he tells me he finally found a job, that will both pay him more per hour, and require no lifting of anything at all in an office building, even some restaurants servers make more money if you work in the right restaurant, maybe you don’t like dealing with customer’s, though you won’t have to sacrifice your physical health to make a living, you’ll find something better, just keep looking, a lot of places are hiring right now, and in serious need of workers, one of my old amazon coworkers told me he left a job as a restaurant server where he was making twice as much money, to go work at Amazon instead because his family would respect that job more, let me be the first to tell you, F*** That S***, go work at Best Buy, or Target, before you decide Amazon is your only choice
@@OurWorldShifted The job I worked for 4 and 1/2 years before Cv19 hit on the plus side I didn't get to operate $100,000 vehicles vehicles at most people only get to see in a calendar
But my other job was inventory in a 25 acre parking lot all by myself I had a very strict timeline I would get the jobs no one else wanted or do didn't matter what the temperature was when I was hot during the summer and get heat stroke or -40 in the winter I don't know where you live but I've worked in minus 50 temperatures minus 55 with wind chill the snow crunches on your feet and doesn't change shape and your skin can freeze in seconds then your hand starts hurt and then you can't feel your fingers don't ask me how I survive and I have had hypothermia and
people will just drive past me and a customer service man like I was crap wouldn't even offer me a ride
I've done no s*** jobs I had to dig through garbage cans to take out the beer cans for recycling and separate all the recycling in your proper containers be doing cleaning toilets always cleaning up everyone else's s*** I know that people say people don't want to work anymore I don't want to work I've done my time in my experience I don't want to sound whiny but I want respect it feels degrading when a manager swears at you for not doing enough work on his desk is full of paper all messy and you're one man doing a four-man job
I recently had a 45 minute interview I didn't get the job but two weeks later I saw the same posting back up evenly told me that you went with another direction I could have done that job
I've always been one of these people that's how to look out for his self because of no one will look out for me so people that are beaten up burnt out and abused by their employers need to stand together will be stronger
@@philliplaroche3561 I completely understand you, I worked in construction in New York, not sure where you worked. Though I know what it’s like for your body to only get colder the longer you stay outside, what it’s like to dress in so much clothes, you can barely move and look stupid,
And I know what it’s like, to work shitty job after shitty job, to never get anyway, and then get treated like you just don’t want to work at all, when your tired of working truly abusive jobs, under working conditions law makers wouldn’t believe are actually still happening today,
I really wish people would stop being so full of sh**, and stand up to their employers, I’ve been their where everyone wants to tell me why they hate working at amazon, though almost no one wants to actually talk to the managers about it,
And I was the guy who actually went and complained about everything, to get no where
I’m going through the same thing right now, I don’t have a job, I’ve been applying to jobs left and right, lost jobs I would have been perfectly good at because other people applied with more experience, lost one I already sign paperwork to work at, because THC decided two months, and some body cleansing, wasn’t enough, and have plenty of jobs that don’t even respond, while I know that truly, I don’t want to work for any of them, you send me to help staving kids in Africa, I’m all over it, I’ll be the hardest worker, I’ll figure out how to build them houses, you want me to be a cashier at a supermarket for 1 dollar above minimal wage, ain’t no body calling other people lazy in this world, who don’t have better opportunities for their selves
This world is filled with people who sit behind a desk all day, calling people who are stuck doing labor jobs for minimal pay lazy.
If my RUclips picked up. And started paying me, I wouldn’t work a regular job again in my life, I’ll work on RUclips videos everyday of the week, then work a job for even 3 days a week
I think it’s a fu**ed up statement at this point, though all we can do is keep moving forward, and keep looking for better jobs, even after you get a job, as tiring as it may be, we may have to Look for a new job while we’re working our next one,
I really want to get back to working on this channel for example, though it’s been hard to stay motivated when most of my videos struggle to get over 100 views no matter what I do in them, and I have no interest in starting a channel just doing anything for views if I’m not interested in what I’m doing
Fuc* these labor jobs, and forget about the people who tell you that you should be working a shitty job, my knees are fuc*ed up, my mom gotten a lot of work on her knees. And when I tell her I can’t work certain jobs because I’m gonna end up like her, she just tells me, that I should do what I have to do, when their no logic behind me telling her. Well how am I going to do that when I can’t walk, and why the hell would I wait till I can’t walk to make a different choice in my life when I know what’s coming if I stay working labor jobs, she expects me to just go kill myself to make a living if that’s what I have to do, and I think it’s really fuc*ed up
No offense to illegal immigrants, though I’m not one, and really think only illegals are stuck working whatever job they can get, no offense to them, I just believe I don’t have to kill myself to make a living, and like theirs better choices out their
My dad worked as a laborer his whole life, though no one wants to knowledge that we don’t even know how many injuries he currently has, and is choosing to ignore, when he could have retired if he made better financial decisions, he stays driving the machines now, he can’t even really work as a laborer anymore, and they expect me to just go labor myself and become just like them,
Point being, I feel really bad for him, I would prefer it if he didn’t have to work anymore, though me not wanting to end up like him doesn’t mean I’m lazy, it just means I’m concern about my health, safety, and future
This video is very accurate and details my exact experience. I'm astonished you lasted two years. I worked in one of the warehouses that it sounds like you also worked at - with the pit and/or OP. Or, gas lighting terrible managers.
Thank you for this comment, I’m glad you found the video to be accurate, and I have worked on the different pit and op machines their, I was trained on more jobs then most other people their, and have endless experiences and stories from my time their,
And had plenty of experiences of managers ignoring any work concerns that weren’t about how to get people to work faster
They gaslight at my workplace. They are emotional abusive at work. They deny funerals unless it's a parent, brother,or sister.
I don't disagree with you, but this is basically how every low skill general labor job is. I haven't worked at Amazon, but I have worked in similar environments. You're on your feet doing very repetitive manual labor for the entire shift with no downtime and very little to no socializing. Maybe Amazon is worse than others, but you basically feel like a slave in all of them with management that really only cares about production numbers. But that is why generally speaking those types of jobs starting pay is more than other low skill jobs like fast food and retail, otherwise no one would do it.
Agree. And you need no skill or training to get hired. All you gotta put in to get a job is as long as it takes to fill out an app. That's the trade off. They pay you descent, but you gotta work hard. If you want something better, put in some work for it. Go to school, put in a couple years at the bottom gaining some experience, something... And Amazon gives you way more breaks than other places. You work like 2.5 hrs and get a break. Most of the time you should be able to work 2.5 hrs straight without going to the bathroom.
Agreed! Amazon is a cake walk compared to companies like gojo or Hardwick... It's the nature of warehouse jobs
What makes amazon special is their computer tracking system, we all understand very much most jobs are shitty jobs, though at Amazon it’s not even about how bad your managers are on your back, amazon has their own computer systems designed to watch you work, and track you as much as it’s possible for a computer to do so, I’ve worked in construction, digging holes in the streets of New York, both jobs were very demanding, though working in construction has nothing that’s anything like amazon computer tracking systems
Have any of you actually worked their, or did you come to offend people who actually have without actually knowing what it’s like to work their, and to have a head manager tell you, that they need to balance safety and productivity, while a pallet full of boxes comes flying down around the machine your in, with minimal protection,
And to have the safety manager tell you that you should take responsibility for it,
When your productivity is being track by a computer, so you can’t actually stop working
how can you disagree if youve never worked there lmaoooo
Damn!! Informative btw!
Thank you very much bro ☺️👾
Yep I worked at Amazon for 2 weeks and that was IT! For me it's a slave company!
Most people don’t last long, i think around the time I was leaving, the entire each receive department got recently replaced twice, and they messed up so much, they had to drastically drop the rate,
Apparently it was when amazon started one day shipping, maybe something management should have been better informed about,
Point being, it was like Christmas never ended, it really messed me up, and basically everyone else who worked their
At least attempt to use correct words and terms. Slave laborers don't make almost 20 dollars an hour. Slaves don't get medical, dental, vision, stock options and life insurance. Slaves don't get to come and go as they please. Slaves don't have the option to quit or go home sick.
Not knocking your complaints about Amazon though. I just don't like the term slaves thrown around like it is most of the time.
Why does this tour guide thing sound like Schindler's list?
Oh it totally is, they predecide what gets said, and what doesn’t get said, and the main tour guides goes away for special training we’re they teach them how to want them to interact with the public
Safety is backed up with implementation of safety objectives within the fulfillment centers because its policy safety is not allowed to fix safety issues. Maintenance is to install all safety issues or equipment for prevention.
This does make a lot of sense, safety seems like all they did was possibly go over training programs sent by the company
Wow I'm hearing this way too much , and the experiences I've had during my hiring process is unbelievable....thats another chapter...smh
So I shouldn't apply? One is opening soon in my area!! And I was thinking of quitting my job and working there! But now 🤔 thanks for the heads up!
Dont Do It... Very Much Hate that I Quit my Job for Amazon!!!
@@sassynj1264 Thanks! Like my mom always said "don't jump out of the frying pan right into the 🔥"!
It’s good to get in and get out.
Need a quick dentist appointment?
Need a quick doctor’s appointment?
Need a quick check?
Need therapy?
Amazon is a great place to go for a quick buck.
Amazon might always be hiring at the rate at which people quit the job their
Yeah don't they about make up put our phone in a lock starting in May then gonna say he you have an emergency then they come up to us and tell us about it which they won't do shit bc a lot more cab happen tht. So I'm about to quit once I look for another job
Human Robots😍😍😍
i just got hired with NO INTERVIEW lmao...i start thursday LOL. the only human i have talked to was when i did my drug test. im only gonna work part time , lets see how it goes LOL. but i did get a position that sounds cool. scout field operator! isnt that the delivery bots? ^.^
This is like totally an awesome video. You are so accurate and everything that you’re saying. I worked in training programs for the Air Force and I have lots of training behind my belt. And I also received running with the IG team. So this is just so point on and so absolutely 100% correct how these people treat others it is a palling it is disgusting it is against the law in many loose cases and someone definitely needs to stand up because there needs to be a union for all of Amazon and it should not be led by Amazon because they’re not going to work for the human dignity of people they’re going to try to do everything they can to just Trudys bad because they’re in their groove they’re in their tracks and they’re not gonna jump track and start being a company that cares about human dignity. I find it ironic every day I’m the I see The smiles on all the packages and I just wanna punch it because it’s just so disturbing it’s so fake oh my God the facade!
The level 80s 90s pr that obviously is just bullshit to a warehouse workers reality is a joke.Its 2021 and Amazon plays that ignorance of not acknowledging to new heights. Robots ...thats where this is going.
Thank you for this comment on my video, I really appreciate this input and feedback, it really feels like it hits home on what the real points are 👍
Punch the amazon smile in the face, sounds very accurate to me, I could not agree more with this emotionally
I know safety doesn’t do a damn thing. I have a osha certificate and I see the problem that they don’t do a thing. I see the cables stick out and not covered up, spills on the floor, the ties that hold the cardboard boxes on the floor not picked up trash on the floor. There is so much safety hazards I see but they do a thing also I see the water spiders sometimes do is block a electrical boxes. But someone should do is record the safety hazards and send it to osha.
I worked at Amazon and got hurt. HR is not run by amazon they pay an outside companies to take care of things for them. There is a reason that i know this but I can't. Further more working at amazon you are not a person you are a number (ROBOT)! All I can say is that I was self-employed all my life and can tell you what I saw there in the warehouse. But all I can say is I have signed a paper from them that says I can't say what I saw and what was going on in the warehouse.
OH and yes I sued and WON! This is all i can say.....
@Jon Thiele well since the case done. What did you see?
Sounds like it’s all about efficiency. Speed=profit. Workers are replaceable. Management knows this which is why they don’t give a shit about you. Plus, it sounds like management is semi well versed in psychology hence the gaslighting.
That’s exactly what it is, they only care about making theirselves look good, most of them don’t care much about the actual workers
I hate working at Amazon.
Why?
Me too!!Currently looking for a new job
At our warehouse we can go to the bathroom,
half you people couldnt handle any REAL manual labor
i worked in retail for years. so i know manual labor. nice try buddie
@@markstrong1328 unless it was a feed store I really doubt it.
Bro I use to work for Amazon as a delivery driver
BRO, Ive heard stories of how bad it is, their were reports on the internet of their working conditions before they even got big and wide spread
You got any story’s you want to share, im working on a second amazon video
@@OurWorldShifted I’m a driver too. I’ve had coworkers who: had guns pulled on them, dogs attack and bite them, had fallen down slippery stairs.
What does amazon say? Oh well gotta deliver these packages no matter what!
Yes it’s true drivers urinate inside vans because we don’t get restroom breaks. Most of us don’t take lunch breaks either while working 12 plus hours.
We get so many damned stops 200 or more. Oh and Amazon’s GPS is garbage. It gets most apartments incorrectly. And they expect you to drive a mile worth of residential road in less than a minute.
So what do people do? Drive wrecklessly and speed. I knew of a guy who literally drove the van off a mountain and never came back.
Sorry just venting but amazon is very unprofessional. Like you said it’s legal slave labor.
@@angelgjr1999 thank you very much for this, feel free to tell me anymore details, I’m planning on making another amazon video
For all the successful business leaders, I would’ve loved to see them work in a facility for a day.
Especially Steve Jobs!
I’d imagine he would’ve stuck a box up a manager’s behind 😂
This would have been my dream, to see Jeff actual work for himself, as a level one employee, I would have came in to work, on my day off to watch this
@@OurWorldShifted He’d have to dress up in disguise though and all cameras would have to be hidden.
This would be the only way we can ensure he gets the treatment most level 1 employees do.
@@YEDxYED completely agree, the management can’t even know it’s him, if they know it’s him, he’ll never get a real experience, they’ll let him do whatever he wants
@@OurWorldShifted word
Yes , agree with you the job it’s horrible
Amazon Employees Workers Need A Union
If it could be organized, this would be good, I think the biggest problem is most people will just leave before organizing a union, because amazon is just that dreadful
I’m liking it so far. First two days were hell but it’s getting less awful and kind of fun even though I’m constantly paranoid that they’re going to fire me.
I do agree though, it is slave labor.
I can not deny, that sometimes, it actually was a really fun and exciting place to work, this is very true, though I had way too much anxiety and problems outside of amazon to be able to stay their
Great job bro.
oh wow, thanks bro
Bro 2 years and you were still a level 1
How?
Im pretty sure I actually made an entire video about this one topic, I’m not sure at the moment if I ever actually uploaded it
I’m an Amazon delivery driver and for me it’s not so bad , I get paid 17$ and hour and get paid for 10hr shifts . So if I finish early I can go home ! My boss takes good care of us and also gives up bonuses. In terms of Pissing in a bottle I mean it’s true . That’s only because you don’t wanna go to a near gas station ! It’s all on the driver. Dogs are part of the job , I make sure to look out for beware of dog signs , and if I wanna be extra safe I shake the gate or whistle ! This job is simple and it’s a great workout 🏋️♀️
honestly I respect it, im working on videos about negative experiences ive had with amazon, though it doesnt mean it can't be a good job for someone else out their
Very true !
I wish the best of you in your amazon career, working as a driver is much different then working in the warehouse, and either way I know their people who are happy with their amazon job 👍
@@OurWorldShifted Thank you 🙏 ! Absolutely I agree .
Do you still play ball? If so, where and what league?
Aw yeah!!! Amazon is not IT!! I work there and I am miserable! I will be quitting this week. I can not take it anymore. They do not give a fuck about you at all.
Lazy people!!
He speaks facts.
10 seconds in. They pay you so not slave labor. Now I'll watch h the video to see if this is a millennial or gen z saying why work to get paid.
Well, have you ever heard of slave contracts?
i heard that they want to be best employer in the world🤒
Every company on the planet has a PR team my guy 😂
Makes sense, it’s the first hand experience of how bad it was at amazon that came as a shock to me
besos means kisses in spanish "the bezos of death".
WOW
Amazon is the best place to work if you go to school
Worse place to work in America! I quit yesterday, it’s hard to believe slavery is still legal 🤦🏾♂️
It's called WORK....what the hell do people want, do you want to stand around and get paid and do absolutely nothing...I've been at Amazon for 3weeks now and I keep moving up the ladder...
Sounds like work. This guy is bitching about WORK. LoL
These people are hella lazy. Dont wanna work and earn a paycheck to do nothing lol I'm laughing my ass off at all these bums who cry over this job.
yea we know this lol you do realize amazon will fire anyone for no reason. trust this you arent safe from being fired.
Yes they will fire for Stuipd reason about ur rate not being fast enough which is Stuipd as hell tht why they can't keep ppl plus they expect ppl to work 10 hours and use the hell outta you like robots
@@markstrong1328 wrong
best way to stop this is to boycott amazon. i only use ebay, its cheaper and has a wider selection and i can wait for my stuff. we all have the power to destroy this greedy demon
I was a driver and I left after 3 weeks
Slaves get paid and have their own car house etc?
I consider any job that pays you minimal wage, to do labor work, as slave labor, because, the point is, you can only afford to survive, and return to work, do you not believe in any government conspiracy theory’s at all? Or heard of slave contracts
Great video.
Thank you, I hope it helps people
Last time I check,slaves didn’t get paid! Of benefits 😂 definitely need to find a different word for Amazon horrible work environment
Legal slavery
Anglo Saxon work ethic, the belief is work should be miserable
Devouring employees like Unicron.
informative
Thank you thank you ☺️☺️☺️☺️👾👾👾👾☺️☺️☺️☺️👾👾👾👾
how do you quit like on the app i dont see any way to quit
Well depends...
If your sure your never going back. You just stop going and let them quit you
Well bottom of my screen says or were you thinking about resigning an Amazon let us help you. It is a thank you could click on secured to but I’m like whatever people
0:05 Were slaves being paid for their work? Where they free to quit if they didn't like the pay?
its the biggest negative comparison he could come up with. its a shitty company in many respects, obviously it isnt actualy slave labor, cmon man, you aint that dense.
@@mattcoffee1269 Words tend to be associated with certain meanings. For example, you would not call war 'peace' or a lie 'truth'. Unless you practiced doublespeak.
So if you are to claim that largely free choice is 'slavery' you might as well stop using words and make a series of inarticulate sounds or beat your own chest to express your displeasure. Because once words become completely detached from specific meanings they become useless and therefore not needed.
@@arthdenton NO... he was just exaggerating son. Pretty simple to understand. A gross exaggeration maybe, but none the less, a simple concept. Laters
and yes, some slaves did get paid , read up on your history. Some even purchased their freedom with saved wages. ^.^ even goes back to roman times ^.^
@@mattcoffee1269 of course. Quote from daddy Orwell, illustrating doublespeak: "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength".
Attempts to justify stupidity are just that.
And I do apologize for engaging. Have a happy life, son.
He started off basically saying Amazon has a PR department and actively works on its image.... like EVERY other corporatation.
Yes, I’ve scene this I’m action, first hand, behind the scenes, in a really exclusive meeting, where only the tour guides where at
are they pushing humans to their limits to make them robots ?
Not just treat people like slaves, but sounds like they are emotional abusive as well.
Switch jobs
Wow
this video was just what I remembered at the time over a year later, I could have made 100 videos while I was working their
@@OurWorldShifted I start the 11th. I'm terrified lol
@@OurWorldShifted I'm in miami
@@MYJOURNEYWITHSANTAMUERTE im going to give you my realist advice for working at amazon
@@MYJOURNEYWITHSANTAMUERTE dont take anything too seriously, dont take anything to personally, dont let anything stress you out, remember why your their, what your working for, and focus on yourself, do the best you can, if it works out, then just stay, if it doesnt work, you'll find work somewhere else
Good job
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!
Oh yes they’ll tell you stopped your face and not follow up on it not too good not to right by human dignity and if you are not in there clicks you can hang it up it’s like 12-year-olds running around there
Good video
oh yes, I had many of the funs at amazon, it was such a great place to be 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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thank yu= very mcuhy, much, you, thn=anks 🙃
Seems, had bad experience with amazon?
I was their for almost 2 years, I wish I just had a list written of everything I saw, I could make a 100 videos or something off it
@@OurWorldShifted Make all 100 Videos. Liked & Subscribed
well thank you very much, at the moment I actually have around 3 videos already made about amazon, more focused on specific points instead of just about everything as this one was, they will be out soon, and more will be on the way
slave didnt get pay .... understand it ???
not his point and no shit on slaves being no paid. lol duhhh hes referring to being treated like shit for caring bout this job while others didnt bother to
I find it interesting that most people who hate Amazon are the lowest lever workers..yes they’re opinion and experiences matter but positions that are not managerial are gonna do the hardest jobs..that’s with any big company.
Also, of course Amazon “pays people to talk to the media”. Duh! It’s called a media department. 99% of big companies have them..
I just think its weird that people who are managers don’t have this “Amazon sucks. Don’t work there”.
This is the equivalent of a McDonald’s employee complaining about flipping fries. Once again, not saying the fry guys experiences don’t matter but I guarantee his experience would be different if he wasn’t an hourly worker.
Jus sayin.
And you haven’t seen MCO2
I’ve only heard stories, apparently the one I worked at was supposed to be one of the best ones in the area, online they sound even worse
Oh yes we have Covid and we have some women that’s a are told you’re so awesome and they do such great work. And somehow no one absolutely no one in management who is there walking and present some hell doesn’t see when she’s walking over top of people going in the isles in front of other people walking on top of them no one sees it. And then they try to blame it on your social distancing monitors they can go to hell is what they can do because you know what that’s called it’s called they’re trying to be bullshitters and I don’t like bullshitters that’s bullshitting. Man you got me riled up so now I am just like wow I’m going to the same shit Amazon needs an absolute refacing they are just wow sad sick
16 $ is nothing for this job,,is very very hard job 👎
I need your help iam having the same problem at amozon
Well how can I help you
Nope
They won’t let us sit smh. Even when showing us videos when training we are still standing it’s not cool or healthy on your body. Wouldn’t recommend this job for the long term.
The kind of place damn if you do damn if you don't sounds to me.