working at delivery station was very easy, the only bad thing is its over night, last time i checked there it was overnight graveyard shift from 1am-12pm which is the crappiest schedule out there. Once that 6am hits your body tries to go into shut down mode if your not experienced to it.
You ain’t lyin, that’s the truth. It’s call it graveyard shift for a reason. Longevity in life. FWIW the human body is designed to rest and recover during sundown, releasing human growth hormone (hGH) to repair body cells from oxidative stress. hGH is secreted the most between 12am - 2am during deep sleep. There are a clinical studies on this. Google scholar journals on hGH secretion correlated to sleep 🛌 💤
Nah Bro that’s the best schedule, no traffic, can do errands with not having to deal with The bullshit, plus your last day was basically a whole ass to yourself, making it 4 days off,
yeah man, sucks that people are in a place in life where they think that's acceptable doing that shit to themselves.... i personally will never work that shift unless it's a $25 an hour at least. Fuck Amazon. It's fucking disgusting and inhumane to spend the entire night doing physically and mentally demanding warehouse work.
Going back to work here soon. Job is very repetitive and I’m almost traumatized by those phone notifications 😂😂 but I need the money and the job is very reliable cause I know for sure im getting those 40 hrs. Plus vto can come in real handy at some points. Can’t wait to stack up the bread to get a car !!! LETS GET IT. in Jesus name I pray, amen !🙏
I'm a delivery driver and I could probably do this better than I do delivering😂 I actually prefer this work, but I love being out by myself listening to my own music. Great job man 💪🏽
That’s great to hear - unsupervised work is less stressful if you got a work ethic no one will watch you closely. At the warehouse we are separated on each aisle, so technically we work on our own too. I just got my music, stow packages neatly for drivers like yourself, and nothing but it’s happy days.
I used to be dsp driver and then transition to this job, I actually love working at warehouse since you get 40 hours a week + ot and not to sweat your balls delivering packages
@@mikeeonfiyawell you're doing great. Watching you slide on the floor like that is crazy lol I feel like the bottom tote should start at your waist. Hopefully you get to move up or they consider you for a leadership role 🤙🏽
I will give it up to Amazon. Huge Props for an amazing warehouse system. Being a computer programmer and more, I'm still at awe at whoever put their warehouse system together. every piece is so perfect. from the stowing into the bags and the carts for the trucks to do the deliveries, the delivery addresses are never thought about as the system and the bags containing the items to be delivered were in a specific zip code. The driver did not have to travel back and forth across town. His bags of goodies were all in a tight little area. Amazingly Elegant system Amazon has.
They teach us how to stow they just do whatever they want to do. I hate coming behind someone messy work cause now I’m behind trying to straighten up the tote to make room for other stuff.
I start at a delivery station (thank goodness only 10min commute) this Thursday. I'll be working the 1:20am-11:50am overnight shift. Hopefully it goes well, I'm a little nervous. I'm hoping the job can last 6-12 months or so as I figure out a more long term job solution with better pay. This job will just barely help me pay my bills but I am thankful it's available as there's worst jobs out there for worst pay.
I start at 1:20am to 11:50am as well they just open the new one right by me like 3 miles from my house so I figured the pay seemed pretty decent for the overnight and 4 day work weeks is were it's at I was working at a medical grow facility as a cultivation specialists in irrigation I was making 19 there Amazon hitting over $20 here so I figured it's the same kind of factory other than plans and everything else I was doing down same kind of s*** a little bit better pay
Make a video bro! I’m out there on my own showing the grit involved when it’s busy and I’m getting haters commenting saying it’s messy. But that’s the reality, it’s controller chaos. I’ve seen vanish night, Cherry boy and other DS Stow videos that don’t show them hustling when it’s busy. That ain’t gonna show new hires the reality of the work when it’s busy, let alone working efficiently and quickly. Hit me up if you make a video bro
Definitely ill lyk. but yeah it can certainly get chaotic. I wanna just share my way of stowing and give pointers and hopefully it can really help others out@@mikeeonfiya
@@mike_service please do make a video. Any tips, tricks, or other helpful advice would be nice. Im 10 days in. How do u avoid getting backed up when stowing. I'm at a ds facility and at the morning huddle the forecast is around 80k. Today was my first Sunday and it was nuts! Any advice is greatly appreciated
I hear you bro. I was working for close to 8 months. In total, I’ve pulled 5 all nighters due to insomnia. Those days were brutal. Unisom, melatonin, white noise machine, black out curtains, nothin helped. Laying in bed from 6pm wide awake until 12am sucks Amazon is fun, just the sleep cycle sucks.
When I worked at the delivery station near me i brunt myself out by going to fast or stressing how full my aisles were. What helped me with keeping my rated up was i would arrange the boxes on my cart with half of it being a-c boxes and the other half being the other letters. It helped clear the rack and easier to find the bags. Also memorize which side was the odd and even number so I would know what side it went into just by looking at the label! It worked pretty well for me and I was usually top stower with my personal record being a little over 3k (only bc i was competitive)
I used to work at a delivery station and they assigned me to stow often because I was one of the fastest. Hated it. I don’t miss it at all. Btw, you’re doing a good job. Don’t burn yourself out working too fast. Good luck !
I used to have four aisles every night because I was good at it. The supervisors were horrible because they gave their buddies one aisle each night. Their buddies were there for a few years and were always on their phones while everyone else was working. DLN4 in Chicago never work there.
This facility runs a lot slower than the one I worked at. The conveyor behind the rack moved a lot faster, and it never stopped. The buffers (people that loaded the rack) would have to move like athletes across five aisles. There were also mountains of jiffies and huge boxes weighing 30+ lbs. destroying everything. I also had to work at least three aisles while stowing. If I spent more than 10 minutes in one aisle, then the others would be overflowing, and my buffer would get upset.
You know what your rates are? I was at 357/ hr, 2200 some packages stowed one shift when i busted ass lol and all of my bags sorted properly. Started just sliding all OV packages down and then G, E's, and D's. Any A, B, C I stow it as i'm taking each package off the shelf. Clear the P2B in like 2 minutes and then i take all the jiffy's and dump them in piles by the bags they should be by, read every aid label so i don't waste time with improper sort. I am 250-300 every shift now not really sweating too much. I got tired of having to find carts so I just don't use them now if they aren't near the aisle already.
Some days I peak at 400-360, but it goes down usually at the end before P&S, because a lot of inferred time when helping the associates with non-cons. I am quick on induct/unloading, they have me switch between the two positions …my lower back has finally adjusted to induct/unloading; it used to be sore all the time because of the high volume needed (e.g., hyperextention), it’s not sore anymore when I am actively engaging my core. That’ll be my last upload for Amazon DS video - I hope to shed some light for those who’s going to be joining the fray.
@@mikeeonfiya You guys need to get over to the UK stowing! I used to work at a DS here for almost 2 years, most I did stowing just before I left was 6234 parcels, 774 per hour, 0 FSAF in a 10 hour shift. Was always fun to race friends working there!
@@DJspeedmisteryo, good stuff, that’s really fast bruv. I competed against my best friend, we’d usually lead the pack, but not close to the speed and volume you mentioned, sheesh! towards the end of my time at Amazon I really dialed in on 0 FSFA and Tetris style where boxes are behind & under jiffies…thus creating a sturdy bag that won’t cave out when stacked upon one another during P&S Load Out. Amazon has been the funnest job without a doubt. Gotta have the music 🎵 Mad love and respect.
@@joshdeleon2862 is C such a long walk for you? That’s literally a stone throw away. I was here for 8 months to understand the workflow and able to clear my rack and blast through the jiffies so until you upload a video nobody needs your regurgitated advice. Get a education L1 lifer
i remember when they first opened there delivery stations, they refused us to allow to use a carts to move the boxes so You had to carry the big boxes to stow(pack) in its correct delivery bag. Employee's would toss the boxes on the floor to try to move it. Lots of lazy employee's started to throw the wrong boxes in the bags without scanning it causing errors. I hated the jiffy thieves that would simply walk around scanning jiffies to get a high scan rate. Now they only got the graveyard night hours from 1:30 am - 11:30 am. Why simply to make the employees restock the bags because management was too lazy to have it's PA's and ambassadors do it or the day crew which they renamed as returns. Its just pathetic of how amazon is run. Lots of stoners and drunks. On new years, christmas and 4th of july there would be so many drunks.
Haha! I did that same exact thing. Graveyard shift overnight. It sucked. I hated it. The fellow employees were mostly cool though and I miss them. Swedesboro, NJ. Even the managers were cool. It's just the work that sucks. And the long hours. Fuck that shit. Seven months was enough for me.
@@mikeeonfiya doing grave yard shift from 1am-2pm for 4 days really takes a toll on your body. If you just sat around like a security guard that wouldn't be a problem but your working yourself off the entire night. That $21 cap limit to veteran workers is a joke since now for peak every new worker is gonna be paid 18.25-18.95. A few workers started off about 3 years ago at $15 per hour and were promised to get $21in 4 years but apparently now everybody is gonna be working at the same wages. Amazon isn't planning on increasing the $21 dollars cap
@@FirstnameLastname-nn2exfacts. Amazon is good for the experience and as an eye-opener. I appreciate the logistics every time I place an order now. They offer no benefits regardless of your merit or background. I’ve seen a site manager that was 19 years old and he couldn’t stow I’d imagine, dude was frail & not physically capable of manual labor, just talk no walk. Thanks for your service. You’re better than just a number at Amazon.
I’m not that quick…come to realize I spend too much time reorganizing and shuffling as I stow, but that’s how I Tetris. Other people will have other styles and methods. but to make use of the cart, make every step count; like stack packages on top of OV’s, you’ve might as well stow some E-G packages on your way down to stow OV’s. Tetris really involves reorganizing, taking out packages, rotating packages vertically and horizontally, whatever means to make them align neatly. Hope all goes well.
To anyone looking to work for amazon or works at amazon you will get injured just a matter of time doing the same repetitive movements over and over they don't care about you that job will work you till you are worthless then toss you out managers have easy jobs and supervisors you just have to be hartless and treat other work colleagues below you like cattle I was there 2 years and it's a meat grinder people that get fired after a few months are the smart one's if you need cash apply for amazon and do the bare minimum amount of work get whatever cash you can then dip that's my best advice 👍
If you enjoy stowing, ask the PA/AM to assign you there. Getting overwhelmed happens to everybody, some take it stride and others lay back. I have only picked 5 times for an entire shift when I worked there for 8 months. Stowing is and has always been fun. Picking will be automated soon via machines though. Stay safe out there
@@crystalmoonstar275 during my tenure here we only had 4 aisles, that’s our norm. And we stow about 1700 pkgs from 0320 - 0950 I did 6 aisles during prime week and covering for folks that VTO’d out. In the later video you can see my hop over to A25-26, as I started recording A23-24. Take care out there.
Lol, we can only stow them in the order we get them? 🤷♂️ All the devices tell us is what bag they go in. Other than that, we just have to make everything fit and try not to give drivers extra bags unnecessarily
@@zs9265 congratulations on the job. Delivery Stations are the funnest compared to a Fulfillment Center IMO. I only worked here for ~ 7 months, and it was fun. Once you start, you’ll Stow like I do in this video. Drink elecrolytes before your shift. Bring a speaker to make the job fun. After you get proficient at Stow, try asking the PA for Unloading at the Dock. Stow + Unload were my favorite positions. I never liked Picking (like how the guy is in the video is seen loading my rack in order for me to Stow). Next to electrolytes and music, I usually pounded a pre workout before each shift for the vasodilators and creatine to keep my muscles working for the ~28k step.
Agreed. If you use the cart to put bins or all the boxes on, you can easily wheel it down the isle corresponding to the letter. Also don't take the library stack so literally. Laying a box down on the long side an putting another box laying the same way allows jiffys to be be placed on top and around. I rarely have to close a bag. Also I hate when induct goes from boxes to jiffys back to boxes. That is just as annoying as someone doing 30 ovs because they can't stow boxes correctly
@@blueskies281978I’m knocking out all my jiffys then my box pkgs. have you seen the entire video? FWIT I ain’t at Amazon it’s been a fun experiment there, I have a degree to fall back on.
@@mikeeonfiyaYes I did see the whole video. Most of what I was saying wasn't directed at you except when I agreed to too many movements. It was just advice and things I noticed that worked better at my warehouse.
I’ll be starting on 11/3 in amazon delivery station warehouse. Do we also need ro drive PIT? I left other warehouse coz im not comfortable driving PIT.
@@ShaiKharen You won’t encounter that at a DS, they won’t make you do anything you’re not comfortable with. E.g., I never did ‘Pick 2 Buffer’ (it’s the person loading the buffer racks). Also, some people never worked the Loading Dock as they aren’t comfortable pushing the arrivals of FC fully filled carts, they’re heavy.
Im about to start on Wednesday as a delivery station warehouse associate. 3:20am to 11:50am. I was a preloader at ups. Question: is there random drug testing? Or was that initial one during the hiring process it?
Finished my 4th day at a dc and man this is definitely my favorite position to do . Pick to buff and picking and evening opening bags and shit was easy too but there’s something about stow that I fuck with. My first rate with stow was 426 and was told that’s good but I wonder what’s the minimum goal cuz bad days can happen yk?
@@Dreeking101 I can’t agree enough, it really is like Tetris, you sort of gamify the work at hand. With that said, I enjoy going fast, I organize my bags more often than not though, that slows down my rate - but it’s for the sake of Tetris-ing. Glad you’re having fun out there!
What’s opening . Tbh I don’t like picking cause the 10 minute they want you do it especially when I have asile b that has heavy boxes then the cart be to hard to move to the other side of the building and they want his all done in 10 minutes
No they just tell you to knock out like 70% of an aisle and then move on to your next one. But of course people all do it their own way. Just depends on the person and whether or not they have assigned aisles or are floating around to clean up really full ones.
@@AC-cz9zn in a delivery station, you’ll start out with Stowing or Picking. After a certain time, more positions will be available for you to be cross-trained for. You can opt to work at the Dock area, along the conveyor belts, hazmat area, there’s a lot.
I currently work at an amazon and this associate is very messy with how he's doing things and wasting to much movement Most of my fellow associates are very much more organized in movement than that So even though he's showing a rough over view most associates that I work with take a little bit more pride in how they work and what they do We also focus on safety that cart is not moving as much as he's letting it
@@leslieshroutjr3841 we got an hour before pick 2 stage. Many left UPT. It needs to be done quickly and I do take pride in organized totes. You haven’t watched the entire video to see how OV’s and jiffies are done have you? Good luck with Amazon. 8 months and I’m off to better things.
Only reason I last at Amazon is part time and pick up 10 hour shifts when I really need the money quicker or emergency need it’s less stress working two days 20 hours a week with options to pick up shifts on off days I make 21 and up depending on the day and times no lower I use to work 4 days 20 hours at delivery and picked up shifts but now at another Amazon Lit two days a week and went from 17 to 21 dollars and up so Amazon is great just for beginners don’t rush and get the 4 days a week schedules be patient unless you really need it look for either 5 days 20 hours or two days 20 hours you will be able to pick up shifts so don’t stress if you say you need the money cause you will get it and work around your schedule like I do.
The worst job in the world is stowing at a delivery station just to pull the same crap a few hours later. I’m back to driving a forklift for a better company with better pay and less work.
It’s just fun if you gamify stowing to be like Tetris. Besides that, the hours and wage is not sustainable for long term growth. Happy you’ve moved onto better things. I’ve done the same here.
I did Amazon warehouse for 3 months, I did the stowing and everything. This is a very accurate depiction of reality, except I had no cart, it would have slowed me down. I moved faster and kept my incoming shelves as empty as possible as soon as possible as more packages were being put on them from a conveyor belt you cannot see here. This dude is slow.
I’m working at warehouse FC inbound ! Thinking about transferring to DSR building soon there is two options for me to pick ! 1. RTS 2. SINGLECYCLE - Cycle_1 - Sort/Pick stage. Which one is the best ?! My FC is so stupid since one good lady is gone all inbound management got bad and deal with dumb peoples also PAs at mega don’t even know how to print out PO with ISD 😅 they unloaded the bunch of diapers I had to fix it was 4 different kinds of diapers and we don’t get shortable anymore we get big stuff up to 50lb I’m tired now 😅 so
RTS is earlier hours 4 pm to 12 am or 6 pm to 2 am. RTS work is physically and digitally opening Stow bags, debriefing delivery drivers, trouble shooting non-deliverables/damaged packages. You can think of RTS as the shift that preps the warehouse before the Cycle_1 shift starts. Bags needs to be placed and opened, etc. Cycle_1 is not as laid back as RTS, since you’ll be moving a lot more. It’s fast-paced. The hours are usually 3:20 am to 11:50 am, 5 days a week. Or 1:20 am to 11:50 am, 4 days a week (without OT pay for the extra 2 hrs each day). I personally enjoy Cycle_1 work, but I like RTS hours. Hope this helps - get out of that mad house FC! DS is funner, better for the mental health, it’ll tax you physically though, but you’ll adapt. I say this coming from ranges of 22-2k steps a day, or 12-14 miles of walking.
Hes going to be drained in an hour or two if he works like that? Work at tour own pace. Not to slow and not too fast. Idk? Maybe they have a time limit? Ratings? Still please dont overwhelmed yourselves?
I’m a stower .. my narcissistic boss promoted everyone except me because of my stow rate … in the end I’m not there to kiss their ass . I like to stow . And be left the fuck alone ..
Probably a little slower but not by much. Really though you gotta keep up with the rack, otherwise the other side where the conveyor belt is will get filled up with packages. I have seen a literal wall built around the rack for really slow people or aisles nobody went too, lol. Then the person on the conveyor side gets slowed down cause there's nowhere to store the stuff coming off the conveyor and it just gets hard to walk back and forth.
You really don't have to work this hard to be quick. He's doing a lot of unnecessary movement and not really using his cart in a smart way. If you stow like this the whole time you'll be worn out by lunchtime lol that said he did say he's a bit newer in this video.
It’s eccentric work. You’re working while the rest of the world is sleeping. You work with a big team where everyone fulfills a specific position. You work at your own pace as everyone helps each other. You can be either an introvert or extrovert, it doesn’t matter. That’s the comrades aspect. The work itself is physically demanding. Average of 22k - 25k steps a day, so about 12-14 miles of walking. Your body will feel sore where it never has before, but it will adapt with proper rest and recovery. All in all, delivery station warehouse associate is fun work. The funnest job I’ve ever had. Adrenaline, fast-paced, hands on, and very flexible schedule. Good job, but by no means is it a career.
Which part? Stack any E-G packages on OV’s to stow on your way down. Might as well chip away at the Buffer. Some people stow A-B before using the cart, I sometimes stow C-D since it’s a step away.
Slide oversized light rack Ov's to back on the floor, load e-g & D boxes on the cart , load bottom of cart with your most filled jiffy tote ( keep empty one to switch out with ; only C & G jiffy totes.. push cart to back then immediately knock out the A & B boxes and jiffys in the front . After the front done knock out the back cart and easy rack OVs at the end . Lmk what u think
You are killing your self... Stowing the way you are doing it is incorrect... Always use the cart and keep your aisle clear that way you don't trip over items as I saw in the video... If you Stow the proper way you will increase your numbers...What are your Stow Numbers ???...
No running! No personal speakers! You're moving too much for one scan...... And from a security point of view I don't think recording this video is within Amazon's policies..... seeing as how you could just pause/zoom into a package and get customer information if you really wanted to.... 🎉
I read from a newsfeed that Amazon Is going to deliver without the items in boxes . Won’t that make your job a little bit easier? What’s your thoughts about that? Btw Mike , you’re doing a great job. 💯🦾
I haven’t heard about that, but at my deliver my station, they have recently implemented an ASL machine to help the workflow, and that machine has replaced 7 positions. The machine is the Automatic Scan & Label (ASL); it eliminated a person having to scan each box unloaded from another person at the beginning of the conveyor belt. That person uses Avery label gun. They scan each box and add a label, that box now has a label - so that we know where it will go. The ASL scans and drops a label onto boxes, so you still need a person unloading, but no longer a 2nd person putting the labels on (next time you receive an Amazon package, look for a colorful sticker - it might say “G 10.2G.” The indicates which aisle in the warehouse that boxes is diverted to. For example, in this video, I am stowing packages for B 24, B 23, B 22, B 21. I know a lot of people enjoyed using the Avery gun and scanning each pkg to put the label on, and the machine has replaced them. Sorry for the lengthy explanation, I hope it makes sense. The next machine will eliminate Pickers (look at the guy who places packages on my rack for me to stow). In the near future, they will have automated Pick To Buffers to do that. So that means the human touch is still needed by stowers. In my opinion, Amazon is king at logistics; implementing machines will smoothen the work at the the delivery station (DS), but delivering without items in the boxes will most likely occur at Fulfillment Centers (FC), as they control your order in the beginning. Thank you and take care out there.
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working at delivery station was very easy, the only bad thing is its over night, last time i checked there it was overnight graveyard shift from 1am-12pm which is the crappiest schedule out there. Once that 6am hits your body tries to go into shut down mode if your not experienced to it.
You ain’t lyin, that’s the truth.
It’s call it graveyard shift for a reason. Longevity in life.
FWIW the human body is designed to rest and recover during sundown, releasing human growth hormone (hGH) to repair body cells from oxidative stress.
hGH is secreted the most between 12am - 2am during deep sleep.
There are a clinical studies on this.
Google scholar journals on hGH secretion correlated to sleep 🛌 💤
Nah Bro that’s the best schedule, no traffic, can do errands with not having to deal with The bullshit, plus your last day was basically a whole ass to yourself, making it 4 days off,
@@EstaDePiPi100% agreed
@@mikeeonfiyamost people aren't in bed by 12am anyway, they're on their phone till 2-3am so it's a moot point
yeah man, sucks that people are in a place in life where they think that's acceptable doing that shit to themselves.... i personally will never work that shift unless it's a $25 an hour at least. Fuck Amazon. It's fucking disgusting and inhumane to spend the entire night doing physically and mentally demanding warehouse work.
Going back to work here soon. Job is very repetitive and I’m almost traumatized by those phone notifications 😂😂 but I need the money and the job is very reliable cause I know for sure im getting those 40 hrs. Plus vto can come in real handy at some points. Can’t wait to stack up the bread to get a car !!! LETS GET IT. in Jesus name I pray, amen !🙏
Have fun working the July peak!
I'm a delivery driver and I could probably do this better than I do delivering😂 I actually prefer this work, but I love being out by myself listening to my own music. Great job man 💪🏽
That’s great to hear - unsupervised work is less stressful if you got a work ethic no one will watch you closely.
At the warehouse we are separated on each aisle, so technically we work on our own too.
I just got my music, stow packages neatly for drivers like yourself, and nothing but it’s happy days.
Obviously you are a beginner ….start thinking about the overall stow in relationship to thee space jam and then say to yourself what am I doing wrong
I used to be dsp driver and then transition to this job, I actually love working at warehouse since you get 40 hours a week + ot and not to sweat your balls delivering packages
@@mikeeonfiyawell you're doing great. Watching you slide on the floor like that is crazy lol I feel like the bottom tote should start at your waist. Hopefully you get to move up or they consider you for a leadership role 🤙🏽
I will give it up to Amazon. Huge Props for an amazing warehouse system. Being a computer programmer and more, I'm still at awe at whoever put their warehouse system together. every piece is so perfect. from the stowing into the bags and the carts for the trucks to do the deliveries, the delivery addresses are never thought about as the system and the bags containing the items to be delivered were in a specific zip code. The driver did not have to travel back and forth across town. His bags of goodies were all in a tight little area. Amazingly Elegant system Amazon has.
@@kevinrickey3925 is that right? Amazon is king of logistics?
@@mikeeonfiya Compared to the post office, yeah. We need UPS and FedEx folks to chime in lol
NOW I SEE WHY WE HAVE TO WORK OUT OF 3 DIFFERENT BAGS WHILE DELIVERING 😂😂😂😂 it all makes sense now
fuckin no kidding.
Smh. They don't teach em to stow. And the worst thing is... it's literally simple. Folks are just lazy.
They teach us how to stow they just do whatever they want to do. I hate coming behind someone messy work cause now I’m behind trying to straighten up the tote to make room for other stuff.
We have to do more than one lane
@@CamChatman-m7o bless your heart
I start at a delivery station (thank goodness only 10min commute) this Thursday. I'll be working the 1:20am-11:50am overnight shift. Hopefully it goes well, I'm a little nervous. I'm hoping the job can last 6-12 months or so as I figure out a more long term job solution with better pay. This job will just barely help me pay my bills but I am thankful it's available as there's worst jobs out there for worst pay.
It’s a fun job. You got nothing to be nervous about - make sure you stay hydrated and work at a comfortable pace.
I start at 1:20am to 11:50am as well they just open the new one right by me like 3 miles from my house so I figured the pay seemed pretty decent for the overnight and 4 day work weeks is were it's at I was working at a medical grow facility as a cultivation specialists in irrigation I was making 19 there Amazon hitting over $20 here so I figured it's the same kind of factory other than plans and everything else I was doing down same kind of s*** a little bit better pay
Same here I start next week, at the delivery station 1:20am to 11:50am. I chose the weekend shifts. Left a food packing plant to be closer to home.
I enjoy stowing. I go about my stowing differently. I kinda want to make a video on how i personally stow.
Make a video bro!
I’m out there on my own showing the grit involved when it’s busy and I’m getting haters commenting saying it’s messy.
But that’s the reality, it’s controller chaos. I’ve seen vanish night, Cherry boy and other DS Stow videos that don’t show them hustling when it’s busy.
That ain’t gonna show new hires the reality of the work when it’s busy, let alone working efficiently and quickly.
Hit me up if you make a video bro
Definitely ill lyk. but yeah it can certainly get chaotic. I wanna just share my way of stowing and give pointers and hopefully it can really help others out@@mikeeonfiya
Where's the video ?
@@mike_service please do make a video. Any tips, tricks, or other helpful advice would be nice. Im 10 days in. How do u avoid getting backed up when stowing. I'm at a ds facility and at the morning huddle the forecast is around 80k. Today was my first Sunday and it was nuts! Any advice is greatly appreciated
Stowing is az
That moment when you notice the package you scanned is in the next aisle over....😢
Faxs
God I hated that. Then you come back and if its busy, your rack is like half full again, lol.
2 months deep into working at a DS, getting up at midnight to work 10 hours on 4 hours of sleep is fucking *brutal.*
I hear you bro.
I was working for close to 8 months.
In total, I’ve pulled 5 all nighters due to insomnia. Those days were brutal.
Unisom, melatonin, white noise machine, black out curtains, nothin helped. Laying in bed from 6pm wide awake until 12am sucks
Amazon is fun, just the sleep cycle sucks.
When I worked at the delivery station near me i brunt myself out by going to fast or stressing how full my aisles were. What helped me with keeping my rated up was i would arrange the boxes on my cart with half of it being a-c boxes and the other half being the other letters. It helped clear the rack and easier to find the bags. Also memorize which side was the odd and even number so I would know what side it went into just by looking at the label! It worked pretty well for me and I was usually top stower with my personal record being a little over 3k (only bc i was competitive)
Do they give bonus if your in top stower?
@@badeng4787No just meet your minimum do not over work, you're getting the same pay as someone doing the minimum.
@@badeng4787nope you get nothing lol
@@OriginalLazurus lol so why stress your self,work smart not hard🤣
@@badeng4787ikr just don't be among the slowest and you're good
I used to work at a delivery station and they assigned me to stow often because I was one of the fastest. Hated it. I don’t miss it at all.
Btw, you’re doing a good job. Don’t burn yourself out working too fast. Good luck !
Thanks bro, they alternate me to unload next to stow, which involves speed as well.
Take care out there.
I actually like stowing I am bad at pick up buff
Good job. Be safe out there Mike!
I used to have four aisles every night because I was good at it. The supervisors were horrible because they gave their buddies one aisle each night. Their buddies were there for a few years and were always on their phones while everyone else was working. DLN4 in Chicago never work there.
@@JM-lv5fu they need to do the same at DLN4
This facility runs a lot slower than the one I worked at. The conveyor behind the rack moved a lot faster, and it never stopped. The buffers (people that loaded the rack) would have to move like athletes across five aisles. There were also mountains of jiffies and huge boxes weighing 30+ lbs. destroying everything. I also had to work at least three aisles while stowing. If I spent more than 10 minutes in one aisle, then the others would be overflowing, and my buffer would get upset.
😂😂
You know what your rates are? I was at 357/ hr, 2200 some packages stowed one shift when i busted ass lol and all of my bags sorted properly. Started just sliding all OV packages down and then G, E's, and D's. Any A, B, C I stow it as i'm taking each package off the shelf. Clear the P2B in like 2 minutes and then i take all the jiffy's and dump them in piles by the bags they should be by, read every aid label so i don't waste time with improper sort. I am 250-300 every shift now not really sweating too much. I got tired of having to find carts so I just don't use them now if they aren't near the aisle already.
Some days I peak at 400-360, but it goes down usually at the end before P&S, because a lot of inferred time when helping the associates with non-cons.
I am quick on induct/unloading, they have me switch between the two positions
…my lower back has finally adjusted to induct/unloading; it used to be sore all the time because of the high volume needed (e.g., hyperextention), it’s not sore anymore when I am actively engaging my core.
That’ll be my last upload for Amazon DS video - I hope to shed some light for those who’s going to be joining the fray.
@@mikeeonfiya I only worked the dock a couple of times, can see how unloading the entire shift would be rough. Good luck out there brotha.
@@mikeeonfiya You guys need to get over to the UK stowing! I used to work at a DS here for almost 2 years, most I did stowing just before I left was 6234 parcels, 774 per hour, 0 FSAF in a 10 hour shift. Was always fun to race friends working there!
@@DJspeedmisteryo, good stuff, that’s really fast bruv.
I competed against my best friend, we’d usually lead the pack, but not close to the speed and volume you mentioned, sheesh!
towards the end of my time at Amazon I really dialed in on 0 FSFA and Tetris style where boxes are behind & under jiffies…thus creating a sturdy bag that won’t cave out when stacked upon one another during P&S Load Out.
Amazon has been the funnest job without a doubt. Gotta have the music 🎵
Mad love and respect.
Yeah definitely a fun job but not for long-term! Especially the night shifts!@@mikeeonfiya
This really makes me appreciate AR stowing but they expect more numbers, of course.
Easy work. Categorize the packages that go togather. A and b, C and D and so on. Rather than going up and down the aisle.
@@joshdeleon2862 is C such a long walk for you? That’s literally a stone throw away.
I was here for 8 months to understand the workflow and able to clear my rack and blast through the jiffies so until you upload a video nobody needs your regurgitated advice. Get a education L1 lifer
@@mikeeonfiya haha oh you're offended. Just common sense
@@mikeeonfiya haha oh you're offended. Just common sense
rushing is only gonna burn you out before halfway mark of shift
Super vidéo
@@Паша-б6д Yooo, thanks for stopping by
i remember when they first opened there delivery stations, they refused us to allow to use a carts to move the boxes so You had to carry the big boxes to stow(pack) in its correct delivery bag. Employee's would toss the boxes on the floor to try to move it. Lots of lazy employee's started to throw the wrong boxes in the bags without scanning it causing errors. I hated the jiffy thieves that would simply walk around scanning jiffies to get a high scan rate. Now they only got the graveyard night hours from 1:30 am - 11:30 am. Why simply to make the employees restock the bags because management was too lazy to have it's PA's and ambassadors do it or the day crew which they renamed as returns. Its just pathetic of how amazon is run. Lots of stoners and drunks. On new years, christmas and 4th of july there would be so many drunks.
Yeah cause this is a delivery station.. This isn't a fulfillment center...
This is stowing in a delivery station. They don't pack anything.
Thx for making these
Haha! I did that same exact thing. Graveyard shift overnight. It sucked. I hated it. The fellow employees were mostly cool though and I miss them. Swedesboro, NJ. Even the managers were cool. It's just the work that sucks. And the long hours. Fuck that shit. Seven months was enough for me.
@@2242bzo same here, about 8 months!
@@mikeeonfiya doing grave yard shift from 1am-2pm for 4 days really takes a toll on your body. If you just sat around like a security guard that wouldn't be a problem but your working yourself off the entire night. That $21 cap limit to veteran workers is a joke since now for peak every new worker is gonna be paid 18.25-18.95. A few workers started off about 3 years ago at $15 per hour and were promised to get $21in 4 years but apparently now everybody is gonna be working at the same wages. Amazon isn't planning on increasing the $21 dollars cap
@@FirstnameLastname-nn2exfacts. Amazon is good for the experience and as an eye-opener.
I appreciate the logistics every time I place an order now.
They offer no benefits regardless of your merit or background. I’ve seen a site manager that was 19 years old and he couldn’t stow I’d imagine, dude was frail & not physically capable of manual labor, just talk no walk.
Thanks for your service. You’re better than just a number at Amazon.
I think my speed is alright but im bad at tetrising and dont use the cart well, any tips?
I’m not that quick…come to realize I spend too much time reorganizing and shuffling as I stow, but that’s how I Tetris. Other people will have other styles and methods.
but to make use of the cart, make every step count; like stack packages on top of OV’s, you’ve might as well stow some E-G packages on your way down to stow OV’s.
Tetris really involves reorganizing, taking out packages, rotating packages vertically and horizontally, whatever means to make them align neatly.
Hope all goes well.
@@mikeeonfiya I'll give an update, thanks for the tips!
I never use the cart I should start using it though
@@donew1thita11 I would it definitely helps take stress off of both you and your picker
That's some good music.
Finally someone notices! Thank you!
To anyone looking to work for amazon or works at amazon you will get injured just a matter of time doing the same repetitive movements over and over they don't care about you that job will work you till you are worthless then toss you out managers have easy jobs and supervisors you just have to be hartless and treat other work colleagues below you like cattle I was there 2 years and it's a meat grinder people that get fired after a few months are the smart one's if you need cash apply for amazon and do the bare minimum amount of work get whatever cash you can then dip that's my best advice 👍
Cool video.
So you pack that packages into those big totes that the drivers put in their trucks to deliver the items...
@@christopherort2889 yes. I stack it neatly, drivers will pour them out in their trucks though, since they are numerically # per route.
Nice going, Jason. I see you.
I used to do the same job for Amazon. They have you do about three different sections by yourself and don't pay nothing
@@matthewjohnson4209 That’s true
I’m 3. Months in I usually don’t do stowing sometimes I do get overwhelmed but they always put me there instead of pick to buff
If you enjoy stowing, ask the PA/AM to assign you there. Getting overwhelmed happens to everybody, some take it stride and others lay back. I have only picked 5 times for an entire shift when I worked there for 8 months. Stowing is and has always been fun.
Picking will be automated soon via machines though.
Stay safe out there
It is a fast paste 😅 position. I do the same thing . I can relate
You mean "fast pace"
I’m curious if you always have only one isle to work? At my delivery station, we’re assigned to 6 aisles per person.
@@crystalmoonstar275 during my tenure here we only had 4 aisles, that’s our norm. And we stow about 1700 pkgs from 0320 - 0950
I did 6 aisles during prime week and covering for folks that VTO’d out.
In the later video you can see my hop over to A25-26, as I started recording A23-24.
Take care out there.
Pretty sure some/most of those packages are out of order, got drivers driving in circles all day 😂 yes I deliver for Amazon I would know 😅
Lol, we can only stow them in the order we get them? 🤷♂️ All the devices tell us is what bag they go in. Other than that, we just have to make everything fit and try not to give drivers extra bags unnecessarily
I start on october 24th part time. Seasonal. Second job. Will be at a delivery station. Where's the best department to work in? And tips or advice?
@@zs9265 congratulations on the job. Delivery Stations are the funnest compared to a Fulfillment Center IMO.
I only worked here for ~ 7 months, and it was fun.
Once you start, you’ll Stow like I do in this video. Drink elecrolytes before your shift. Bring a speaker to make the job fun. After you get proficient at Stow, try asking the PA for Unloading at the Dock.
Stow + Unload were my favorite positions. I never liked Picking (like how the guy is in the video is seen loading my rack in order for me to Stow).
Next to electrolytes and music, I usually pounded a pre workout before each shift for the vasodilators and creatine to keep my muscles working for the ~28k step.
Alot of wasted movement..messy and chaotic
I agree it looks messy and chaotic, it’s old footage from 4 months into working.
Agreed. If you use the cart to put bins or all the boxes on, you can easily wheel it down the isle corresponding to the letter. Also don't take the library stack so literally. Laying a box down on the long side an putting another box laying the same way allows jiffys to be be placed on top and around. I rarely have to close a bag. Also I hate when induct goes from boxes to jiffys back to boxes. That is just as annoying as someone doing 30 ovs because they can't stow boxes correctly
@@blueskies281978I’m knocking out all my jiffys then my box pkgs. have you seen the entire video?
FWIT I ain’t at Amazon it’s been a fun experiment there, I have a degree to fall back on.
@@mikeeonfiyaYes I did see the whole video. Most of what I was saying wasn't directed at you except when I agreed to too many movements. It was just advice and things I noticed that worked better at my warehouse.
Lmao who cares?
When don't stow like that where I work
I’ll be starting on 11/3 in amazon delivery station warehouse. Do we also need ro drive PIT? I left other warehouse coz im not comfortable driving PIT.
@@ShaiKharen You won’t encounter that at a DS, they won’t make you do anything you’re not comfortable with.
E.g., I never did ‘Pick 2 Buffer’ (it’s the person loading the buffer racks).
Also, some people never worked the Loading Dock as they aren’t comfortable pushing the arrivals of FC fully filled carts, they’re heavy.
@@mikeeonfiya i hope so. They required us over the other warehouse thats why i left.
Im about to start on Wednesday as a delivery station warehouse associate. 3:20am to 11:50am. I was a preloader at ups. Question: is there random drug testing? Or was that initial one during the hiring process it?
No random just test. I saw people high as a kite during my tenure at Amazon.
Have fun out there!
I just started this same job it’s easy but a lot of movement
If they fast slow down, if they slow hurry up turtle who gets it!
Slide those jiffy bins down the aisle bro... You're walking back and forth too much for just one thing
23:40 I do exactly that bro.
Finished my 4th day at a dc and man this is definitely my favorite position to do . Pick to buff and picking and evening opening bags and shit was easy too but there’s something about stow that I fuck with. My first rate with stow was 426 and was told that’s good but I wonder what’s the minimum goal cuz bad days can happen yk?
Now that I think about it, it’s probably bc I see it as me playing Tetris all day
@@Dreeking101 I can’t agree enough, it really is like Tetris, you sort of gamify the work at hand. With that said, I enjoy going fast, I organize my bags more often than not though, that slows down my rate - but it’s for the sake of Tetris-ing.
Glad you’re having fun out there!
@@mikeeonfiya hell yeah! Hope peak season goes smoothly for you bro
What’s opening . Tbh I don’t like picking cause the 10 minute they want you do it especially when I have asile b that has heavy boxes then the cart be to hard to move to the other side of the building and they want his all done in 10 minutes
How do you know that you have finished this aisle and need to go to another aisle? Does the device tell you this information?
No they just tell you to knock out like 70% of an aisle and then move on to your next one. But of course people all do it their own way. Just depends on the person and whether or not they have assigned aisles or are floating around to clean up really full ones.
11:30 Can somebody please tell me which Song this is ? Sounds Cool
Milky Chance - Down By The River
@mikeeonfiya Thank You
I wish we still had racks
@@mutevillen I haven’t worked here since October’23. What’s different these days?
@@mikeeonfiyago back Mike
Is this the delivery station warehouse associate? If so, how many positions are there to do? Do the job position rotate?
I start in 3 days for training
@@AC-cz9zn in a delivery station, you’ll start out with Stowing or Picking. After a certain time, more positions will be available for you to be cross-trained for. You can opt to work at the Dock area, along the conveyor belts, hazmat area, there’s a lot.
I currently work at an amazon and this associate is very messy with how he's doing things and wasting to much movement
Most of my fellow associates are very much more organized in movement than that
So even though he's showing a rough over view most associates that I work with take a little bit more pride in how they work and what they do
We also focus on safety that cart is not moving as much as he's letting it
@@leslieshroutjr3841 we got an hour before pick 2 stage. Many left UPT. It needs to be done quickly and I do take pride in organized totes. You haven’t watched the entire video to see how OV’s and jiffies are done have you?
Good luck with Amazon. 8 months and I’m off to better things.
Ngl this was hard to watch
Where is this located
whats the rate expectation ? Like how many packages are you putting into the totes per hour
Each delivery station has their own stow rate averages, this station is around 217/pph.
@@mikeeonfiyaayooo what delivery station is this bruh…my station they expect every stower to hit atleast 425pph I’m averaging 600pph
I lasted 3 weeks then quit I couldn’t handle the the schedule
Only reason I last at Amazon is part time and pick up 10 hour shifts when I really need the money quicker or emergency need it’s less stress working two days 20 hours a week with options to pick up shifts on off days I make 21 and up depending on the day and times no lower I use to work 4 days 20 hours at delivery and picked up shifts but now at another Amazon Lit two days a week and went from 17 to 21 dollars and up so Amazon is great just for beginners don’t rush and get the 4 days a week schedules be patient unless you really need it look for either 5 days 20 hours or two days 20 hours you will be able to pick up shifts so don’t stress if you say you need the money cause you will get it and work around your schedule like I do.
Bouncy house blower
The worst job in the world is stowing at a delivery station just to pull the same crap a few hours later. I’m back to driving a forklift for a better company with better pay and less work.
It’s just fun if you gamify stowing to be like Tetris. Besides that, the hours and wage is not sustainable for long term growth.
Happy you’ve moved onto better things. I’ve done the same here.
This looks too crazy for me 😂 makes sense why I went thru a disaster when I was a driver
Wow I see a disaster ! Lol 😅
I did Amazon warehouse for 3 months, I did the stowing and everything. This is a very accurate depiction of reality, except I had no cart, it would have slowed me down. I moved faster and kept my incoming shelves as empty as possible as soon as possible as more packages were being put on them from a conveyor belt you cannot see here. This dude is slow.
@@kevinrickey3925 ok Mr. Superstar.
Has your chubby dad bod unloaded fast as fuck on the induction dock? Probably not.
I’m working at warehouse FC inbound ! Thinking about transferring to DSR building soon there is two options for me to pick ! 1. RTS 2. SINGLECYCLE - Cycle_1 - Sort/Pick stage. Which one is the best ?!
My FC is so stupid since one good lady is gone all inbound management got bad and deal with dumb peoples also PAs at mega don’t even know how to print out PO with ISD 😅 they unloaded the bunch of diapers I had to fix it was 4 different kinds of diapers and we don’t get shortable anymore we get big stuff up to 50lb I’m tired now 😅 so
RTS is earlier hours 4 pm to 12 am or 6 pm to 2 am.
RTS work is physically and digitally opening Stow bags, debriefing delivery drivers, trouble shooting non-deliverables/damaged packages.
You can think of RTS as the shift that preps the warehouse before the Cycle_1 shift starts. Bags needs to be placed and opened, etc.
Cycle_1 is not as laid back as RTS, since you’ll be moving a lot more. It’s fast-paced. The hours are usually 3:20 am to 11:50 am, 5 days a week.
Or 1:20 am to 11:50 am, 4 days a week (without OT pay for the extra 2 hrs each day).
I personally enjoy Cycle_1 work, but I like RTS hours.
Hope this helps - get out of that mad house FC! DS is funner, better for the mental health, it’ll tax you physically though, but you’ll adapt. I say this coming from ranges of 22-2k steps a day, or 12-14 miles of walking.
@@mikeeonfiya thank for that information helped me a lot :)
No wonder things get damaged way they getvthrown around
Hes going to be drained in an hour or two if he works like that? Work at tour own pace. Not to slow and not too fast. Idk? Maybe they have a time limit? Ratings? Still please dont overwhelmed yourselves?
I exercise outside of Amazon, this is just steady-state cardio. Warehouse work is not that bad especially when you’ve been training for 13 years.
I’m a stower .. my narcissistic boss promoted everyone except me because of my stow rate … in the end I’m not there to kiss their ass . I like to stow . And be left the fuck alone ..
The phone notifications are okay, but their music playlist is killing my brain.. they repeat and repeat and REPEAT the same ass playlist…
Lol. Just take the tote with you. Or move your cart and empty em on the floor.
I can see why average stow rate is 240. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Who do we have here a beached whale stuck onto Amazon like a parasitic barnacle. Enjoying the vending machines? LOL
Does this guy work like this when No camera????
Probably a little slower but not by much. Really though you gotta keep up with the rack, otherwise the other side where the conveyor belt is will get filled up with packages. I have seen a literal wall built around the rack for really slow people or aisles nobody went too, lol. Then the person on the conveyor side gets slowed down cause there's nowhere to store the stuff coming off the conveyor and it just gets hard to walk back and forth.
You really don't have to work this hard to be quick. He's doing a lot of unnecessary movement and not really using his cart in a smart way. If you stow like this the whole time you'll be worn out by lunchtime lol that said he did say he's a bit newer in this video.
What is it like to be a Delivery Station Warehouse Associate
It’s eccentric work. You’re working while the rest of the world is sleeping.
You work with a big team where everyone fulfills a specific position. You work at your own pace as everyone helps each other. You can be either an introvert or extrovert, it doesn’t matter.
That’s the comrades aspect.
The work itself is physically demanding. Average of 22k - 25k steps a day, so about 12-14 miles of walking. Your body will feel sore where it never has before, but it will adapt with proper rest and recovery.
All in all, delivery station warehouse associate is fun work. The funnest job I’ve ever had. Adrenaline, fast-paced, hands on, and very flexible schedule.
Good job, but by no means is it a career.
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@@MickeyLanes you already know
Umm you dropped my package…
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You move fast but not efficient
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You ain't going to get fat doing that job.
@@kingmike40 hell nah, not at 28-32k steps a day. Its a caloric deficit everyday
I’m tryna learn how to do it bro you moving to fast on every video
Which part? Stack any E-G packages on OV’s to stow on your way down. Might as well chip away at the Buffer. Some people stow A-B before using the cart, I sometimes stow C-D since it’s a step away.
Slide oversized light rack Ov's to back on the floor, load e-g & D boxes on the cart , load bottom of cart with your most filled jiffy tote ( keep empty one to switch out with ; only C & G jiffy totes.. push cart to back then immediately knock out the A & B boxes and jiffys in the front . After the front done knock out the back cart and easy rack OVs at the end . Lmk what u think
Fuck that job. I did it and it is not worth the pay
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Ora capisco perché sono tutti magri…..questo nn è lavoro….
could move faster if you werent wearing them skinny jeans bro.
You are killing your self... Stowing the way you are doing it is incorrect... Always use the cart and keep your aisle clear that way you don't trip over items as I saw in the video... If you Stow the proper way you will increase your numbers...What are your Stow Numbers ???...
No running! No personal speakers! You're moving too much for one scan...... And from a security point of view I don't think recording this video is within Amazon's policies..... seeing as how you could just pause/zoom into a package and get customer information if you really wanted to.... 🎉
Go off yourself
When drivers bitch about their routes do this gig for a week.
@@mrbillyb1966 or Unloading, it’s definitely the most physical / non-stop role, harder than Stowing and Water Spider
I read from a newsfeed that Amazon Is going to deliver without the items in boxes . Won’t that make your job a little bit easier? What’s your thoughts about that? Btw Mike , you’re doing a great job. 💯🦾
I haven’t heard about that, but at my deliver my station, they have recently implemented an ASL machine to help the workflow, and that machine has replaced 7 positions.
The machine is the Automatic Scan & Label (ASL); it eliminated a person having to scan each box unloaded from another person at the beginning of the conveyor belt.
That person uses Avery label gun. They scan each box and add a label, that box now has a label - so that we know where it will go.
The ASL scans and drops a label onto boxes, so you still need a person unloading, but no longer a 2nd person putting the labels on (next time you receive an Amazon package, look for a colorful sticker - it might say “G 10.2G.”
The indicates which aisle in the warehouse that boxes is diverted to. For example, in this video, I am stowing packages for B 24, B 23, B 22, B 21.
I know a lot of people enjoyed using the Avery gun and scanning each pkg to put the label on, and the machine has replaced them.
Sorry for the lengthy explanation, I hope it makes sense.
The next machine will eliminate Pickers (look at the guy who places packages on my rack for me to stow).
In the near future, they will have automated Pick To Buffers to do that.
So that means the human touch is still needed by stowers.
In my opinion, Amazon is king at logistics; implementing machines will smoothen the work at the the delivery station (DS), but delivering without items in the boxes will most likely occur at Fulfillment Centers (FC), as they control your order in the beginning.
Thank you and take care out there.
Back at it again! Haha I needs make me a video pt4 my station:)). Pass it on