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It’s crazy how they’re scheduling MET, for 10 hour shifts and also asking if anyone wants VTO as soon as they get a station. Also we’ve been scheduled for the 3rd week of MET which I don’t mind at all, up until prime week! The money is good so far 👌
@@S.B. thank you man. I'm very nervous becuase the biggest company I worked with was 200-220 employees so I'm very nervous due to the fact that Amazon it's a big company.
Facts there are convicted felons desperate for a job. They stay and work their asses off because it's so hard for them to find work. They'd be more appreciative of a job then most people with clean records.
Amazon should offer incentives like stock exchange and profit sharing for a year of employee service and that may stem the flow, but they would need to stop firing for UPT and allow more flexible work shifts.
That’s because Amazon is too uptight for the littlest things I’ve always told people that one day it’s going to catch up to them word of mouth is all it takes if not you gotta find out for yourself to see why many people leave. Especially management, a huge chunk of them don’t know anything it’s sad really but it was only a matter of time
It's time for a raise peoples are barely getting by mcDonald's pay more then what i hate we have kids we shouldn't have to work 6 days just to get little hours give us 8 hours a day we need a raise
I definitely agree that it is time for a raise but sadly, I don’t think that’s gonna happen due to their financial situation on the warehouse side, but…. Hopefully!
You seem to have good knowledge of the company, but do you have any videos detailing the health insurance benefits? I'm feeling the channel. Keep up the good work 👍🏾
@@S.B. No problem! There will be two warehouses opening here in Tallahassee, FL, soon, one being an FC & I planned on applying for a position. But I was curious about the benefits they offer & how they compare to others like UPS which is where I'm currently working part-time.
They simply need to lower their silly rate system.Watch how many people stay.If you get 36 hours at my age,which is 40 in a few months you good.The pay is alright,most of their management and expectations is not....Also let people have set stations so they don't have to see management who act like they don't want to work or P.A'S all the time,that gets annoying.When I was a Stower I would have loved a set station every time I come on duty. Come in clock and get straight to business without the unnecessary hassle of having to massage management or P.A egos....
@@S.B. yeah man I gotta talk to someone I still thank jeff though Amazon gave hope to a lot of these small towns with no opportunity if grind a little harder I can finally leave
That's kind of funny. Not surprising the way they run through people though. I feel like if they offered more ways for employees to improve on things like UPT and productivity, they'd see less turnover. For example, instead of automatically deducting UPT, maybe only take UPT if you submit the request less than 24 hours before the start of a shift, except during peak. As far as productivity, they could offer underperforming associates the chance to train in another department if they're below the learning curve in their current department. Someone who's a shitty stower could be a great packer if you gave them the chance.
For amazon to fix its issues it would have to fix some of its core cultural philosophies that they've adopted simply from being one of the biggest companies in the world. Managers for the time that they're putting in are not well compensated when you look at the industry in general along with benefits that you could receive in other places. Still, it's a great place to essentially level up your resume to be able to be hired anywhere, as it is with their software engineering jobs. Work-life balance is essential, and isn't something people realize is really important till they've worked at a much better job, along with the fact that theirs a huge encouragement at amazon over the past essentially 3 years for their warehouse associates to leave or to work hard to promote themselves like you has done. In my opinion, Amazon is a great stepping stone to work at if you take advantage of what they can provide, with career choice as well as the ability to be able to quickly promote yourself to a much better paid position internally if you're able to meet those demands. Automation is cool, and will eventually come but that takes a very long time to be able to implement correctly, and as much as you may disagree with this, introducing tech would in my opinion just restructure their needs into hiring more people to be able to maintain and update that automation. They have incentives for a reason to have a dedicated mission to train more people in the cloud because it's a field that will be needed more in the future to maintain that kind of business. On that, note if they made theremore internal positions in the warehouse have some pay incentives so people would strive to actually work those positions, offered some loyalty compensation to employees that stay long term with continual income increases, performance based bonuses, easier access to be able to seek internal promotions or seek career growth during work hours and provided better benefits to their long time employees I think those things personally would alleviate their issues. The culture of wanting to weed and remove out "lazy employees" as Jeff put it in his internal monologue works really well to become a monolith but will always hit the current trajectory there currently on.
@@marcogallegos8878 at my warehouse pickers would constantly slam into stowers or just people walking through mods because their music was in both ears. The idiots ruined it for everyone! 😡 Now if you are caught, the 1st time it’s a final warning, 2nd time you’re terminated. The building is understaffed by 15 percent due to this
how do you find job openings at amazon? i was looking online on the amazon website and sites like indeed but i CAN'T find any job openings in any of the areas im looking to work in, was wondering if theres some other way to find the job postings
@@S.B. I guess that just means there aren’t any opening as far as warehouse jobs go in my area, I’ve seen a few Amazon DSP driver positions on indeed though
If they paid more they would absolutely retain employees better and not have an issue. The entire purpose for employees working at all is money. Other incentives in the workplace are nice, but cash is king. Time for amazon to stop with the "Total compensation packages" and raise the base line salary to be competitive with other tech companies. They are above the curve considering stock options and bonus incentives, but at the end of the day, those incentives run out. Theres a retention cliff at 4 years for a reason.
My old warehouse is struggling to keep up with work because they keep firing people or people just quit because of the rules regarding headphones and tot. If they chilled out on those 2 a bit it would make it easier to work there
I was fired during Covid last year for negative UPT, I wasn’t able to get tested and because I wasnt able to provide a positive test to amazon, I wasn’t able to get my time off, so they removed it and gave me -90 hours of UPT, I rejoined amazon a month ago, and now I’m an ambassador, so yes, negative UPT terminations are not permanent. It’s a six month wait until you can reapply. My facility wanted to keep me, but the employee resource center insisted I be fired so there was nothing I could do. Don’t ever get in trouble with ERC, they told me I wouldn’t be terminated due to my situation, yeah obviously that was a load of shit.
The funny thing they added another thing above VTO during prime week… starting this prime week, we will have reduced hours.. and we don’t know until when we will start getting our regular 40 hours and OTs back. I’m only getting 37 hours a week now because they want to save money LOL.
I left Amazon last week because the lack of ot and the fact that my pay isn’t increasing is killing me. I currently work at a dairy farm that’s 9 min from my house compared to 36 min from Amazon. It pays better, better benefits and ot is always available. If you guys can I’d jump ship after Christmas. My old warehouse straight up said for Christmas month there’s not gonna be any overtime. I was struggling to pay bills because my paychecks weren’t increasing.
Wwhhaatt!!?? You left!?? Aww man well I’m glad to hear you found something even better! And that’s a fact I said that in the video I did “amazons worst peak ever” crazy how it’s playing out. Glad to hear from you Collin!!
@@S.B. the lack of ot mixed with the lack of overtime took its toll on me. I’m happier with my new job, much more chill environment. Even though I don’t work at Amazon imma still be here to help out the new hires and spread the knowledge. It ain’t looking good for Amazon warehouse man…
I’m leaving rn because not only does it suck with inflation and all but after hearing target DCs are do no different than Amazon FCs but target was paying 3$ more for the same job. Like it is like being a T1 on entry into Amazon getting paid more than a T3 on their last raise or roughly a L4 in some cases.
Target is paying $3 more than Amazon!? Oh yea I couldn’t blame anyone who wanted to switch over but not sure if it’s as much as a variety of things to do over there as Amazon, not sure. But congrats on the higher pay!! 🙌🏾
I got hired at Amazon Buf5 in October 2021. This past June 14th I had extreme neck & back pain that I told the manager and the safety team about and I was told to go back to work and keep my mouth shut. Everything on that conveyer belt that night was so heavy that I couldn’t even lift it and I ended up leaving early that night. I don’t qualify for health insurance through Amazon since i’m a parttime employee, I have my own health insurance which isn’t the best, and I didn’t even have a primary care doctor to go to. So I called the number on the back of my Insurance card and I finally got into a doctor on June 29th, I had x-rays of my neck & spine done on July 6th and on the 13th I was diagnosed with scoliosis with a curved thoracic spine, and messed up discs in my back. I got medical clearance to go back to work but I have weight restrictions on what I can lift and push. I submitted the paperwork to the accomodation team and now work is determining if they want me back or not. I’ve already gone four weeks without a paycheck which sucks. I’ve been trying to get compensation through the Hartford which handles Amazon. I just submitted my paperwork for that and i’m waiting for their response/decision. Work doesn’t seem to want me back because of my messed up back that I didn’t have until I started working there, but they don’t seem to want to fire me either.
Yea that’s crazy and against protocol from what I know of they’re definitely not supposed to do that you should’ve definitely went to HR, and so sorry to hear about your situation I would definitely try to keep reaching out to them to get a answer.
@@S.B. The sad part was I did go to HR and they did nothing to help me. It was a long drawn out process from June 15th up until now. I had doctors appointments, X-Rays, accomodation paperwork that needed to be faxed over. Then awaiting approval on my accomodation since I was diagnosed with scoliosis a curved thoracic spine, and slipped discs in my back I can’t lift anything heavier than 20 pounds. I submitted paperwork last week and I just got an answer from the accomodation team telling me that Buf5 doesn’t want me on that side anymore, now I have to go to the opposite side of the building to Buf9 to work in the returns department
Check out all the videos of my Amazon journey! Press release on the topic And my intro song in the description!
th-cam.com/play/PLXevE5_0FB-1WrSWVCuSyzhvGFR7j_H1b.html
It’s crazy how they’re scheduling MET, for 10 hour shifts and also asking if anyone wants VTO as soon as they get a station. Also we’ve been scheduled for the 3rd week of MET which I don’t mind at all, up until prime week! The money is good so far 👌
Keep collecting that ot!
This is a mixture of serious and hilarious! Love this! ✊🏾😎
Aayyee!! Thank you much appreciate that fam!
I'm actually joining Amazon on prime day on Tuesday this week
Niicee !! Congrats on the new job Jacob!!
@@S.B. thank you man. I'm very nervous becuase the biggest company I worked with was 200-220 employees so I'm very nervous due to the fact that Amazon it's a big company.
They're actually running out in about 8 months!
Facts I didn’t even know my supervisor’s name and she wouldn’t talk unless you were getting written up
I’ve herd that countless amounts of times.
Facts there are convicted felons desperate for a job. They stay and work their asses off because it's so hard for them to find work. They'd be more appreciative of a job then most people with clean records.
This is only getting more abd more interesting lol. Keep us posted S.B!✌🏽
Will do
Amazon should offer incentives like stock exchange and profit sharing for a year of employee service and that may stem the flow, but they would need to stop firing for UPT and allow more flexible work shifts.
That’s a fact I think that would def. Help the issue.
Now we get upt as we work now
That’s because Amazon is too uptight for the littlest things I’ve always told people that one day it’s going to catch up to them word of mouth is all it takes if not you gotta find out for yourself to see why many people leave. Especially management, a huge chunk of them don’t know anything it’s sad really but it was only a matter of time
That’s a fact the AMs get trained by the PAs a lot
It's time for a raise peoples are barely getting by mcDonald's pay more then what i hate we have kids we shouldn't have to work 6 days just to get little hours give us 8 hours a day we need a raise
I definitely agree that it is time for a raise but sadly, I don’t think that’s gonna happen due to their financial situation on the warehouse side, but…. Hopefully!
You seem to have good knowledge of the company, but do you have any videos detailing the health insurance benefits? I'm feeling the channel. Keep up the good work 👍🏾
Thank you so much for the support Owen truly appreciate it!! And I don’t I might have to make one!
@@S.B. No problem! There will be two warehouses opening here in Tallahassee, FL, soon, one being an FC & I planned on applying for a position. But I was curious about the benefits they offer & how they compare to others like UPS which is where I'm currently working part-time.
They simply need to lower their silly rate system.Watch how many people stay.If you get 36 hours at my age,which is 40 in a few months you good.The pay is alright,most of their management and expectations is not....Also let people have set stations so they don't have to see management who act like they don't want to work or P.A'S all the time,that gets annoying.When I was a Stower I would have loved a set station every time I come on duty. Come in clock and get straight to business without the unnecessary hassle of having to massage management or P.A egos....
Set station would be dope, and yea I know what your talking about when it comes to the egos etc.
It's a depressing place to work
I hear you fam, try your best to push thru it.
@@S.B. yeah man I gotta talk to someone I still thank jeff though Amazon gave hope to a lot of these small towns with no opportunity if grind a little harder I can finally leave
That's kind of funny. Not surprising the way they run through people though. I feel like if they offered more ways for employees to improve on things like UPT and productivity, they'd see less turnover. For example, instead of automatically deducting UPT, maybe only take UPT if you submit the request less than 24 hours before the start of a shift, except during peak. As far as productivity, they could offer underperforming associates the chance to train in another department if they're below the learning curve in their current department. Someone who's a shitty stower could be a great packer if you gave them the chance.
Those are some good ideas! And that’s a fact I’ve been surprised many of times seeing someone so bad in one path and kill it in another.
For amazon to fix its issues it would have to fix some of its core cultural philosophies that they've adopted simply from being one of the biggest companies in the world. Managers for the time that they're putting in are not well compensated when you look at the industry in general along with benefits that you could receive in other places. Still, it's a great place to essentially level up your resume to be able to be hired anywhere, as it is with their software engineering jobs. Work-life balance is essential, and isn't something people realize is really important till they've worked at a much better job, along with the fact that theirs a huge encouragement at amazon over the past essentially 3 years for their warehouse associates to leave or to work hard to promote themselves like you has done. In my opinion, Amazon is a great stepping stone to work at if you take advantage of what they can provide, with career choice as well as the ability to be able to quickly promote yourself to a much better paid position internally if you're able to meet those demands.
Automation is cool, and will eventually come but that takes a very long time to be able to implement correctly, and as much as you may disagree with this, introducing tech would in my opinion just restructure their needs into hiring more people to be able to maintain and update that automation. They have incentives for a reason to have a dedicated mission to train more people in the cloud because it's a field that will be needed more in the future to maintain that kind of business.
On that, note if they made theremore internal positions in the warehouse have some pay incentives so people would strive to actually work those positions, offered some loyalty compensation to employees that stay long term with continual income increases, performance based bonuses, easier access to be able to seek internal promotions or seek career growth during work hours and provided better benefits to their long time employees I think those things personally would alleviate their issues. The culture of wanting to weed and remove out "lazy employees" as Jeff put it in his internal monologue works really well to become a monolith but will always hit the current trajectory there currently on.
We’ll see how it plays out! 👀
Facts they won’t rehire people they fired 🤷🏽♂️
I think they will if it’s just for negative upt but after I think 90 days
If they want to retain their workforce some changes have to be made.
Higher pay
Let the associates listen to music
L3 process assistant here
You have to be the best p.a ever
idk about headphones last year we had a fire drill half of the warehouse couldn't hear the fire alarm😂
@@pinksukuyomi6172 that’s why we can’t listen to music y’all probably had both buds in 😒
@@marcogallegos8878 at my warehouse pickers would constantly slam into stowers or just people walking through mods because their music was in both ears. The idiots ruined it for everyone! 😡 Now if you are caught, the 1st time it’s a final warning, 2nd time you’re terminated. The building is understaffed by 15 percent due to this
Scary thing is you might be right lol
how do you find job openings at amazon? i was looking online on the amazon website and sites like indeed but i CAN'T find any job openings in any of the areas im looking to work in, was wondering if theres some other way to find the job postings
I googled amazon jobs and it took me to their website and that's how I got in.
@@S.B. I guess that just means there aren’t any opening as far as warehouse jobs go in my area, I’ve seen a few Amazon DSP driver positions on indeed though
If they paid more they would absolutely retain employees better and not have an issue. The entire purpose for employees working at all is money. Other incentives in the workplace are nice, but cash is king. Time for amazon to stop with the "Total compensation packages" and raise the base line salary to be competitive with other tech companies. They are above the curve considering stock options and bonus incentives, but at the end of the day, those incentives run out. Theres a retention cliff at 4 years for a reason.
My old warehouse is struggling to keep up with work because they keep firing people or people just quit because of the rules regarding headphones and tot. If they chilled out on those 2 a bit it would make it easier to work there
We’ll see how it plays out.
I was fired during Covid last year for negative UPT, I wasn’t able to get tested and because I wasnt able to provide a positive test to amazon, I wasn’t able to get my time off, so they removed it and gave me -90 hours of UPT, I rejoined amazon a month ago, and now I’m an ambassador, so yes, negative UPT terminations are not permanent. It’s a six month wait until you can reapply. My facility wanted to keep me, but the employee resource center insisted I be fired so there was nothing I could do. Don’t ever get in trouble with ERC, they told me I wouldn’t be terminated due to my situation, yeah obviously that was a load of shit.
Man sorry to hear that but really glad to hear your back and already an ambassador! Hope all turns out well!
LMAO dude. We’re offering VTO on prime week…
At my old warehouse, at the stand up meetings, the AMs straight up told us for nov-Dec there will be no MET
@@CollinMac96 in the future or for last year?
I’ve been sayin it 🤷🏾♂️ check my last videos, let’s prepare.
@Collin they said that at stand up?
The funny thing they added another thing above VTO during prime week… starting this prime week, we will have reduced hours.. and we don’t know until when we will start getting our regular 40 hours and OTs back.
I’m only getting 37 hours a week now because they want to save money LOL.
I left Amazon last week because the lack of ot and the fact that my pay isn’t increasing is killing me. I currently work at a dairy farm that’s 9 min from my house compared to 36 min from Amazon. It pays better, better benefits and ot is always available.
If you guys can I’d jump ship after Christmas. My old warehouse straight up said for Christmas month there’s not gonna be any overtime. I was struggling to pay bills because my paychecks weren’t increasing.
Wwhhaatt!!?? You left!?? Aww man well I’m glad to hear you found something even better! And that’s a fact I said that in the video I did “amazons worst peak ever” crazy how it’s playing out. Glad to hear from you Collin!!
@@S.B. the lack of ot mixed with the lack of overtime took its toll on me. I’m happier with my new job, much more chill environment. Even though I don’t work at Amazon imma still be here to help out the new hires and spread the knowledge. It ain’t looking good for Amazon warehouse man…
I’m leaving rn because not only does it suck with inflation and all but after hearing target DCs are do no different than Amazon FCs but target was paying 3$ more for the same job. Like it is like being a T1 on entry into Amazon getting paid more than a T3 on their last raise or roughly a L4 in some cases.
Target is paying $3 more than Amazon!? Oh yea I couldn’t blame anyone who wanted to switch over but not sure if it’s as much as a variety of things to do over there as Amazon, not sure. But congrats on the higher pay!! 🙌🏾
They need to work on safety issues because there safety is Crazy strict about forklift work and they keep Firing lots of workers because of that.
Definitely, it’s like zero tolerance when it comes to those forklifts.
If they raise it 2.00$ for T1 and T3 but splitting 1.00$ between their 2nd and 3rd year anniversary
I’m always down for a raise 🙌🏾
I got hired at Amazon Buf5 in October 2021.
This past June 14th I had extreme neck & back pain that I told the manager and the safety team about and I was told to go back to work and keep my mouth shut.
Everything on that conveyer belt that night was so heavy that I couldn’t even lift it and I ended up leaving early that night.
I don’t qualify for health insurance through Amazon since i’m a parttime employee, I have my own health insurance which isn’t the best, and I didn’t even have a primary care doctor to go to.
So I called the number on the back of my
Insurance card and I finally got into a doctor on June 29th, I had x-rays of my neck & spine done on July 6th and on the 13th I was diagnosed with scoliosis with a curved thoracic spine, and messed up discs in my back.
I got medical clearance to go back to work but I have weight restrictions on what I can lift and push.
I submitted the paperwork to the accomodation team and now work is determining if they want me back or not.
I’ve already gone four weeks without a paycheck which sucks. I’ve been trying to get compensation through the Hartford which handles Amazon. I just submitted my paperwork for that and i’m waiting for their response/decision.
Work doesn’t seem to want me back because of my messed up back that I didn’t have until I started working there, but they don’t seem to want to fire me either.
Yea that’s crazy and against protocol from what I know of they’re definitely not supposed to do that you should’ve definitely went to HR, and so sorry to hear about your situation I would definitely try to keep reaching out to them to get a answer.
@@S.B. The sad part was I did go to HR and they did nothing to help me.
It was a long drawn out process from June 15th up until now.
I had doctors appointments, X-Rays, accomodation paperwork that needed to be faxed over. Then awaiting approval on my accomodation since I was diagnosed with scoliosis a curved thoracic spine, and slipped discs in my back I can’t lift anything heavier than 20 pounds. I submitted paperwork last week and I just got an answer from the accomodation team telling me that Buf5 doesn’t want me on that side anymore, now I have to go to the opposite side of the building to Buf9 to work in the returns department
@@elizabethann3933 Well that's good your able to still work.