Month: June 2023

Basically title. I'm debating getting a job at an Amazon warehouse (ugh) and I'm curious how long do I need to tough it out for before I can milk the system. I'm in California btw.

Yesterday, I had a final interview scheduled for 8am and I was due to start work at 9am. So I got to the office early to do the Teams interview in the canteen. This meant that I got to my desk earlier than usual and started doing my work at 9:40 because I was just bored of browsing my phone. I didn't and won't get paid for that 20 minutes. Anyways, there's currently road construction happening in the area for the next two years so it's a nightmare to get around. I usually take the 5:30 bus home that's located up a nasty hill (I have asthma too so fuck the hill), but with construction this means I don't get home til after 7. There's a bus at 5:05 that is a lot closer walking distance and nowhere near the hill. Imagine walking 5 minutes instead of 18 and getting…

At my last job, I was customer service/call center for a food delivery app company. When I did the interview and first joined, I asked them I wanted the day shift, they said none are available right now but we may have a opening soon, if you join us and wait a bit we can get it for you. So I agreed and started working there as the night shift (or the graveyard shift because it lasted until 2AM) and 7 fucking months went by…7 MONTHS of working until 2AM at a company that's 40 minutes away from my house by car, I never got that day shift. Every month I'd ask them if the opening came, they gave me the same bullshit that they're trying their “best”. The last straw was during the last month, they hired a new girl that was the niece of one of the managers…

Regardless of industry, everyone has to work a 40 hour week? Is the point just to waste everyone’s time? Surely not every job has the same dynamics of productivity. Just venting at how weird it seems. I know for some people only 40 hours is a dream. I just think it’s weird that there’s this unspoken, universally accepted yet completely arbitrary number. Sorry this is sort of a low quality post.

This was from a local anonymous confessions IG account, there were former employees in the comments also talking about their (bad) experiences working at their other locations

​ https://preview.redd.it/63rwzcb9hj4b1.png?width=512&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=693e482faac40520c0e333c87c236bcb7d2bb375 here are your “Based” republicans guys. I cant believe i used to consider my self a “right leaning” guy and i thought trump was some honest guy who cant be bribed (because he is rich) and “wants to fix america”. I truly was a drooling idiot. the republicans have been flying immigrants illegally with planes..just to keep YOUR wages down, and use them as slave labor. they are trying to legalize 14y to work cleaning the yachts of the rich, to keep YOUR wages down. and now they are bitching and moaning that you DARE to boycott an evil corporation. when you protest peacefully they beat you up and spray you. When you boycott…they get a little angry.

My job has been hell for the last two years and is getting worse. Over the last few weeks, a small number of new hires have banded together, enlisted the aid of our director ( with ample flattery) and so far have forced out my direct supervisor as of today. I am the only guy who works here during the day ( between 11 am and 930pm). I've been pulled into several meetings were I get told ab things “people” are saying about me. I don't work with that many people so it's easy to figure out. One of the three new hires was hired to be what basically amounts to an assistant supervisor, except she hasn't actually done the job in 15 years. Yesterday my director ambushed me into a meeting while my supervisor was out. She mentioned that someone ( once again, under ten people) overheard me say…

Hey everyone. For a while I've been lurking here but I wanted to finally post here since I'd like to have some things cleared up when it comes to The Act. I'm a supervisor at a Goodwill, it has a policy that says you're not allowed to discuss wages, doing so will end up in a pretty big punishment (writeup, possible firing). They say it's because if you make more than someone they might get jealous or some shit, I don't know. What I do know is that's not the real reason. I know this is illegal, since pay discussion is protected at the federal level. I asked the ASM to tell me why we can't, pretending I didn't know. She said that, and I replied by saying that discussion of pay is federally protected, she said I still shouldn't do it. Didn't say anything else because I didn't want…