This is a story of feeling neglected, dejected and beaten down by a corporation that does not care about me or you. It’s time to do something, whether is be unionize or quit. I think I’m already out the door. I don’t want anyone else to have to feel the way I do. This is my story.
To Preface: My fiancé went into the Emergency room two nights ago, one pupil enlarged and no idea of the cause.
How the story begins:
I am in career choice and am attending school while also trying to get in as many hours as I can at work. I recently have used a lot of my UPT to cover being able to get school work done because at my building they stopped offering any VTO at all.
I got home from my 10 hour shift and I took a nice long hot bath and was in bed by 3pm. An hour later is when the nightmare began. I was awoken by my fiancés sister who said “I think I smell gas, fiancé is in the hospital and you need to get out of the house.” So I went to my car and called the gas company and had the fire department over to check for any leaks. None. All good. Cool, still have no idea what’s going on with my fiancé and at this point I have so much anxiety and panic that I can’t go back to sleep. (Thankfully her sister was able to be at the hospital with her) Knowing I was scheduled for the next mornings overnight shift (1am-1150) I knew I had to try and sleep, which did not happen.
I got to work and waited to speak with a red vest manager, once i was finally able to speak with them 1 on 1 I couldn’t keep my composure and broke down into tears. I explained what was going on to the manager and they called over another manager and said “idc what so and so says, I’m VTOing him” I said “oh I don’t want you to get in trouble for that, can I start an emergency leave or absence or have this shift excused?” And after consulting they agreed and told me to get out of there and to the hospital, my shift would be excused.
I went to the hospital and it was a mess, they had been there 7 hours and were still waiting on the CT scan results, doctors were waiting on nurses and etc. Long story shortened, we ended up getting the CT scan results on fiancés cell phone and luckily her sister is a nurse, we reviewed them on our own. Looked fine and apparently everything with the scan and her blood work MUST be fine, because the doctor left without giving us any answers. Wonderful.
Now here is where the story comes to a breaking point for me. I’ve worked with these people for over a year at a smaller building that was shut down to create a Mega Sort Center. I texted an orange vest shift assistant to see if I could get the managers number, maybe let her know that my fiancé was ok, and that HR didn’t fix my time, mind you this is urgent as I’m now negative UPT because of this. The conversation went as follows.
“Hey *** can I get **** number?”
“Nah they don’t want their number out there like that”
“Bro what my fiancé was literally in the ER”
“I don’t know what else to tell you I asked them and they said no. This is a simple fix with HR when you can come in.”
My mind pretty much went numb at that point. I was closer with this shift assistant, so him not asking about my finance and having no regard for her well being broke my heart just as much as the manager who didn’t want to hear from me.
Maybe they did Chime HR and it’s just not their problem anymore. Maybe they didn’t, I don’t know. What I do know is that HR has constantly neglected to respond to my emails so I don’t even feel good about going to them at this point, even acknowledging that they’ve read them when I approach them in person. Yikes.
So now here I sit, angry at our healthcare system, and angry at Amazon for making me feel like less than a human. The only way I see it getting better for AA’s is by unionizing. Glad to know I won’t be seeing it as I’m about ready to resign and give the ethics line a ring.