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Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 months agoInteresting. Thanks. I’m guessing that Amazon maybe isn’t great at incentivizing workers to care. If the last step for a single item is a human putting it into a box, I could see it being easier to have a stack of big boxes that one would just default to rather than paying attention to size recommendations.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I only lasted 6 months, if that’s any indication lol.
It was a really cool job, but you can’t have your phone while working (have to literally leave it outside in a locker, there are metal detractors you walk through to get in and out), the breaks are way too short (there were times more then half my break was spent just walking from my area to the break room when I did pick), and to top it off, it was a 4/10 shift (overnights for me) and frequently they would tell us on the last day right before midnight that we had to work another full 10 hour day tomorrow.
After several months of 5/12s during “peak” seasons (nov - march) I had enough.