what the hell are you talking about? i can't speak to older facilities, but sortable FCs are wonderful and we spend a ton of time+resources making our newest generation of facilities some of the cleanest and safest places to work. can you give me particular comparative examples like fedex vs amazon or tesla vs amazon to illustrate your point, or are you more or less just riffing against amazon?
>I had “‘projections.” I had to stock at least 12 items a minute. I was not even close. It’s physically impossible. You were constantly like, “I gotta get this done.” The computer constantly showed you how far off you from making the quota.
straight-up horseshit. target for small items is around 5 per minute and larger items is 3 to 4, but you aren't in danger of getting into trouble unless you're consistently doing 2 or fewer per minute, on average, throughout the shift- or if you make errors that cause downstream issues like scanning the wrong stow location or miscounting the number of items if they're small, bulk items which you "machine gun scan."
it's really not difficult work. is it for everybody? no. is it perfect? no. is the pay commensurate with the work? easily, and it bothers me to no end how many people complain about how "difficult" the expectations are. myself and many others like me, who started at the bottom, could easily put away 5-6k units in a 10hr shift. we expect somewhere between 1 and 2, depending on the freight you get (some days are heavier on small items, some days are heavier on large/bulky items), and the system accounts for all of this when measuring productivity
please give me another example where basically anyone, without any college education, who doesn't have a felony, with no relevant work experience, starts at 15 to 17 per hour--and can move up to a level 8 (senior ops) with no degree. for reference, bezos is a nominal 12 or something. you can make it just shy of a General Manager of a multi-thousand employee facility with nothing but a good attitude and the right work ethic
new yorkers, if they want to unionize every industry, are more than welcome to do so; but spare me the "my job should treat me better" fluff pieces by people who're probably friendlier to AOC's politics than to those of Trump/people who voted for him
Sure, take a ten-hour a day warehouse job and be surprised when it's heavy labor. These dudes get robots? Down in Illinois we do every step by hand and I guarantee we could run this lot into the ground. As always, good or bad management makes or breaks a working environment, sounds like that FC has some cruddy floor management.
Or perhaps they just couldn't find workers as enthusiastic as local Chicagoans.
Either way, I'm sick and tired of people chanting about bringing down my livelihood without a thought paid to how many tens of thousands of workers they'd be fucking over.
Blah, just unionists rousing the rabble.
STFU and GTW or find another McJob
Agree. Couldn't hear anything over the WAAAAAAH coming from her. And I hate Jeff and Amazon.
But it looks like they were actually looking out for her. Ooooh bend at the knees, wear comfortable shoes, drink water. A torture chamber I tell ya.
I mean who TF goes to a factory job wearing Timberlands? LMFAO
what the hell are you talking about? i can't speak to older facilities, but sortable FCs are wonderful and we spend a ton of time+resources making our newest generation of facilities some of the cleanest and safest places to work. can you give me particular comparative examples like fedex vs amazon or tesla vs amazon to illustrate your point, or are you more or less just riffing against amazon?
from the article, in page 2:
>I had “‘projections.” I had to stock at least 12 items a minute. I was not even close. It’s physically impossible. You were constantly like, “I gotta get this done.” The computer constantly showed you how far off you from making the quota.
straight-up horseshit. target for small items is around 5 per minute and larger items is 3 to 4, but you aren't in danger of getting into trouble unless you're consistently doing 2 or fewer per minute, on average, throughout the shift- or if you make errors that cause downstream issues like scanning the wrong stow location or miscounting the number of items if they're small, bulk items which you "machine gun scan."
it's really not difficult work. is it for everybody? no. is it perfect? no. is the pay commensurate with the work? easily, and it bothers me to no end how many people complain about how "difficult" the expectations are. myself and many others like me, who started at the bottom, could easily put away 5-6k units in a 10hr shift. we expect somewhere between 1 and 2, depending on the freight you get (some days are heavier on small items, some days are heavier on large/bulky items), and the system accounts for all of this when measuring productivity
please give me another example where basically anyone, without any college education, who doesn't have a felony, with no relevant work experience, starts at 15 to 17 per hour--and can move up to a level 8 (senior ops) with no degree. for reference, bezos is a nominal 12 or something. you can make it just shy of a General Manager of a multi-thousand employee facility with nothing but a good attitude and the right work ethic
new yorkers, if they want to unionize every industry, are more than welcome to do so; but spare me the "my job should treat me better" fluff pieces by people who're probably friendlier to AOC's politics than to those of Trump/people who voted for him
But but they support the trans community.....so their commercial depicts.
Article summary :
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! MUH FEET HURT! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Sure, take a ten-hour a day warehouse job and be surprised when it's heavy labor. These dudes get robots? Down in Illinois we do every step by hand and I guarantee we could run this lot into the ground. As always, good or bad management makes or breaks a working environment, sounds like that FC has some cruddy floor management.
Or perhaps they just couldn't find workers as enthusiastic as local Chicagoans.
Either way, I'm sick and tired of people chanting about bringing down my livelihood without a thought paid to how many tens of thousands of workers they'd be fucking over.