“But doing it for 10 hours straight, by the third or fourth day your legs are almost like jelly.” 6. “That’s over a 10 hour period, so its like 1.3 miles per hour, which isn’t bad,” he says. One employee, who worked in Amazon warehouses for 14 years, told us he walked 13 miles a day when picking. One warehouse in Baltimore covers one million square feet, or roughly 23 acres. A lot.Īmazon fulfillment centers are colossal. “At my peak, I was picking 120+ items per hour, and it was just good enough.” 5. “My only job was to grab two large, yellow plastic bins, put them on my double decker shopping cart, and fill them with the items that my scanner told me to find,” a former picker said during a Reddit AMA. Workers who pull items from shelves to fulfill your orders are known as “pickers,” and they are monitored for their speed and accuracy. Amazon warehouse employees have strict quotas. And workers don’t get paid to stand in line, thanks to a Supreme Court decision at the end of 2014 that ruled businesses like Amazon don't have to pay employees for the time they spend waiting to be scanned. It leaves you with about 10 minutes for food.” The same lines form at the end of the day when workers pour out of the building. You’re spending half your time waiting to be scanned out so you can be sure you’re not stealing anything. “If you’re way over on one side of the warehouse and lunch is called, you have 30 minutes from that point to clock out, eat, and come back. According to Mided, when the lunch buzzer rings, there’s a mad rush to avoid the lines. Amazon warehouse employees hate the metal detectors.Īs an added layer of security, workers are subject to airport-style security checkpoints each time they leave the floor, including lunch break.
“If you brought in your phone and you weren’t management, security would confiscate it and at end of night you had to go to security to pick it up,” says Charlee Mided, who worked in a warehouse in Phoenix, Arizona in 2013. They arrive empty-handed and leave empty-handed. Amazon warehouse employees leave everything at the door.Īmazon workers aren’t allowed to bring anything with them to the warehouse floor, including cell phones. I have experienced FAR worse conditions and been treated terrible by other Fortune 500 companies.” 2. One Reddit user put it bluntly: “The work does suck, but all warehouse work sucks.
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In 2012, after a lengthy expose revealed brutally hot summertime conditions, Amazon announced plans to spend $52 million to install air conditioning in its U.S. But “the conditions at the warehouse were on par or better than most other warehouses that I have been in.” One of the biggest complaints is that the warehouses are too hot. “It is certainly hard work,” said Brant Ivey, who spent six months in one of Amazon’s hubs lifting oversized objects. There have been dozens of stories portraying Amazon warehouses as inhumane, hellish workplaces, and while some workers may have been subject to these conditions, the ones I spoke to hadn’t. Not every Amazon warehouse employee has a horror story. We spoke to a few of these employees about what it’s like to be part of the Amazon machine.
These are the people who make sure your package, no matter how big or small, gets to your doorstep. alone there are more than 50 of these gigantic buildings with 40,000 workers toiling away inside them, and that’s not counting the tens of thousands of part-time workers who join during busy seasons. All those products, from phone cases to car seats, are stored inside Amazon’s fulfillment centers and then sorted and wrapped by warehouse workers. In 2014, Amazon sold two billion items worldwide.
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