Facebook, Amazon etc....

Mike Schatner said:
People that adapt to nights can get away with a lie in or a couple of hours sleep on the day they start their shift rotation. My wife has been doing it a couple of decades. Bests case scenario you get 4.5 days off to do stuff. Worse case its 3.5 days if you need more sleep. I would take that over a five day work week and rush hour commutes any day of the week.
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Yeah I tend to agree with you on that. I think progressing well within amazon is a really good start to ones working life too, as @UnrelatedPsuedo has said at some time it might be better to swap for someone who actively seeks him if progression stalls, but for a first job straight out of college it sounds pretty good (people on here are sometimes a bit too optimistic with the chances real life really offers one when new to the work force).

I still fail to understand how one can work ~36 (3x12) h and have 4.5 days off, even if one needs little sleep, but then again I haven't slept in a bit myself, so maybe it's me.
 
Abizzz said:
I still fail to understand how one can work ~36 (3x12) h and have 4.5 days off, even if one needs little sleep, but then again I haven't slept in a bit myself, so maybe it's me.
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He works Thu, Fri and Sat 7-7. On Sunday he usually sleeps until lunch, sometimes he just stays up. So Sunday is a half day off and full night. Mon, Tue, Weds are all full day and full nights off. He is back at work Thursday at 7:00pm but he stays up Thursday day so its another day off. Another benefit is you only have to commute three days a week and its usually not during peak rush hour.
 
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Mike Schatner said:
He works Thu, Fri and Sat 7-7. On Sunday he usually sleeps until lunch, sometimes he just stays up. So Sunday is a half day off and full night. Mon, Tue, Weds are all full day and full nights off. He is back at work Thursday at 7:00pm but he stays up Thursday day so its another day off. Another benefit is you only have to commute three days a week and its usually not during peak rush hour.
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Ah so he basically pulls all nighters on Thursdays and sometimes on Sundays? Works out but sounds exhausting in the long term.
 
Abizzz said:
Ah so he basically pulls all nighters on Thursdays and sometimes on Sundays? Works out but sounds exhausting in the long term.
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I work five days a week with a sixty minute peak rush hour drive each way. Generally stay in the office 9 hours, so with commuting I am out of the house 55 hours per week. My son is out of the house about 14 hours three days a week, so a total of 42 hours. I would take his shifts in a heart beat TBH.
 
Mike Schatner said:
I work five days a week with a one hour peak rush hour drive each way. Generally stay in the office 9 hours, so with commuting I am out of the house 55 hours per week. My son is out of the house about 14 hours three days a week, so a total of 42 hours. I would take his shifts in a heart beat TBH.
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Yeah but you spend your working day posting here :D (I jest).

Assuming that you work regular office hours it's hard to compare the two, having regular sleeping hours at night isn't a bad thing either, really depends on individual preference. 4 hours less commute is a big win whichever way you put it though.
 
It's amazing how one can believe the son in question here is relevant to the tier of workers who get fecked by Amazon and at the same time speak about his solid joining pay package, feck tonne of offers from other companies on linkedin and a great career path in Amazon itself starting from an assured jump in less than a year.

It's either a case of being a) Too stupid to see that anyone who has the latter isnt relevant to the former or b) Knowing this but choosing to debate for the sake of it instead of admitting you were wrong or c) Loving the company your son works in so much that you make shit up to defend it and prove that people actually being fecked are lying cnuts.
 
Varun said:
It's amazing how one can believe the son in question here is relevant to the tier of workers who get fecked by Amazon and at the same time speak about his solid joining pay package, feck tonne of offers from other companies on linkedin and a great career path in Amazon itself starting from an assured jump in less than a year.

It's either a case of being a) Too stupid to see that anyone who has the latter isnt relevant to the former or b) Knowing this but choosing to debate for the sake of it instead of admitting you were wrong or c) Loving the company your son works in so much that you make shit up to defend it and prove that people actually being fecked are lying cnuts.
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Ding ding ding! We have a winner.
 
Varun said:
It's amazing how one can believe the son in question here is relevant to the tier of workers who get fecked by Amazon
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Of course his role is relevant, he is on the floor with them and pretty much directs their work. He covers more ground than them each and every shift and he steps in and assists/trains. His experience and knowledge is very relevant.

Ultimately the glassdoor reviews speak for themselves. Yes Amazon distribution is a productivity driven environment, that is just the nature of the industry. When you hire 3,000 hourly paid staff a percentage will not adapt for a multitude of reasons. A much larger percentage actually adapt and stay at Amazon for longer than the typical hourly paid worker in similar positions elsewhere. And that is with US unemployment at very low levels.
 
The bad news keeps flowing.



Zuckerberg in the last few minutes




 
I'm really tempted to come off all social media, but I don't think I can. I use it far too much, mostly for bullshit. I'm addicted to bullshit.
 
Zlatattack said:
I'm really tempted to come off all social media, but I don't think I can. I use it far too much, mostly for bullshit. I'm addicted to bullshit.
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I don’t do anything on main Facebook anymore but I’m locked in by the various group conversations I’m in. Without them I’d have left a long time ago.
 
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No problem. I must have been told "I have nothing to hide" at least 70m times in the past 10 years. I reckon they're ok with it.
 
Left FB ages ago but just deactivated the account instead of deleting it.
 
I love the ease and convenience of Amazon and use their services as much as the next person. But I admit I’m in the dark about the work conditions of their employees. Can someone explain to me why their employees are accumulating 10+ miles of moving around on a single shift? That sounds insane. Their workers must be in better shape than Three Lung Park was. Is it really all from walking/moving around in a big warehouse?

Oh and btw @Mike Schatner, eboue is right. Clearly your son is in middle management whether Amazon classifies it as that or not.
 
Man of Leisure said:
I love the ease and convenience of Amazon and use their services as much as the next person. But I admit I’m in the dark about the work conditions of their employees. Can someone explain to me why their employees are accumulating 10+ miles of moving around on a single shift? That sounds insane. Their workers must be in better shape than Three Lung Park was. Is it really all from walking/moving around in a big warehouse?

Oh and btw @Mike Schatner, eboue is right. Clearly your son is in middle management whether Amazon classifies it as that or not.
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I know a few people that have/do work there, and I worked there once for a day and a half (:lol:) and the bolded is pretty much it yeah.
 
Man of Leisure said:
I love the ease and convenience of Amazon and use their services as much as the next person. But I admit I’m in the dark about the work conditions of their employees. Can someone explain to me why their employees are accumulating 10+ miles of moving around on a single shift? That sounds insane. Their workers must be in better shape than Three Lung Park was. Is it really all from walking/moving around in a big warehouse?

Oh and btw @Mike Schatner, eboue is right. Clearly your son is in middle management whether Amazon classifies it as that or not.
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In the older facilities the staff have an hand held scanner. It tells them what and where to pick up next. The system knows exactly how far away the item is so they get a count down clock. They have to rush to the item scan it and then they get their next marching orders. It is pretty much relentless the entire shift. Facilities built in the last few years use a different system. The staff sit in one position and robots bring the shelves to them.



As for my son by definition a middle manager would have a lower management level beneath them. His role is a supervisory entry level management position. He gets fairly well rewarded for his age when you factor in the stocks and such but he is not a middle manager by any companies definition.

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feck. This or the football?
 
Dan said:
I’m doing both.
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I’ve somehow persuaded my girlfriend to let me watch the footy on TV, I’m not going to risk losing it by trying to watch both at the same time :lol:
 
Zuckerberg sounds like he's unveiling a new product, not testifying in front of the Senate.
 
The guy holding a billboard full of printed facebook pages. :lol:
 
Dan said:
The guy holding a billboard full of printed facebook pages. :lol:
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It’s embarrassing. Does he know how many hundreds of million pages there are on Facebook? He’s asking if he knows the owner of 12? Deary me.
 
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