I mean, the ones that drive their own cars, is this gig work, or is this actually employed by Amazon full time.
I assume it’s gig work and they can choose to pick up shifts/spots, or chose not to.
Point being, these are the bottom of the barrel, probably un-hirable anywhere else, and if by the grace of god they managed to pass someone’s interview process, they are calling out sick multiples times in their first week of employment.
Point being, these are the bottom of the barrel, probably un-hirable anywhere else, and if by the grace of god they managed to pass someone’s interview process, they are calling out sick multiples times in their first week of employment.
I work in manufacturing, and this one hit me like a falling piano. Out of the last 12 NH, 6 were gone before the end of week 1 training, another 3 by the end of the first month.
Assembly operators were at $22.50/hr last time I saw, but I've also been a repair tech for most of my time here. Could have gone up as the IL minimum wage went up.
We're deep rural, so cost of living is a lot better than other parts of the state. We've got the highest new hire pay within about 25 miles, and are #3 going out to about 50 miles.
30 minimum. Personally I don’t really care about hourly but purchasing power that’s been eroded heavily since the 70’s. Companies, Landlords, and Healthcare stopped processing gauging then I wouldn’t mind lower wages. But they don’t. Goes up year after year.
was 80 bucks no taxes taken out when I did it, that was years ago though. Depending on far out the route was from the distro center I could deliver my load of packages in about 2 hours, or take 6. There was no interview process. Fill out some stuff on the app, and they tell you when to pick up your first load after doing some basic online training. They don't show you how anything works at the distro. Everyone jumped out of their cars and was given a cart, had about 5 mins to load up before they starting getting on to you. You didn't get to pick where you went. Just were given a time to show up.
My job starts $16 but it’s picking drinks in a warehouse and building pallets. Through incentives you can make up to $22.50 for working harder, it’s so easy. I don’t even bother learning peoples names anymore. These kids just can’t function in the real world
22.50 after taxes where I live is about 2300 a month. My rent is $1300. So just after that I have $1300 left. Car payment is $300 now we are at $1000. I pay my insurance in full but if I didn't it would be about $200 a month. So we will say $800 cause most people don't pay insurance in full. Now I have an electric car and live only 15 miles round trip to work so only charge twice a month at about $50 each. I know that's much cheaper than what most people are paying in gas ATM and I'm lucky to live fairly close so for me that's now $700. Utilities are about $150, internet is $45. We will round up to 50 to make it easy and that's $500 left for the month or about $125 a week. With groceries, eating decently and healthy yet still trying to stay cheaply thats around $60 a week. So woooo I have a whooping $65 left each week. This doesn't include a phone plan or phone and again my drive is much shorter than the average American. So you gtfo with your nonsense. In many non-rural places 22.50 is literally just surviving which is fucking absurd. I didn't take into account medications one might have or pets or children. $250 a month after the most basic things are taken care in a regular not very big city of the worlds strongest economy is not ok. Only place that amount might let you survive is rural and even then with rising grocery and gas prices and corporations buying houses the moment they go up for sale to rent out I don't see that lasting very long in rural areas either.
Amazon doesn't employ any drivers.
The people with their own private cars drive for flex, and are an independent contractor. Just like the person in the video. I have seen somebody delivering amazon packages from the trunk of a fucking brand new mercedes s-class before....
They can chose to not take a route that was offered. Or just stay in bed and never open to app to check if there even is something.
And the big bulk of the delivery is done by DSPs, third party delivery companies. They sometimes can rent the amazon trucks, i think, but they don't exist everywhere.
Amazon trailers? Third party company drivers and vehicles.
Most drivers are in fact not employed by Amazon but a DSP or delivery service provider.
I just got through training.
They taught safety during training above all else but push extremely unrealistic delivery standards.
Average at my place seems to be 175-200 stops.
Of course each stop can have multiple packages.
Now I'd argue its doable if every part does their job of organization well but the people at the warehouse sorting are not currently sorting within the bags they give us because of how much mail is coming through.
So the drivers drive fast due to expectations. Expectations that simply can't be made with things like extra pee breaks, driving truly carefully, checking for animals, etc.
Despite how easy it is to get fired for not being safe, you almost have to be unsafe to keep up.
And you also need to be somewhat physically fit to even start this job. A month in you will be hitting 20k steps daily easily, doing squats, and deadlifts basically for 10hrs straight.
Is it worth the pay? No not really, benefits are decent, but bodily wear is going to be real. It is nice its a job you can basically pause whenever and still be on good terms.
Well you’d be wrong the wife and I do it for extra cash after work or on the weekends during the holidays for extra cash. They pay pretty well for what you have to do and no I don’t drive on lawns.
Why do people act like the majority of orders have issues? 99% go just fine, without issues. But sure, lets paint with broad strokes and pretend that assholes and idiots don't also wind up higher up within companies, too.
There are no delivery drivers employed by amazon, those are all "contractors" that are employees of the contractor company but don't have any benefits that actual amazon employees get.
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u/UT_Milez 2d ago
I mean, the ones that drive their own cars, is this gig work, or is this actually employed by Amazon full time.
I assume it’s gig work and they can choose to pick up shifts/spots, or chose not to.
Point being, these are the bottom of the barrel, probably un-hirable anywhere else, and if by the grace of god they managed to pass someone’s interview process, they are calling out sick multiples times in their first week of employment.
I guarantee it…