u/FrauleinHabsburg

My work bestie got fired today. She saw two teen-somethings riding those electric bikes and she asks if they will let her try to ride it real fast. They say, if you let us drive the van. I am not joking, not making this up, she agreed. She literally folded out the ironing board in the cab that doubles as a seat, and sat while she taught a 15 year old how to drive the edv down the road. And he rolled through a stop sign. He didn't stop for 3 seconds and the camera sent the clip back to our dispatcher.

Here's the craziest part. I asked her what is she going to do now. She said she thinks she's going to get one because they were fun to ride.

I MEANT what are you going to do for a job, money, INCOME. and she took it as "I think I'm gonna get one of those electric bikes!"

What the fuck. It's the heat. I blame the heat and group stops.

I knew she was, well, she wasn't newton or Einstein but I never saw this from her. I am in shock

I am sitting in awe at how Amazon designed these vans with Rivian from the bottom up, and deliberately chose to not give them adequate power to keep the cab of the van cool. This is bordering on cruel. That cannot be the result of oversight or a mistake, it can only be by deliberate design. The R&D process of replacing a fleet of hundreds of thousands of vehicles with custom vans takes years and years and years with every detail being painstakingly hammered out. And they made sure to give us AC that does not get cold.

Yes. I know if you keep the door closed the air stays running. I also know the air STILL IS NOT COLD because the compressor itself is being throttled, it will not receive enough power to cool that air sufficiently to actually be stronger than the insane amounts of sunlight coming through the giant windows, absorbing into the dark cabin, and then filling it with infrared.

Giant windows. Bad AC. Who makes such a dumbass mistake? Nobody. Nobody is that stupid. Auto manufacturers design cabins and window proportions specifically with these things in mind, you're telling me Amazon and Rivian just did a big oppsoe daisy? Don't waste my time with that shit.

This is unforgivable. And what happens in winter? Let me guess, the same thing. Heat will be a problem too won't it?

I can't believe this shit. This is wrong on so many levels.

OH, AND they apparently reduced our routes today by approx 20 stops AND factored in an extra 20 min stop. allegedly. just pure fucking gaslighting from these people.

the route is no smaller. it's still the same 289 packages, literally average package count. average amount of stops. the same route I get every day. the same 18 totes and 33 overflow ... it's the same.

but they INSISIT On lying and telling you they reduced the route. as if you wouldn't know.

this is some sick secret psyop, this entire company. this is some weird psychological experiment in demoralization or something. this isn't normal behavior, even for corporations. this is some weird level

I've been taking Camber 30 mg IR tabs the last 3 months and the last 2 months they have been good. No negative side effects, they did wear off kinda fast so I burned thru a script fast but they worked and worked well.

Got my refill two days ago from the same pharmacy I'd been getting them, excited to be getting refill of pills that work, and behold, suddenly my pharmacy got the pink Epic 30mg iR.

Not only do they do next to nothing, my heart hurts and I can feel the palpitations. I'm also sweating like a hog at work and it's extremely embarrassing.

I could write a long thing about how mad I am that my pharmacy switched just as I got a decent manufacturer consistently..but what's the use? Doesn't matter.

Maybe it can help one of you. Camber 30mg IR have been pretty good for me the last few months. It's worth a shot if you guys need a suggestion for one to try and find.

I'm burnt for this month. My chest literally hurts right now and I swear I feel my heart not beating right, like pausing and fluttering when I take these... Which it looks like is common reaction to this crap.

Fantastic. Nothing any of us can do though. So cool.

My DSP owners smiling ear to ear at stand up telling us how many packages we moved the last day or two. Some record smashing number and laughing and all smiles...... Because they get paid more if the routes are larger.

Meanwhile here we are, sunburnt, tired, looking at our 200 stop route today with 360 package count making the same 21 dollars an hour.....

They want us to clap and cheer for the insane package volume we delivered? Literally prompting us to clap at it.... "yay we did twice the work for the same exact pay!!!".

Read the room. Wtf.

So annoying. I gave them a few hundred dollars for a secured card. This was a month ago. A month. I've been waiting for the card to arrive and it hasn't come. "Track your card in the app" just takes you to the app to where it says it shipped. VERY helpful guys.

The chat bot is insanely bad. Laughable. I can't believe they even use it.

Their own site gives a phone number to call SPECIFICALLY when your card hasn't arrived withing 14 days of opening the account. I call it and guess what???? It wants a card number to get thru the automated process hahahahahaah.

Just return my deposit. immediately. This is outrageous.

The Rivian EDVs throttle how cold the air is to save power. You can manually set the air temp to as cold as it gets and fans blasting, the system will make sure the compressor doesn't run at its full potential.

The EDVs are getting hot, even with the doors open. There's so much more sunlight coming in through the windows absorbing heat as well.

Rivian said they do this to save battery. But in our case for example, every night at RTS we have drivers enter their remaining miles/gas level of their van that day. 90% return with 95 miles or more. Out of a range of 155.

Rivian and Amazon flat out refuse to listen to this feedback. Instead they offered a patch to the software. If you keep the sliding door closed the AC runs and won't shut off.

Genius. Problem solved. Except, no. Because the underlying problem is the same. The air is not cool enough to keep up with the insane amount of sunlight passing thru the GIANT windows, every time the cabin door auto opens and stays open at a stop until you leave the van FLOODS the cabin with all that heat.

The AC stays running. But its not cool enough to make it worth it. The door open with actual air flow of outside hot air cools more than keeping the door shut at every stop to keep AC running.

If you design a van FOR the drivers, specifically for the tasks and challenges of your drivers, how are you doing to limit the AC like this? How are you going to say it's to save battery when some DSPs have people returning every night with 65% of their battery life left?

If your van can't complete routes while providing a basic quality of life feature, then it wasn't ready to be implemented. Put another battery in it with an additional 50 kwh.

This is just such a slap to the face. There's a fold out ironing board that doubles as a passenger seat in these. NO ac vents to them. So driver trainers or helper routes get to look forward to being hot and uncomfortable from sitting on a ironing board.

Also another crazy oversight is not letting the shelves in back fold up. Only a few at the back.

The worst part is insulting our intelligence. Stop with the gaslighting and mental gymnastics. At least respect us enough to tell it to us straight. You'd rather extend the life of the battery an additional few months than make us comfortable.

Got denied for the chase freedom rise card which the banker told me I'd be approved for with my chase checking acct, and direct deposits etc. I applied, hurt my credit score for nothing. They denied me because 11 years ago I had a chase checking account I didn't use and inactivity fee led to overdraft and it closed. I paid the collection fee a decade ago. I simply forgot about the stupid account.

Fast forward 11 years I use chase checking, I got an acct for work and stuff a while ago, and I am still being denied for an acct I didn't use as a teenager...

I keep reading all these people saying to call the chase reconsideration phone number for credit card denials. The two numbers I see listed over and over are not reconsideration lines at all. They simply put you into a loop that says give us your social security number we're pending your credit card application will let you know this is the current information thanks. Except I got a denial letter days ago so they're not considering my application it's not in review and there's no way to talk to a person that is there to reconsider an application?

Is this no longer a thing?

If not, is chase never going to give me a credit card because a 17 year old didn't use their first checking account ever? I didn't take money from them, I didn't use the account, they charged fees , those led to overdraft and they allowed that snowball and pile up and I was not aware. So they sort of took me for a lot of money for essentially, I had a summer job when I high school, then school started back up and had no money coming in the account went inactive, inactive fees or maintenance fees emptied what little moneys I had left in the account, over draft, over draft, over draft. so it's not like I cashed bad checks or stole or deceived them. I was the one who lost money in that situation, not them.

So I need to know if I should just now close my chase account and go to wells Fargo or something, I'd like a credit card with the bank I use. If chase will never give me a card for that account being left 11 years ago then I just would rather go to Wells Fargo and get a credit card there ya know?

Hey guys, I need a sunscreen that won't feel heavy and gross, make me really hot and cause dirt to stick to me all day. Anyone have any sunscreen suggestions that aren't "heavy" feeling? Or the best version you've found that's not as bad as the rest? I assume the sprays are the best as opposed to the actual lotions that make you feel like you're wearing paint all day? Anyone found a good sunscreen they use?

If you have a solid suggestion and have Amazon affiliate links, I'll use it and make sure you get a kickback

I don't mean to imply we deserve tips this has nothing to do with wanting tips.

I'm wondering though. Why is it culturally obligated to tip a pizza delivery guy, or a door dash delivery driver, but not a delivery guy from FedEx Amazon etc?

Just think about it and realize, the pizza guy is doing 1/10th the work. But people just know they get a 5 dollar tip for walking to pizza to the door. It's become such a normal that enployers now understand they can pay fewer dollars per hour in wages because society tips them SO regularly that it compensates to average out a higher annual income.

However, when anyone sees their Amazon driver struggling to carry their 18th delivery this week up their steep driveway in the sun, the packed portable oven they have to drive, the risk of being on the road all day, getting tons of UV exposure, why does society COMPLETELY shun the idea of a tip?

Above and beyond service right? Well when they decide they want 4 cases of fiji bull crap water up to their 3rd story apartment door and they see the Amazon guy or gal lugging it up over and over and they know that even their single trip up the stairs makes them winded, it doesn't cross anyone's mind to offer a 5 dollar tip?

I'm just surprised at how that doesn't come up.

And even when Amazon sends out emails letting people know, all you have to do is click this button in the email and we will pay the driver and extra 5 dollars they can't even be bothered to do that. Send it to spam. Don't ask again.

But if we place the package at the front door instead of in front of the garage door, you bet your ass Amazon will hear about it.

So this is more of a strange cultural thing than it is me wanting tips. But of course I'll take tips. But it does seem interesting how some tips are obligatory while others are heresy

What would you guys think about the next Paradox DLC being strictly an improvement on their AI? Not another half baked focus tree or clunky mechanic, I mean just a dedicated improvement to the AI.. inmprove the decision making capability of the AI, better balanced navy, better managing of front lines (not the AI just leaving large stretches of their front lines empty while they reshuffle), actually attempting to build new supply hubs, actually using spy agencies and if not then not even build them and waste civs buying the upgrades for it they wont use, better template designs, stuff like this.

At this point I think thats what the game needs,,, and really a DLC that can really work on making sure the AI can handle all the previous DLC mechanics properly (not constantly trying to trade 7 planes over 3.5 years on the market etc)?

I am kinda past the point of getting excited for new mechanics as the system tends to feel a bit bloated as it is, I really think a moment to stop, regroup, and REFINE what they have would be sooo beneficial before just trying to cram in another group of stuff....

At your DSPs are all the routes somewhat equally difficult? Does anyone know if your DSPs area has a couple routes which are just consistently problematic?

We have a few routes that just seem deliberately set up badly, itll be your typical 187 stops but they arent all in one tight neighborhood area, your first 30 stops of the day will be businesses on a busy main road and in multi story business centers where you have to find the suite number. This portion of the route always takes almost 2 hours mostly due to traffic, each stop requires you getting back out onto the main road which is slammed. Then you finally get to move to houses and your first stop are these apartments with ridiculous layouts, 4 story units. After that you get to do houses but its these small neighborhoods located off another highway road, having to jump onto the highway road to get to the next group of 3-6 stops, and each time this just takes several minutes JUST waiting for traffic. The route is just these clusters of deliveries all spaced along an insane distance. Ive been rescued on this and rescued people on this route and they always have people using gas vans on it when theres tons of overflow and its well within range for EV. It just seems like they deliberately do it to screw with us or something.. cubing out a small van with that.

The route that has had multiple people quit at my DSP this last week is one that begins in the downtown area, edge of whats considered downtown, all very narrow one way streets, no parking, everyone who lives and works in these areas parks in the roads so youre ALWAYS legging it with your packages and overflow to your house, apartment or office building because the only parking spot that can fit an EV is a block away. After 40 or so stops like this fighting traffic you have a solid 8 minute drive up into the foothill area, where every single house is built on hills so you have to hike up steep driveways and staircases on every single one. At the end of this route, it finishes in the most obnoxious apartment complex ever because it ALWAYS groups stops from buildings across from eachother... so you go into building A, then the next building is across the parking lot for the next few stops. You pull up inbetween the next pair and repeat across all 8 units like this.
The most notable part of this is having to drive out to a secluded private gated community, its a 20 mph road WITH speed limit signs of course, and its such a time suck driving clear down this long slow road for 3-4 stops.
And this is still routed for 185 stops. The steepness of the yards gets ridiculous after 50 stops, 1 in 3-4 of course grouped, each one a mini hike and with a steep staircase, but you STILL have another 50 to go like this. it is so taxing. Im 5,4 115 lbs soaking wet, im athletic, i have endurance for my other 190 stop residential routes, this is a different league all together.

The DSP is dirty because they promise 1 dollar bonus per rescue but of course if you get rescued they deduct it, I got my 48 rescue bonus dollars docked because I got thrown on this terrible route 3 times because so many people quit. Each time 15-20 stops taken and I ended up in the negative in bonus' and it feels like such a dirty move... the route is not finishable.

And Amazon moved me BACK into this terrible route because so many people quit. Its getting too hot for this. God it makes me so mad I was on a normal route for the last month and did good, and this is my reward.

At stand up the DSP has stated several times that they know some of the routes have been busted and theyre trying to ask amazon to fix. They never do.

Does every DSP have these types of routes? that just cant be done? Even without breaks and whatever else, just the amount of time it takes getting to do and from these stops with traffic and distance AND STILL with a full load, why would they route it that way? not finishing the route still doesnt get you moved off, deliberately or not. It doesnt get finished and they dont care and let you just get rescued by someone who had a 165 residential route.

I think a more than reasonable compromise Amazon should be willing to make is on days when temps hit above or below certain temps, we get "weather pay". You make your flat 21 or whatever an hour, on days when the temp hits 103, an extra 2 dollars an hour.

Especially when you consider Prime day is always in the middle of the summer which is just a special kind of messed up to do. They will have these announcements the week after Prime day boasting about how we moved an insane amount of packages etc as if we are supposed to be proud or happy. You smashed it, we made the same amount.

Amazon could make a profit and still pay out bonuses or small compromises from time to time. They'd still be able to make their share holders happy, and throw us a bone.

Our DSP right now is struggling because several of our routes are just routed objectively bad, nobody can finish them, they are known problem routes and every day at stand up they tell us we're working with Amazon to fix them.... It's been 6 weeks now and the last 5 days we had 6 people just walk because these routes are insanely brutal.

It is just crazy to me. I am not naive to the way things work, I don't think we deserve 100 dollars an hour. But some kind of occasional bonus or having some routes actually fixed... Something.

I have yet to get a single 5 dollar thank your driver thing either. Ever.

Group stops, no more than 2 locations per group stop, no more than 5 packages. If there's over flow or more than 6 packages, break it up. Apartments, only group apartment units in the same building no multi building groups. Hot or cold days, extra 2 dollars an hour.

These are such simple things Amazon refuses to give.

And IDC we technically work for the DSP. Everyone knows we work for Amazon and the DSP is just a middle man who has no autonomy whatsoever.

If Amazon can enforce a set rate to pay drivers they can designate a 100 bonus for showing up and delivering for prime week or something.

I just don't understand why they're so bad. They don't fix their routing. Didn't they bring in a bunch of h1b workers? Apparently Americans can't do these jobs so they hired a bunch of people from India much smarter than us and still they can't fix the routes?

I guess the bottom line is they don't have to... they can just count on more people needing jobs bad enough to tolerate the grind and repeat the cycle. they figure the lowest amount that will keep people around long enough to get others hired... and we have so many people coming here there's always more people who need jobs. customers who every single day have mountains of boxes coming to their door step because they are ADDICTED to buying their cheap plastic foreign slave made trinkets and latest popular products they're tricked into wanting.

I want to play a normal historical game because I'm a pretty casual player, not meta player, single player without crazy dlc so I'm boring I know.

But the problem is right now latest version China is so weak Japan is just crushing them. I need China to somehow get buffed to be able to resist Japan more than they do because otherwise Japan ends up with a huuuuge Chinese puppet by the time they attack on the Pacific in 41.

Any ideas on how I can buff them enough so they don't just get beat up?

Maybe I should try giving them techs to help increase their production?