2 and a half years never at risk 😐
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2 and a half years never at risk 😐

I had to stop doing flex for a few months due to extenuating life circumstances....first off I'm not sure why the late delivery offenses hadn't dropped off since June....normally they would do so within a month or so....it's now October 🤦 I took a chance with the car I currently have and did a whole foods order( and made a rookie mistake doing it during rush hour) and now at rishkwith no other dings in any of the other areas? Shoot I got really good tips from this run as well ( I know it's an auto ding and tips don't matter but I still had to mention it )

I assume it's not even worth emailing support? Unless my only ask is why the almost 4 month old late delivery shit hadn't dropped off yet?

It seems(by reading other posts) as though in the almost 3 months I had to stop doing flex the bs has gotten to an all time high....

u/Necessary_Box8361 — 4 days ago

3.5 compared to 3 hour route.

I normally take 3.5 hr routes early in the morning which normally will have 35-50 packages with an average of 40 stops( obviously not for the 35-39 package route.) with the first stop at the least over a half hour away from the station. . I chose a 3 hour route for this morning and still I get 40 packages with 38 stops....flex emailed me last week about erroneously requesting overtime pay...I am still in the appeal process with them over that ...and if they think or one second I won't be asking for overtime pay when they give me as much as they would of not more than a 3.5 hour route then they are smoking the good shit ...even better you can't request overtime pay through a phone call ...you have to now email them.

So just for the people who sweat I'm doing something wrong I still took your advice to try smaller route shifts it makes absolutely no difference.

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u/Necessary_Box8361 — 4 months ago

First time cancelling for torrential weather and traffic

I took a 2p-530p route from the Hampton VA depot and was given a route to VA beach .. (I'll post about that in particular for the previous post I made and the rage baiters who tried to tell me I was crazy when I can't/dont finish a route on or before the time allotted)

Anywho the first leg of the drive to the facility ( from Williamsburg to Hampton) was fucking scary ...got through that...hit a fairly decent dry patch...made it to the facility....got my shitty ass route with the first stop being 47 minutes away(during rush hour near the hr y tunnel and 64 east-also I took screen recordings of that to prove to the rage baiters how it was gridlock traffic)

I finally get into VA beach and the thunder/lightening were pure insanity ...I can handle that kinda weather since I came FROM PA and the weather there can get crazy. But to have to do a 32 stop route...torrential rain....lightening every couple minutes and the roads a hot mess express I decided to call CS and tell them i don't feel safe( mind you I didn't get anywhere near the first stop until 2 hours after the route started ...got me a screenshot of that as well)

I asked cs several times will this count against me yadda yadda....even with bad weather. They said just take a photo of the weather and send it to CS.

Am I taking a screenshot of the weather alerts from my phone or did they want an actual photo of the weather from my car....sounds like an assanine question bit with flex you can never tell or get the gods honest truth from them. I don't even think the cs rep made any notation on my account that I made the call.

I'm going to send everything I can to CS but I just have a feeling they will find a way to twist shit up

Hoping anyone on the same area is staying safe out on the roads. Now for my 2 hour haul back home😵🤯☠️🫪😭

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u/Necessary_Box8361 — 4 months ago

Well this is a new one...anyone else get this?

I'm in awe...where do they get this idea I wasn't working the whole time? Should I now take photos of all the packages I normally have left when the block is supposed to end? And a separate photo of each delivery I made after the block ended?

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Would it even be worth it to appeal this? How do I price I was working the whole time I mean I have an excellent rating and never had issues requesting it pay because they decide to give an over 45 stop delivery block for 3.5 hours ...I cannot wait for another company to respond to my resume so I don't have this stress on top of everything else I have going on...jfc

u/Necessary_Box8361 — 4 months ago

I know I know this is normal for this time of year but still pathetic AF....🙄☹️

Between 40.00-50.00 in gas...then the routes being 49 packages with 43 stops and the first stop 47 minutes away regardless of how you reroute your drive it just doesn't seem plausible....I keep trying to wait for surges but the most I see an hour or two before the shift is maybe $10-$15 dollars more than the initial offer

u/Necessary_Box8361 — 4 months ago

I'm legitimately fucked

Not only can I not work this job to save my life( this is literally and not figurative) and God help me if someone says it's not that deep and to find another job. JUST. DONT.

The late deliveries which I have photo proof of are because I had to spend so much time on the phone with cs or trying to get into an apartment complex because CS either refuses to believe there is no safe location at 4 am to leave the packages or they say don't worry return the packages and you won't get dinged. I ask them again and again are they telling me the truth.

Don't say to just leave and go...you see that package the customer said they didn't receive? Well that's what I did as most flexers recommend and boom I get dinged. I return packages that I cannot leave anywhere and I get dinged ..I know some flexers on here will say your doing it wrong but it's not the same for every person who does this. That's like saying we all eat the same food the same way everyday. It is not the same.

because I cannot get routes due to this phone issue and keep adding on more and more dings I cannot pay rent ..pay bills buy food get gas to find another job. I have nothing ..I am part of that working class that barely gets by to begin with. I have lived this way all my life I can from a lower to middle class working poor family ...I'm not a druggie I'm not a drinker I do not live beyond my means and have no hobbies to spend money on. In the past 2 years I went from renting the same townhome for 10 years to being homeless and barely being able to afford to rent a room during this housing crisis. I know it's not Amazon's fault ..kinda is jeff Bezo's fault for running this shit ass operation but what the fuck am I gonna do? I'm scared reddit fam...really fucking scared.

What the fuck am I gonna do?

u/Necessary_Box8361 — 5 months ago

You have got to be kidding me

Anyone else get this sham ass email..?? Sire let me email them with the same fucking info I emailed them yesterday which is the same info along with a screenshot of my phones OS system....come the fuck on now....this is 🍌🍌🍌

No Sophia I will not send 15 more emails with the same fucking Information for you to send the same email back ...jfc

u/Necessary_Box8361 — 5 months ago

This is getting out of hand

I called CS about the undeliverable packages they tell me to return them and they would notate the account to mark the business closed. I took a photo to cya as well-sent it to andy@amazon.com......I take advice from this community about leaving the packages wherever I can instead of calling cs and returning to the facility and still I get dinged. I exclusively work the early am shifts so when they give me packages to businesses and apartment complexes that I can't access there is no good resolve...call.... don't call...leave it wherever ....don't leave it wherever ..

I'm sorry but I truly believe flex is trying to push out the vets to keep the newbies at the lowest pay rate possible....and because we are independent contractors we have no way of recourse....it's blowing my God damn mind but at the same time I guess I should be smarter about giving any business the benefit of the doubt now a days...

u/Necessary_Box8361 — 5 months ago

Updates come through but not shifts

They can update me about package return and spam my email asking about my experience but not one update about the phone issue...this place is the devil incarnate and just out a whole bunch of people out of work in an already harrowing economic crisis

Side note: please don't tell me to get another job...if you feel it necessary to reply with that comment and are that concerned with my personal life and struggles please see my previous post regarding the phone update issue with flex as I responded to all of those comments with very respectful answers ..I have poured out my heart there and it will save us both the pain and frustration of another thread where people tell me I'm doing life wrong...I appreciate it

u/Necessary_Box8361 — 5 months ago

And now this along with the android app crash? Is there some type of internal hack that's causing all of these issues ?

I just sent over payment for a whole foods order for yesterday and now I'm getting this email about an issue with the payment? What in the ever living shit is going on with flex today?

u/Necessary_Box8361 — 5 months ago

FYI to fiexers today-known issue

The app is stating you need android version 13 ...I have version 16. I called flex and they ca stated it is a known issue but I also have to email them with the issue🤷🤦🙄

I'm wondering is this affecting drivers who have been working today? My shift isn't until tomorrow morning but this is nerve racking because the drive to the facility isn't a hop skip and jump for me and don't want to show up just to get dinged for not being able to log in

u/Necessary_Box8361 — 5 months ago

Humans are shit

Apparently Lazy and self absorbed people don't care about the sign on this parking spaces ...so when I'm sitting there waiting for a job I'll sometimes me tuon it to them as they park...hey this is for Amazon employees....and they act shocked or say that's never been there before...bitch I've been doing this 6 months and it's always been like that...I had a woman take a photo of me and my car because I said something to her....so I took a photo of hers and told her she needs to learn how to read....seriously though...most humans are just trash...cats and dogs...and maybe a sloth or panda for president please!!!

u/Necessary_Box8361 — 5 months ago

Hampton roads Amazon flex parking issues

I finally lost my cool this morning ...the aholes that sit in the indoor parking lot spaces without a route are scum...there is a simple solution...put a security guard or Amazon worker at the front of the entrance and make everyone show that they are scheduled for a shift and if not have THEM wait outside. I did like everyone else has been doing and parked in front of 2 cars ..a group of Spanish speaking men started saying shit to me (even though they are normally the culprit and do the same parking thing all the time+or save a spot for their friends to come) so I start flipping my ish....security guard came over and said Amazon would NEVER pay anyone to stand at the entrance...so they rathar have fights break out instead? How's about building a bigger indoor parking facility ? I had it out with the loser disrespectful men and the chick I was parked in front of( mind you there was ample room for her to pull out...she was just being a bitch) and told them don't mess with crazy...all they said was yeah I was crazy ...then why are you messing with me? Dafuq?

Anyone else with this grievance? I assume reporting this in a consistent basis to Amazon flex themselves won't do shit....until someone gets really mad and something tragic happens....even then they probably would just snub their nose to the issue....such bs!

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u/Necessary_Box8361 — 5 months ago