r/AmazonFC

why we can’t choose where we want to work.

I got forced to work in AFE every day but my home path is pick and they say safety rotation. knowing that I can stow and count too but they force me to go to AFE. Liter feels like they’re using me.

You know who you are: no PTO, low UPT, tired of going to work. If you are able to save up to afford expenses during a PLOA, DO IT. You will come back a different person. You are given around 80 days of PLOA per year as a blue badge IFIAK. I have asked a few people at work who have told me that they are burning out if they have ever thought about a PLOA and they had no idea it even existed which is why I'm posting this to let more people know

Does HR tend to give a lot of pushback for them? How ling did it take you to get it approved? I just had my dr submit an accommodation to allow me to wear my own footwear yesterday. I have 3 compression fractures in my spine and after trying 4 pairs of shoes and 5 different insoles, i still cant hang with the pain its causing.

How do you still have the energy? Please tell me the secret because I want to do this but I'm so burnt out at the end of my 10 hour shift.

I work at an SSD in Michigan and I had a MLOA for March 5th and it was denied so I should have gotten 10 hrs taken. It’s now may 19th and still never took the UPT away. Am I good? lol

I don’t have a car, walking isn’t an option because I work in an unsafe part of Detroit & public transport sucks.

I spend on average $20 each way(I only live 12 mins away), which is $240 a week(I have to work OT) or $960 a month which is more than 1 of my checks before taxes. It’s incredibly depressing to think that for everyday I work, I have to spend 2 hours worth of pay.

Anybody else in a similar situation?

I remember showing up the first week thinking I was in decent shape and that it was just going to be a warehouse job, like how hard could it really be. By day three my feet were done. Not sore, done. I was going home and just sitting there not wanting to move. Legs hurt, back hurt, parts of my body I didn’t think about before were making themselves known. I was convinced I had made a mistake taking the job.

But nobody really warns you that the first two weeks are basically just your body figuring out how to exist in that environment. The concrete floors, the constant movement, the pace, all of it hits different when you’re not used to it. And you’re also still learning where everything is, trying to not fall behind on rate, trying to figure out the unspoken rules of your specific building and your specific shift, all at the same time. It’s a lot hitting you at once.

Around week three something just kind of clicked. Feet stopped hurting as bad. I knew my area. I stopped overthinking the scanner. The shift started going faster because I wasn’t spending half of it being confused or in pain. It doesn’t magically become easy but it becomes manageable in a way that the first two weeks make you think it never will.

If you just started and you’re reading this from your car on break wondering if it gets better, it does for most people. Get good insoles, drink more water than you think you need, and just survive the first two weeks. Your body will figure it out.

Haven’t scanned in over a hour now just send us home already 😩

Hey all, I got stopped through the detector today, I took off all of my jewelry and had nothing in my pockets or anything. Still. Beep beep!

I ask the guy, jokingly, if it's my silver tooth I have. He says yes. Is that seriously possible? If so, what do I do? He could've been kidding, the guy is a blank slate and I can never tell what he's feeling. Regardless, he said it and I'm curious. I can't just remove it, my tooth was cracked in half from an injury. I know this is absolutely ridiculous, I know how metal detectors work which is why I'm so skeptical. I literally had nothing else metal on me. I even took of my shoes.

I'm 18yo and started working for amazon a month ago, its my first actual job ever.

Personally, I think the work itself is fine, It's pretty boring and has me staring at the clock but I just put my earbuds in and listen to music or watch YT. Plus, I get paid more then my friends do and since I work flex part time, I get to work whenever I want. So I guess compared to other part time jobs I got a pretty good one.

My only dislike is that im the youngest person in my building and its hard to talk to anyone when everyone's a decade or more older than me lol, the only people I've become acquainted with have been the people I were trained with since they were closer to me in age, but they're also flex so we never see each other.

I'll like to hear other people's opinions about working at amazon this young.