I took a job at an Amazon warehouse for 2 weeks because I was curious. AMA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worked in a shift work place in school. It is hard work. I was also amazed at amount of adults trying to make a full time living.

One couple with two kids the wife worked midnight to 8 am and his wife same place 8 am to 4 pm.

They had one car and they drop and pick each other up. We had a five minute grace at start and end of shift so that is when the pickup drop up would occur.

Another guy worked 7-3 one job and 8-midnight our job. Had an old 1970s van with bed and would sleep in it in lunch breaks. He was working 16 hours a day no OT

Took me five years to graduate college so I did it a long time. It is a hard life.

My weird issue (please don’t laugh) every girl at work 18-21 wanted to marry me. I dated a beautiful girl for one year I met through work. Sister of my supervisor. Literally looked like a young Christie Brinkley. So you ask how did she end up like this.

Well she dropped of HS at 15. Was unemployed other than babysitting neighbors kids. Lived in a run down small apt in a blue collar area with her obese mom who worked in Woolworth’s. Her Dad who barely mumbled who was a zombie night guard who was asleep all day. Her overweight sister who got pregnant twice out of wedlock at 20 by some large older black man I swears was a bookie or drug dealer. And another sister on and off at home who reminded me of Ginny in Forest Gump. It was an insane house. I literally go over there during day at 20 between classes and have sex and watch TV and no one cared. I met so many normal young people not in college from screwed up backgrounds.

Your posts are bizarre and gross.

Yeah this guy is recognizable. Low end life experiences and bragging about the adventure of it all.

High Schooler at best

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worked in a shift work place in school. It is hard work. I was also amazed at amount of adults trying to make a full time living.

One couple with two kids the wife worked midnight to 8 am and his wife same place 8 am to 4 pm.

They had one car and they drop and pick each other up. We had a five minute grace at start and end of shift so that is when the pickup drop up would occur.

Another guy worked 7-3 one job and 8-midnight our job. Had an old 1970s van with bed and would sleep in it in lunch breaks. He was working 16 hours a day no OT

Took me five years to graduate college so I did it a long time. It is a hard life.

My weird issue (please don’t laugh) every girl at work 18-21 wanted to marry me. I dated a beautiful girl for one year I met through work. Sister of my supervisor. Literally looked like a young Christie Brinkley. So you ask how did she end up like this.

Well she dropped of HS at 15. Was unemployed other than babysitting neighbors kids. Lived in a run down small apt in a blue collar area with her obese mom who worked in Woolworth’s. Her Dad who barely mumbled who was a zombie night guard who was asleep all day. Her overweight sister who got pregnant twice out of wedlock at 20 by some large older black man I swears was a bookie or drug dealer. And another sister on and off at home who reminded me of Ginny in Forest Gump. It was an insane house. I literally go over there during day at 20 between classes and have sex and watch TV and no one cared. I met so many normal young people not in college from screwed up backgrounds.

Your posts are bizarre and gross.

I disagree. It's interesting to learn how avg guys hook up with beautiful women.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worked in a shift work place in school. It is hard work. I was also amazed at amount of adults trying to make a full time living.

One couple with two kids the wife worked midnight to 8 am and his wife same place 8 am to 4 pm.

They had one car and they drop and pick each other up. We had a five minute grace at start and end of shift so that is when the pickup drop up would occur.

Another guy worked 7-3 one job and 8-midnight our job. Had an old 1970s van with bed and would sleep in it in lunch breaks. He was working 16 hours a day no OT

Took me five years to graduate college so I did it a long time. It is a hard life.

My weird issue (please don’t laugh) every girl at work 18-21 wanted to marry me. I dated a beautiful girl for one year I met through work. Sister of my supervisor. Literally looked like a young Christie Brinkley. So you ask how did she end up like this.

Well she dropped of HS at 15. Was unemployed other than babysitting neighbors kids. Lived in a run down small apt in a blue collar area with her obese mom who worked in Woolworth’s. Her Dad who barely mumbled who was a zombie night guard who was asleep all day. Her overweight sister who got pregnant twice out of wedlock at 20 by some large older black man I swears was a bookie or drug dealer. And another sister on and off at home who reminded me of Ginny in Forest Gump. It was an insane house. I literally go over there during day at 20 between classes and have sex and watch TV and no one cared. I met so many normal young people not in college from screwed up backgrounds.

Your posts are bizarre and gross. Signed, the overweight sister.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worked in a shift work place in school. It is hard work. I was also amazed at amount of adults trying to make a full time living.

One couple with two kids the wife worked midnight to 8 am and his wife same place 8 am to 4 pm.

They had one car and they drop and pick each other up. We had a five minute grace at start and end of shift so that is when the pickup drop up would occur.

Another guy worked 7-3 one job and 8-midnight our job. Had an old 1970s van with bed and would sleep in it in lunch breaks. He was working 16 hours a day no OT

Took me five years to graduate college so I did it a long time. It is a hard life.

My weird issue (please don’t laugh) every girl at work 18-21 wanted to marry me. I dated a beautiful girl for one year I met through work. Sister of my supervisor. Literally looked like a young Christie Brinkley. So you ask how did she end up like this.

Well she dropped of HS at 15. Was unemployed other than babysitting neighbors kids. Lived in a run down small apt in a blue collar area with her obese mom who worked in Woolworth’s. Her Dad who barely mumbled who was a zombie night guard who was asleep all day. Her overweight sister who got pregnant twice out of wedlock at 20 by some large older black man I swears was a bookie or drug dealer. And another sister on and off at home who reminded me of Ginny in Forest Gump. It was an insane house. I literally go over there during day at 20 between classes and have sex and watch TV and no one cared. I met so many normal young people not in college from screwed up backgrounds.

Your posts are bizarre and gross.

Yeah this guy is recognizable. Low end life experiences and bragging about the adventure of it all.

This is the guy who sometimes posts in real estate and money/finance too right? I recognize the bad grammar, juvenile shock value, and racism/misogyny.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is your educational level, OP? I am asking because I noticed you used "irregardless" in an earlier post.

The majority of people who graduated from high school went to public school. They haven't taught grammar or spelling in ages.

[Anonymous]

Did you make any friends OP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is your educational level, OP? I am asking because I noticed you used "irregardless" in an earlier post.

Not, OP, but I AM a linguist, and your poor attempt at shade isn't even rooted in knowledge. Some snoots have taking umbrage mean a word that has been in use for over 200 years isn't a word.

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/07/887649010/regardless-of-what-you-think-irregardless-is-a-word#:~:text=Merriam%2DWebster%20defines%20irregardless%20as,intensifier%2C%22%20the%20dictionary%20writes.

""Irregardless is included in our dictionary because it has been in widespread and near-constant use since 1795," the dictionary's staff wrote in a "Words of the Week" roundup on Friday. "We do not make the English language, we merely record it."""

NP. I argued with my high school English teacher about this. His closing argument was, "His class, his rules." Ergo, I don't use irregardless despite its usage in the common vernacular.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not a snarky question, but was it weird knowing you were working there out of curiousity and others out of necessity?

Nobody who says irregardless in a sentence has better options. She took it because she needed to and found out it was too physically demanding. I assure you, it wasn't out of curiosity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not a snarky question, but was it weird knowing you were working there out of curiousity and others out of necessity?

Nobody who says irregardless in a sentence has better options. She took it because she needed to and found out it was too physically demanding. I assure you, it wasn't out of curiosity.

Yep

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cheek swab? Oh hell no.

Washington Post made me pee in a cup.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cheek swab? Oh hell no.

Washington Post made me pee in a cup.

So did the government. Would love to have had a cheek swab.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How hard did it suck?

It sucks. Not going to lie. The work week is 4 days for 10.5 hours (includes a 30 minute unpaid lunch). Unlike other jobs they do track your every move. You’re constantly scanning your badge so they know what you’re up to meaning there is no down time. You work your full 10 hours on your feet wearing steel toed safety shoes. A lot of people complain about back and foot pain. They also express they are depressed because the job does not allow you much time to talk to coworkers. It’s an isolating job.

How many coffee/restroom breaks were you allowed to take in the 10 hours?

You get a 30 minute lunch and 2 15 minute paid breaks. Technically you could take as many bathroom breaks as you wanted but the unspoken rule was to only go when you were on break because it would cut into your pick rate ( if you are bottom 5% they fire you). You were not allowed to be in the break room except for your allotted break time and could only have water on the warehouse floor. The breaks and lunch start as soon as they call it. The warehouse is large and you must walk to the lunch/break room which really cut into your time and you were expected to start working the minute the break/lunch was over basically leaving you with a 20 minute lunch and a 5 minute break.

I see why they do 10-hour shifts. They don’t have to give a break for that fifth day and so have people working more time out of the 40 hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I worked in a shift work place in school. It is hard work. I was also amazed at amount of adults trying to make a full time living.

One couple with two kids the wife worked midnight to 8 am and his wife same place 8 am to 4 pm.

They had one car and they drop and pick each other up. We had a five minute grace at start and end of shift so that is when the pickup drop up would occur.

Another guy worked 7-3 one job and 8-midnight our job. Had an old 1970s van with bed and would sleep in it in lunch breaks. He was working 16 hours a day no OT

Took me five years to graduate college so I did it a long time. It is a hard life.

My weird issue (please don’t laugh) every girl at work 18-21 wanted to marry me. I dated a beautiful girl for one year I met through work. Sister of my supervisor. Literally looked like a young Christie Brinkley. So you ask how did she end up like this.

Well she dropped of HS at 15. Was unemployed other than babysitting neighbors kids. Lived in a run down small apt in a blue collar area with her obese mom who worked in Woolworth’s. Her Dad who barely mumbled who was a zombie night guard who was asleep all day. Her overweight sister who got pregnant twice out of wedlock at 20 by some large older black man I swears was a bookie or drug dealer. And another sister on and off at home who reminded me of Ginny in Forest Gump. It was an insane house. I literally go over there during day at 20 between classes and have sex and watch TV and no one cared. I met so many normal young people not in college from screwed up backgrounds.

Your posts are bizarre and gross.

Yeah this guy is recognizable. Low end life experiences and bragging about the adventure of it all.

This is the guy who sometimes posts in real estate and money/finance too right? I recognize the bad grammar, juvenile shock value, and racism/misogyny.

Also he can’t do math. Working from 7-3 and then 8-12 does not equal 16 hours.

[Anonymous]

YOU LIVED MY DREAM! I (federal attorney) applied to do this during covid and never managed to get a shift that worked. I am so curious though! I still hope to do this one day!

Did you get a sense of how their inventory management worked? Any insight into how they collect data and make predictions about what to stock, where to move inventory, etc?

What items were most popular? What items surprised you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:YOU LIVED MY DREAM! I (federal attorney) applied to do this during covid and never managed to get a shift that worked. I am so curious though! I still hope to do this one day!

Did you get a sense of how their inventory management worked? Any insight into how they collect data and make predictions about what to stock, where to move inventory, etc?

What items were most popular? What items surprised you?

No sense of how they managed inventory or collected customer data. That’s probably being done off site by their computer/engineering team. Diapers, pet food, cases of drinks, toys and cat litter and dog pee pads were the top products. There’s something called a bug a salt gun. That is also surprisingly popular.