Originally Posted by
Kalam
Amazon Has Turned a Middle-Class Warehouse Career Into a McJob
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/featu...oyees-homeless
--This story seems germane to the topic currently being discussed. As a side note I actually applied to an Amazon driver job once when I was feeling desperate. I got a call back later that same day and was pretty much offered a job over the phone. But it was to work 10 hr days for $16/hr, and I realized I wasn't that desperate (at least not yet) so I passed.
It’s funny. I have a friend who started a third party logistics company that only delivers Amazon. That’s how they do it at their smaller sorting centers. None of their own drivers.
So I spent like a week checking it out because he wanted me to get involved. It’s a rather small investment as Amazon subsidizes your fleet with no interest loans and other perks. Cheaper than paying benefits. It was a big mess as they were expanding so quickly they didn’t have enough Amazon branded trucks and had dudes in Uhauls up in these desolate parts of West Virgina where they had literal grass roads.
I had to sign up for like a distinct amazon account through a different email to see his routes and the way shit worked. I used my regular phone number though.
This was like 2 years ago. I took a pass. They built some huge facility outside Pittsburgh now. Town called Imperial, which despite living in Pittsburgh for over a decade, I haven’t a clue where it’s at.
What I do know is I started getting a text every day from Alexa asking if I wanted a job. Then the texts from Alexa asking me why I haven’t responded to their email job offer, when I literally couldn’t guess what email I created for $1 million.
Amazon is amazing in that you can’t get anyone on the phone or reply to anything as it’s all automated. It’s not like a text where you can type STOP. It got comical, while annoying. It went on for months. They must have been unable to fill the jobs locally if they were beating down doors in my area, as wherever that town is, it must be at least 60 miles away.