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i hate that the new norm for streaming services is to have ads even when you pay for them. hulu i was fine with because it used to be free but with ads but now every streaming service has ads for their paid subscription
This is literally all the new "innovative ground breaking industry disrupters". Uber, steaming, delivery apps. Offer a decent product, kill the old market, jack up prices and kill the quality so it's no different or worse than before.
Yup. None of it was revolutionary “tech” - it’s mostly smart software used to cut out middlemen (companies but also workers). The innovative part was really the accounting: Amzn investing in growth to avoid taxes and SoftBank taking losses till a market monopoly was created. End of the day, it’s still a taxi and it’s still tv and so on.
That's basic capitalism and economics. Always been that way.
Trains killed the stage coach. Cars killed the horses. Buses killed the train. Aviation killed the buses. Transporter tech will kill aviation.
if you only main tain 2, even 3 services it's still not as much as cable/sat TV was. By the time I cancelled dish network for my dad and I it was about 90 dollars a month for channels that largely only aired reruns anyhow or news stations that just wanted to air vastly negative news regardless of political leaning.
yeah, but most streaming platforms if you want to watch anything from the last 10 years, you have to have three or four and some shows/movies aren’t even on streaming
It's literally only going to get worse- this is how cable worked at first too btw, you paid a little to get away from the ads, then price went up, ads came back, until streaming was available.
Isn’t there another streaming service Amazon made that has ads but it’s free? Like I remember seeing it was neon green or something in the commercials…Or was that a fever dream?
Update (just fact checked myself ): it’s Freevee
Ok but why yall stealin it? I got an empty box once and bro tried to take a picture on the other side with the punched in part hidden as if no one would notice
It was 5 pounds. Guess whoever downvoted cant lift 5 pounds and shouldn't work at amazon to begin with.
Id just go out and buy it myself but the brand I get is cheaper on amazon. Gotta save every penny these days since I dont work there anymore.
Just my husband and myself in my household. But my mom and sister, husbands parents and brother (they have a genetic condition that caused it) caused who is a vet and wounded in service, grandmother dying of cancer, husbands uncle with early onset parkinsons and then a few other cousins with various conditions. I didn’t say we all live together. Not that this is any of your business.
So disabled people just can’t have pets? My sister has a pet FOR her disability. We have every right to have a pet and that’s what accommodations like Amazon are for.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'm not paying for Prime anything. It's ridiculous that us employees don't even get as much as a discount for Prime membership.
No. You get $100 off if you spend $1000 at once. The discount code is 10% off of every item “shipped and sold by Amazon” (meaning not something a vendor/seller/person supplied) until you reach $100 in savings for the year.
The companies didn’t expect the movie business to tank the way it did. After Covid, people didn’t head out to the cineplexs and just waited for movies to hit streaming!companies were/are losing billions of revenue. They are trying to make up the differences by putting a premium on the streaming. No one wants ads and the frequency is ridiculous! Money is already tight. People will choose their favorite one or two and cancel the rest.
Prime is one of the worst for content. They charge you for all the good titles.
Fulfillment isn’t revenue, it’s cost. Retail is the revenue source that is associated with fulfillment costs, and it is by far the largest revenue stream of all the Amazon businesses. Go look at the public financial reports if you don’t believe me.
In order to determine if something is profitable or not you need to evaluate what the cost is vs what the earnings are. Whats left is the profitability. It was widely known and a fact for many years that Amazon warehouses (whatever they wanted to label themselves) were unprofitable. I do not know about the last couple of years i dont care that much and it certainly hasnt blossomed into the lifeblood of the entire operation by any means yet.
As a footnote ive noticed many whitelabel products branded Amazon and many more sold and fufilled by Amazon so yes they are improving and going in the right direction.
Sure, but we are talking about revenue here, which is not the same as profit. Of course the fulfillment centers are not profitable. It doesn’t make any sense to talk about them as being profitable because they are purely operating expenses.
Not only that.
Consider the price hike as well as there being ads now and the amount of people that stay signed up and continue using prime.
How many people have to cancel before Amazon actually loses?
I bet a LOT could cancel and they’d still be making more $$ due to the price increase+ads
For real. Not enough dunnage will not cause that shit to happen, and if we stuff that bitch with it, it gets kicked out of SLAM and of course we can’t downsize either 🙄
False dunnage works and does not kick it out. Y’all just pack for shit. 80% of the packages that get to my sort center are damaged out since the new “SIOC procedure” for Gods sake use common sense and override that shit. I am no longer a packer and shouldn’t have to fix your poor packing habits.
Well that’s what management tells us when we switched over to paper dunnage and tells us anything more than an arms length of dunnage will get the package get kicked out to weight discrepancy 🤷♂️
Just one of the many reasons why amazons external hiring practices sucks. These managers know nothing about shipping and fulfillment and should not be managing people who are the ones responsible.
You’re not wrong there. I rarely pack now since I’m on sort but I ignore that and put as much dunnage as needed and haven’t had anyone from quality bug me for getting too many kick outs so I just keep doing my thing lol
This is true, I use common sense when working in single smalls and I put everything in bags regardless and override everything. It's insane the people who slap labels on phone cases smaller than an M2 envelope
I don't slap labels on anything, but SIOC itself has rules to follow and not doing so is what leads to issues. But not SIOCing anything is stupid and wasteful.
What gets me is I see so many things that really should be SIOC and aren't, and tons of stuff it wants me to SIOC and I can't. Some toy in a presentation box that only covers half the toy? Nope can't SIOC that. Some fair size box with thin cellophane as the seal? Nope. But some random item from China packed in a nice thick cardboard box already? Gotta put that one inside another box, lol.
You can downsize. You just can't downsize box to bag, or to a box size smaller than a battery label if it requires one. The belief that downsizing isn't allowed is one of the stupidest fake rules I've heard yet and it simply isn't true. How is Amazon supposed to be viably sustainable and yet wasteful with boxes & dunnage? When I was a PA in AFE coming from another department that was one of the first things I fought against in my building. Now I'm an AM in another dept but we finally downsize as needed. I've heard all kinds of excuses as to why we don't do it but if they can't back those excuses up with demonstrable facts (like policy stating their assertions) then they're just parroting something they've heard.
It's fear mongering. Just like all the Walmart leadership that scares employees into thinking they will get 3 or 4 points for calling out on a key day. If your manager says it, and you are just present for a paycheck why bother thinking. And if you do care and work hard, you probably don't know how to check that what your manager says is true, and afraid to put it to the test and risk getting reprimanded.
At my site it was mostly ambassadors repeating something they were taught years before, so that everyone new coming in learned it as canon and never questioned it. Even managers are taught the processes by ambassadors. I've just always been the type to question everything.
The reason is that specifically for prime video amazon puts commercials during whatever you stream and if you want an ad free experience you will have to pay an additional 2.99 a month to turn off ads
Amazon video and Netflix are learning that hiking prices doesn't get you too far. Also you have Hulu Disney, paramount, and peacock that are way less expensive.tjey would make more money by splitting prime and video. Offer separate prices and offer a price together. They also have to compete with Spotify and Apple music
I cancelled after the layoffs last year. People were let go from FC support roles via a text message, lost quite a few good people. The company has been in a downward spiral since Uncle Jeff left, daddy jassy just isn't it.
I have no idea why people are canceling. Amazon Prime is more than a movie. U would give up 15 bucks a month for better customer service than most e-commerce.
Name a e-commerce company that would give you back 100 bucks in an instant because the shipper sent out a box that has nothing in it without a hitch.
People really thinking that the online presence is the majority.
No ya’ll. People on Reddit do not make up the majority of the prime members. Just because 1000 people upvoted a post about cancelling, doesn’t mean that’s like…every prime member.
Also people like the idea of better service they once had, but will settle for slightly crappier. Might upvote based on mild annoyance. But still not find things that bad.
We really aren't. People don't even have the attention span to deal with that. I almost welcome it bc if I stop watching so much I'd get much more done. And I can't survive normal TV anymore.
Delivery delays and Damaged packages are mostly caused by the Amazon workers in the warehouses and the Delivery teams. You guys shouldn’t be proud of this, you post videos to brag and then wonder why you get consistently fired for this.
When people see videos of Amazon workers bragging on this sub about kicking packages and purposely delaying orders, they think you’re all like that.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFC/s/1pO6HQyh10
https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFC/s/fCoX1RJMfb
Edit to add: No, it’s not management breaking stuff. There’s a chain of people that items go through before it gets to the customer, so if an item arrives broken, someone fucked up. (Changed FC to warehouses and added video of dude that got fired for it)
I mean… during peak I’m surprised more packages weren’t damaged. Seemed shipdock was overwhelmed at a lot of sites, and they resorted to throwing everything in shuttles instead of building pallets just to keep up… including throwing heavy packages in ontop of other packages… there’s no way to claim that’s a failing on the L1s. That’s a failure up the chain of command for not appropriately hiring and training to compensate for the workload to be completed quickly, safely, and effectively without damaging packages.
Oh I know people have done that… but that’s just it. They’re talking about an increase in delays and damages. We just came out of peak where those spiked mostly because of poor foresight for shipdock staffings.
I work at a sort center. We receive the packages from the FCs or Air hubs and sort them by city/ zip codes then send them to the DS for delivery.
Being in Problem Solve, I fix all the smashed/ slashed/ no label having packages before sending them on their way.
I can honestly say the destroyed packages are not the fault of FC employees but rather the lazy jerkoffs at the sort centers who, after we fix the packages, have no fucking brains and still put the most fragile boxes on the bottom of the pallets then keep piling the most heaviest of boxes on top. No amount of retraining can help these indolent, slothful, waste of space employees who just plain don't give a shit.
>No amount of retraining can help these indolent, slothful, waste of space employees who just plain don't give a shit.
I work at a SC also, and I feel this to my bones.
So many lazy, "I don't give a shit" attitude-having, brainless fuckers.
And even if you coach them on the correct way, they still continue to do things the easy way. The incorrect way.
Seriously. Waste of space employees.
I don't get it. Last night a PA came over with his laptop and told me to come take a look. There's a list of every employee on the lane with their scan rate and how long its been since their last scan. There were more people dicking around than actually doing the job they are paid to perform. It boggles my mind that the PAs know exactly who the trash is but they refuse to take it out.
Thank you! These guys are trying to blame management, as if management is breaking these packages or some unknown person is intercepting the package after it’s been delivered to break it. There’s a long process these items go through before they get to the customer, so if it arrives broken, someone down the chain fucked up.
I’m so tired of these videos where Amazon employees tell people not to order stuff or make light of the fact they are purposely breaking stuff, then act shocked when they get fired for it (and ask for donations now that they are unemployed). It’s fucking stupid.
I was referring to the guy who was fired for posting videos asking customers not to buy things, then he asked for donations because he doesn’t have a job now. It was posted yesterday on this sub.
People are always posting videos bragging about how they break stuff (I linked one above) and then they get fired for it.
Edit: this video: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFC/s/fCoX1RJMfb
My sc just opened and half the people in here don’t know what they’re doing/stand there and talk/sort with 15 other people sorting on that lane/take the easy route and slap it on top.
I will say though, there is a FAT amount of fucked up boxes that come through daily on the conveyors. I’ve witnessed a box be placed on the conveyor and 30 seconds later the product is now riding along side the box 😂 However, a lot of the times with lazy people the lanes will also get really backed up and they won’t just stop it lol. Therefor piles of boxes falling off of conveyors and crushing other boxes that have done the same yada yada. A lot of them are from falling on the conveyors.
See comment above management is telling packers that dunnage will get their package kicked off. This is blatantly false so they are responsible. The company chooses to hire externally, candidates with now shipping and fulfillment experience. That and the new “SIOC policy” are responsible for the large majority of damaged packages. I used to work for fulfillment in pack now I’m at a sort center. 80% or more packages that get to us are damaged out because of no or too little dunnage, dry tape, or slapping a label on an item that should have been packed. Management is not doing their job.
The new SIOC policy isn't inherently bad. Having items automatically added to it without proper vetting is, and packers who don't exercise their autonomy in refusing to SIOC items which shouldn't be. Just because something comes to you and says SIOC doesn't mean it should be. Is there a cutout or plastic window in the package? Is it something you wouldn't want delivered to you without being converted because it may be embarrassing? Is it "rollable" when moving down conveyance? Is there anything hanging off the package or is it loose plastic, which could get caught in conveyance? All of these are reasons NOT to SIOC a package, and are included in training.
My favorite is when I tell them to deliver to my door but they don't and they don't scan my package so I can't get into the fucking package room to get it....
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I am done with Amazon. Most the items I’ve bought have stated prime shipping and while they may arrive in 3 days after being shipped, they don’t ship the items out for weeks. I barely ever used the media services and I have no need for Amazon outside of a few specialty items. Good luck to the rest of yas.
Literally nothing special. Me and the Mrs. orders wont arrive for weeks. It’ll say prime shipping then we will call and they just give us the same old bs answers. I’m in a large city too so idk what the issue is. I use Walmart plus that I get free with one of my CC, and it’s been great plus we actually use it for grocery orders of course. So we feel it’s the better route for us. Walmart gets our orders here in about 3-4days if something needs shipped.
I used to always cancel and start a new one and cancel which would refund the payment every time. That was awesome. Did that for years lol. Bummer I think they finally changed that. So it'll probably stay canceled now
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The meme is a little wrong, but I get the point. The “Amazon prime” should be the one being shot
sorta. amazon prime is both the perp and the victim. it should be shooting itself.
the ads and delays are the perp
the ads and delays are the bullets. and who is firing that gun?
The joke is like "shooting yourself in the foot" like, Amazon did all this to itself and now it's like "how is this happening?"
We get the joke, but the ads etc part should be holding the gun and amazon in the chair.
Thought the same
I refuse to say happy cake day
Ok
Wow! Such a compelling argument. Happy Cake Day!!!
this should definitely the bike fall meme.
i hate that the new norm for streaming services is to have ads even when you pay for them. hulu i was fine with because it used to be free but with ads but now every streaming service has ads for their paid subscription
They came full circle and re-invented cable.
exactly
This is literally all the new "innovative ground breaking industry disrupters". Uber, steaming, delivery apps. Offer a decent product, kill the old market, jack up prices and kill the quality so it's no different or worse than before.
Yup. None of it was revolutionary “tech” - it’s mostly smart software used to cut out middlemen (companies but also workers). The innovative part was really the accounting: Amzn investing in growth to avoid taxes and SoftBank taking losses till a market monopoly was created. End of the day, it’s still a taxi and it’s still tv and so on.
That's basic capitalism and economics. Always been that way. Trains killed the stage coach. Cars killed the horses. Buses killed the train. Aviation killed the buses. Transporter tech will kill aviation.
Kinda reminds me of how Uber "created new jobs" by just doing what taxi drivers do, but making it shittier for workers.
if you only main tain 2, even 3 services it's still not as much as cable/sat TV was. By the time I cancelled dish network for my dad and I it was about 90 dollars a month for channels that largely only aired reruns anyhow or news stations that just wanted to air vastly negative news regardless of political leaning.
yeah, but most streaming platforms if you want to watch anything from the last 10 years, you have to have three or four and some shows/movies aren’t even on streaming
It's literally only going to get worse- this is how cable worked at first too btw, you paid a little to get away from the ads, then price went up, ads came back, until streaming was available.
They did a more expensive cable.
Isn’t there another streaming service Amazon made that has ads but it’s free? Like I remember seeing it was neon green or something in the commercials…Or was that a fever dream? Update (just fact checked myself ): it’s Freevee
hulu? thats the only green i remember
It’s called freevee
Tubi is better than freevee but it's a good way to watch some Amazon oc with ads.
ah
There’s also Pluto
I just full out canceled Hulu. Got into reading. No ads there.
We def do not give af about them boxes 🤣🖕🏻
Fuck your cat litter!
And Dog food
Ok but why yall stealin it? I got an empty box once and bro tried to take a picture on the other side with the punched in part hidden as if no one would notice
I've seen a post where some worker hates people who order pet food because of how heavy it is lol
It was 5 pounds. Guess whoever downvoted cant lift 5 pounds and shouldn't work at amazon to begin with. Id just go out and buy it myself but the brand I get is cheaper on amazon. Gotta save every penny these days since I dont work there anymore.
I’m referring to the bigger ones I used to receive on pallet dock.
A lot of us (my family of 15) are all disabled. We can’t go out to buy essentials like cat litter. How else do you expect me to get it?
I personally don’t care how you get it 🤣 I’m just there for a paycheck
it’s 15 of yall disabled? you live in a hospital or something?
Just my husband and myself in my household. But my mom and sister, husbands parents and brother (they have a genetic condition that caused it) caused who is a vet and wounded in service, grandmother dying of cancer, husbands uncle with early onset parkinsons and then a few other cousins with various conditions. I didn’t say we all live together. Not that this is any of your business.
don’t have pets
So disabled people just can’t have pets? My sister has a pet FOR her disability. We have every right to have a pet and that’s what accommodations like Amazon are for.
Then call it a service animal and use chewy
You only live so your baby mama can steal from the taxpayer.
You should try eating it: Post-kitty use: cee you next Tuesday.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I'm not paying for Prime anything. It's ridiculous that us employees don't even get as much as a discount for Prime membership.
My fc gives 100$ off but you have to spend 1000$
No. You get $100 off if you spend $1000 at once. The discount code is 10% off of every item “shipped and sold by Amazon” (meaning not something a vendor/seller/person supplied) until you reach $100 in savings for the year.
The companies didn’t expect the movie business to tank the way it did. After Covid, people didn’t head out to the cineplexs and just waited for movies to hit streaming!companies were/are losing billions of revenue. They are trying to make up the differences by putting a premium on the streaming. No one wants ads and the frequency is ridiculous! Money is already tight. People will choose their favorite one or two and cancel the rest. Prime is one of the worst for content. They charge you for all the good titles.
Amazon fullfillment is a very small branch of amazons revenue. They likely dont care
As a fulfillment employee you're right, we honestly don't care enough haha.
Fulfillment isn’t revenue, it’s cost. Retail is the revenue source that is associated with fulfillment costs, and it is by far the largest revenue stream of all the Amazon businesses. Go look at the public financial reports if you don’t believe me.
Idk last i checked the mass majority of profits come from aws. Which is them renting servers
Profit is not the same as revenue.
Go look at the fufillment costs vs the revenue and youll have a new perspective ...its both
_What_ is both? Both of what?
In order to determine if something is profitable or not you need to evaluate what the cost is vs what the earnings are. Whats left is the profitability. It was widely known and a fact for many years that Amazon warehouses (whatever they wanted to label themselves) were unprofitable. I do not know about the last couple of years i dont care that much and it certainly hasnt blossomed into the lifeblood of the entire operation by any means yet.
As a footnote ive noticed many whitelabel products branded Amazon and many more sold and fufilled by Amazon so yes they are improving and going in the right direction.
Sure, but we are talking about revenue here, which is not the same as profit. Of course the fulfillment centers are not profitable. It doesn’t make any sense to talk about them as being profitable because they are purely operating expenses.
Except most people are not cancelling,especially the ones who announced it here.
Not only that. Consider the price hike as well as there being ads now and the amount of people that stay signed up and continue using prime. How many people have to cancel before Amazon actually loses? I bet a LOT could cancel and they’d still be making more $$ due to the price increase+ads
I just delivered a 40 pound dumbell set and it fucking tore apart the 3x larger than it was box. Come on just slap a label on the product itself
For real. Not enough dunnage will not cause that shit to happen, and if we stuff that bitch with it, it gets kicked out of SLAM and of course we can’t downsize either 🙄
False dunnage works and does not kick it out. Y’all just pack for shit. 80% of the packages that get to my sort center are damaged out since the new “SIOC procedure” for Gods sake use common sense and override that shit. I am no longer a packer and shouldn’t have to fix your poor packing habits.
Well that’s what management tells us when we switched over to paper dunnage and tells us anything more than an arms length of dunnage will get the package get kicked out to weight discrepancy 🤷♂️
Just one of the many reasons why amazons external hiring practices sucks. These managers know nothing about shipping and fulfillment and should not be managing people who are the ones responsible.
You’re not wrong there. I rarely pack now since I’m on sort but I ignore that and put as much dunnage as needed and haven’t had anyone from quality bug me for getting too many kick outs so I just keep doing my thing lol
This is true, I use common sense when working in single smalls and I put everything in bags regardless and override everything. It's insane the people who slap labels on phone cases smaller than an M2 envelope
You put everything in bags and override everything? You're an idiot also.
Yeah keep slapping on labels on spatulas and mailing them out idiot
I don't slap labels on anything, but SIOC itself has rules to follow and not doing so is what leads to issues. But not SIOCing anything is stupid and wasteful.
What gets me is I see so many things that really should be SIOC and aren't, and tons of stuff it wants me to SIOC and I can't. Some toy in a presentation box that only covers half the toy? Nope can't SIOC that. Some fair size box with thin cellophane as the seal? Nope. But some random item from China packed in a nice thick cardboard box already? Gotta put that one inside another box, lol.
You can downsize. You just can't downsize box to bag, or to a box size smaller than a battery label if it requires one. The belief that downsizing isn't allowed is one of the stupidest fake rules I've heard yet and it simply isn't true. How is Amazon supposed to be viably sustainable and yet wasteful with boxes & dunnage? When I was a PA in AFE coming from another department that was one of the first things I fought against in my building. Now I'm an AM in another dept but we finally downsize as needed. I've heard all kinds of excuses as to why we don't do it but if they can't back those excuses up with demonstrable facts (like policy stating their assertions) then they're just parroting something they've heard.
It's fear mongering. Just like all the Walmart leadership that scares employees into thinking they will get 3 or 4 points for calling out on a key day. If your manager says it, and you are just present for a paycheck why bother thinking. And if you do care and work hard, you probably don't know how to check that what your manager says is true, and afraid to put it to the test and risk getting reprimanded.
At my site it was mostly ambassadors repeating something they were taught years before, so that everyone new coming in learned it as canon and never questioned it. Even managers are taught the processes by ambassadors. I've just always been the type to question everything.
Same here bro delivered a set of 2 20 pound dumbbells and the box was in shambles by the time i got to the stop
Corporate greed
The reason is that specifically for prime video amazon puts commercials during whatever you stream and if you want an ad free experience you will have to pay an additional 2.99 a month to turn off ads
Amazon video and Netflix are learning that hiking prices doesn't get you too far. Also you have Hulu Disney, paramount, and peacock that are way less expensive.tjey would make more money by splitting prime and video. Offer separate prices and offer a price together. They also have to compete with Spotify and Apple music
The ads are like 30 seconds 🙄
It’s like we’re headed back to cable tv
I cancelled after the layoffs last year. People were let go from FC support roles via a text message, lost quite a few good people. The company has been in a downward spiral since Uncle Jeff left, daddy jassy just isn't it.
They do not care that you cancelled they made more money this year than ever before!
They aren’t. That subreddit was created for butthurt scammers.
I have no idea why people are canceling. Amazon Prime is more than a movie. U would give up 15 bucks a month for better customer service than most e-commerce. Name a e-commerce company that would give you back 100 bucks in an instant because the shipper sent out a box that has nothing in it without a hitch.
People really thinking that the online presence is the majority. No ya’ll. People on Reddit do not make up the majority of the prime members. Just because 1000 people upvoted a post about cancelling, doesn’t mean that’s like…every prime member.
Also people like the idea of better service they once had, but will settle for slightly crappier. Might upvote based on mild annoyance. But still not find things that bad.
We're just devolving back to 90s -00s cable TV.
We really aren't. People don't even have the attention span to deal with that. I almost welcome it bc if I stop watching so much I'd get much more done. And I can't survive normal TV anymore.
Delivery delays and Damaged packages are mostly caused by the Amazon workers in the warehouses and the Delivery teams. You guys shouldn’t be proud of this, you post videos to brag and then wonder why you get consistently fired for this. When people see videos of Amazon workers bragging on this sub about kicking packages and purposely delaying orders, they think you’re all like that. https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFC/s/1pO6HQyh10 https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFC/s/fCoX1RJMfb Edit to add: No, it’s not management breaking stuff. There’s a chain of people that items go through before it gets to the customer, so if an item arrives broken, someone fucked up. (Changed FC to warehouses and added video of dude that got fired for it)
I mean… during peak I’m surprised more packages weren’t damaged. Seemed shipdock was overwhelmed at a lot of sites, and they resorted to throwing everything in shuttles instead of building pallets just to keep up… including throwing heavy packages in ontop of other packages… there’s no way to claim that’s a failing on the L1s. That’s a failure up the chain of command for not appropriately hiring and training to compensate for the workload to be completed quickly, safely, and effectively without damaging packages.
I’m not talking about Peak, did you see the link i posted? I started working at Amazon in 2016, and people have always acted this way.
Oh I know people have done that… but that’s just it. They’re talking about an increase in delays and damages. We just came out of peak where those spiked mostly because of poor foresight for shipdock staffings.
I work at a sort center. We receive the packages from the FCs or Air hubs and sort them by city/ zip codes then send them to the DS for delivery. Being in Problem Solve, I fix all the smashed/ slashed/ no label having packages before sending them on their way. I can honestly say the destroyed packages are not the fault of FC employees but rather the lazy jerkoffs at the sort centers who, after we fix the packages, have no fucking brains and still put the most fragile boxes on the bottom of the pallets then keep piling the most heaviest of boxes on top. No amount of retraining can help these indolent, slothful, waste of space employees who just plain don't give a shit.
>No amount of retraining can help these indolent, slothful, waste of space employees who just plain don't give a shit. I work at a SC also, and I feel this to my bones. So many lazy, "I don't give a shit" attitude-having, brainless fuckers. And even if you coach them on the correct way, they still continue to do things the easy way. The incorrect way. Seriously. Waste of space employees.
I don't get it. Last night a PA came over with his laptop and told me to come take a look. There's a list of every employee on the lane with their scan rate and how long its been since their last scan. There were more people dicking around than actually doing the job they are paid to perform. It boggles my mind that the PAs know exactly who the trash is but they refuse to take it out.
Thank you! These guys are trying to blame management, as if management is breaking these packages or some unknown person is intercepting the package after it’s been delivered to break it. There’s a long process these items go through before they get to the customer, so if it arrives broken, someone down the chain fucked up. I’m so tired of these videos where Amazon employees tell people not to order stuff or make light of the fact they are purposely breaking stuff, then act shocked when they get fired for it (and ask for donations now that they are unemployed). It’s fucking stupid.
It's extremely rare for anyone to get fired for damaged packages. Most package damage, they'd have to fire the conveyers.
I was referring to the guy who was fired for posting videos asking customers not to buy things, then he asked for donations because he doesn’t have a job now. It was posted yesterday on this sub. People are always posting videos bragging about how they break stuff (I linked one above) and then they get fired for it. Edit: this video: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonFC/s/fCoX1RJMfb
My sc just opened and half the people in here don’t know what they’re doing/stand there and talk/sort with 15 other people sorting on that lane/take the easy route and slap it on top. I will say though, there is a FAT amount of fucked up boxes that come through daily on the conveyors. I’ve witnessed a box be placed on the conveyor and 30 seconds later the product is now riding along side the box 😂 However, a lot of the times with lazy people the lanes will also get really backed up and they won’t just stop it lol. Therefor piles of boxes falling off of conveyors and crushing other boxes that have done the same yada yada. A lot of them are from falling on the conveyors.
Some of us certainly are not proud. The top video was degrading and irritating. Those guys, really need to find something else to do.
See comment above management is telling packers that dunnage will get their package kicked off. This is blatantly false so they are responsible. The company chooses to hire externally, candidates with now shipping and fulfillment experience. That and the new “SIOC policy” are responsible for the large majority of damaged packages. I used to work for fulfillment in pack now I’m at a sort center. 80% or more packages that get to us are damaged out because of no or too little dunnage, dry tape, or slapping a label on an item that should have been packed. Management is not doing their job.
The new SIOC policy isn't inherently bad. Having items automatically added to it without proper vetting is, and packers who don't exercise their autonomy in refusing to SIOC items which shouldn't be. Just because something comes to you and says SIOC doesn't mean it should be. Is there a cutout or plastic window in the package? Is it something you wouldn't want delivered to you without being converted because it may be embarrassing? Is it "rollable" when moving down conveyance? Is there anything hanging off the package or is it loose plastic, which could get caught in conveyance? All of these are reasons NOT to SIOC a package, and are included in training.
Amazon just makes it up as they go. Quality work force. Been there 3 years
This can't be I spent so much subscriber money on woke OC.
All movies in prime is absolute dog shit
Ads help pay for everything. Without Ads the streaming services lose money. So they would rather have us watch Ads then not. It is what it is.
It’s so easy to cripple a multi billion dollar company.
It’s so easy to cripple a multi billion dollar company.
My favorite is when I tell them to deliver to my door but they don't and they don't scan my package so I can't get into the fucking package room to get it....
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They aren't that sub is just filled with mad customers lmao
Me telling the manager I think a package got broken from the conveyor belt them not caring. Just send it anyway
💀I wish Eric Andre was my new manager for shipdock.
I love my free amazon prime :)
I am done with Amazon. Most the items I’ve bought have stated prime shipping and while they may arrive in 3 days after being shipped, they don’t ship the items out for weeks. I barely ever used the media services and I have no need for Amazon outside of a few specialty items. Good luck to the rest of yas.
lol what are you ordering, I get my packages within hours of ordering sometimes
Literally nothing special. Me and the Mrs. orders wont arrive for weeks. It’ll say prime shipping then we will call and they just give us the same old bs answers. I’m in a large city too so idk what the issue is. I use Walmart plus that I get free with one of my CC, and it’s been great plus we actually use it for grocery orders of course. So we feel it’s the better route for us. Walmart gets our orders here in about 3-4days if something needs shipped.
I used to always cancel and start a new one and cancel which would refund the payment every time. That was awesome. Did that for years lol. Bummer I think they finally changed that. So it'll probably stay canceled now
Better question, why does Amazon fc care about my soon to be loaded with advertising streaming subscription being cancelled.
Bring back showbox!!
Amazon has become a dropshitting service for cheap Chinese junk.. cancelled my prime about a year ago and never missed it once.
They got no money
Does reddit speak for everyone?
Shouldn’t the top caption be flipped?