Physical torture - Senior Associate Amazon Employee Review

1.0
29 Oct 2012
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

You get paid every two weeks.

Cons

Management treats associates like they are ignorant. They gave unrealistic expectations to meet pick and pack rates. Order pickers have a path that is determined by Amazons computer system. Associates have NO control over this path yet we are judged by it. Management even states that pick paths are poor yet when the weekly review paperwork arrives this fact is forgotten and we are to blame for any shortfall. Packers are rated by units per hour without regard to events that slow them down beyond their control - how insulting. Management ignores feedback and moves forward with a deaf ear to reality. Regular unannounced mandatory overtime without regard to associates physical weariness is comon. More people need to be hired to address the workload but there are only so many people available in a geographic area. Eventually they will run out of people who will put up with the abuse. Opportunity to train new employees by current employees results in most of them goofing off and not working.

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Pros

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Cons

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