Posted on 07/18/2017 5:19:30 PM PDT by fulltlt
If offered a job working at Amazon would you take it? Why or why not? Amazon is building a new distribution facility a few miles from where I'm at.
I’ve had more than one job that sucked. But, you need to eat.
They are building the Fulfillment Centers everywhere. Think WalMart x 100 - this is where Amazon is heading.
It is hard to comment without understanding what kind of job and pay. You mentioned distribution facility - you mean a warehouse job?
More or less money than I'm making now? Better or worse work conditions than I have now? Better or worse opportunity to advance than I have now? Am I physically able to do the work demanded?
Run it through a decision tree and see what answer popped out.
I know people who work for them throughout the USA and they all said you have to work hard, pay is not bad. Just have good work ethics and be prepared to work overtime, especially during the holiday season.
That’s what I’ve heard, is that just for the warehouse/distribution side or desk/tech jobs too?
Do you need work? It’s a flippin’ job! Take it! If you don’t like it you can quit when you find something better, but for now it is A JOB.
Good points.
Got one about a mile from us. Don’t know anyone that works there though. It’s inside work and there are benefits and, if you play your cards right, you could move up.
Does that mean it’s mandatory Union? Dues?
You no gotta pologize.
I speaka de English good.
My brother Whacky, he no say much.
He mostly honk a horn.
He think he a car or somethin.
He not firin on all seven cylinders, though.
He lose a race to a snail.
Now how you lose a race to a snail you ask?
Easy.
He gotta no horn.
Not Whacky.....the snail.
He don’t weigh so much.
As a whole Amazon is a miserable place to work from everything I’ve read.
Their bag/personal searches coming and going are invasive, unpaid and will end up being a couple more hours a week and almost 100 hours a year in lost time. That’s one.
Second they are micromanaged to death with every human movement/efficiency averaged and calculated. Don’t move fast enough, don’t know where everything is, fall behind what their “pace” or “expectations” are supposed to be and you won’t last long.
Even if you were taking a white collar job with the site the equity portion of Amazon is pretty much shot so you’re beyond the will ever get wealthy or retire comfortably on company stock.
They don’t pay well compared to equal positions at their competition.
The only question is how does the job stack up locally?
I wouldn’t take a job with them if there were options available.
That must be a good sign that they would hire you. Aurora has one of the highest concentrations of illegal immigrants in Illinois. They all might be heading back down south again.
I know one woman who works at Amazon. Lots of mandatory OT. Very demanding. Even little mistakes are penalized.
Read some online reviews that are not complementary.
That being said, its honest work & a job is a job.
It’s also my understanding they have good benefits for those who stay around. Considering that most millennials won’t/don’t, you could move up pretty fast.
If I were you, I’d find a way to start a business catering to the needs of the influx of Amazon workers. Lunch truck? Coffee cart service? Vending machines nearby? Massage? Rental apartments? Errand running as a business?
While visiting with my UPS delivery man today, he said Amazon is making a move to swallow up UPS. Obviously, they want to gobble up the delivery side of their huge merchandising operation. Then their pantry service plans to take over the grocery business and on and on. It is free enterprise, capitalism at its aggressive finest, but monopolist issues loom in its future.
I’ve heard that they’re very hard on their employees, churn and burn. There are a fair number of people who “Work-Camp” with Amazon though, maybe there’s something there that could be a business. A clean, inexpensive campground with hookups, laundry, bathhouse, fenced and neat but no fancy amenities might be a good bet.
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