Are you in Texas?
What’s the pay and bennies?
I’ve heard it’s psychologically quite difficult and intense.
I no like a work at Amazon.
It’s got all those man eating fishes.
Those, what you call them, piñatas?
Nope. I no work at Amazon.
Why not?
Huge organization which means great advancement opportunities for people with a good work ethic.
They treat people poorly.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/03/amazon-warehouse-theft
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/amazon-working-conditions-inquiry_uk_584e7530e4b0b7ff851d3fff
It's like what I told my son when he applied for a job at the Apple Store down at the mall. This isn't the same Apple of Cupertino. No!
Why not? If you don’t like it find another just job. If there’s an opportunity cost involved with your time, it looks like someone compiled some resources on their environment for you here. Good luck, not a bad decision here, it’s a job!
Are you looking for a job? If it sucks just quit.
I’ve had more than one job that sucked. But, you need to eat.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.