“From what I hear, working conditions at Amazon locations can be atrocious.”
yep. warehouse picker jobs are brutal, particularly for amazon. the workers are nothing more than part of a machine, wearing headsets where computer synthesized voices from the machine order them from one bin to another for eight hours a day ... add quotas to that, and the workers have to run all day ... these jobs are far worse than working on an auto assembly line ...
oh woopdy do. I ran a sheet metal shear full time for a few years and worked for a hard ass Honduran guy that no one else could get along with. I’ve worked in the sign business where I had to climb 50 foot in the air on a ladder truck, climb inside a 130 degree sign in the Florida summer and spend a couple of hours in there. When I didn’t like a job, I quit and found something better.
I’ve been a picker/packer too which is what these warehouse workers are called and also worked a fast paced assembly line as a temp worker where everyone else was getting paid piece work.
With unemployment as low as it is, quit and find something else. Maybe something where you can actually learn something and work your way up to a better job. I learned to convert decimal inches to fractions on that shear job, right down to thousands of an inch. To this day, I still know the decimal equivalent of every 16th of an inch and can figure out 32nds from there. That helped me in the sign business where I eventually became one of the best electric sign fabricators in Ctrl FL. Made signs that went to Disney and Universal Studios. Made $40k in one of my last years, 12 years ago. Went self employed making electric signs wholesale to the trade after that.
Never ever thought about standing in front of a company with a protest sign, whining about conditions. Don’t like the job, they know where the door is.