I remember amazon drivers used to have a rep for being better than other drivers. Why are they so sh*tty now?

yup, they'll have you delivering at 330 and on in my area.

The ones I've spoken to in London, collect their load, sleep in the van and delivery like that 6-7 days a week, literally don't see home.......
 
The ones I've spoken to in London, collect their load, sleep in the van and delivery like that 6-7 days a week, literally don't see home.......
wow, they don't have that here, the drivers don't own the vans and drop them off at the end of the day. Flex drivers use their own vehicles but most of those are normal sized cars.
 
wow, they don't have that here, the drivers don't own the vans and drop them off at the end of the day. Flex drivers use their own vehicles but most of those are normal sized cars.

Yeah there's the car drivers here but they're like the second jobbers. The ones doing the large 2 crew owner drivers as a prime job need to hit big numbers to make it work.....

I've even seen them using box vans as a base and satellite out from them in high density population areas.
 
Yea I just woke up early to get a computer part delivery. Of course Amazon dude doesn't follow instructions. He just throws it in front of the door for someone to steal it.
 
Yea I just woke up early to get a computer part delivery. Of course Amazon dude doesn't follow instructions. He just throws it in front of the door for someone to steal it.
Common.
 
Fuck no dude. How longs that gonna take, if ur lucky, 2 mins to park 2 to walk 3 to piss 2 back 2 back you just wasted 11 minutes.They monitor you if you go off route to take a piss bc you’re not allowed to piss at the job site they will fire you on the spot for wasting company money. They DO NOT CARE. They are EVIL. They’ll just hire the next dude who needs to make a buck to live. FUCK AMAZON these companies would charge you to breathe if they could
So how long is your shift? Amazon really does not allow people to use the bathroom at work?
 
that's fucked up, poor girl, none too bright with all the cams around these days but again, amazon does nothing to support the drivers, nothing. No places set up to use a bathroom and most places are locked up and not very understanding of people needing restrooms, most business just want their order picked up or delivered and won't help with anything else.

Fucking kid talks about taco bell, good one, little fucker.
In all seriousness if the segment producer had any decency he would have blurred out her face. What she did was ridiculous and disgusting, but she’s definitely being exploited by a horrible company that’s notorious for treating their employees like subhuman garbage. It’s easy for a lot of people to judge her from their own jobs that don’t severely restrict bathroom or water breaks, but they really don’t grasp the horrendous working conditions and absurd quotas Amazon has.

Yeah what she did was pretty fucking dumb, but I do feel bad for her and I don’t think she deserves to be publicly humiliated. The internet is forever so it sucks to be her.
 
I'd suppose it depends, if you are under time constraints you might have a hard time, or if it's past typical business hours or, probably most likely, you just really don't know the area. They will send you to any small town or city within 75 miles or so of the station.

But, no, generally most business' will not allow you to use their restrooms. Some do, most don't or at least most would at the very least have the rooms locked and you'd have to ask for a code or get a key.

I'd imagine things would vary across areas, being as it's seattle and the surrounding areas, pretty much everything is locked down or surveilled.

Also, as the above vid shows, drivers aren't always very bright, that girl is dumb as shit to do it without even thinking she'd be on someone's cam. Sadly, a lot of drivers do a lot of dumb shit and people think we're all just as dumb.
Im not a delivery driver but in Texas, even the big cities there's plenty of places one could go to use the bathroom. Crazy that these supposedly super liberal compassionate societies like los Angeles don't even give people the common decency to use the bathroom
 
Look at who they hire as drivers and there is your answer.
 
they hire now people whose entire vocabulary is "yes"
 
Fuck no dude. How longs that gonna take, if ur lucky, 2 mins to park 2 to walk 3 to piss 2 back 2 back you just wasted 11 minutes.They monitor you if you go off route to take a piss bc you’re not allowed to piss at the job site they will fire you on the spot for wasting company money. They DO NOT CARE. They are EVIL. They’ll just hire the next dude who needs to make a buck to live. FUCK AMAZON these companies would charge you to breathe if they could

It's crazy that the "next dude" even exists. If everyone took a stand and was like nope, we're not taking a job that doesn't allow us to piss, the employer would have no choice but to make concessions. But as long as there's a sucker willing to take the gig it won't get better.
 
It's crazy that the "next dude" even exists. If everyone took a stand and was like nope, we're not taking a job that doesn't allow us to piss, the employer would have no choice but to make concessions. But as long as there's a sucker willing to take the gig it won't get better.
yup, I do the amazon flex only sporadically as the need comes up. It's great to come up with a couple hundred without any other obligations, I pick when I work but yes. absolutely, I do wonder when I do flex "how do they get all these fools to show up"?

And it's not just the conditions and demands of Amazon, I know just how unreliable and goofy the average person is and I just can't really see all those goofballs being up to any kind of job that is going to require resourcefulness and sometimes also, lots and lots of stairs to walk up and down or hostile areas to go to.

I've seen women reduced to tears over their routes, I can't see how some of these women and even some of these men could hold down the job on any long term basis. And Amazon, as I mentioned, is putting demands on people who can hardly wipe their asses, of course there will be issues.

Again though, If i need a quick hundred or a few hundred for whatever, I just go pick up some routes, get my nerves ready and go.
 
Im not a delivery driver but in Texas, even the big cities there's plenty of places one could go to use the bathroom. Crazy that these supposedly super liberal compassionate societies like los Angeles don't even give people the common decency to use the bathroom
All kinds of ironies. People call some of the towns sanctuary/liberal cities but there really not. As far as the druggies and misfits that the business' lock out of their bathrooms (along with all non-paying customers) the big cities also have places for these people to eat for free, to sleep for free. In fact, when we started to wonder, "where are all these homeless drug addicts coming from" because they weren't always here, I could only assume that smaller towns had less tolerance for their problems so they come to these places to survive while they feed their addictions.

Personally, I always find it ironic the other way, out in the boonies and rural areas, the paranoia is off the chain, signs like "house is guarded by smith and wesson" and the like are super common and I just wonder, "why is that necessary, no one is coming out here to rob anyone?" I could be wrong but I find the paranoia of the rural just very odd and I also don't feel very good about going to these small towns.
 
In all seriousness if the segment producer had any decency he would have blurred out her face. What she did was ridiculous and disgusting, but she’s definitely being exploited by a horrible company that’s notorious for treating their employees like subhuman garbage. It’s easy for a lot of people to judge her from their own jobs that don’t severely restrict bathroom or water breaks, but they really don’t grasp the horrendous working conditions and absurd quotas Amazon has.

Yeah what she did was pretty fucking dumb, but I do feel bad for her and I don’t think she deserves to be publicly humiliated. The internet is forever so it sucks to be her.
ya, I feel bad for her, showed her face as clear as day. And if she had half a brain she could have done anything else, even if she had to go in some bushes at least she'd find a place and go. Or even just go buy a coffee and ask for the code or the key for the bathroom, something, anything was better than plastering her face all over the news and having little brats accuse her of not holding her taco bell very well.
 
Amazon always had the worst reputation and the way they treat their employees should be illegal. You are a slave with them. If you cant deliver a package you have to do annother delivery on your own time.

With deregulation, also in my country, delivery companies turned into the worst employers overall. Its not only Amazon but Amazon for sure is the worst.

I talked with a delivery driver a year ago who kicked a package across the street. First I was angry but he was close to a nervous breakdown because of pressure they build upon them. Its inhumane. Sometimes their wage is a lot lower than minimum wage because they have to pay for gas, repairs...etc for themselves.
 
Amazon always had the worst reputation and the way they treat their employees should be illegal. You are a slave with them. If you cant deliver a package you have to do annother delivery on your own time.

With deregulation, also in my country, delivery companies turned into the worst employers overall. Its not only Amazon but Amazon for sure is the worst.

I talked with a delivery driver a year ago who kicked a package across the street. First I was angry but he was close to a nervous breakdown because of pressure they build upon them. Its inhumane. Sometimes their wage is a lot lower than minimum wage because they have to pay for gas, repairs...etc for themselves.
everybody got their breaking point. The last time I did, I was trying to find a house with no address, trying to find the porch, in the dark, tripping and stubbing my toe, I just took the damn package and flung it at the porch, hit the window and I took off as someone came out. Lots of problems, not all even have to do with the delivery, car could break down right in the middle of the shift, so, I had two cars at the time, took an uber to get the other one, came back, unloaded and did my route.

Honestly too old to do these kinds of jobs, not physically but mentally. Most people my age are cruising comfortably at their workplace and looking forward to retirement. I fucked up and decided to be a musician and it's caused me no end of troubles.
 
The one thing I will give amazon for, is that they will give a job to people who no other place would hire. I've seen people who are so old and immobile that no one would even give them a chance but Amazon does, they don't get credit for that, they will at least give you a shot. I've seen lots of older american's, looking past retirement age or near it getting jobs there. I don't know what their stories are but they must have had a hard time to end up there but some of them try and do a good job,they try to be helpful and decent. Then,.., there are all the others.
 
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