Does anyone work for Amazon?

Has anyone here ever worked for Amazom deliveries using an ebike in a quite heavily populated area? I'm wondering how many packages per hour you deliver and how much you have to go back and fro to the central point where you collect the packages.

I worked in their contact centre and was able to move between a few departments before being promoted. Was offer the opportunity to set up different offices but it didn't suit me to move at the time. I loved my time there, felt valued and was sad to leave

Thank you Slimmingstar , I will keep on sending compliments just in case.

My DH works for the local council and they have a similar approach towards agency staff they hire for refuse collectors etc. They will be told not to come in tomorrow with absolutely no notice given, even after being there for a long time. Then pay the permanent staff overtime to do the work. So even 'nice' employers do it.

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Thank you, but I don’t think it does. I once got an email to say I went above and beyond, but I didn’t know how.
I’ve also been told that customers haven’t received their parcels, but they won’t give you any information about who, when, or why and it could have been any delivery going back several weeks, so it’s a flawed system over both ends!

I have friends that drive for Amazon as self-employed contractors. They earn good money. £150 per day gross for less than 10 hours a day. Obviously have to pay for petrol etc but these can go down as expenses on tax returns. Both have been doing it over a year.

Bloody brilliant!

The best part about DH working there (he packed orders) was the updates about the most random order he’d packed that day. It was at the start of lockdown 1 so clearly lots of people making the most of spending time at home. He sent this after one of his first shifts last April:

Some of the packages I’ve done:

• 3 books and 6 bottles of white Zinfandel. Good lockdown box 👍🏻
• 6 bottles of Zinfandel and some lube. Looking like a good night in.
• A black PVC body suit, 12 condoms and some lube. Alrighty then.
• A bottle of lube and a picture book of Dolly Parton. 😐”

He said he boxed up a lot of lubricant at the start of lockdown!

The problem is that almost all employees are hired by an agency so have no rights or job security. The agency fires everyone after 6 months so they do not gain employment rights and they will then take them on again after a gap of two months to get round employment law.

Wow

My daughter worked for them for several months packing boxes. Pay was good, subsidised canteen, flexitime, overtime available, good HR support. Yes the work is repetitive and physical but she had no problem meeting targets and made some really good friends. She said she'd never slept so well or been so relaxed ... physically tired but no stress.
She left because she got a job in the industry she had been trained for. I'm not sure she'd have stayed at Amazon as a career although friends have but it was a lot better than previous hospitality and retail jobs.

My BIL works for them through an agency. His contract for for Christmas and then he was kept on but has now received his months notice. They have all been told they can't be employed by Amazon again without a two month break. Which to me does seem like trying to get round giving people employment rights

Have you applied directly op sounds a better deal.

I did it for a couple of months during lockdown as my industry closed temporarily. It was bearable but very monotonous. You literally do the same task for 10 hours a day. The positive was a standard 4 day working week with 3 consecutive days off.

If you apply via an agency you can expect to be laid off in January. Amazon's own staff have permanent contracts but the majority of people on the floor in my location were agency workers.

Literally no advantage in what you say they do.

I do amazon flex delivery in my car.
I enjoy it as it’s part time, flexible and the dog can come with me. You are paid a set rate for the hours you work. as I usually finish more than an hour early, it works out as a very good hourly rate. On days when there’s lots of work/few drivers they will pay £20+ per hour.

DS worked in one of their distribution centres for 4 months last year. He left to go back to university. Chose night shifts as he got paid extra and actually quite enjoyed it, though was a bit bored by the end of his stint. Learned to operate a fork lift truck and got involved in delivering training. They all got a £500 bonus at one point, paid holiday from day one, paid leave for a bereavement. He found the experience pretty decent.

I worked in the warehouse picking orders for a few months. I actually really enjoyed it and would have stayed if I could live on the money. Once you're in a rhythm and have a couple weeks to get your bearings, the work is fast paced but doable. My health improved from spending all day rushing around and I loved that at the end of my shift I went home and that was it. No waking up in the middle of the night worrying about work.

I don’t think it’s quite that people get laid off after Xmas. They specifically get taken on for a peak period and know that.
Laid off makes it sounds like they immorally tempt people out of permanent positions into their permanent positions, then lay them off.
I know about 5 people who have worked for them seasonally via agency, and every single one has been quite clear: this is an agency seasonal job.

I did 4 months there last year and hated it.
It's exhausting, dirty and morale was pretty low.
Hard to make friends as you are constantly on a timer with everything that you do, your productivity is strictly monitored.
I did meet a few nice people but the warehouse I worked in was weirdly cliquey.
Of the 10 people I started with, only 2 were still there after 6 weeks, their turnover is HIGH.

Days are long, I did 6.45am-5.15 and you get 2x 30minutes breaks, this includes walking to the canteen which can take 5 minutes. Breaks are also strictly monitored, be prepared for a warning if you go over your time.

I left just before Christmas as I was refused any time off and realised that I didn't want to spend my Christmas there.
We were told the majority of staff get laid off by the agencies in the New Year anyway, the work is obviously pretty seasonal. Quite a few people I met would reapply every year, work a few months and then get laid off again, repeat to fade.
I would never go back.
On the plus side, I lost weight and got fit and the pay is decent, lots of opportunity to work overtime.
My advice would be to get the most comfortable shoes you can find, there's not a lot of sitting down.

Get rid after 6 months is nonsense made up stuff. All seasonal businesses hire additional people for busy periods but a core of people are permanent employees.
Know lots of people working there. Most of the negative stuff people come out with is sensationalist tabloid fodder. Employees are better paid, better treated and more secure in their jobs than most retail jobs.

Dh used to work for Amazon many moons ago when it wasn’t very well known here. Hardly anyone had heard of it.
It was Back in the days people were just getting to grips with the internet! 😂

It was a good company to work for then but that doesn’t help now!

Sorry!
Your op just jogged my memory!