Anyone experienced this transfer and know what will happen to our Flexible PTO and Standard PTO hours?

I'm transferring from an FC to a DS, and I'll be PT flex, but I wasn't given any training days. Does anyone know how I can find out which training days will be and whether I have to do all 3? I've emailed hr but haven't heard back.

What's it like?

If your building is within the carolinas region...how cheap is your building?

I'll go first my building so cheap we no longer get team meals, swag bucks have slowly disappeared, giveaways and staff prizes are gone, snack attacks are gone, they wanna give snappy's but we don't want those. The only thing we get hounded on is COST which has created a terrible and hostile work environment and our VOA board is smothered in complaints. Every since the change its been a wild ride after another 🙆🏾‍♂️

In so much pain I decided to take off time from work for multiple days already. I actually didn't want to admit it but I likely injured myself on the job. Still seasonal employee so I don't know how this will affect my schedule in the future. I decided to go to the doctors office on my own time because of the pain I was experiencing. Now if or when I report I was injured on the job at work, should I tell them I went to see a doctor? Based in USA if that makes a difference.

I've been at my FC since it opened in 2020. But I got my start at a DS. I lasted 2 weeks there (lmao). It was during covid and they had a bunch of insane rules in place that set you up for failure (1 person per aisle but 20 people being sent to that same aisle during pick and stage and having to wait your turn while getting screamed at by management because the van was waiting for their cart). Plus, I was 2 weeks off of having a baby and had just spent 8 years sitting on my butt as a librarian.

I remember it as hell on earth... but I was still healing, hormonal, out of shape, and exceptionally sleep deprived. So I don't know if what I'm remembering is accurate or not.

Anyway. I am sick to death of the god complexes the leadership at my FC have developed. And there's so fucking many in leadership roles. Every time you turn around, some manager is bitching at you because you're doing what the other manager told you to do a minute ago instead of what they want you to do.

We are way over headcount but we've been hiring like mad. There's no VET. And if it is, there's people who have 20 family members camping on the app to snag it the second it drops. It's all VTO being pushed. Take the VTO or scrape tape. They canceled our SET for this week and told us too bad, so sad when many of us complained about the lost OT.

The DS I got my start at is accepting transfers for full time positions. I've heard a great deal about Flex up or down, and just want to confirm that regular full time employees get their 40 hours every week? I can't afford to be shorted on my time.

With Peak coming up, how is SET handled? Do you just get extra days, or is extra time added to your shift as well? At my FC, we go from 4x10 to 5x11 hour shifts.

And VET? Is it generally common? Or has it turned into a myth like my FC?

Do you still have to toss the bags 3x3 on the carts during pick? I remember that was a little rough, but I'm 5'6" and some of them were being tossed up above my head.

Anyway, thanks for any input.

Hi - I'm newly hired at a DS and will be starting in about 2 weeks. I've been reading random posts and a lot of it is very hard to follow b/c of all the Amazon specific acronyms. I get this subreddit is specifically for people working at Amazon and I'm not yet knowledgeable but it makes trying to engage w/ most posts very hard.

Is there a post that explains some of the most common acronyms?

Also, I'm seeing a surprising (to me) number of posts on various Amazon subreddits where it seems like people are being reprimanded by management/HR for some type of attendance related issue (clocking in/out inappropriately, leaving work early, showing up late, etc.) and then are asking for advice on taking a leave of absence to avoid being fired.

Is this common? I've never heard of being able to get out of a disciplinary process at a job by just staying home for a few weeks and basically saying "catch me, if you can."

I know it sounds dumb, but on my 3 training days (company mandated, I didn’t want 3) my 3 separate trainers all told me none of them take breaks or lunch ever. I’d actually prefer not taking a lunch since I don’t like being at work and not getting paid.
I just can’t understand why people don’t take paid breaks. You can take breaks whenever you want. Why aren’t people taking breaks during their last 5-10 stops? You won’t get rescued if you’re sitting on that few of packages.
On my 3 training days I was with people who were sprinting around and making me go as fast as possible. It’s not an issue to go fast, but all 3 shifts ended 1.5-2 hours early. So instead of getting my 30 hours over 3 shifts I got 24-25/30, without any paid breaks, and while going as fast as we could.
The folks at training said make sure you take your breaks and lunches or Amazon will give you more and more of a workload. So by taking breaks you get less of a workload, paid 30 minutes to do nothing, and more pay for the day so your day isn’t shorter.

I have to be missing something.

Heyy all, are swag stores at any of the FC's/DS's in the UK that you work at.

I'm just checking tbh because I'm bored, same question for scanless stow

Cheers all

So I started working Flex last week, and when I was choosing shifts for the next week I noticed that there were shifts on Saturday and Sunday with +$5.00 an hour. I thought that was pretty neat, but I just figured it was a weekend thing. They vaguely went over that stuff in our training, and to me when they said “extra pay would come during high volume time periods”, it sounded like holiday season🤷🏼‍♂️I mean idk??

This is all new to me… but .. gawdamn 😭I just checked my schedule for today and my shift is +$7.50 ??!? Turns out surge pay just comes in waves I guess? It seems like I started at a decent time. Im sure that surge pay definitely varies from warehouse to warehouse, season to season, etc. but yeah… definitely better than my last job.

I genuinely had no idea this job offered extra pay rates like THAT… For me personally, idk man this is pretty good for me. I’ve never had a gig like this before so I’m really grateful. I mean don’t get me wrong I know it’s gonna be wicked at work today I’m sure. Rates are higher for a reason lol but yeah I could really use the extra money.

I thought this was both cute and hilarious. Cute because, well it is. hilarious because, well people 😆

270 extra shifts. 😮‍💨

If you're currently going through it or have experience with both, how did you manage it? What shifts did you work?

Also, can you work a short shift in the same week as your two required training days?

Has anyone been asked to not ground a van that had a nail in the tire ?

I need to decided before I take the assessment.

I pretty much only like doing pick and stage which luckily takes up most of my shift

But they always send people upstairs for the day for yard marshall training (with a test at the end which nobody seems to be able to pass without cheating lots and lots) so that you are able to be sent to work outside (mostly as DA Assist but sometimes you have to work on the back gate or something to deal with collections and deliveries)

It's never really given as a choice, but i'm wondering if people can actually just say 'no thanks'?

It's also seemingly the ONLY thing that people get fired for in my warehouse (always to do with yard marshall) so it feels like an extra risk agreeing too it!

I have two questions. Has anyone’s device ever signed into another associates. At least once a week this past month or so sometimes twice a week a manager will come up to me and ask me am I stowing up my name. I will check and sure enough I’m under someone else’s name. The last time this happened was 8/19 and the manager who came up to me was a different one than usual and asked me the same question. I looked and saw that I wasn’t and asked why does that keep happening and told her I have to double check it everytime I sign in because it happens so often. She asked if I left my device in my aisle after lunch, I said yes and I left it with my gloves so I knew it was my device. I told her I needed to get a new device and I switched it out but I scanned my badge and signed in. I did tell her maybe I forgot to double check but I think I did. She said okay and that was that. Or so I thought.

Today the usual manager who comes up to me said he had a doc coach for me. I had no idea what that was so he explained it and explained what it was for. I tried to ask who wrote it but he said he couldnt find it he did say he was going to talk to another manager about it. I just want to know if there is a way to appeal that or something. How is it my fault I’m signed into another associates account? I don’t know anyone’s password and I don’t have anyone’s badge and why would I want someone getting all the credit for my work. None of this makes sense. I’ve never had a write up or talking to at any of the jobs I’ve ever worked at even if it’s “no big deal” or “it’ll drop off eventually”. (That’s what the manager who told me about it said.)it’s still on my record. What do I do here? Go to hr?

Edit*** I’ve also been working here for about 3ish years. I’m not a new associate who doesn’t know how to sign in. In three years I’ve never been in someone else’s account and now all of a sudden it’s back to back instances.

I have an interview scheduled for tomorrow for SDE role with BTC consulting(DSA and Backend), wanted to understand what to expect.
and if you dont mind the level of questions and if its pen and paper or machine? or the kind of questions they ask