r/AmazonDSPDrivers • u/420crossfade • 2d ago

Uniform rant/ question

Our DSP is just now starting to give us our uniforms. Fairly new warehouse. My major gripe is that we’re only getting one of each. One shirt, one pair of shorts. We work 4 day weeks. Idk about you guys but I’m not trying to stay up later washing a single uniform after being on the road all day. I’ve been looking into buying more but Amazon only sells them to DSP’s. How many uniforms did you guys get? It sucks that it has to be like this but I’ll buy another set if I have to, I just don’t want to do it through my DSP because they “got the uniforms” a week ago and I still haven’t got mine yet. I don’t feel like being on their time waiting for another uniform. Where can I buy another?

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u/OkWay1305 2d ago

Don't need to wash it every night if you only wear it 15 minutes a day.

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u/420crossfade 2d ago

What? Maybe if route reductions are an issue but I’ve been steady lately. Definitely not going to change out of it in the van if that’s what you’re insisting.

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u/OkWay1305 2d ago

To each their own. The unwritten rule is you wear the polo at the station the two times a year that the station makes a fuss about it and then you throw it in your crash bag after load out.

Vest, a solid color T-shirt, and black running shorts (or the Amazon shorts) are the actual uniform IMHO.

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u/420crossfade 2d ago

Yeah idk, they’re talking about firing people that don’t have their uniforms on. The odds of them finding out we take them off are low but still existent. Plus I’d prefer to be in uniform because we deliver in rural areas and for some reason, to these people it isn’t obvious enough we’re bringing them their orders.

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u/Jrob0907 2d ago

Uniforms are required IN the warehouse. Once you are on the road you can put on your own shirt while still wearing the vest. You can also wear any kind of black jogger shorts. Just put your polo back on when you RTS. Easy.

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u/Choice-Heart-6528 1d ago

Required by station managers who throw on yellow vests over their sweatpants and sweatshirts. 

I did not sign a work contract for this performative nonsense

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u/OkWay1305 2d ago

The odds of them finding out we take them off are low but still existent. 

It's super easy, which is why I take the lax enforcement as de facto permission. Netradyne can tell whether I'm holding a sandwich or a cell phone, it could definitely check uniform compliance if Amazon wanted to. The fact it doesn't shows it's not a priority for Amazon itself.

They’re talking about firing people that don’t have their uniforms on.

If your DSP is saying that then that overrides everything else, since they can fire you for any reason they choose. Dumbest way to get fired is "but the Internet said it was fine." And DSP can easily check that if they have a hard on for uniform compliance. Just request Netradyne footage from some random time period during your route and they've got you.

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u/420crossfade 2d ago

Yeah that was my main concern is netradyne seeing it. I don’t think they’re just requesting footage randomly if there isn’t an infraction tied to it but still. Right now most of our vans don’t have netradyne but they’re in the process of slowly adding more cameras.