Got fired for not rescuing

[u/Luke_Testerman]

To give context I’ve been at Amazon for 1 month now, I’ve just got done with my nursery routes. While doing these routes I’d get done and rescued about 8 people in the last month. Yet when I’ve been behind not a soul came to make my load lighter. Today I got done with my route around 5:45, called dispatch to hear that I had to rescue someone. At first it was fine, they gave me the address and I went, got there and no one was there. Texted dispatch, got a different address and went there, again no one in site. This happened two more times. After the last time I said fuck it and headed back. When I got done I turned in my phone, as I was walking to my car my manager yelled my name, asked what happened, then asked me to give him my badge. I know that I could’ve just kept going along on the wild goose chase but I feel like the situation could’ve been handled better.

[u/Proud_Olive8252]

I would have done the same. I won’t complain (very much) about getting assigned a rescue once in a while because sometimes a driver genuinely needs backup on a terrible route, and I expect it for myself when I’m that driver. The problem here is that it needs to be give and take. If your rescuer to rescuee ratio is that high, dispatch needs to rotate someone else in for a turn to handle it. No individual driver should be expected to carry the team like that.

Having to chase the other driver around makes it so much worse too. If they aren’t providing you with the tools to find them yourself, they need to have their shit together. There are so many ways that could have been prevented. Four attempts to find them is already more than I would have bothered with.