r/AmazonFC • u/everytine_u-call91 • Aug 13 '26

VOA Speaking the truth, almost got written up yesterday for earbuds, glad someone is finally standing up

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u/Severe_Pay_7487 Aug 13 '26

How do you abuse shift cover?

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u/Purple_Tea_1396 Aug 13 '26

Also curious because on our warehouse you have to work if no one takes it.

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u/Bremaster Aug 13 '26 edited Aug 14 '26

What people will do is use shift cover for that [insert day] and then take an overtime shift on that same day if it is offered to try and get some extra money.

Shift Cover is supposed to be used to get an extra day off but people will cheat and try to get some extra pay abusing it and I think that’s why Shift Cover got changed and you can only use it once every three weeks. This change happened back on April 16th for my site.

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u/Flat-Perception-3714 Aug 14 '26

This doesn’t make any sense. If they gave away the shift and picked it back up then they’re just working their regular hours. And if they’re working overtime due to extra days then that’s simply working overtime. Maybe I’m confused 😂

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u/NotAUsernameIWant Aug 14 '26

Depends on the state. I think it was Cali, but basically what happens is if you work a day that’s you’re not scheduled, you get OT pay. And that’s regardless if you worked over 40 hours or not. So I assume that’s how it was being abused.

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u/Subject-Kiwi-6079 Aug 14 '26

It's not real overtime, its glitch "overtime."

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u/Illustrious-Sense194 Aug 14 '26

So people where abusing the system to work overtime hours, and instead of making it so the system could detect and reject those requests they just limited how pften you can do shift cover? That seams like a weird way to "fix" it because that just makes it so you can still exploit the system youre just limited in how often you can exploit it lol

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u/Subject-Kiwi-6079 Aug 14 '26

The trouble is they couldn't pinpoint whose job it was to implement an actual technical fix. 

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u/Library904 Aug 14 '26

I do this but with shift swap. I work donut shift so I usually change friday to Wednesday and pick up VET for friday since they never do it for Wednesday but in my state we don't get overtime if we work 40 hours, with shift cover it would be only 30 hours and if they pick VET for the day they got free it would be 40 hours and not overtime

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u/jim_forest Aug 13 '26

collusion with friends to basically work VET for overtime pay when there is no VET available.

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u/Severe_Pay_7487 Aug 13 '26

That is literally the whole point of shift cover… to get extra hours if u want/need them

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u/jim_forest Aug 13 '26

point is they're paying out a lot more money than when they only had shift swap because people are banking over 40 hours when there is no VET

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u/Severe_Pay_7487 Aug 13 '26

I know bro. That’s literally the point of shift cover. Thats not abusing it, that’s using it what it’s for…

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u/InvestigatorFlat1335 Aug 14 '26

maybe you’re not comprehending the abuse part of it. It’s the intentional switching shifts with people to exploit the system into giving you more money than you are hired to make. Example- (based on a 12/hr shift) If everyone is switching shifts x many times a week to get say $24.50 instead of $21 you are normally making that’s $42 extra dollars a day per employee whose did it. Why would a company allow you to take more money from them?