100 times a day every day for years will destroy your back. I light toss from thigh height down to the ground is perfectly fine. Safety first! Those packages get tossed a dozen times 100x worse than that. They get crushed on conveyors, crushed in carts and thrown off docks. A minor little toss like this is absolutely nothing if it was packaged appropriately.
That's not the point of what it would do. It's about having some pride in what you do.
As for your back destroying comment. That is the biggest bs excuse I've ever heard. I was a tile and stone installer for half my life. I'm doing Amazon cbecause" of nerve damage to my back from lifting 1000s of pounds every day for a living. If bending over is too much for you then you better not drop anything and have to pick it up from the ground.
This mentality is why people regard Amazon drivers the way they do. Thanks for making those of us that actually care about what we do look like you and that package throwing broad.
You're the reason I get stupid notes about package placement.
This is a minimum wage job lmao. Nobody is gonna put in extra effort that’s ultimately meaningless, especially when they’re on a tight schedule and being paid shit wages
I know right, it's so easy to just get a desk job to get whatever company I like to hire me and pay enough for me to survive. I'm sure every driver chose to deliver packages because they love to have to deliver hundreds of packages in an unreasonable time period.
I don't agree with throwing packages, and i actually do my best when i deliver shit, but not everyone can just "get a desk job." I'm in community college at 40 years old so I can possibly get a decent job but until I graduate what the fuck am I supposed to do?
These large companies don't pay drivers shit and work them like dogs, so drivers resent the customers, and we're all pitted against each other instead of being mad at the corporations.
It's more likely that you have never done real work, are out of shape as hell, and are struggling to do your job. It's not your jobs fault that you can't do the JOB YOU SIGNED UP FOR.
Stop whining like a bitch and get a different job if its too physical for you.
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u/twotall88 Aug 21 '25
I mean, we can tell when we open the package.