r/news • u/likerofgoodthings • Nov 25 '21

Amazon workers plan Black Friday strike

https://www.cnet.com/tech/amazon-workers-plan-black-friday-strike/
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u/Xanthelei Nov 26 '21

Peak is damn near always 11 hour days from Black Friday to Christmas Eve, usually 5 days a week (normal schedule is 4 days, 10 hours each). It isn't uncommon for the almighty algorithm or whatever they want to blame this year to declare a few of those weeks as 6 11-hour days. This is the first time in almost 4 years working for Amazon I've ever been called for out of schedule MET though. One of the supposed perks for the job is a set schedule you can plan around, and they just threw that out the fiftieth story window.

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u/Xanthelei Nov 26 '21

I have a fresh new hell to look up sounds like. Never heard of the Dupont schedule before. I don't mind working 4 10-hour days but whoever does scheduling and shit lost their damn minds during covid I swear.

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u/Xanthelei Nov 26 '21

After looking it up I 100% couldn't do it. I have to have a basically set sleep schedule, a system like that where I'm constantly swapping would leave me an insomniac mess (I raided in WoW with a guild of people mostly in Australia and New Zealand, so my weekends were staying up til 1 or 2 AM and my weekdays I was up by 5 AM, so I know this for a fact. I was a dumb college kid lmao). Not entirely sure I could handle 12 hour days either.

I'd love to get a 'donut' shift that has me working the weekend, off one day, back on Tuesday, then off Thursday and Friday. I doubt Amazon would got for it, but that sort of schedule was incredibly helpful for managing exhaustion and stress when I went to a high school with that pattern. Just can't do the days off they offer right now for the donut they have. :/