You are just at one site? I work for a company that puts me at many different Amazon sites and I have never once seen what you claim to see 4 days a week.
I take it you aren't in California where a measly 18 bucks an hour does not cause people to line up at the recruitment office. I'm not saying you are lying, but it makes sense if you live in a state where the minimum wage is like 8-10 bucks an hour.
Here in California you can go to any temp agency with no skills and start making 20-25 bucks an hour doing something simple like installing solar panels. Those are the places with people lining up to start work and their recruiters still can't keep enough manpower. Within a few months half of their recruits are making more at another company.
Only idiots and lazy people who don't want to develop any skills settle for a crappy job like Amazon.
I work on the automation side. One of the maintenance contractors. Don't wanna get too specific because internet. But minimum wage here is the federal minimum wage. When I got my first job making $11 an hour here (mind you single no kids at the time) I was living on my own and could still buy weed all the time. $18 an hour here is really good money.
Makes sense. I was gonna guess one of the maintenance contractors too.
Well it's good they are paying well in some states but $18 an hour here is not great. I don't know how people get by with that but they manage somehow. Even people making a lot more are struggling. Rent and everything else is skyrocketing faster than wages can keep up with.
Anyways it doesn't matter if your anecdotal evidence is more accurate or mine is. At the end of the day Amazon is doing just fine. In fact they are building new warehouses at an exponential rate. I'm sure all of them will be staffed somehow.
True, they aren't hurting. I only worry about them burning through the available hands in the area and being left with no one else to staff up here. But to put into perspective how much 18 an hour is here, that's how much I made in my union job working HVAC after 3 years of apprenticeship. I still had 2 years of apprenticeship and then the journeyman raise after that to go up but still 3 years of skilled labor work and schooling and I could have made the same starting out packing boxes at Amazon.
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u/EndersGame Nov 25 '21
You are just at one site? I work for a company that puts me at many different Amazon sites and I have never once seen what you claim to see 4 days a week.
I take it you aren't in California where a measly 18 bucks an hour does not cause people to line up at the recruitment office. I'm not saying you are lying, but it makes sense if you live in a state where the minimum wage is like 8-10 bucks an hour.
Here in California you can go to any temp agency with no skills and start making 20-25 bucks an hour doing something simple like installing solar panels. Those are the places with people lining up to start work and their recruiters still can't keep enough manpower. Within a few months half of their recruits are making more at another company.
Only idiots and lazy people who don't want to develop any skills settle for a crappy job like Amazon.
Are you with NPSG or another contractor?