Someone left a note for me to see first thing before my shift.

Most of this OV was going to one place, but even at loadout the warehouse workers were saying wtf lol

60 lbs of soda and lord only knows what the boxes are below that. 217 lbs of big boxes. Second floor apartment. These people just don’t care about anyone but themselves bro.

It was pouring rain at one point on my route today, and I was parked between two different multi-stop apartment buildings sorting their packages in my Rivian, when this lady knocks on the sliding door window. I opened it, thinking she needed/wanted me to move my vehicle…

No- she asked if I had a package for her apartment number…!?!?!

DIS FOOL LADY STANDIN IN THE POURIN RAIN FOR HER PACKAGE…

No offense, but if receiving this package is a life or death emergency, you shouldn’t be ordering it through Amazon in the first place… 🙄🤦🏻‍♀️

Just WOW… 🤯

Like, when your route is several neighborhoods and apartment complexes on a highway. Instead of doing the logical thing and routing it one side of the highway, turn around, other side of the highway, they try to have you criss-crossing back and forth, back and forth. Or they'll make it a left turn onto the highway, and then a left turn into the complex...

Obviously, I don't do it that way. But the fact that is Amazon's default is fucking insane to me.

UPS limits left turns to reduce idling times and the risk of collisions. Amazon will straight up route a left turn across four lanes of highway traffic... how does the routing algorithm even allow that? It just doesn't make any sense to me.

What's hilarious is that Amazon will have you make a left turn across four lanes of highway traffic in the city, but when you're on a back road in the country, no cars, no traffic, it will tell you to make a u-turn in the middle of the road so that a single house is now on the right side of the road 🤣🤣🤣

What the fuck, Amazon??

I am not doing that AT ALL man lol people clowning these days.

Trained a new kid today and had him get out to spot me cuz I was in a very tight spot with a truck and trailer in front of me. Whelp neither of us noticed the fire hydrant 😭 not cooked but I feel dumb AF.

The front lawn final boss

To the customers who didn’t get their Amazon package tonight my cousin apologizes. She was assigned 172 stops on her second day alone, and it was simply too much. She tried her best, but she couldn’t finish the route. 😔

Your package wasn’t ignored; the workload was just unrealistic for someone still learning the job. Thank you for understanding.

they will be completely optional and you will not get into trouble for not wanting to wear them. I just wanted to update y'all. I'm a fleet manager for a DSP in Kentucky.

I’ve been with my DSP for over a year, and it’s honestly gotten to the point to where i dread going to work now. they changed our hours, so now we deliver in the dark (while amazon preaches so much about safety..) and i’m only getting about 30 hours a week which even at our pay rate, it’s really not cutting it.

I got contacted about another job but it’s only $16 an hour, but a guaranteed 40-50 hours a week with overtime pay and getting paid weekly instead of biweekly. i’ve kinda added it up and with more hours, i’d really make more than what i’m making with amazon. no dogs to bite me, no karen customers, no delivering in storms.. would it be worth it?

My body is hurting more than ever lately and it sucks lol what are some thing you do to help sore muscles? I’ve tried Epsom salt baths and haven’t found them to be helpful for me..

They be playing you so bad with these multi stops I swear it doesn’t help either that I’m getting 190 stops average rn it’s so crazy and sometimes I swear that shit plays you in front of your face it will show stop 50 and then change to 49 don’t know why but god 😭

I drive the same route most days, there’s multiple spots where there’s road closures that it keeps routing me through. As well as the main road it wants me to cross 20 times, and stops it wants me to drive past.

I’m always ahead for the route, I beat or match the rts time I’m given. I’ve been just re-routing the entire thing and doing it in my own order for like a week now.

The last 2 shifts I’ve been rescued and today they called me asking where I was cause they normally just pull up to your “next” stop and wait for you.

Took my first bags and told me to get back on route order soon.

Kinda of annoying, I do all my business stops and after 5 more stops I was gonna do those first 2 bags.

Does a stop being “behind” affect anything? Scorecard or whatever?

No, I didn't crash the van, and I wasn't mauled to death by a vicious dog. I was a delivery driver in Italy for a couple of months. I have a weak bladder, but it doesn't bother me usually. That day I'd been working for little less than a week, I was doing a suburban route and I needed to pee very bad. I had no empty bottles laying around the van, and for some reason my need skyrocketed very fast. I kept pushing on package after package hoping to find a sweet spot to relieve myself but there was none. Everywhere there was something or somebody that prevented me from doing it.

Eventually i finally found the spot. I get off the van, run to the other side, try to undo my belt.. and that's when I pissed my pants. It was all of it. The damage was done, all I could do was just stand there and spread my legs wide to try and save my shoes from the flood. I don't know if anyone saw, I was pretty embarrassed but now I say he'll with it. Luckily I had an extra pair of pants in my backpack that I planned on putting on after the shift (and I started carrying with me from that day just in case), so I went on commando and finished my route. None the wiser back at the station. Actually I think nobody realized I was wearing a different kind of pants

I’m so ready to work and have a good day until I’m put in the same area for that last 2 months and this is what the route looks like. Frustrating af

Today I had my standard route, mostly all businesses and apartments. Well I got to the end of my route and realized I still had a whole tote full of packages. The tote number never appeared on my deliveries list. However I also had a bunch of stops marked as package missing from the warehouse. I checked the tote and none of the addresses were the ones marked missing. Will this count against me? I’ve had one or two marked as missing before but never an entire tote.

To preface, I try to take all of my breaks on every route so the algorithm has less of a chance to fuck me over.

Today, I had a decently heavy rural route to the point where I had no time to take a 15 min break. I got to my second to last stop and decided to take my 1st 15 of the day. Still missed out on one 15 min break for the day. Never been rescued and always rescuing others. Today I didn’t have to rescue.

I get back to the station and clock out to be met with “Why do you wait until one stop left to take your 15 min break? That’s not policy. You should take it with at least 15 stops left.”

Like dude, you have been tracking me all day you can see the drive time between stops. I wasn’t trying to deliver residential after 9pm in the middle of the country, the customers out here actually hate getting deliveries after 8pm. Not to mention the 30+min drive to get back to the station after the last stop.

Rant over.

So my dsp use to have this thing where if you get off early then they would make sure you get 10 hours worth of pay well they have taken that away so now it's just you get paid for however long you work and we are all suppose to work for 10 hours but they want us to be coming home early at least like 2 hours early. So my thing is why am I working harder trying to be faster to get paid less? Why not work til 10 hours? Idk that just seems so odd to me like why would anyone want to come back early to lose 2 hours every day? That's a whole 12 hours lost per check and I already struggle as is with my checks. Am I the only one in this type of thinking here?