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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lol I hope they do it close to a facility I used to work at. Amazon fucking sucks, they give you a nigh impossible box packing rate to do. Get this: 250 singular packed boxes in one hour. I barely made it above 120 an hour. It's Soo unrealisticly high it just burns you out. I asked to be transferred back to the ship dock, but I got turned away. They told me if I can't make it to 250 an hour for a while month then I can go back to the ship dock. I saw what they were doing. They put me in a high demand area to get me burnt out and leave. Idk why tho, maybe they were bringing in more temp workers. Considering they were making the temps work at the inbound side. I wouldn't be surprised if they got the temps to do every job. Oh man..

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

one box every 15 seconds for hours at a time.... why don't they use robots?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Because they can’t currently make the robots feel like they’re a piece of shit and not worthy of respect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The robots at my facility moved shelves of product around a caged grid system for quick inventory and holdover until it gets packed by a person manning a station at the grid. It flashes a projector light on which slot to grab from, you scan it, and the robot drives away with the shelf. There's a robot arm too, but it's job is to just stack plastic totes in a 3x3 stack on a pallet, then a conveyor pushes the full ones to the side

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm way too fucking tired to search for a source, but there was some news a while back that Amazon was concerned that they would literally turnover to the point where everyone who was willing to work for them would and their practices would turn them over and they'd run out of workers.

So yeah, vile company.