https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-12-17/amazon-tornado-aftermath-workers-say-they-lacked-emergency-training
How to start a union (UFCW)
https://www.ufcw.org/start-a-union/ Step 1: Talk to Your Coworkers. Step 2: Talk to a Union Organizer. Step 3: Start a Committee. Step 4: Know Your Rights. Step 5: Sign Union Support Cards. Step 6: Vote! Step 7: Negotiate Your Contract.
Warehouse Collapse Near Edwardsville Ilinois. At Least 3 Dead
"Public safety authorities said there are “confirmed fatalities” at a partially collapsed Amazon facility at 3077 Gateway Commerce... — read more
Amazon fulfillment center worker Courtenay Brown on harsh working conditions
The truth... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcfnt5c8MQY
AWS Went Down
Question: Has the US economy gotten so dependent on the Cloud that China or Russia could take it down on a longer-term basis? ... — read more
Unfair firing
I can't be the only driver who was let go unfairly. Yes ,12- mis delivered packages 11 - speeding tickets 10 - Lane violation 9 - yards trashed 8 DUI 7 written warning 6 parking violations, 5 wrecks 4 personal felonies 3 times in prison .. — read more
Reopening Bessemer Vote
"A U.S. labor board official is ordering a revote after an agency review found Amazon improperly pressured warehouse staff to vote against joining a union, tainting the original election enough to scrap its... — read more
Additional responsibilities at work
Before I came here I thought job description was something to be respected. If I knew that the job I would be doing would involve many more responsibilities, I probably wouldn't have applied. Is it happening to others as well that additional... — read more
Seasonal workers
What are my chances of transferring to full-time as a seasonal worker? I've been working my behind off for the past several weeks and I will continue to in the coming weeks - unlike many of the people I work with - so I hope that's enough to get me... — read more
AWS desperately needs talented employees
However, all it can attract are average employees who also leave very quickly. Does it seem to you that new hires as such would not be able to get a job here now if they had applied a few years ago?
How Amazon Rips Off Small Businesses and Squeezes Workers
Amazon squeezing small businesses and its workers. Never forget where JB's wealth comes from... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-story-of-war/id1053981528?i=1000540699805
Waiting on rejection email after onsite from long time
what the timeline to get rejection email after onsite ?
Does poor third-quarter results mean there will be layoffs soon?
I hope there won't be any. Considering they boasted earlier this month that 275,000 permanent and seasonal employees will be hired, there is not much logic for layoffs to happen. However, nothing would surprise me here anymore.
amazon development center inc layoffs
i hear that they cancel folks with subpar performance, so layoffs are happening
Ego Quest
A "midlife crisis of epic proportions. Feel free to share at your union organizing meetings. https://news.yahoo.com/watch-owen-wilson-snl-fun-160222574.html
anyone work in the AWS data center engineering group in OH or VA?
How are the teams there? Anyone there work as electrical/mechanical eng teams? How are they, what sort of work they do and is it a tough place to work?
Making quotas
How hard has it been for you lately to meet quotas? Sometimes I wonder if our superiors have any common sense at all, and most of all I wonder if they would be able to make the quotas we need to keep the job? Are they realistic at all? Worst of all... — read more
Ageism
57 year old employee (and company founder) was walked out after 27 years of dedicated service. Thrown out like an old loaf of bread. Hopefully, he got an appropriate severance package and career coaching so he can get a fresh start.
Absolute sweatshop
I would love for this company to be completely left without employees, given how it treats its employees. I don’t feel like I’m working, I feel like I’m being mercilessly squeezed by a machine. I don't know what your situation is, but in my case... — read more
Amazon’s Warehouses, Bezos’s Worldview and Elite Higher Education
"What is striking is how quickly Amazon chews through workers. The turnover rate for hourly employees at Amazon is 150 percent, meaning that Amazon replaces the equivalent of its entire hourly workforce every eight months... — read more
I doubt it will get any better...
Working at Amazon means eventually coming to terms with the fact that you will only be treated as a number or as part of one big machine, unfortunately. Nice article, but there is simply no optimism that things will get better one day and that... — read more
Pray the acquisition is denied
If you work in media, pray that the MGM merger is denied. There would be huge consolidation layoffs as a result on both sides. I don't know who'd be hit worse, but the fact is that nobody would come out of it unscathed. I know it's still at least two... — read more
Plan to raise wages
No one has yet commented on Amazon's plan to raise wages... As far as I'm concerned, everything they are doing is late because I left here a month ago for Costco, but I wonder what my former colleagues think about this plan? It is not clear to me... — read more
Union files objections to Amazon election results
I believe it is very much possible that the only way the vote turned out the way it did is due to threats of layoffs. A labor group that did not secure enough votes from Amazon.com Inc warehouse workers in Alabama to form a union has formally... — read more
UNION HERE WE COME !!
Let's get this union started and see how it goes. If it's no good we can always vote ur down within a year.
Anti-Asian Hate Diversity misses the mark
To address the anti-asian hate crimes that this country is experiencing, AWS felt compelled to address this "head on" by having a 30-minute anti-asian hate message. The moderator was not an asian person and simply spoke to the history of asian racism... — read more
Amazon LP decoder ring
Customer Obsession: the default response when someone is debating you and wants you to shut up Ownership: something your manager says when they don’t want to do something Invent and Simplify: a way of telling someone to work hard on something... — read more
People who would like to work here...
A lot of people I know who work in the retail sector would love to be able to work at Amazon. They think that it’s much better here, which in most cases it is, but let’s not be fooled, it’s not great here either. I’d rather keep quiet than recommend... — read more
News in Cloud business
Any thoughts on what can we expect now that the new head of AWS has arrived? “It will be important to watch Selipsky’s strategic moves to match AWS ’pace with Azure, and even Google Cloud’s upward momentum” from:... — read more
Incompetence no longer surprises me
These and similar situations surprised me for a while, but not anymore, because they've become too common: AWS hiring process is COMPLETELY BROKEN! Many incompetent managers, nepotism and favoritism .. I know my friend who had average... — read more
Would you rather move to Costco?
Could someone who works or has worked at Costco tell me in more detail what it’s like to work there and whether they treat their workers better than Amazon does? Also, have you seen the news that the company lifted their minimum wage to 16 dollars... — read more
COVID safe environment?
Do you think that filing a New York lawsuit against Amazon is pointless because Amazon did a good job when it comes to providing a safe environment in pandemic circumstances, or do you think Amazon failed at that and didn’t actually objectively... — read more
Hiring leaders with zero role experience!
My manager has zero customer or sales experience! I can’t believe they hire unqualified clowns like this. Spending more time training this newbie on multiple fronts. I don’t get it, I thought AWS was smart
Golden handcuffs, LP’s and a strange culture
It’s been a year since I joined AWS. I was fully prepared for all the quirkiness I’ve read about online. Let me just say that things aren’t as they really appear. The reality is, people weaponize the leadership principles all the time in a... — read more
Tips intended for drivers
Driver here. What Amazon did between 2016 and 2019 was a really shady practice. The news now appearing in the media that the company took away 62 million dollars in tips from us is nothing new, but it still piss me off. Excerpt from the article -... — read more
Organizing in Alabama?
Amazon is organizing in Alabama. So what will Amazon do to stop workers from having a voice, getting fair wages and safe working conditions?... — read more
The worst place to work
The very worst place to work; under backstabbing, narcissistic, despotic managers who are supported wholeheartedly by craven HR Business Partners. I would not recommend this place to any but the most supplicant masochists who return home at night... — read more
Feeling miserable
Sorting again, endlessly stacking packages on palettes... another day older, with an even more painful spine... feeling stress but I try not to get noticed because they would replace me immediately... worried about how to pay the bills, more indebted... — read more
Bootcamp software engineers Atlanta/ general lack of qualifications.
Why are so many bootcampers flooding AWS/Amazon in Atlanta? There is so much corruption with hiring in the Atlanta area that its getting ridiculous! No other FAANG company (or relevant company) would let so many sh–heads hire their sh–head... — read more