edit: so #girl of me to post this right before I had to go AFK for like 3 hours

  • Terkrockerfeller [she/her]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago
    1. Yes I've already done a pee bottle

    2. It's not technically Amazon, it's a DSP (delivery service provider) that owns a fleet (tho in my case part of the fleet is also rented) and employs the drivers. I don't actually know if Amazon directly hires any drivers themselves; all of them seem to work for various 3rd party DSPs

    3. Overall it Sux but not as much as I thought it might but also I'm a worm and will tolerate a lot of things + I'm still new

      • Terkrockerfeller [she/her]
        hexagon
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        3 years ago

        In my case it wasn't really about the deadline so much as I'm delivering in the center of a residential block and having to leave it, find a 7-Eleven or something, park a bigass van without windows, use the restroom, then get back to my route. It takes a lot of time and breaks my flow and it's a lot easier to just pee in one of the many empty bottles I have because I drink a lot

        Edit: and yes it's completely normalized the boss even told us not to leave pee bottles in our vans after our shift in a "come on man" kinda way rather than a "this is unacceptable and you're gonna be fired" way

        • UlyssesT
          cake
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          2 days ago

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          • Deadend [he/him]
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            edit-2
            3 years ago

            Then the truck will end up smelling like piss and shit.

            Also bathroom breaks should be built-in, and there should be a way to hit (find me a place to bathroom/urgency) to find a place that has a restroom/parking as close to the route as possible, so like if you need a bathroom in 20-30 vs NOW. Or also simply having indexes of good starbucks/711/spots to use.

            There is also the fact that this is a consequence of the LONG routes a lot of these places use.

            • Multihedra [he/him]
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              edit-2
              3 years ago

              Landscaping was similar for me.

              Actually, going out on a tree crew to drag brush (to the chipper) was good, because tons of guys took shits in the back of the chip trucks lol, so it was a porta-shitter as long as there was room for you to stand in the back

              But only tree crews had that luxury, everything else was “hold it or find somewhere to slink off to”

    • Tiocfaidhcaisarla [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      It’s not technically Amazon, it’s a DSP (delivery service provider) that owns a fleet (tho in my case part of the fleet is also rented) and employs the drivers. I don’t actually know if Amazon directly hires any drivers themselves; all of them seem to work for various 3rd party DSPs

      I worked at an Amazon warehouse years ago and it was the same thing, you didn't work at Amazon until they wanted you, instead you worked via 3rd party

        • newmou [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Is this an anti-union thing? Decentralize out the labor so it's harder to organize? And I'm guessing reduce their overhead /liability but yeah

      • Femboiboiboi [any]
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        3 years ago

        They hire directly at the one I work at but idk nationally. Straight to blue badge too.