This is DPS5 in Santa Clarita, California. These tough sons of bitches are marching in 93 degree heat and basically stopping all work withing the warehouse as we were in the process of loading the vans up when they arrived. It's a beautiful thing to see. Management wanted to keep us all around because we were already behind for the day but I just clocked out and went home. If you live in like Northern LA County you're not getting your Amazon package today. Unless you're REALLY far north and get your stuff from the Delivery Station in Palmdale.
For those who don't know about the different types of Amazon buildings, there are Fullfillment Centers, Sort Centers, and Delivery Stations like DPS5. We receive already packed orders from fullfillment centers and every day we sort out everything into individual routes to be picked up by the delivery vans that actually like go to your house and stuff. The delivery drivers are all independent contractors who work for what Amazon calls "Delivery Service Partners" so they are not technically Amazon employees making it harder for drivers as a whole to unionize. The driver jobs are fucking brutal and the surveillance they're under on the job is so incredibly fucking invasive. I guess there was some kind of contract dispute between one of the delivery companies and station management so some drivers were refusing to work too. If the drivers ever unionize Amazon would be so fucked.
Hope the managers are sweating their asses off trying to do the job of dozens of people.Knowing warehouse managers...it's at least a 65% shitshow and a lot of those honkies getting cursed into oblivion in 18 different languages
If the drivers ever unionize Amazon would be so fucked.
I'm sure they'd still manage to make unimaginable profits
UPS made $100B in revenue/$13B profit last year with its unionized workforce. Amazon would just have to cut 90% of their useless management positions
I almost went for one of those driver jobs in the past and I'm so glad I didn't. One of the best things about jobs that make you shuffle around in a car all day is the freedom to be away from a supervisor and sorta being able to do what you want (primarily by listening to whatever music/podcasts/books you want). It's fucked that they want to squeeze workers so hard that the low wages aren't enough.
I'm glad I left PJs when I did, ended up a local pizza joint that was really chill and all my old co-workers at Papas were suddenly being tracked and docked pay based on gps trackers placed in their cars that relayed their location to the manager and rated their "safety and efficiency".
Gone are the days of taking a "long" delivery and swinging by the house or running errands.
