Pros
Decent benefits that start from first day of work.
Cons
There is an enormous amount of cons working as an Associate for Amazon Warehouse. I'll just be listing what I see as major cons. 1. Once 3 month period is up, managers expect 200/hr on Pack, 600/hr on rebin, and over 1000/hr on induct. This these are achievable only if there is a constantly flow of items and absolutely working like a horse. I would say I was one of the harder working employees and the numbers are unrealistic. Our managers would post the average numbers of each person after lunch. I was usually in the top 5 but most people are getting about half of these numbers working at a "normal" pace. 2. ToT (Time off task) is an absolutely ridiculous concept. There had been a few items I was flagged for ToT and a manager had came and spoke to me about it. Every time I was using the restroom. The restrooms were not evenly spaced apart in my facility. Just walking to the restroom you would take you 5 minutes alone. Not to mention actually using the restroom and walking back. Managers told me that the best time to use the restroom would be during breaks or lunch exclusively. This seems like some kind of human rights in the workplace violation. 3. Switching roles is near impossible. This is based off which facility and area you are that but, the managers in my department played favorites. I wanted to switch roles and find a schedule that better suited me. I started by going to HR who were completely incompetent. They ask you to submit requests on the mobile app and they will be evaluated. My requests were always denied. Why were they denied? They were denied because of ToT violations in the last month. When I brought this up to my department managers they repeated that the restroom should be exclusively used during breaks/lunches. Not only that, they told me I was needed in the AFE department with me being in the top 5 average numbers consistently. 4. Advancement in the company is difficult. I was told moving from level 1 to level 3 internally you would have to be with the company at least a year. This is understandable if it was actually true. The facility I was working at was newly built and higher level positions were needed. Even though I was trained in all aspects of the AFE department including Quality as well as being an Ambassador. I was excluded from the advancement, because I was not qualified enough. A level 3 was eventually chosen and quit within 2 months of having the position. The position was eventually filled again by an level 3 of a different facility. He also left within 6 months. The best way to advance in the company is be willing to relocate potentially to different states or to launch facilities. Yet, not everyone is willing or have the want to relocate to a different state. 5. Equipment in the facility are not properly working or down. There had been multiple times where our entire shift was sent home due to malfunctions in equipment. There were several times where we were left standing around for multiple hours. Yes, not sitting, standing around. Managers at in our department were keen that you could not sit during the downtime. The solutions to these malfunctions was assigning MET. There was a span in for almost 11 days where I did not have a single day off due to MET. Another human rights in the workplace violation. I understand that some of these are based off location and which facility I was working at, but problems nonetheless. I believe some locations could be more optimal than others, but favoritism in my facility was at large. This is by no means a job you would want to keep in the long run. Definitely a temporary job while looking for something better.
