Amazon reviews

-Management by public humiliation -Poor leadership -Poor management development -Managers treated like commodities -No sense of teamwork or collaboration. Everyone is out for their own agenda. -Very poor work/life balance. Senior management thinks they own you and that you have to be available 24/7 -Very high turnover of managers which also disrupts the hourly workforce and their trust of management

They do NOT "hire and develop the best" (one of their slogans). They hire kids right out of college as managers that have never had a real job (that way, the kids are "molded" into the amazon mindset...treat the customers with the utmost respect, but treat your coworkers like the dog crap stuck to the bottom of your shoe; step all over it under it raises a "stench" or concern, then take a stick and fling it away as if it was never there). The other end of the spectrum is that they hire "temps" who do not have to follow policies "blue badges" have to. Policies such as the dress code, vulgarity and PDA are not enforced whatsoever. The "compensation" is a joke. Amazon rationalizes the pay to include discounts, stock options, VCP....variable compensation profits. I'll tell you how much I make an hour: $12.00. Do you know what I "earn" according to them? $17.48 an hour, based on my tenure and the previously mentioned "compensation". My family of four barely makes it from paycheck to paycheck, because I bring home an average of $7.85 an hour with all the deductions for insurance plus the usual taxes taken out. I work 40 plus hours a week at a very physical job ( the average associate walks 10 miles A DAY), and from October until the end of December, forget about having a life outside of Amazon. You will work 60 hour weeks and not be able to take vacation or personal time off (the blackout period) until December 26th. Merry Freaking Christmas.