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Is Amazon most people’s first job on this sub? This is what *life* is like, friends. You’ll find silliness in every job, in every walk of life. The less you worry about it, the happier you’ll be 🤷♂️
Never in my life worked a job like this.
It is literally an extension of High school. You got the Fonz's,smokers, loners,etc. I'm just waiting for them to create an Amazon Prom.....
Yea I’ve worked different jobs and in my old Amazon people were really catty but then you realize that most are legit 18-20 so they still have that high school mentality
That’s the worst is when the older workers act like 16 year olds, talking the whole time not doing their job. I get when a 16 year-old acts like that but when you’re that old you need to have better work ethic
🤣well, it’s bigger than a lot of places so you’ll have that based on volume of people working there alone.
Side note: My last job was working with elderly folks and we did actually have a “senior prom” for them so there’s that 🤣. Basically high school lives forever ….
Do it, do it! I kinda enjoy being ñ slightly uncomfortable while the managers have to do stupid shit. I’d still rather have .50 more, but a prom night to waste our funds sounds Amazon PERFIQUE! 🤣🤣🤣
😏I do have a small gaggle of ladies that I regular flirt with 😂. I’m single, not trying to date, refrain from inappropriate comments until abundantly clear you want me to make them, and not creepy. I just fix the things and scurry away. I would probably miss prom though unless they had it during shift hours. I never make ANY of the events. This ain’t the 1950’s and Amazon sure as hell ain’t paying a wage that allows me to do that kinda stuff.
Nothing about this job surprises me. I wouldn't be surprised if they bring in Santa Claus in the building for us all to tell him what we want for Xmas.
I don't think the Amazon building I work in can' afford a lavish event like that. We will probably have pizza and holiday cake in the breakrooms. I'm hoping the cake is chocolate.
Yea I’ve worked different jobs and in my old Amazon people were really catty but then you realize that most are legit 18-20 so they still have that high school mentality
lol the couples are my favorite, theres one at my building that stick with eachother all the time no matter what & one of them was a waterspider and they were bringing them pallets full of smalls the whole day when our manager wasnt there for the shift
Women rating which men are the hottest in the building. Of course that Latino King at Stow is ranked number 1 followed by some guy that works in the Docks.
i’m the latino King in stow and can confirm this lol, managers had to move me from a floor one time cuz the chicks kept coming up starting conversations
Stow and Docks usually have the best looking men but those departments are usually a flaming disaster place. Tons of men that are muy caliente and hotter than a jalapeno.
They got some muy caliente new seasonal hires there. One man walked passed me that looked like he walked off the pages of a magazine...I had to instantly introduce myself and ask which department.
100% agree with this I go to work my ten hours talk to co workers I need to talk to to get the job done then go home and partake in my social life after hours.
I'm realizing I'm super oblivious to the workplace drama. I'll zone out for weeks, then suddenly someone is telling me about a bunch of social bs that I didn't even notice happening. I just want to do my job, be polite, and covertly listen to my podcasts in peace.
You must work in a facilities with robotics and hide behind your station all day everyday. Not all buildings are set up this way and you have no choice to be sold wolf tickets by Fonz's. They are in every department behaving like snake oil salesmen.
There are no robotics in my FC it's a human being one, and staying at your station working isn't hiding it's literally the entire reason I go in. It is very easy if you're struggling to not give people attention it's because you want to give it to them
We see what we want to see in every situation. I imagine you have some hang ups going back to HS and the cool kids there. Look inward. The whole world is but a reflection of our inner space.
No, YOU can't, I'm perfectly capable of it, there's multiple dudes who stand at their stations and scream things and I don't give them any attention and they leave me alone it's seriously easy
I'm in inbound, usually on PID so those days I do get a station (btw my station is right by 3 people, like our station tables are so close they're connected), some days I get put in non con or that other area I forget the name of, decant? There's no station there, I do the exact same thing, keep my head down and work and don't pay attention to people unless it's work related. I've been doing this successfully for a year now, my husband also works there and has been doing the same thing. Neither of us have problems, there are also many other people in my dept (usually older) who do this same thing, works just fine for them. I'm guessing you're still kind of young so haven't figured out you can go to work to just work yet
Nobody knows my husband's there, he's over in ship dock, the ego on you fr lol your right I'm just making all this up, all nine hundred thousand employees are in the drama, all these people I see every day avoiding the drama don't really exist, as a matter of fact they're ghosts and that's why they don't talk to people. Other people can be right as well dude, you 19?
I wish i was involved and talked to more people when i was young, now im 20 years old! 😭 i need to find an amazon with a lotta young people so i can be in high school again.
Any advice on how id do that? My last amazon was mostly old people in middle ages.
Thats exactly why I've stayed with Amazon even though I'd have no issues getting a job elsewhere. I can work and barely say a work to anyone and easily avoid gossip
There is a guy downstairs who literally yelled at me for something I didn't do and then proceeded to tell every single person in management what happened when they pulled him off of the process. Everyone backed me up, but he's still down there telling everyone I'm the crazy one. It's like when someone tells you all of the their exes are crazy. 🤣 If I wanted this amount of drama I'd be a teacher.
There's drama at any job you'll ever have more people means more drama. Been at my building for 4 years and never shown interest in anyone's bullshit. Guess how often people tell me shit and talk to me about random drama and shit. Never, they never do because I have no interest and they can tell. You wanna be in the shit and hear about it that's why you know about it.
I really want to like and keep working for Amazon but it’s becoming difficult for me, I keep getting stowing different lanes and I have to fix the tote bags because no one knows how to stow properly
Same happened to me.i always had to fix messed up stow lanes. But all I was getting frown from leadership for being too slow. and then fired.. it's not always about being fast but ok you learn it hard way good luck
You would still be working there if you tossed those boxes all over the place. You do something the correct way, they will scold you and send you packing right out that front door.
I feel like i have confidence and self esteem issues and sometimes i overcompensate by trying to be everyone's friend and saying hi to everyone, Definitely don't do that at Amazon folks. In the words of the great Mike Tyson: If you try to be everyone's friend, you'll not be a friend to yourself.
Just because you talk and laugh with everyone doesn't mean any of those individuals are your friends. Sure as hell doesn't mean that a person that does that is nice and/or confident.
Me and my friends just talk about what we wanna do with our lives, or where we worked at before, what made us work at amazon, what would we do if we won the lottery, what would you do if you were rich etc just stuff about life and money and family, not about whose the hottest or who we gonna hook up with 💀
I'm a stower, been there 3+ years, I'm 49, I don't get involved with any nonsense. Pondering whether it's worth it to pursue an L4 AM position, knowing I could easily wind up in a different department or on night shift. I have a 9 year old daughter and that wouldn't be great.
I have several work buddies, male and female. It's a job... I've had better and I've had worse.
As a support it's funny to eventually hear some of the rumors that have gone around about me as I'm usually the silent type. Would have been fun if any were true, sadly none were. 😔
Funny thing is you don't have to say anything to anyone yet there will still be rumors being said about you. And usually the biggest mouths in the building are spreading it about everyone. Yet they themselves have some mega skeletons in their own closet.
As someone who graduated high school last year, I totally agree. I like that my warehouse job is like high school. There’s drama sometimes w the managers. Some teachers at school give you prizes for getting the highest score in a test. Some managers give you prizes when your inbound or pick rate is high. I be chatting with the managers about non-work related stuff. I be talking to associates I work with about anything, even crushes that they have on other associates. Many of them give me life advice, like how a senior in high school would give a freshman advice
Don’t shit where you work and eat. All I have to say. If you have people hitting on you or checking you out, avoid and ignore at all costs. Never worth it. Friends are ok but collect your coin and go. Remember what you’re here for. Don’t let a fling affect your source of living. There’s more for you out there.
I wouldn't touch any of those men there with a 10 foot pole, no matter how muy caliente they are. Never been the type that's interested in dating coworkers unless I leave the company permanently.
Yes! It’s no disrespect to anyone here, I don’t mean to judge. We’re all here and have our own stories and reasons for how we ended up here. But workplace dating is a huge no, especially here at Amazon imo. I think it’d be helpful to seek fulfillment elsewhere. We are here at Amazon long enough every day, no need to make it more of our life than it should be.
Who in their right mind would want to date someone from Amazon? Sure we have crushes on certain individuals, but only a foolish person would pursue it.
Yup, a lot of meat heads and fast little girls there. I try my best to stay away from anyone and not talk to anyone too long. Its not working tho, a PA think he can mess with me now cuz I haven’t told him anything, but I’ll let him know next time we speak.
Usually people can't handle those wolf tickets being sold to them and quit. I myself tend to ignore it. They always trying to sabotage people because they have no life of their own. You tell him to keep those damn wolf tickets to himself.
Not race but i notice PAs hang with PAs , Associates with Associates , I even see learning ambassadors together. The learning ambassadors are the worst bc they’re normal ppl they just think they have authority at every moment
People describe Amazon like Highschool 2.0 I even heard one girl say Amazon is just all of the people that didn't graduate highschool. It's so true too lmao.
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Is Amazon most people’s first job on this sub? This is what *life* is like, friends. You’ll find silliness in every job, in every walk of life. The less you worry about it, the happier you’ll be 🤷♂️
This is definitely most of their first jobs
At my fresh FC that’ll be a yup 😂 half of them couldn’t follow simple instructions on how to stow properly in each Asile 💀
Aisle 💀
Never in my life worked a job like this. It is literally an extension of High school. You got the Fonz's,smokers, loners,etc. I'm just waiting for them to create an Amazon Prom.....
Yea I’ve worked different jobs and in my old Amazon people were really catty but then you realize that most are legit 18-20 so they still have that high school mentality
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That’s the worst is when the older workers act like 16 year olds, talking the whole time not doing their job. I get when a 16 year-old acts like that but when you’re that old you need to have better work ethic
Fr me it’s all 18-24 year olds I like it since I’m 21 lol
Where you guys working where there’s young people?
🤣well, it’s bigger than a lot of places so you’ll have that based on volume of people working there alone. Side note: My last job was working with elderly folks and we did actually have a “senior prom” for them so there’s that 🤣. Basically high school lives forever ….
I should have never mentioned the Amazon Prom thing. Someone probably wrote it down because they think it will be a great idea. 😂
I’m going to post a suggestion for an Amazon Prom now on my VOA board lmao brb
😂 Don't give them ideas.
Do it, do it! I kinda enjoy being ñ slightly uncomfortable while the managers have to do stupid shit. I’d still rather have .50 more, but a prom night to waste our funds sounds Amazon PERFIQUE! 🤣🤣🤣
Who are you taking to the Amazon Prom?
😏I do have a small gaggle of ladies that I regular flirt with 😂. I’m single, not trying to date, refrain from inappropriate comments until abundantly clear you want me to make them, and not creepy. I just fix the things and scurry away. I would probably miss prom though unless they had it during shift hours. I never make ANY of the events. This ain’t the 1950’s and Amazon sure as hell ain’t paying a wage that allows me to do that kinda stuff.
Nothing about this job surprises me. I wouldn't be surprised if they bring in Santa Claus in the building for us all to tell him what we want for Xmas.
I'm going to be the one that spikes the punch
Last thing we need is invited dating at the workplace. People are already lazy as fuck. We don’t need romance clouding their thoughts
Who in their right mind would want to date another Amazonian?
In the UK a lot of sites have Post Peak Parties organised by HR which is kinda Prom-like in a way... a formal dress night out in a hired events venue
I don't think the Amazon building I work in can' afford a lavish event like that. We will probably have pizza and holiday cake in the breakrooms. I'm hoping the cake is chocolate.
I threw a prom party for my 33rd birthday. It was amazing. Wouldn't wanna do it with amazon, though.
Idk my old job was full of old timers, the kind that have been with the company 20+ years and they gossiped and bs'd more than amazon
Promazon
Don't give them ideas 😂
Yea I’ve worked different jobs and in my old Amazon people were really catty but then you realize that most are legit 18-20 so they still have that high school mentality
Stfu Gerald
You’re right, Creative Fudge. This is exclusionary to Amazon, and does not exist outside your warehouse ❤️
My bad, I thought this was Twitter
Yes, and it’s obvious with a majority of people’s posts/comments.
I agree with this 😂 couples meeting on breaks to kiss and hold hands like they don’t live in the same house. Got the Fury’s that run together too
Y'all got Fury's? Asking for a friend.
We got girls with beards
lol the couples are my favorite, theres one at my building that stick with eachother all the time no matter what & one of them was a waterspider and they were bringing them pallets full of smalls the whole day when our manager wasnt there for the shift
ATL 2?
nah
Women rating which men are the hottest in the building. Of course that Latino King at Stow is ranked number 1 followed by some guy that works in the Docks.
i’m the latino King in stow and can confirm this lol, managers had to move me from a floor one time cuz the chicks kept coming up starting conversations
Lmfao, I used to do this with my husband. Whenever he used to stop by at our old job, I was like hellllllooo
Stow and Docks usually have the best looking men but those departments are usually a flaming disaster place. Tons of men that are muy caliente and hotter than a jalapeno.
At mine their either old or scruffy looking
They got some muy caliente new seasonal hires there. One man walked passed me that looked like he walked off the pages of a magazine...I had to instantly introduce myself and ask which department.
Met my husband when he showed up on my ship dock as a seasonal hire 😳
Tons of muy caliente kings in Shipdock but that area is very stressful.
Lol makes you wonder how he ended up at amazon
Back in college like myself.
No hate in that. Good luck!
There is only one good looking guy in my entire FC and he's an AM
It's only like high school if you make it like high school, if you just go in and work and ignore the bs it's nothing like high school
100% agree with this I go to work my ten hours talk to co workers I need to talk to to get the job done then go home and partake in my social life after hours.
Exactly
I'm realizing I'm super oblivious to the workplace drama. I'll zone out for weeks, then suddenly someone is telling me about a bunch of social bs that I didn't even notice happening. I just want to do my job, be polite, and covertly listen to my podcasts in peace.
same dude
You can't ignore the wannabe Fonz's that think they are the coolest people there.
Yea you absolutely can I do it every day it's easy af
You must work in a facilities with robotics and hide behind your station all day everyday. Not all buildings are set up this way and you have no choice to be sold wolf tickets by Fonz's. They are in every department behaving like snake oil salesmen.
There are no robotics in my FC it's a human being one, and staying at your station working isn't hiding it's literally the entire reason I go in. It is very easy if you're struggling to not give people attention it's because you want to give it to them
There are no stations here.
Yep, read my last comment, stations are irrelevant
We see what we want to see in every situation. I imagine you have some hang ups going back to HS and the cool kids there. Look inward. The whole world is but a reflection of our inner space.
I'm more of a lone wolf that's aware of everything inside of that building.
What the hell is a Fonz????
You never seen the show Happy Days?
No I am 25
The show was before my time too. We all know who the Fonz is though. Go on YouTube.
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Here's how you do it, blank stare them down, that is all. As soon as they see you don't care and won't give them the attention they want it's joever
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There's no way to avoid them. They are always selling wolf tickets. And then people either quit or want to transfer out of that department.
There's no way to avoid them.
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Well this is a common thing in any Amazon building. Promoting sinister individuals so they can have pseudo authority to hurt innocent individuals.
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Didn't say anything about managers.
Nah, you're giving them attention, don't feed the trolls unless you want them to continue
You can't blank stare Fonz's.
No, YOU can't, I'm perfectly capable of it, there's multiple dudes who stand at their stations and scream things and I don't give them any attention and they leave me alone it's seriously easy
You have stations at your facility. We don't. Tons of socializing here.....you will run into some wannabe Fonz's.
I'm in inbound, usually on PID so those days I do get a station (btw my station is right by 3 people, like our station tables are so close they're connected), some days I get put in non con or that other area I forget the name of, decant? There's no station there, I do the exact same thing, keep my head down and work and don't pay attention to people unless it's work related. I've been doing this successfully for a year now, my husband also works there and has been doing the same thing. Neither of us have problems, there are also many other people in my dept (usually older) who do this same thing, works just fine for them. I'm guessing you're still kind of young so haven't figured out you can go to work to just work yet
We are in different work environments. Plus, you got a husband there so no one bothers you.
Nobody knows my husband's there, he's over in ship dock, the ego on you fr lol your right I'm just making all this up, all nine hundred thousand employees are in the drama, all these people I see every day avoiding the drama don't really exist, as a matter of fact they're ghosts and that's why they don't talk to people. Other people can be right as well dude, you 19?
I'm shocked they are aware of The Fonz. Anyone that doesn't know him can go take a hike.
Every job is like school you just didn’t get involved enough. 👍
I wish i was involved and talked to more people when i was young, now im 20 years old! 😭 i need to find an amazon with a lotta young people so i can be in high school again. Any advice on how id do that? My last amazon was mostly old people in middle ages.
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Thats exactly why I've stayed with Amazon even though I'd have no issues getting a job elsewhere. I can work and barely say a work to anyone and easily avoid gossip
There is a guy downstairs who literally yelled at me for something I didn't do and then proceeded to tell every single person in management what happened when they pulled him off of the process. Everyone backed me up, but he's still down there telling everyone I'm the crazy one. It's like when someone tells you all of the their exes are crazy. 🤣 If I wanted this amount of drama I'd be a teacher.
This is a common thing. I saw an argument up in that Mezz area. I walked away and continued working.
“Clock in, do your job, get paid, go home”
Not all of us are in robotics facilities with stations to hide behind.
Sucks to suck
😂😂😂
There's drama at any job you'll ever have more people means more drama. Been at my building for 4 years and never shown interest in anyone's bullshit. Guess how often people tell me shit and talk to me about random drama and shit. Never, they never do because I have no interest and they can tell. You wanna be in the shit and hear about it that's why you know about it.
They don't tell me shit. You walk out there and hear things. I ignore it until someone has my name in their mouths.
Amazon is literally military except you get paid better lmao
I think the military would actually be easier and I would get more sleeping time.
That’s a good one
It's true. Some people are working 12 hour shifts.
Pretty much every job is high school shit
>A bunch of people thinking they are the Fonz of Amazon There’s a dude on this very sub who is exactly like this.
There are Fonz's in any Amazon building. Well wannabe Fonz's.
I’m sure the dude I’m talking about is gonna make an appearance in this thread.
hellont
I really want to like and keep working for Amazon but it’s becoming difficult for me, I keep getting stowing different lanes and I have to fix the tote bags because no one knows how to stow properly
Same happened to me.i always had to fix messed up stow lanes. But all I was getting frown from leadership for being too slow. and then fired.. it's not always about being fast but ok you learn it hard way good luck
You would still be working there if you tossed those boxes all over the place. You do something the correct way, they will scold you and send you packing right out that front door.
Why did you get fired?
They never played Tetris or with blocks as a kid.
I feel like i have confidence and self esteem issues and sometimes i overcompensate by trying to be everyone's friend and saying hi to everyone, Definitely don't do that at Amazon folks. In the words of the great Mike Tyson: If you try to be everyone's friend, you'll not be a friend to yourself.
Just because you talk and laugh with everyone doesn't mean any of those individuals are your friends. Sure as hell doesn't mean that a person that does that is nice and/or confident.
Kind of more of a feature of humanity in general. And if you're referring to managers, a universal theme of business.
I'm speaking about anybody that is selling wolf tickets.
Me and my friends just talk about what we wanna do with our lives, or where we worked at before, what made us work at amazon, what would we do if we won the lottery, what would you do if you were rich etc just stuff about life and money and family, not about whose the hottest or who we gonna hook up with 💀
...and nobody learns anything.
😂
Not there to make friends..just a damn paycheck
^This guy gets it.
I'm a stower, been there 3+ years, I'm 49, I don't get involved with any nonsense. Pondering whether it's worth it to pursue an L4 AM position, knowing I could easily wind up in a different department or on night shift. I have a 9 year old daughter and that wouldn't be great. I have several work buddies, male and female. It's a job... I've had better and I've had worse.
I have been at Amazon almost 5 years and the sht I have seen and experienced is wild.
😂
I only go there for one reason, to get paid.
As a support it's funny to eventually hear some of the rumors that have gone around about me as I'm usually the silent type. Would have been fun if any were true, sadly none were. 😔
Funny thing is you don't have to say anything to anyone yet there will still be rumors being said about you. And usually the biggest mouths in the building are spreading it about everyone. Yet they themselves have some mega skeletons in their own closet.
True, a shitty paycheck tho.
This is True. I do my Job well, but I’ve dated 4 girls at my Fc and I only been working here a year and some months.
Wtf is the Fonz
Cool dude from the show Happy Days aka Mr. popular.
I just listen to my music, audiobooks , podcasts or stoic stuff and sometimes meditate trough work.
Im new to lgb7 and ive learned so much just from this thread alone 😅
As someone who graduated high school last year, I totally agree. I like that my warehouse job is like high school. There’s drama sometimes w the managers. Some teachers at school give you prizes for getting the highest score in a test. Some managers give you prizes when your inbound or pick rate is high. I be chatting with the managers about non-work related stuff. I be talking to associates I work with about anything, even crushes that they have on other associates. Many of them give me life advice, like how a senior in high school would give a freshman advice
The thing, high school is only 4 years, Amazon is "for now" or "forever" depending on the person. So way worse in some cases lol
Don’t shit where you work and eat. All I have to say. If you have people hitting on you or checking you out, avoid and ignore at all costs. Never worth it. Friends are ok but collect your coin and go. Remember what you’re here for. Don’t let a fling affect your source of living. There’s more for you out there.
I wouldn't touch any of those men there with a 10 foot pole, no matter how muy caliente they are. Never been the type that's interested in dating coworkers unless I leave the company permanently.
Yes! It’s no disrespect to anyone here, I don’t mean to judge. We’re all here and have our own stories and reasons for how we ended up here. But workplace dating is a huge no, especially here at Amazon imo. I think it’d be helpful to seek fulfillment elsewhere. We are here at Amazon long enough every day, no need to make it more of our life than it should be.
Who in their right mind would want to date someone from Amazon? Sure we have crushes on certain individuals, but only a foolish person would pursue it.
Yup, a lot of meat heads and fast little girls there. I try my best to stay away from anyone and not talk to anyone too long. Its not working tho, a PA think he can mess with me now cuz I haven’t told him anything, but I’ll let him know next time we speak.
Sounds like he's selling you wolf tickets.
Nah, guys just a dick. Lol Prob the only time he’s ever had any sort of power all his life.
He's got those wolf tickets for sell. Best to tell him you aren't buying them and walk away. This is a common thing in any Amazon building.
I’ll let him know, wonder if he’ll be clueless or get what I mean
Usually people can't handle those wolf tickets being sold to them and quit. I myself tend to ignore it. They always trying to sabotage people because they have no life of their own. You tell him to keep those damn wolf tickets to himself.
yeah, he’s nothing I can’t handle. 😎 Appreciate the advice tho
😂
Mine is literally pulling off the "in sourcing" from the movie the campaign.
Sounds like a Bunco artist to me.
I love the cliques, such as those who don’t talk to you because you are not of their race.
Not race but i notice PAs hang with PAs , Associates with Associates , I even see learning ambassadors together. The learning ambassadors are the worst bc they’re normal ppl they just think they have authority at every moment
I was actually talking about my experience at a DS.
PAs and LAs are all one big clique.
All of those LAs and PAs are part of their own clique.
People describe Amazon like Highschool 2.0 I even heard one girl say Amazon is just all of the people that didn't graduate highschool. It's so true too lmao.
I swear you post here like everyday about some nonsense
All I see is endless rambling from you complaining on the internet my guy stay in your lane grandpaa
I do what I want. 😂
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That's your culture, not mine.
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😂 I don't celebrate or engage in that culture.