The Horrors of Amazon Employment

[@celestialwaffle1491]

Two Amazon employees talking to each other. One has a truly difficult career, and the other drives a nice truck.

[@TheDuzx]

Working two jobs to make ends meet is truly dystopian so I feel like we need to give more respect to the guy working for both Google and Amazon.

[@Terandium]

It’s quite obvious who’s who

[@jaredchamberlain5709]

Buddy of mine works in a warehouse, he can see what people are doing every second of the time they were in the building. He can literally tell you anything you did or touched.

[@coconut7490]

@@jaredchamberlain5709 Bro got that 3rd eye vision, recon drone in the air type shit

[@crangel4246]

Hard to call a someone an Amazon employee when they worked less than 3 months 😂

[@phil-jc8hp]

This level of employee surveillance is genuinely insane. Like you can't even piss in a bottle because there is a camera pointed at you

[@tnt6272]

Taking our most basic rights

[@CodeAlpaca]

It's just pointed inside the the car to make sure the employee is following the rules, it's a single camera inside. Every delivery company has it, and you'd be insane not to want it as an employer

[@joseph_M]

Unfortunately even FedEx and UPS have driver facing cams. It's just that Amazon's netradyne I believe is the most advanced of the 3. Your dsp only has access to the footage if you get into a wreck and have to dispute fault. If the vehicle is in park, they can't just log-in to a live or past feed to see what you're doing. Tip for whodat, just close the cab door if you gotta piss in a bottle

[@Lybrel]

Yeah that's a fantastic thing. Gives the drivers freedom from assumptions of damage and theft. Too bad Doordash doesn't have mandatory surveillance from door to door

[@ILoveTinfoilHats]

Fight for your piss bottle rights!!!

[@Clipchimper]

If youre doing more interesting job interviews, i work in a swedish maximum security prison as a guard. Id be happy to share what that experience is like

[@VarsityBeats]

this would be a good video

[@AtriocClips]

down can you reach out to Dominic on the Marketing Monday discord to help get it scheduled ?

[@Dah_jeff]

Congrats on getting Big A’s Big A(ttention)!

[@AJ-er9my]

@@Dah_jeff glaze lol

[@casedistorted]

School bus driver here, we have 3-4 cameras on our bus. But that makes more sense because of the safety for children. We aren’t allowed to eat or drink or touch our phones while driving either, though while parked is fine (which happens a lot when waiting for kids).

[@zacharynolan9553]

MORE MORE MORE of this kinda network journalism!! It's so interesting to hear everyone's first-hand experiences and how they describe them (with the camera made it feel like an interview) tells a much fuller story about the workforce. Helps show the value of workers in it's way too :)

[@wildmoose3979]

Whodat is a streamer he did this to see what conditions were like for video purposes specifically

[@electron6825]

​@@wildmoose3979he said he needed rent 😂

[@wildmoose3979]

@electron6825 I deeply apologize i clicked off the video to play a game of online poker (I lost my entire college fund)

[@Murphay]

I worked as a delivery driver for amazon for 2 years, was really awful. The first few months are wayyy easier compared to later months. They ramp up your packages and deliveries constantly if you are an efficient / good worker, it almost makes it feel like you’re rewarded for slacking off / being slow, as the AI for Amazon will give you way less stops with shorter distance between them because Amazon thinks it takes you a while to make deliveries, but in reality people just bs and run errands / etc. The management doesn’t care, I wasn’t given a raise after 2 years of working and being a top 5 employee out of the 100 within the company, which was the reason I left. The vans were awful and almost always were fucked up, same as what whodat said. There’s almost always lights lit up on the dashboard, some of the vans smell like they’re leaking fuel, some smell like piss, they’re always extremely dirty, they’re super old, always dents, some of the tires are awful but when you bring it up to management they don’t care and just want to make sure it’s barely enough to pass their inspection so you can complete your route.

[@Dah_jeff]

This shit is like lethal company fr fr

[@MultiLegocrazy]

Funny, I got my first raise after 90days, then shortly after I was on my way to take a management position. Shit was too easy. Sadly outside of work shit happened and I lost my job

[@tomska6788]

It sounds like the DSP team you had was bad. A lot of the ones at my station will pay the drivers for 10 hours even if their route takes less.

[@Murphay]

@@tomska6788 Really? We were all encouraged to finish as fast as we could but would still have to clock in / out and they were super strict if you got even close to going around 9-10 hours. I was one of the top drivers in delivery metrics as well as the safety metrics.. Our DSP was not the best by far, but paid the most out of the other contractors there so that’s the only reason I joined them.

[@crangel4246]

If u worked at Amazon for 2 days u could get an atrioc interview

[@chimitrash]

This would've been a perfect main channel video 2 years ago

[@Veilure]

still is ngl

[@ngdr_hank]

tf does this even mean lol

[@taggerung_]

i miss old atrioc videos

[@SozyV2]

@@ngdr_hank After the AI Pokimane shenanigans he stopped posting on his main channel as much. They probably just wish it was posted on the main channel instead of the "clips" channel

[@ngdr_hank]

@@SozyV2 oh, i didn't follow any of that. i don't give a shit about drama, that's for him and Ari to deal with

[@ethanedens6024]

KZbin frog here but Big A I work at a law firm in Cali that sues these Amazon companies for wage and hour violations all the time. I’ve spoken to dozens of employees all throughout the state and they have crazy stories. Would love to tell you more about that if you’re interested 👍🏼

[@DrRocket8775]

Please please please get this guy on!

[@ztomler]

The 1984 poster is FUCKING insane.

[@electron6825]

Especially since it foreshadowed 😂

[@felixbrochu7821]

I wonder if amazon or an employee put that up

[@d2hthegod487]

In my times of working at Amazon I have pissed in many a bottles. They would either send me to the middle of the city or in the middle of nowhere. And the better you are at the job the more stops they give you. They would give me 190-210 delivery's a day in the middle of nowhere and 250 in the city. And when I would get done early they would still make me do rescue routes. I hate that job with an absolute passion.

[@d2hthegod487]

Also any amazon drivers, if you tape your phone to your speedometer you can watch movies without having to worry about the camera giving you a distracted driving ding so you can still get your fantastic+ bonus. Also you can put mentor on your own phone and then disable all the functions of it so you can speed without worry

[@tnt6272]

So keep workin in it? Is the pay the only thing that make it worth it?

[@Jartran72]

Please don't watch movies whle driving. That attitude is what gets bystanders killed!

[@a_stray_dog]

If they give you more stops, does your pay increase accordingly? Or is this one of those situations where you're being punished for being efficient?

[@Auroraisvibing21]

@@a_stray_dog You just get punished for being effecient

[@redsunset7945]

I also work for a thirdparty and stuff is dystopian af, honestly even the presentations during training felt like a medieval order from the nobles

[@tim9680]

Come work for UPS we have a union so its harder for you to individually get screwed

[@shironikuma9731]

Fun Fact: Bringing one or two Gatorade bottles for your day is godsend. Its keeps you hydrated and the big mouth on the bottle makes it easier to piss in a bottle. (If you ever want to know more inside info, Im happy to share info and even screenshots of different experiences)

[@bw9382]

Holy shit, we need to deport all migrants so you can finally unionize.

[@casedistorted]

I have become very skilled at pissing in 2-liter bottles. You can get 2-3 uses out of those usually

[@ArchIVEDCinema]

Yes please send pics of your piss bottles

[@shironikuma9731]

Things to keep in mind: -Not all Delivery Service Providers (DSP) are the same. Each Amazon DSP is basically a franchise that gets a certain amount of routes a day. There can be multiple ones per warehouse. -Pay is different by DSP. Some DSP will offer pay-per-route (like mine), which no matter at what time you finish they'll pay you the total. Others are hourly. -Pay also includes bonuses from Safety, Reliability, Completion, and one more I can't remember. -Some DSP do incentivise Rescues by offering bonuses for helping. -You can drink and use your hands for other things. You can just not look away from the road. -The Mapping AI sometimes makes mistakes and puts stop 1-10 next to 100+. If you are familiar with your route, you can decide to fix this yourself but it requires a lot of manipulation on the app at the moment you re-route (Cant be changed before you get there) -Each DSP can be a complete different experience. -16:57 The bags are (usually) in order on the carts you grab at the beginning of your shift. You can confirm this before loading the van and usually, you just throw them one by one in that order UNLESS you are making changes to your own route (i.e Deciding to deliver to the last stops first)

[@pasta-and-heroin]

god, you seppos live in hell. you couldn't pay me to move to the US. next time around i hope you guys choose to elect someone who gives a semblance of a fuck about what life is like for regular people - and minorities. what a miserable fuckin place man.

[@th0rn42]

This is a perfect explanation of how it really is

[@tim9680]

This is a perfect example of anti union practices to further harm the worker WORK FOR UPS FUCK AMAZON

[@fordakacar]

This is actually such a good interview lmao I’ve always wondered what was so horrible about Amazon to make their quit rate so unbelievably high

[@eldafint]

Working at Amazon is like parkour civilization, you think the next level up is where it's at, but you get there and it's still shit

[@Redrum2445]

one floor up delivery for the beef.

[@vtipoman]

You know the rules, noob. You can either do the city delivery to piss in the bottle, or the rural delivery to piss in the field.

[@ErickOberholtzer]

The job absolutely blows over Christmas time. Over the summer is chill and nice. Its really just as long as you deliver when the sun is out. When it's cold and youre searching down a country driveway running out of time, it blows. Also, the vans are mid in the snow. Thirdly, and most inportantly, as long as you dont "work hard" i.e. try to do as many stops as possible, its a passable job. The key is to just get by. -Drove a van for like 9 months or something like that and left with recommendations.

[@biteofdog]

I have 10 years of warehouse experience (mostly Shipping & Receiving) with small businesses and it's fascinating dealing with delivery drivers. Truckers are hit or miss on whether they are creeps half the time, though it makes sense, their jobs are pretty anti-social especially if they are long distance drivers. UPS is union so they take better care of their employees (seniority is important there). FedEx have the worst trucks I've ever seen, unless they are FedEx Express (which gets the best of everything) or Freight, which are the big money makers of the company. DHL is amazing and high end. USPS have crappy vintage trucks but they get the work done, though they will deny any wrongdoing if a package was lost or miss-delivered. Amazon drivers are a mess and they seem like they have no idea what they are doing most of the time. I never got to know any consistent amazon drivers, so they wouldn't know to ask for water (especially during a hot summer!) or to use the bathroom like other delivery drivers know to do. I guess amazon never learned from established delivery companies that have long term delivery employees. I knew UPS Ground or Fedex drivers that had been with their companies for decades and they love their jobs (they are hard workers).

[@ornq8378]

As someone thats worked Amazon: fufillment center, distribution center, and as a driver I'd have to say the worst thing is that they really make you feel like you're less than human. They want you to be a robot and dont give a fuck about you.

[@dahalofreeek]

That was really cool to hear an inside scoop on what this job is like. The most draconian part to me is the around the clock surveillance. I get maybe having a camera in the back to monitor what packages went where, but to have a camera pointed at the driver and actively monitoring the footage is so creepy and skeezy.

[@ludw1g]

Delivery Service Partner (DSP) delivery associates are not actually employees of Amazon. They are outsourced 3rd party contractors through the DSP owner.

[@snowfish928]

DSP GAMING DSP GAMING DSP GAMING

[@maxsilver4197]

They mention this around 12:40

[@matt.stevick]

true

[@tomfoolery7777]

but they’re still associated heavily

[@matt.stevick]

@@tomfoolery7777 yes the DSP does better as a business by complying with the goals and metrics set by daddy (amazon) so amazon pulls the strings of the puppet without the direct legal accountability. jeff probably genuinely thought of this set up in his head going back to the 90’s. it’s the world we live in and we are all just doing the best with the cards we get dealt.

[@WetchopClips]

0:44 bros definitely getting fired by the end of this one 😂

[@asterixdx]

Wish this was a main channel video ngl, otherwise awesome interview. Hope people can support whodat more so he doesnt have to do that job

[@taylor7353]

While this guy working all day, the warehouse employees come in for a 10 hr shift before. So if he starts at 10:30, the shift is 1am-11am for warehouse employees. Rate is about 400 cases an hour sorted into those containers he showed in the van. Loose boxes are considered oversized and go in a different area at the back. Heavy boxes are considered oversize. Heavy is 26 lbs.

[@henriquemarcio4367]

This seems like a perfect job... for a robot

[@Dah_jeff]

There should be laws that prevent this sort of treatment of an employee.

[@Strange_Petals]

I worked in Distribution for half a year as a team trainer and lead for the exact same pay as an employee starting. This sounds crazy better than whatever the fuck i experienced. As WhoDat said with him looking at his phone. in warehouse, that phone is your boss, and your HR. It is what defines if you have a job or not. I would get alerted if an employee was not scanning a package for 45 seconds. then i'd get told to talk to said employee about their performance, most times it would be them in the restroom. amazon does not want workers, they want human robot.

[@rcoder01]

It’s crazy how different the tech/managerial side is vs the warehouse/delivery side. Like it’s technically the same company, but one half people want to work for and it’s very chill and good for your career, the other side is dystopian and borderline hell..

[@shortable6734]

I worked as an amazon delivery driver and quit after 2 weeks. I was making deliveries in a rural area during bad weather when I get a message from amazon telling me to stop working and to take shelter immediately due to a tornado in my area. There was nowhere to shelter, so I just kept working, but a few min later I get a text from dispatch saying I'm 20 min behind and to pick up the pace. When I got back that night the dispatcher told me it wasn't the right job for me and I never went back.

[@ArchIVEDCinema]

I don't think that was the right job for anyone lol

[@sakaraist]

23:00 as someone who essentially did those job prior to amazon taking over everything, You do get a workout for the first while. And then you're almost guaranteed to eventually get a RSI from the bending and annihilating a disc which never heals properly because you don't get enough time off from the very thing that injured it. 11/10 would recommend.

[@thecluckster3908]

26:31 rich out of touch streamer LAUGHS at poor overworked Amazon employee

[@brynna77]

'Streaming is harder though right?' 😭

[@vibratios]

​@@brynna77 to be fair that was obviously a joke

[@LuisMan123]

the crazy thing is the working hours even outside the US seem crazy long, here in my country I believe it's policy for the DHL guys to stop work by 4PM, like they'll even cancel their route if they have packages left in the van and just drive back to the delivery point, but the Amazon guys are still out delivering by 9PM 😭

[@jakostein9943]

Bro said the apartment numbers he’s fired

[@davidmella1174]

Amazon's searching for a technicality or any little rule violation in this video for blame to fire him, and he conveniently left a massive f-ing one at that

[@kv4648]

He got cut off immediately and that info is nowhere near enough to locate anybody in the first place

[@Oh-lk2qd]

​@davidmella1174 I doubt they want to get rid of him before Christmas.. maybe if in future they could pull it back up but I doubt it

[@eshleyyy]

I have had similar experiences working for the biggest pizzeria chain in my country. Their turnover is so diabolically high that in a month of slaving away at the kitchen I saw like 10 new people come and go.

[@fireflightphoenix8710]

20:17 working at amazon must be terrible if whodat spent his entire weekend bing chilling

[@MaybeBlackMesa]

I hope he does one undercover episode for streamers, the hardest job in the world

[@Dah_jeff]

Combing through the random spam in search for the rare gems of glizzy spam must be exhausting 😭😭🙏🙏🙏

[@adrianvog]

yoooooo really fun segment I hope you continue with it. Props to whodat for putting in the work. I'm not a physical work type person, I worked at Avis CS for like a year and i just quit recently, there's a lot of crazy shit that customers have told me trying to get some type of refund or compensation, sometimes even the police would call asking for customer's info. You're supposed to believe the customer but sometimes the situations are just too funny man, I mean they really do say that the fastest car is the rental XD

[@cz85]

As someone who worked in a similar job as Whodat. What I used to do is to open the passenger door to the truck, pretend I am writing a notepad, and just whip it out and pee. The best days are where it's raining and it's impossible to tell. Sometimes times you just gotta go.

[@aihuazeng7747]

Saying something to pretend I watched the video even though it’s only been up for 53 seconds

[@Synister99]

Hawk tuah type shi

[@uninable]

should've said glizzy... it's a timeless comment

[@justjuniorjaw]

Can't believe this guy watched Atrioc live instead of KZbin like the rest of us.

[@Thatdude877]

Respect

[@porosky3675]

completely possible if you watched on 56x speed LMAO

[@casedistorted]

2015-2017 I worked a FedEx route as a Jumper (basically passenger who helps run packages for a driver who does half the work with you), a typical holiday work day between November to January was about 150-180 stops or packages. Closer to Xmas it went up to 180-220 stops or packages, so basically the entire FedEx truck is full, every inch is filled with packages. Granted this was the days before there were Amazon delivery trucks so FedEx was doing most of the Amazon deliveries. Don’t know if it’s any better in 2024 tbh.

[@Shinny1338]

Yeah 160 stops is 160! number of routes. We havent figured out how to optimize the traveling salesman problem with 50! routes. Aintnoway

[@SpookyCowboy23]

As an Amazon driver for a little over a year. Your job is always being threatened. Every morning during our standup meetings, we are always being told that most are gonna get cut after peak. It’s honestly hard to feel appreciated and any little mistake will lead to you being reduced, written up, or terminated no matter how well you do. Every DSP varies, but the outcome is always the same. There is no growth.

[@Blue-bn8px]

Bro please get a better job stop wasting precious time and energy in a place like that

[@KoishNoish]

Bro this guy is goated and this content is great! Would love this stuff as often as poss (obviously not always Amazon) but I mind this

[@HighQualityLeftover]

...did he say 21.50? Bro do you know what you need to do in germany to earn 21.50? 12.50 is minimum wage here, and the companies thought "oh, so i guess thats what everyone gets, in any profession ever"

[@aworthy2780]

Literally 1984 13:45

[@electron6825]

👁

[@WorldRaceMVG]

I was a dispatcher at an Amazon DSP. I got fired. If you have any questions feel free to ask. I couldn’t give a bigger fuck about Amazon

[@mr_0n10n5]

Him explaining how Amazon was tracking him even with hidden cameras means he is 100% cooked after this interview 😂

[@T____W____7777]

Used to be a service coordinator/manager for a home repair company. This workers were taken advantage of and exploited. I felt bad for them, tried to work with upper management to get things to work better, but my immediate boss gave no fucks and wanted them to work more. She would always say how hard she worked (even though she got in last, and left before anyone else) and she would make sure to squeeze every penny she could out of everyone and everything. She would get in agreements with people (including me) where should would start doing X and we would start doing Y. Except she never held up her end and still got pissed that Y wasn’t happening. But don’t you dare mention X to her, she’s too busy to remember everything. Sorry this is a rant about myself now, but I feel bad for this dude. Even from the dispatcher side you can see how much shit sucks but the C-Suites will either force you to do whatever crazy expectation they have or get rid of you and tell everyone had much of a problematic worker you are.

[@vaughnxcix]

This is some insane dystopian bullshit. Blowing one’s shit off smooth is entirely understandable.

[@jskeetman3547]

“Its not im gonna blow my head of smooth” absolutely killed me😂

[@bobsack3554]

I'm a DSP dispatcher, the drivers suck, except for the ones that i like

[@FYlvin]

relatable asf. i feel like i have the same thing with the humans i’ve met, they literally suck. except for the ones i like

[@DrRocket8775]

yeah drivers suck because the job fucking sucks lmao; headass "why is the guy I'm whipping shitting himself it's so inconvenient"

[@Manipendeh]

Listening to this while I deliver packages in France. This is dystopian af

[@DustedTurtle054]

I can sense the A is BIG with this one

[@reggiesicle]

Damn that sounds way better than what life at FedEx was like

[@joseph_M]

I’ve been at this job for a year while going to school FT. The only bad thing about this job is running into rude customers (which is rare) but obv. depends on your area, and routes getting reduced which leads to drivers only having 3 shifts a week (instead of 4-6) which gives you only 27-30hours on a paycheck. This slowdown ALWAYS happens after holiday shopping is over in January-Feb, then the volume picks back up in March. Dsps also vary drastically with how good/bad mgmt is, so you can find both a great and terrible dsp operating out of the same Amazon station.

[@AltraHapi]

Wow this is very eye opening. My sister was looking for a new job and was considering working at Amazon, and HOLY am I glad I convinced her otherwise

[@3_character_minimum]

My younger cousin worked as a temp years ago for Amazon Warehouse for Christmas. Then every busy period since they contact him to come for short contract work. He just says I will work X days/X hours for x euros. Last christmas he was getting 40€/hour.

[@kevinjones3542]

I worked as a delivery driver for 9 months a few years ago, this was a fun little trip down memory lane lmao. I got bit by dogs twice, saw multiple people quit mid route and I had to finish it, was told I was gonna get promoted to dispatcher but then they ghosted me, got into multiple fender bender accidents, and once stayed out til 10 pm trying to deliver packages in the sticks. On the plus side I was in the best shape of my life and I only had to piss in a bottle once. Good times.

[@bigchilling420]

This is also why capitalism doesn't result in innovation. The best drivers will literally work at a lower capacity as they're less likely to be selected to rescue other drivers or have the algorithm give them bigger routes every time they clock in.

[@Toni2tones]

Calling sandlot a boomer movie is wild

[@ArchIVEDCinema]

But true

[@davidescobar1625]

Pretty sure it’s millennial right?

[@cadarson]

Fun part is, Amazon works 4 days a week 10h a day = 160h a month Normal Job 5 days a week 8h a day = 160h a month If Amazon tells you 4 days is crazy cool boys, they lying.

[@ugj1582]

I know the math doesnt change, but working 4 days instead of 5 genuinely just feels better. When youre already working, adding 2 hours per shift isnt a huge deal, and it increases the number of days you get off by 50%. I know thats subjective, but I've done both and in my opinion 4 days a week feel way better

[@AsherKime-p7k]

I’m gonna gliz myself

[@HyperKryst]

I'm gonna hawk tuah myself

[@Atebitbacon]

I worked Amazon too 3 months max and my DSP only paid 16.50. main take aways from working there. 1. your performance is measured against an algorithm, and the better you do the more workload you get. until you quit. 2. You WILL have to piss in a bottle, even the women Drivers if you are trying to make the so-called "good time". 3. The Surveys are to measure how fed up you are with the Job, they aren't anonymous, no corporate survey is. 4.Finishing your route early never means you're done for the day. never expect to get home early. 5. they want you to "drive safe" on paper but your algorithm and DSP will imply otherwise.

[@Bdougs]

Not to sound rude, but I'm so exhausted from Amazon complaints for 10 years. I worked at an insane warehouse with crazy physical demands when I was 19. I walked out 1 hour into my first day, went home, applied to 20 other jobs, and got a different job paying around the same until I got my foot in the door somewhere better. Circumstances happen but if you're young living with parents or childless, you just gotta wake up and do something about your situation. Is what it is. Peace and love

[@HOVNA]

140 years ago we worked 12 hours with minimal days off. It isn't what it is. Its what you let them. Everyone needs a job and everyone wont just magically find a better one.

[@QTLouie]

Big A got a Big A-

[@A_Name136]

As forehead

[@thesweetermonster3453]

Atrioc I work for a moving company I would love to tell people about how it is. Personally I love it and I think there are a lot of interesting factors to it

[@MultiLegocrazy]

I worked at amazon... streaming is way easier... Amazon is also known for 10+ hours shifts.. it's around their regular shift times.. if you need to keep pissing, its because you drink so much bs so damn much. Take sips, don't CHUG.. Also no you don't pack your van yourself. You walk in and you get assisted by a warehouse worker, it's up to you if you decide you don't want them to help. You can't tell me you don't get help. I can say that if the bags are packed poorly, that's the fault of the warehouse worker, it's their job to organize and stack items in bags. Also it's def not 15k packages a minute, more than likely 1,500 a minute (warehouses usually tell you they are doing 45,000-75,000 packages that shift). The average minimum employee needs to pick/pack/stow is around 250 an hour.. usually people perform poorly on those numbers because they want to be on their phone and chatting with other workers (which is why people complain alot, shit they even reward people who can preform the minimum and higher regularly) Im happy they offer PTO/VTO. Shit Im still trying to get back on the job with Amazon, because 1, the pay is awesome, 2, it's easy work (atleast for me, and yes there are rough/tough days) I enjoyed tf out of it, and 3, it helped me support my hobbies more efficiently. Stable income vs instable (working vs streaming) However, going back to my first sentence. I would RATHER sit at home all day, stream, and chat with the wonderful chatters. That is way fucking easier. Sitting on my ass all day, playing games, chatting with people, or watching/creating content. Not saying streaming is easy but compared to almost any 9-5, it is. Some people got talent though and make it seem really easy but those same people don't have that type of talent in the work place so that's why they say it's harder. Before you start thing of full time streaming, you first gotta think about the economics of it. You have to make sure you can do it without going broke. Shit even some of the biggest content creators still work a fulltime job and do YT/Streaming on the side.

[@Potatotenkopf]

Welcome back, "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair

[@saurfeng]

I was a delivery driver for a year. He's spot on. Quit March of 2024. Nothings really changed it seems. Other than at my DSP (Delivery company) rescues are forced, if you decline you may lose shifts or be fired. I was a top performer for my DSP. I consistently had the hardest route and one day. My absolute worst, had 450 packages on the dot. Where our managers actually had to help me because I said i refuse. I will not do that. Normal HEAVY loads are around 300 packages. I said im not taking the worst spot in my city, worst being the hardest and most apartment dense and that many packages. Also while i drove my driving buddies would call eachother all day while we delivered. That was the apex. Winters suck so much in my snowy climate. Still think about going back and it's been a year. We had a 10 hour guarantee, no matter how fast you were you got paid 10 hours. I frequently finished 5 hours in because I sprinted my entire route. Never stopped moving, never taking breaks. Fantastic system if you're willing to bust your ass.

[@Trainsallday]

Amazon is paying whodat via twitch prime to talk about his experience working as an amazon delivery driver. Bro has two different amazon jobs

[@SamuelCBuhler]

I am a pastor now, but I handmade leather goods for years and made everything from belts and wallets to $1000+ briefcases. It was a super cool job through college and early 20s. Long hours, but super cool to see what I was able to create with leather. Looking at the end of the day to see all you made with your owns hands was really rewarding.

[@kaininjago6161]

22:37 we got doxxing on atrioc before gta 6 💀

[@wogimmmm]

i love love love these interviews i hope you keep doing them

[@vharmi.]

As someone who drives delivery vans in Sweden (PostNord), it's cool to hear the similarities and differences between my job and driving for Amazon in the US. 98 stops being considered a light load is insane. 70-90 I would say is normal. Anything past 100 means overtime work. The surveillance cameras in the vans is CRAZY. Ain't no way that would fly with the Swedish legal system. I'm happily chugging from my water bottle whenever I please. The packaging and sorting system is very different. You show up at 7am-ish in the morning and you have your own lane of rolling cages in the terminal, filled with packages that you have to manually sort into the van. Luckily most routes cover 4-12 post codes which makes for a natural sorting system. Often you will get quantities of large packages too big for your van (think 24 XL boxes of diapers for retirement homes), so you'll have to stack them on a pallet and get it over to the truck drivers' goods area. Also means it won't take 20min to load, but rather around 1h30min. Recognize the 3 sets of stairs with multiple packages story lol. We actually got a bit of worker's protection preventing us from delivering any single package over 20kg any further than the ground floor entrance. Doesn't prevent people from ordering 4x 15kg boxes of pet food and us having to carry them all the way up to the third floor however lol. Ah yes, dogs. I actually got a person BANNED from ever ordering packages to his house because of the way he handled his dog. Barely opened the gate and the dog went absolutely rabid barking and growling while running at me, so I had to quickly exit again. Meanwhile the owner was on the porch talking on the phone while his dog was going wild. I was screaming at him, and he completely ignored everything that was going on. Clearly the person on the phone was more inportant than his dog being seconds away from biting my leg. And when he finally came over he was SUPER snarky about the situation, being mad at me for not coming over to the porch and that his dog was "really nice". Hope you enjoy store pickups and being flagged as "negligent pet owner" for the following 10 years buddy. As a Swede, hearing "it gets dark so early, like 5:30" is very cute.

[@todhold2673]

I feel bad for bro. He's doing this at this stage of his life. Atrioc trying to make it seem like he's undercover but he said he has to pay his rent. He needs this.

[@ArchIVEDCinema]

I thought the "undercover" bit was meant to obviously be a joke. Like, I thought we all were supposed to obviously know he actually did it as his real job?

[@tdcfc]

He knows Whodat needs it, dude. Pretty sure they're good friends. He's just trying to make the situation lighter for everyone here with the undercover stuff, then saying it's not as hard as streaming and so on.

[@spook75a28]

Homeboy, I'm 49 and so this full-time. Yeah man, sometimes life just sucks no matter your choices. Hell, I have a degree in economics, and enough college credits for multiple degrees, but never had an internship, so here I am. I know now why the old don't fear death.

[@skullbeastly]

I’m an IT Technician at UPS but also worked in the warehouse/package handling portion for almost 4 years. I’d honestly love to be able to come on and let everyone know the labor portion and the office portion at UPS. When would this be?

[@DonPes0]

Yo big A as a young lad I thought hotels ran a certain way and after being at a Hilton for over a year now it completely baffles me how so many people live their lives not knowing how they truly operate.

[@MeemoTV]

I used to work in a casino for 4 years doing multiple jobs if you wanted to know stuff about that

[@DrRocket8775]

I'd watch that video if you're kind of charismatic

[@MeemoTV]

@DrRocket8775 don't got Ohio rizz but enough to get by

[@skeebydeeby]

Need Big A to sponsor more undercover ops like this one

[@majorfriend2]

As a previous Amazon delivery driver, I actually had a love/hate relationship with it. It really wasnt bad. The pay was great, and the pay benefits I had to boot was really nice. But the work itself just sucked doing the same thing every day. Listening to him talk about the dog issues was personally funny. It feels nice to relate to other employees about running away from them as well. Except the part from when I actually got bit from 2 at once. This guy spoke a lot of truth!

[@TheWetMinority]

I worked at an Amazon warehouse a year ago and I’m currently back there, I’ll say they made the actual work way easier in my opinion. You no longer get trained to unload/load trucks you have to apply to be trained in that so the average worker is doing whats called “non con” or they are building pallets of packages on different lanes. Not to be too political but majority are immigrants but non English speaking so half the time we cant communicate with them about which packages go where. Turnover rate is insane as well, I’ve only been back for a month now and I have seen about 40-60 new people who then end up leaving the next day. I don’t think the warehouse work is bad in general but the way other people work makes it feel awful. A lot of people simply don’t work or want to work, they take every opportunity to hide in the bathroom or they are going to pray. I’m all for religious beliefs and freedoms but I don’t think they need to leave for 30 minutes twice every 4/5 hour shift. Definitely an interesting place to work, hopefully I can make it up to where I want to be and everyone else can too, God speed everyone!

[@yaukster]

Watching while delivering pizza to a literal Amazon warehouse lol

[@imperialwarhawk123abc5]

I am glad I dont use Amazon. I absolutely hate how their workers are treated. Every time I consider using the service, I see a video like this and am like - nah I'm just gonna go to the physical store and grab what I want. My clothes already are made with human suffering. No need to add to the chain of suffering by making a dude deliver to me.

[@tnt6272]

So you are fine with the Chinese kids making it for 1$ but feel sad for the American who do it for 22$? Weird point to focus on but whatever makes you happy

[@imperialwarhawk123abc5]

@tnt6272 that's the joke. Also Vietnamese kids make MY clothes. We are not the same.

[@Tylerr_Creative]

As someone who’s just started a Clerk Job at the USPS I honestly understand the struggles of delivery. Oddly Amazon seems way more strict which is very concerning

[@Simple_City]

I'd like to say that FedEx operates the same way. They hire 3rd party contractors that buy all the trucks, are responsible fir hiring people to deliver, etc. They pay you like trash because they also need to make money to take care of all the equipment. UPS is unionized and pays triple the amount that fedex drivers make. THIS is why unions are so important. I'm happy to see some people are realizing this

[@meir2192]

Im a operations manager at a trash company and would really like to talk about the business of it and how its lowkey monopolistic

[@cry_stain]

that part about the food truck was literally straight outta regular show Ultimeatum fans KNOW!!

[@597das]

what a chill dude. do more employee interviews bro!

[@johnathoncolman6083]

Its kinda crazy you gotta load your own truck. I figured they had people who pack them on the night shift

[@Brizyy]

Listening to this is makes me thankful for just how laidback my job as a delivery driver in Norway is in comparison

[@neolindell3604]

holy shit i can relate to this, i used to intern att swedens worst terminal(its known as that to lorrydrivers) and the only difference between that internship and amazons working conditions is that in DSV you got asigned 1 car that you just had to use and it is legaly required of you to take a 45 min break(you usually just set it to break and continue working).

[@adambulkley1717]

I love comparing this to my experience at fedex, how little time Amazon workers have and how supervised they are, and im just over here at fedex getting a 2 hour lunch break, not tracked hardly at all, great stuff.

[@djposterchild6550]

Getting an amazon ad at the start of the video is so so funny

[@spilledpizza]

6:48 as someone who worked as a driver for about 8 months(Texas area, so likely same routes) even if you finish early, you have to contact dispatch. 9/10 times they’ll have you go help someone else out(usually around 5-7pm already) So you end up encouraged to either 1. Avoid finishing early by taking long breaks or saving your breaks to once you’ve delivered everything or 2. Actively avoiding calling into dispatch to not be given 20-30 extra stops usually 30 min away from where you are. The trainer they put you with usually has the best routes(mine took me through easy country roads, low stop amount with private communities that had imported Australian deer roaming) but the routes you get at the start are pretty awful(busy roads, difficult to access properties with lots of hopping on and off 60+mph busy roads) Also the work phones they give you are complete shit, much like the vans, so getting in touch with the driver you’re trying to meet is a disaster. I gave up on the job after my 20th time getting yelled at for not checking in before coming in, by far the most hostile work environment I’ve worked in likely pushed on my managers(a sub-company of Amazon) by Amazon Oh and yeah the vans are generally safe in 30mph neighborhoods but in Texas where you need to go on 70mph roads you are risking your life everyday. Only solace is you can plug your reg phone in and listen to your own music all day.

[@spilledpizza]

9:55 and so glad this got mentioned: sometimes Amazon delivery orders come in late/you just get assigned rescue duty because there’s not enough packages, so you sit at the warehouse for 4-5 hours either being told you’re headed out with a normal amount of stops of late packages you don’t know the route for, or need to drive 1.5hrs+ to rescue somebody. Package transfer when I was there was also a complete b*tch and needed to be done 1 by 1, instead of by bag, and usually involved servicing an entire unmapped(on Amazon GPS) apartment complex that you had to constantly call in to say “I’m at the correct location, the map is wrong, please mark as delivered”

[@semibreve]

This 100% could be a main channel video! Really interesting content

[@Hephaestus_God]

That reminds me... my friend said while he was training a driver (on a ride along) the new driver just pissed himself right there in the drivers seat. The new trainee was not fired or anything, they were not sure if he was officially disabled and didn't want to risk it so they just said FA. For a driver position that was a wild story lmao. Edit:.... In Texas... I wonder if it was the same person lmao

[@theodorguldagerschmidt3407]

From an EU workers rights standpoint, this is fucking absurd

[@bamaha24]

I could never find a bottle big enough to pee in.

[@SCM.mp4]

Relatable

[@NaReDn]

as a mail man this is very similar to my job , some things are different for the better and the worse but overall the same

[@beohbek]

What's worse in your opinion?

[@jakejurak1]

crazy this is on the clips channel, we eating good over here

[@BiggyB0i]

Piss bottles are real an Amazon employee threw one out his car and accidentally ran it over spraying piss everywhere

[@JoJosWorld]

I really liked this!