Current Events > Is a job in whole food/amazon facility good?

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Just got a job there and wondering how is it?
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i heard amazon works you until you're a corpse
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SSJGrimReaper posted...

i heard amazon works you until you're a corpse

k, so I'm going to die :P
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Heard it's good money but poor working conditions. You'd get paid more working most office jobs tbh.
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well, if you're cut out for it you can legitimately move up fast in a fulfillment center. if you're not, god have mercy.
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Wberlyman101 posted...

well, if you're cut out for it you can legitimately move up fast in a fulfillment center. if you're not, god have mercy.

Hopefully.
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I work at Whole Foods, so what I say has no bearing on working at an Amazon facility(Whole Foods is still largely its own thing).
As for working for Whole Foods, well, youre working in a grocery store, and although management pretends Whole Foods is some sort of special snowflake, its mostly the same as other grocery stores in terms of work and work environment. How strictly rules are enforced varies according to whose enforcing them. For example, at my store, cashiers arent supposed to have anything other than water at their registers, but only the department manager actually enforces that rule.
The big difference is compensation: Whole Foods pays better than most other stores(potentially a lot better, depending on your state) and offers benefits such as paid time off and health insurance that isnt total trash(its still not great, mind you) and you can get an IRA.

K, also today I did the drug and background check when I pass those I guarantee I got the job or can they not accept me?
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I work at a sort center, and its pretty brainless work. Sometimes you gotta move fast, but if you work smart you don't have to nearly hustle as much as other people. I'm not talking about "smartly" doing the bare minimum to not get fired. But working more efficiently to get the same amount done as other people with minimal effort. Amazon hires some of the worst associates. Due to the no interview required, and easy drug test.
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minimum wage so i doubt it. unless you're working your way through college or something.
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Amazon current trend is to hire everyone who can pass those tests.

Then give you a wage that was decent in the 1990s.
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I can only report what I've heard second/third hand. Worked with a manager who always complained about her husbands conditions at an amazon warehouse. It sounded like there was no flexibility to his schedule at all or he was at risk of getting fired. So she was always rushed and hurried, and at times had to bring in her 8 month old kid because otherwise he might have been 5 minutes late.
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loafy013 posted...

I can only report what I've heard second/third hand. Worked with a manager who always complained about her husbands conditions at an amazon warehouse. It sounded like there was no flexibility to his schedule at all or he was at risk of getting fired. So she was always rushed and hurried, and at times had to bring in her 8 month old kid because otherwise he might have been 5 minutes late.

Why do I feel they should be more to the story.
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SauI_Goodman posted...

minimum wage so i doubt it. unless you're working your way through college or something.

*shrug* $15.50/hour isn't bad for what i'm doing. I could just be a sucker though.
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it's almost like everyone forgot the Amazon working conditions article...
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I would have an exit strategy.
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divot1338 posted...

I would have an exit strategy.

Like? Also, I heard it could take up to 8 weeks to get hired? The hell is all that about also can weird out that my friend said that you can still not get hired even if you pass the test, WTF.
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SauI_Goodman posted...

minimum wage so i doubt it. unless you're working your way through college or something.

Amazon pays 15 an hour at all locations. Thrillwell posted...

Then give you a wage that was decent in the 1990s.

Again, 15 an hour is double the federal minimum. I think less then 5 states currently have a minimum wage that high.

mach25687 posted...

Like? Also, I heard it could take up to 8 weeks to get hired? The hell is all that about also can weird out that my friend said that you can still not get hired even if you pass the test, WTF.

People quit amazon often. Either because they hate it or they found decent enough pay without the elsewhere without the bs of working in an Amazon warehouse.
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Does anybody know how long does it take to get the email that tell you that you pass the background/drug test?
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mach25687 posted...

Does anybody know how long does it take to get the email that tell you that you pass the background/drug test?

Depends on how they do the check. I think a lot of businesses wait until they have a certain number, then send them off to do at once. Recently had an interview at meijer, and it took about 11 days until they got to me and let me know the background check was completed.
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I think it took 3 weeks after i took the drug and background test.
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Like it going to take long but got a potential start date of 6/18/2019
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Pretty good for new gen kids still in school. Everybody's skipping retail and fast food to work in amazon.