This may not be all Amazon but just my specific team. I worked at Amazon for 3 years 4 months and 5 days. I started off as L5 pathways manager mba grad and ended as an L7 senior operations manager. First of all, every amazon warehouse I worked at was violating multiple labor laws but the poor(literally) associates never had the education to understand their rights. All we worried about was rate rate rate. I worked front half days Sun-Wed 10hrs a day but had to report on Thur and Sat because my ops mgr said that's the only way to get promoted. I was like okay sure. Pay was good (140) but I felt every decision the senior leadership at site and the regional level was detrimental for the workers. We fucked over every department that was a voice of reason(HR, finance, procurement) and made everyone slog be it a snow day or a 120f day. we had no facilities for workers and the canteen/cafeteria was a mess. Whenever an associate didn't meet their absurdly impossible target we wrote them up. But the problems didn't stop there.... I was told by everyone in senior management that the associates are uneducated and that's what they deserve, you need to be stern(insist on the highest standards) and fire a few associates so that your seniors notice you and give you that senior ops position. Fearing my visa and all I agreed and toted their line. Days turned to months and years and i was turning into this ruthless monster.... Anyway one day I had enough the general manager jokingly advocated that the associates wear diapers to reduce pee breaks in the 9am and I had enough. My next stock vest was a couple of mos away but couldn't take anymore. I started applying for jobs and got one in 2 weeks. I work for a non-profit now as a ops lead and moved on h1b receipt notice as I couldn't take anymore. Been 3 months in the new job and I'm very happy! We work as a central logistics team for a food bank and ensure the food sent to the food banks is fresh. It is a new challenge but I'm way happier than I was at amazon. I'm sorry I'm venting out this much but today was the first Monday in a while when I realized I don't really hate mondays I just hated my job.
Congratulations! Happiness is what’s most important!
I did my undergrad in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech and my MBA from MIT Sloan and worked at another manufacturing company prior to my MBA studies
Google Translate isn't great with Chinese, OP. 😂
Fuck amazon was already taken homie so i decided a new language
It's actually saying "fucking/damn Bezos," not "fuck" the verb :)
This definitely needs to go out in the media. There were articles about how cruelly the associates were treated and I took it to the social responsibility team- and you know what they said - nothing. They made a straight face. They treat their corp employees the same way. Oh boy, such a terrible company to give your time to.
Thanks for sharing!
Why not have a water bottle? Simple solution
Bad leaders bad working environment
A post from 2018 just hopped on my timeline… very inspiring tho!
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Write this to “face of amazon” website, everyone should know.