10 Crazy Rules That Could Get You Fired From Amazon Warehouses http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-warehouse-rules-2011-9/comments en-us Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500 Fri, 20 Dec 2013 07:21:16 -0500 Jay Yarow and Steve Kovach http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e7938a66bb3f7bb5a000005 race to the bottom Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:06:46 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e7938a66bb3f7bb5a000005 all that and $8 an hour.the new normal, what really strange most of those folks are college grads,kinda shatters the image http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e790b54ecad04112300000b tacosanchez Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:53:24 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e790b54ecad04112300000b Closed my Amazon account in December once they booted WikiLeaks from their server hosting service. Plus, the cost of many items on Amazon is too high. Better to do a Google search, click the shopping tab and sort low to high. Much better bargains out there from sites such as eCrater, Etsy, Bonanza and many others. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e78d4066bb3f79e0d00003e bobob Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:57:26 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e78d4066bb3f79e0d00003e Imagine if our federal government worked like amazon... or any major public company... http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e78cb1c6bb3f73f0d000011 Sumocat Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:19:24 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e78cb1c6bb3f73f0d000011 I missed the crazy part about being fired for working too slowly, talking too much, and being late. These sound like standard, non-crazy rules to me. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e78cad26bb3f7240c000009 N. Hernandez Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:18:10 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e78cad26bb3f7240c000009 The lipstick one I never came across. The rest I can confirm are true. They hire through staffing companies so it's easier to weed people out. They hire so many people during holiday season getting hired is a drug test away. My interview consisted of a run down on the company, tasks assigned, and a drug test. You can work your hardest, be utilized in multiple departments, be promoted, and let go at the end of the season in an instant. Everyday you hurry faster and faster because you're being tracked on speed and getting the orders put out on the floor, products picked, boxes packed. It's true if you socialize you're wasting production time, you're separated or counseled on it, warned, separated. When I got sick with the swine flu, they fired me because I didn't have a doctors note, no insurance due to being a temp, so on top of being sick I was fired. Then I went straight into the vast amount of unemployed people with families who were snipped at the stop of the timer. It didn't matter how good of an employee I was, my managers wanted me around but lost me in an instant. In fact I returned a year later and they would borrow me from the area manager and send me around to work in their departments to help them and train other employees. Soon enough I was sent back with my scanner and was written up on not being fast enough. Luckily I got letters of recommendation upon exiting and now I'm a manager in the retail business who actually treats my employees like humans, respect them, and in fact get language programs for them to benefit them in their lives and business. In addition to creating a strong relationship based on respect, trust, and communication. In fact I quit my recent job and hired my friends who work for that company, who live below poverty level, and are dehumanized with their jobs. But they do their jobs because they love it. Not the leadership. I do support the 7 minute rule as being on time is as always extremely important. However feeling dehumanized and made to feel like a drone obviously leaves a bitter taste. Companies like this may think they're succeeding but in fact they cheat themselves by losing out on people with strong social and business value. As I told my former supervisor who now recommends me people to hire from her company, "They're failing but I'm benefiting in more ways than just gaining a worker. I gain the respect and care of those who matter most to the company." http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e78b1b469bedd1c3a00004c Ruth Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:31:00 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e78b1b469bedd1c3a00004c Some tough restrictions---however the 7-minute period on either side of the hour isn't "crazy," it's a standard for workplaces which have clock-in/clock-out. Perhaps the article writer has never had such a job? The system my employer uses, Kronos, applies to all non-exempt employees, and breaks the hour down into 4 15-minute periods. Each 15-minute period includes the hour/quarter-hour mark and 7 minutes on either side of it. Your clock-in/clock-out rounds to the nearest quarter-hour. 5:05 is 5:00. So is 4:55. But 5:08 rounds up to 5:15 (it's the edge of the 5:15 "swing"). It's actually designed to keep businesses from working employees too much over their schedule. And yes, we get spoken to at my work if we accidentally end up putting in 8:15 in an 8hr day. Normally we're just told to watch the hours & only work 7:45 tomorrow. If we work more than 40 hrs/week, it counts as unauthorized overtime. I work for a large university and thousands of us use it every day. It's not some monstrous injustice perpetrated by Amazon on its employees. Some of the other things Amazon does seem ridiculous, especially the heat, but clock-in systems? Pushing it way too far, Business Insider. I know leaving a sane comment on the internet, especially on a hype article, is a losing battle, but there you have it. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e78b16eeab8ea4e49000003 Well, Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:29:50 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e78b16eeab8ea4e49000003 That might be the delivery service, not amazon, However, amazon prime is a COMPLETE waste of money with little difference in delivery times. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e78adaeecad04f06f000014 If you don't like it... Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:13:50 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e78adaeecad04f06f000014 Stay in school, don't do drugs. http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e78ac0769beddd73700000b Where Is My Book Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:06:47 -0400 http://www.businessinsider.com/c/4e78ac0769beddd73700000b With strict work rules like that they could make the EXTRA EFFORT to get my book to me on time!!