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If your adult children are looking for a job Amazon is paying ordinary people to deliver packages.

foundinlv — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 20:41:50 GMT

Amazon is paying $18 - $25 per hr to deliver packages. Seattle is currently up and running with this program and soon other cities will be too such as NY, Baltimore, Miami, Dallas, Austin, Chicago, Indianapolis, Atlanta and Portland.

http://www.komando.com/happening-now/327717/soon-you-could-earn-cash-delivering-amazon-packages?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=notd&utm_content=2015-09-29-featured_news-f

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KingstonsMom — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 20:50:45 GMT

Great info for those in those areas!

Kudos to you for posting this info!

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hopi — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 21:36:37 GMT

Amazon treats "ordinary people" extemely rough with no benefits or future for young people.

As at Walmart, Amazon achieves this with a regime of workplace pressure, in which targets for the unpacking, movement, and repackaging of goods are relentlessly increased to levels where employees have to struggle to meet their targets and where older and less dextrous employees will begin to fail. As at Walmart, there is a pervasive “three strikes and you’re out” culture, and when these marginal employees acquire too many demerits (“points”), they are fired.

Amazon’s system of employee monitoring is the most oppressive I have ever come across and combines state-of-the-art surveillance technology with the system of “functional foreman,” introduced by Taylor in the workshops of the Pennsylvania machine-tool industry in the 1890s. In a fine piece of investigative reporting for the London Financial Times, economics correspondent Sarah O’Connor describes how, at Amazon’s center at Rugeley, England, Amazon tags its employees with personal sat-nav (satellite navigation) computers that tell them the route they must travel to shelve consignments of goods, but also set target times for their warehouse journeys and then measure whether targets are met.

All this information is available to management in real time, and if an employee is behind schedule she will receive a text message pointing this out and telling her to reach her targets or suffer the consequences. At Amazon’s depot in Allentown, Pennsylvania (of which more later), Kate Salasky worked shifts of up to eleven hours a day, mostly spent walking the length and breadth of the warehouse. In March 2011 she received a warning message from her manager, saying that she had been found unproductive during several minutes of her shift, and she was eventually fired. This employee tagging is now in operation at Amazon centers worldwide.

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Mz iMac — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 00:20:43 GMT

"To drive with Flex you'll need to grab an Android phone"

That leaves me out!

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blackhole99 — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 00:31:54 GMT

If people know from the get go that the job has no benefits and no future and the hourly pay is high I don't see what the harm is. I worked my butt off when I was a kid for a fraction of that hourly rate and no benefits,people think they are entitled today.

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Plaid Pants2 — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 00:37:36 GMT

Yeah, how silly of people to want to be treated as human, and not like slaves.

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foundinlv — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 00:48:25 GMT

One would have to contact Amazon to find out if benefits are included. Sheesh!

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blackhole99 — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 00:48:43 GMT

@Plaid Pants2 wrote:
Yeah, how silly of people to want to be treated as human, and not like slaves.

Slaves don't get paid high hourly rates, to me the Amazon hourly rate is high for what the work is and I can see why production is required. I don't want to say young people are lazy today, but if I were 10 years younger I'd consider the job.

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beadaholic — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 00:51:38 GMT

I live near a huge Amazon hub & they are always advertising for help. I've known a few 20 something people who have worked there & ultimately quit. They say that they are not treated very nicely, & they have mandatory overtime a lot.

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Plaid Pants2 — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 00:54:28 GMT

@beadaholic wrote:
I live near a huge Amazon hub & they are always advertising for help. I've known a few 20 something people who have worked there & ultimately quit. They say that they are not treated very nicely, & they have mandatory overtime a lot.

And I bet they aren't "lazy".

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foundinlv — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 01:04:23 GMT

@KingstonsMom wrote:
Great info for those in those areas!

Kudos to you for posting this info!

Thanks and as the holidays approach I'm sure a lot of people will be interested.

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IamMrsG — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 01:48:00 GMT

As I see it, it's a job not a career. To address the issue of expecting benefits, I'd say they come at the end of the week in the form of a paycheck.

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GingerPeach — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 01:50:35 GMT

The delivery service OP referenced has nothing to do with being an employee of amazon.

It is an independent contractor position. There are no quotas.

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lovescats — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 02:13:26 GMT

There aren't quotas but I'm sure amazon is going to set a rate of how many packages they want delivered in an hour. Maybe some people will make $25 an hour if they deliver 4 per hour while others only $18 if they deliver 3. Plus they have the expense of using their car.

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nunya — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 02:27:20 GMT

18 to 25 an hr to deliver packages is a pretty good wage. A lot of people who do manual labor don't earn that.

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GingerPeach — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 02:44:48 GMT

@lovescats wrote:
There aren't quotas but I'm sure amazon is going to set a rate of how many packages they want delivered in an hour. Maybe some people will make $25 an hour if they deliver 4 per hour while others only $18 if they deliver 3. Plus they have the expense of using their car.

If it's like Uber, then maybe someone could deliver one package per week. Say it takes them 20 minutes. They could make $6. (Not that anyone would drive around for that amount.)

But the whole thing seems a lot more casual than quotas would imply.

We'll see.

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Plaid Pants2 — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 06:18:41 GMT

No matter how much the hourly wage is, that does not give the company the right to treat their employees like quap.

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Yahooey — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 17:14:36 GMT

Thank you OP for posting this -

As long as applicants go in with eyes wide open - a job is a job

of course, one would like to work for a company with great pay and benefits.

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this is my nic — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 23:35:44 GMT

When we were first married my husband was in college, he entered the Marine Corps afer high school, so he was a bit older than most college students. Both he and I worked for minimum wage and NO benefits. Sometimes, you just have to take whatever you can get. We were happy with the relative pittance that our jobs brought in.

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Anita Bourbon — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 03:20:06 GMT

@this is my nic wrote:
When we were first married my husband was in college, he entered the Marine Corps afer high school, so he was a bit older than most college students. Both he and I worked for minimum wage and NO benefits. Sometimes, you just have to take whatever you can get. We were happy with the relative pittance that our jobs brought in.

I hear you, but to be fair things are VERY different today. A minimum wage job is no longer a living wage for anyone I know (besides a 16 year old that lives at home).