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[foundinlv]

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@KingstonsMom wrote:

Great info for those in those areas!

Kudos to you for posting this info!

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

[IamMrsG]

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.

[GingerPeach]

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.

[lovescats]

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.

[nun ya]

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. 

[GingerPeach]

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@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.

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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.

[Plaid Pants2]

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

[Yahooey]

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.

[this is my nic]

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. 

[Anita Bourbon]

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@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. 

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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).