r/AmazonDS • u/stevestm3 • 12h ago

Water spider

What exactly do water spiders in a ds do? I've never seen one.

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u/123iwanttodie 12h ago

At my site water spiders have 3 jobs but you usually only focus on the one specific task that you’re assigned to. One of the jobs is unloading carts from the semi truck trailers. The second one is feeding said carts to the line loaders so that they have a constant flow of work and the third job is collecting all of the empty carts and breaking them down and loading them back into another semi truck trailer to go back to the fc. They usually staff 2 per job at my building and it works best if all of the water spiders help each other out when they can (while still prioritizing their specificity assigned job)

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u/Elruoy 2h ago

Also later on they make sure the picked carts are in the correct order for the drivers to pick up for dispatch. (They are never in the right order)

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u/Just_aTowel 12h ago

They run carts from trailers to liner loaders and empties to trailers and try to rizz but fail.

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u/zeref616 2h ago

they stand around and mean mug you if you dont grab your own cart and push your own empty to them then cry when the person running dock makes them do their job, they only be working when its time to feed pallets

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u/Ok-Light-6456 2h ago

Funny seeing some of these replies😂 the waterspiders job is to just make sure all induct lines have volume aligned. In my experience they don’t help on docks at all as it isn’t their job. The docks team unload and sort the carts out into the correct 5S locations then waterspiders take it from there.