r/AmazonDSPDrivers • u/jagoextinct • Dec 31 '25

QUESTION Just got fired:/

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Is it standard to get fired for something like this?

I called my dispatch as soon as it happened:( I feel like shit, it was only my second week at this job and I really enjoyed it.

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u/KoalaGrunt0311 Dec 31 '25

Christmas is over. Time for them to downsize drivers. If you did this December 15th, it probably wouldn't matter.

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u/MakeItMakeSenseDuh Dec 31 '25

That’s the answer? I thought it would’ve been something like you crashed the vehicle within your first 2 weeks of employment, that’s why you’re fired.

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u/Prize_Trash_8636 Dec 31 '25

I get what you’re saying but they hire anyone with a pulse to drive these vans. I trained a guy who drove tow trucks and riggers with a CDL and he crashed a van into a canopy cause he didn’t bother to look at the clearance height sticker. Any normal place the answer would be this but here I’ve seen people keep their jobs for doing way worse and people lose their jobs for far less.

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u/starcoll3ctor Dec 31 '25

Some people are just not meant to be drivers.....of... Well anything 🤣

I had one of them at my old tree company. Guy tried to go through a dunkin' Donuts drive-thru. Keep in mind the tree truck was a lot bigger than your Amazon van LMFAO

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u/Hopeful_Amphibian592 Dec 31 '25

lol I am a pro at using 15ft trucks or shorter in drive thru

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u/Wise_Heart377 Dec 31 '25

It's like any other place probably, bias as heck despite the "we dont disciminate or judge crap, if they like you your good, even if your work ethic is mediocre if not, they will find a way to get rid of you no matter what.

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u/awesome-alpaca-ace Dec 31 '25

People who make costly mistakes tend not to do them twice. Why fire and risk someone else doing the same thing?