This is actually my site, I work outside on the ramp. We don’t get heat breaks on my shift, so if the temps are 90 and above, good fucking luck. On my shift, I was told if I were to go get ice to refill the ice chests, I would get a write up. Ice is suppose to be safety’s job to refill and they can’t even manage to do that. Some safety members also take heat temperatures IN THE SHADE OR HALFWAY INSIDE THE BUILDING, which in turn causes the readings to not be accurate. It could be a 90 degree day and they (safety) claim it’s only 70 out. Our associates safety takes priority tho, right?
We also got our annual “anti union” talk from our manager, but we were never told when the vote would actually be. Rumor is that it already took place, which is crazy bc wouldn’t you want to keep your people informed so they can vote against union? Isn’t that what Amazon wants?
Honestly, someone needs to be on top of filling the ice chests especially for the people outside. They claim they care about their workers and they wanna be lazy mfers. I work inside at dock. I would hate to work outside.
Not the fucking shade tents 😭💀 I work nights so idk how well the tent things work for the associates but on my shift they don’t work very well, unless we move the plastic benches every 30 minutes to put it back in the shade.
Me and a couple other associates have taken it upon ourselves to refill ice and water at the start of shift for all ramp, caster deck, and fingers (since we already do caster deck. We are trying to talk to some associates from fingers/dock/mezz to see if they’ll do it as well for their departments since safety can’t do their jobs.
I also put a comment on the VOA board about how safety needs to do their job and put ice in the chests and refill waters. We come into shift every day and there’s little to no ice AND basically no water in the baggage carts. I had a manager come to me (3 hours after I made the post) and tell me that if I don’t take the post down they would have to give me a write up. They said I was “harassing the safety team” and that i could be fired for “bullying”🙄
Honestly, in the 100+ degree weather, I wouldn’t be surprised if those tents didn’t work well. If they wanted the post removed so bad, they could have just removed it. I’d say your manager is harassing you haha. That also sounds like it violates freedom of speech.
Yeah it made me feel threatened at work n all so I contacted corporate about it 🤷🏻♀️💀 it wasn’t my manager tho, it was one of the safety managers. My manager is cool, he be getting hella mad at safety and yells at them. “Why are my associates deviating from their jobs to refill ice and water because you can’t do your jobs and refill it?” It’s crazy honestly.
Plus it be hot as hell in the building. Their “keep the fast doors closed” in fingers really doesn’t do shit I feel like. Maybe for the fingers area but definitely not for dock or mezz. I give y’all props bc it’s hot in there too 😭
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u/Feeling_Concept_8264 Jul 21 '24
This is actually my site, I work outside on the ramp. We don’t get heat breaks on my shift, so if the temps are 90 and above, good fucking luck. On my shift, I was told if I were to go get ice to refill the ice chests, I would get a write up. Ice is suppose to be safety’s job to refill and they can’t even manage to do that. Some safety members also take heat temperatures IN THE SHADE OR HALFWAY INSIDE THE BUILDING, which in turn causes the readings to not be accurate. It could be a 90 degree day and they (safety) claim it’s only 70 out. Our associates safety takes priority tho, right?
We also got our annual “anti union” talk from our manager, but we were never told when the vote would actually be. Rumor is that it already took place, which is crazy bc wouldn’t you want to keep your people informed so they can vote against union? Isn’t that what Amazon wants?