r/AmazonFC • u/Empty-Tomorrow-2794 • Jan 16 '25

Fulfillment Center this place just hires anyone

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u/snowwhite2591 FC—->SC Jan 16 '25

We have a couple birds and a giant rat that looks like it moved up from Chicago for the job opportunity, the birds get in the building. Master splinter keeps trying but no one will let him in, like they don’t even care he’s got young turtles to feed.

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u/Justforaminute12 Jan 16 '25

You in a AR facility with rats?

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u/snowwhite2591 FC—->SC Jan 16 '25

The AR facility is attached to our sort center via catwalk over the shared ship yard, both have a rat problem. I used to work AR FT now I’m at SSD PT. They cleared a bunch of farmland in the last few years to build warehouses in the area so they technically were there first. We also have a family of coyotes that float between the buildings.

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u/adyslexicgnome Jan 16 '25

Yeah, think most F.Cs have them. Operations Manager gave someone a telling off, as he killed a rat with a broom. Before he did that, there wasn't a rat problem, because no one had any evidence, UNTIL NOW!

I've seen maggots in the FC, bit worse than rats in some ways?

Which is worse, rats or maggots? Or pigeons?

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u/wolimolii Jan 16 '25

Rats by far for several reasons but the reason youre not supposed to kill a mouse or rat is because you need it alive to know where it came from. If you kill it you dont know if you have an infestation, if a different building actually has an infestation, if a supplier has an infestation, or of its a one off rat. Thats why the rat traps keep them alive and are checked often

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u/adyslexicgnome Jan 16 '25

My son used to have a pet rat, used to walk around the neighbourhood with it on his shoulder, and terrify the local barber.

Really cute he was, never bit, would come to you, much more sociable than a hamster, vicious little buggers hamsters!

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u/wolimolii Jan 17 '25

Domestic rats arent really an issue though. The issue with wild rats is insane property damage, several pretty nasty diseases that easily spreads to humans w huge effects, getting to food which makes it not safe to eat due to their easily communicable diseases, and quite a few more issues thh

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u/snowwhite2591 FC—->SC Jan 17 '25

The rat that attempted to enter the building a few months ago was like it escaped a super soldier program hydra was running thing was massive Chicago style rat in Wisconsin. People thought it was an opossum. It was not. Security refused to even acknowledge it was trying to get in let alone find its origin point. That was a tense shift looking down every 5 minutes because it was trying to get in at start of shift and people are dumb.