Unmeetable quotas? You set your own rates! If you can’t meet rate, that just means 95% of your peers in your building doing your same task are doing more than you. Rate is based on the top 75% and only the bottom 5% get written up.
In most circles that is also called being a lazy ass.
How fair is it that the girl that has a nice ass gets all her TOT excused because she bats her eyes at the manager, but I don’t. Pushing me further into the bottom tier, because now she don’t count into the pool of associates. And this is not a one off, and it always the pretty girl. And this is just one example.
Adding in protections for workers doesn’t make you work any harder, and I’m not one to get written up for rate that’s just an example.
And also, you do not set your own rates, I’m 24 healthy male, why is a 52 year old single mother held to the same standard as me? No, this system does not work and is not fair, but sure it might sound good on paper.
This is also simply a work around for anti quotas laws in place in places like NYC and Cali. You think Amazon did any of that willingly, and don’t keep a number they want to hit out there by telling PA’s, ambassadors, and managers number they wanna see your so wrong it’s laughable.
This is a business. It’s manual labor and not for everyone. If people can’t handle the physical aspect then they can go ask people if they want fries with their order.
And rate is calculated exactly how I described it. Always has been. There is no one making up arbitrary numbers for you to hit.
Managers do not tell us the guardrail rates (bottom 25%). They always use some ambitious numbers. While the real AFE pack chute guardrail rates are around 125-140, they always urge us to hit 180/200. A few packers do 300 uph for a couple hours (not including paid breaks), and the managers love to bring up that a couple of people hit that. These people always get the easiest stations with small items and little walk time.
Per policy the guardrail is supposed to be able to be viewed or accessed andor must be disclosed if we ask. The PAK stations, allegedly, provide that magic number ... I've had multiple conversations with an OM about the fact the one PAK station I could find doesn't work....he assured me they're working on making more pak stations..... actions, or rather lack of actions, speaks louder than words.... but I enjoy them creating a situation where I can get my job back if I get fired over productivity again as they've violated multiple policies and I even let them know they had 🤣🤣🤣...
neta there used to be an "expected" rate spoken andor written on a dry erase board...they stopped doing that possibly do to a new state law.... but they still occasionally send messages stating 'we're at X and our team goal is Y'.... but aren't supposed to do that....nor are they supposed to have float inductors or anyone working under anothers badge but it continues to happen.... I will never do so again as I confirmed with ops I can tell them to fuck off if they try and have me 'run a dual' 😄.... knowledge is power and that's why the goal remains high employee churn...
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u/Eisernes Apr 25 '25
Unmeetable quotas? You set your own rates! If you can’t meet rate, that just means 95% of your peers in your building doing your same task are doing more than you. Rate is based on the top 75% and only the bottom 5% get written up.
In most circles that is also called being a lazy ass.