Amazon Employee jumped off 12 story building in a failed sucide attempt

ERACISM said:
I heard working at Amazon is like hell on earth.
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I have heard the same. They have a facility in Phx that some of my classmates got hired at, they say it isn't a place they see themselves working at long term 
 
Same here from a couple ppl I heard from, they say Bezos made the environment a mirror image of himself, stepping on others to get ahead and just cut throat times 10 compared to normal corporate america
 
The corporate Amazon is mad demanding when it comes to employee performance. They have their own method whereby expectations are super high and getting fired is easy. Managers have a huge say in your performance rating (i think peers too). Easy to get put in a bad place and removed, if they say you are slacking regardless of the project you have. They have remedial programs which essentially let you know you are on your last life line and being fired is imminent :lol:

The warehouse Amazon is also very demanding, everything those employees are doing is timed to the minor detail to get the maximum amount from an individual. Managers on top of everyone, micro managing. Very hard. They also go through full Airport TSA type security in the warehouses. When they clock in, sometimes taking about to an hour or two to get cleared. They do not get paid for this btw (they are hourly). The crazy security is for theft, they legitimately don't trust the employees.
 
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Yeah Amazon sounds as stressful to work at as a lot of the Japanese and Korean companies
 
Damn. I'm about to be working there seasonally.

Sounds like my time there is going to suck. Oh well. F it. I just want a check or two. They can fire me after that for all I care.
 
Cedric Ceballos said:
Damn. I'm about to be working there seasonally.

Sounds like my time there is going to suck. Oh well. F it. I just want a check or two. They can fire me after that for all I care.
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U gonna be in one of the warehouses? I heard one of the local hubs near me is hiring drivers for Prime same day/1 day delivery type orders. Apparently they paying some pretty decent dough too..
 
wow i really didnt know how bad working at amazon would be... i want to hear stories from actual employees though, or friends of.
 
That's how most of these "big" companies are. They'll work you to death but give you some minor perks that trick you to stay in the office day and night. Working in startups>>>> My quality of life has gone up 100x. Use a big company like Apple, Amazon, Google, etc to build your resume and experience, and then go out and earn $$$ elsewhere. I won't mention where exactly I used to work, but it was a very well known company globally.
 
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This is what Amazon has become:

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/08/amazons-chinese-counterfeit-problem-is-getting-worse.html

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- But longtime Amazon sellers like Jamie Whaley are in no mood to celebrate.

A licensed nurse, Whaley started a bedding business on Amazon that reached $700,000 in annual sales within three years. Her patented product called BedBand consists of a set of shock cords, clamps and locks designed to keep fitted bed sheets in place.

Whaley and her husband found quite an audience, selling up to 200 units a day for $13.99 a set. BedBand climbed into the top 200 selling products in the home and kitchen category. That was 2013.

By mid-2015, the business was in a tailspin. Revenue plummeted by half and Whaley was forced to lay off eight employees. Her sheet fastener had been copied by a legion of mostly Chinese knockoffs that undercut BedBand on price and jumped the seller ranks by obtaining scores of reviews that watchdog site Fakespot.com determined were inauthentic and "harmful for real consumers."


- In May, CNBC.com reported on a Facebook group, now consisting of over 600 people, whose members have seen their designs for t-shirts, coffee mugs and iPhone cases show up on Amazon at a fraction of the price of the originals. The designers described it as a game of whack-a-mole, where fakes pop up more quickly than they're taken down.


- Sales from Chinese-based sellers more than doubled in 2015 on Amazon's marketplaces, while the company's total revenue increased 20 percent. And recently, Amazon even registered with the Federal Maritime Commission to provide ocean freight, simplifying the process for Chinese companies to ship goods directly to Amazon fulfillment centers, cutting out costs and inefficiencies.

That's why you can get a box full of Chinese kitchen goods from a variety of sellers delivered in two days from a warehouse in Kentucky.


- To unsuspecting consumers, fake products can appear legitimate because of the Fulfillment by Amazon program, which lets manufacturers send their goods to Amazon's fulfillment centers and hand over a bigger commission, gaining the stamp of approval that comes with an FBA tag.

Furthermore, Amazon's commingled inventory option bundles together products from different sellers, meaning that a counterfeit jacket could be sent to an Amazon facility by one merchant and actually sold by another.
 
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Amazon has always seemed "too good to be true".
Only use it for reviews, comparing prices and the free prime promos.
 
SFC415 said:
That's how most of these "big" companies are. They'll work you to death but give you some minor perks that trick you to stay in the office day and night. Working in startups>>>> My quality of life has gone up 100x. Use a big company like Apple, Amazon, Google, etc to build your resume and experience, and then go out and earn $$$ elsewhere. I won't mention where exactly I used to work, but it was a very well known company globally.
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I live in the general area of the Amazon campus mentioned :smh:

And sadly, these rumors of Amazon being absolute hell are true.
 
I've also heard that Amazon warehouses are like sweatshops. Sort of like UPS "Package handler" jobs I'm guessing.

I thought about working at one for the holidays but thought better of it.
 
SFC415 said:
That's how most of these "big" companies are. They'll work you to death but give you some minor perks that trick you to stay in the office day and night. Working in startups>>>> My quality of life has gone up 100x. Use a big company like Apple, Amazon, Google, etc to build your resume and experience, and then go out and earn $$$ elsewhere. I won't mention where exactly I used to work, but it was a very well known company globally.
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More insight on transitioning between established companies and a start up?

I have a legit interest in going that route.

CFO

Non of the innovation, all of the greenbacks.

:pimp:
 
Startups are tricky because they all pay you very well if you have the experience, but you have to be lucky to get into one that you can see yourself working long term until the company goes public. Majority of startups fail. I worked at a consulting firm before and did accounting for a lot of these startups, and you wouldn't believe how much stupid @#$@ these guys spend their money on. For example, one of my clients struggled to pay their important vendors, but they were doing things like paying $20K a month in rent in a San Francisco loft after getting bored of their $8K a month rental in a city 15 minutes away. Buying $2K coffee machines, ordering catered food daily, buying top of the line Macbooks for employees, etc. all before even getting more funding. Then they wonder why they failed...a lot of these startups care more about the lifestyle and image of being a startup than running a proper business.

Do NOT fall for the trap of joining a startup that's run by young tech bros if you're looking to make it big. Join one that's run by former venture capital firm/law firm/accounting firm higher ups. These guys have the connections and work ethic to get a startup to the next level. For example, my CEO is a former higher up of one of THE biggest VC firms in the Bay Area. That made a huge impact on me joining.

The good thing about the Bay Area is that if you lose your job at a startup, there's literally 100s down the street that will hire you, especially if you've worked in a big firm as well. My CFO worked at KPMG for 2 years and has worked as a CFO at several different startups in the past decade (not because she got fired, but because she upgraded). You can't say that about anywhere else in the country, which is why everyone is moving here for work (and driving up the rental prices :lol:)
 
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MIKE HONCHO said:
U gonna be in one of the warehouses? I heard one of the local hubs near me is hiring drivers for Prime same day/1 day delivery type orders. Apparently they paying some pretty decent dough too..
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Yeah I'll be in the warehouse. I'm just looking at it as a short term two week type job though. Get some checks before Christmas and call it a day.

If it's that stressful of an environment though I'll probably be fired within a week cause I'm not going to stress myself out over the job.
 
SHUGES said:
This is what Amazon has become:

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/08/amazons-chinese-counterfeit-problem-is-getting-worse.html

Some cliffs:

- But longtime Amazon sellers like Jamie Whaley are in no mood to celebrate.

A licensed nurse, Whaley started a bedding business on Amazon that reached $700,000 in annual sales within three years. Her patented product called BedBand consists of a set of shock cords, clamps and locks designed to keep fitted bed sheets in place.

Whaley and her husband found quite an audience, selling up to 200 units a day for $13.99 a set. BedBand climbed into the top 200 selling products in the home and kitchen category. That was 2013.

By mid-2015, the business was in a tailspin. Revenue plummeted by half and Whaley was forced to lay off eight employees. Her sheet fastener had been copied by a legion of mostly Chinese knockoffs that undercut BedBand on price and jumped the seller ranks by obtaining scores of reviews that watchdog site Fakespot.com determined were inauthentic and "harmful for real consumers."


- In May, CNBC.com reported on a Facebook group, now consisting of over 600 people, whose members have seen their designs for t-shirts, coffee mugs and iPhone cases show up on Amazon at a fraction of the price of the originals. The designers described it as a game of whack-a-mole, where fakes pop up more quickly than they're taken down.


- Sales from Chinese-based sellers more than doubled in 2015 on Amazon's marketplaces, while the company's total revenue increased 20 percent. And recently, Amazon even registered with the Federal Maritime Commission to provide ocean freight, simplifying the process for Chinese companies to ship goods directly to Amazon fulfillment centers, cutting out costs and inefficiencies.

That's why you can get a box full of Chinese kitchen goods from a variety of sellers delivered in two days from a warehouse in Kentucky.


- To unsuspecting consumers, fake products can appear legitimate because of the Fulfillment by Amazon program, which lets manufacturers send their goods to Amazon's fulfillment centers and hand over a bigger commission, gaining the stamp of approval that comes with an FBA tag.

Furthermore, Amazon's commingled inventory option bundles together products from different sellers, meaning that a counterfeit jacket could be sent to an Amazon facility by one merchant and actually sold by another.
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Donald trump will fix all of this
 
MvP07 said:
The warehouse Amazon is also very demanding, everything those employees are doing is timed to the minor detail to get the maximum amount from an individual. Managers on top of everyone, micro managing. Very hard. They also go through full Airport TSA type security in the warehouses. When they clock in, sometimes taking about to an hour or two to get cleared. They do not get paid for this btw (they are hourly). The crazy security is for theft, they legitimately don't trust the employees.
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I can vouch for this, had a family member work there and their lunch was 30 minutes but you had to account for getting thru security and yes you guessed it, "NO PHONES WHILE ON THE FLOOR." They had to leave the phones in their lockers which I can understand at some places but on assembly line jobs where you're just tagging boxes and there's plenty of down time and you're having to stand the entire time is wack as hell. :smh:


Said family member isn't the type to complain about work but I know misery at jobs when I see it. They asked him if he wanted a promotion to be like, "line supervisor" and the pay increase was $.50/hr :lol: instantly reminded me of how Mcdonld's does their employees :lol:
 
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