Amazon DSY1 Believes Work Attendance Takes Priority Over Cancer Treatment.
Gut am Arbeitgeber finde ich
Nothing, terrible pretentious company that can't wait to replace its entire staff with A.I.
Schlecht am Arbeitgeber finde ich
TL;DR You are a number and expected to be a soulless machine unquestioning machine. Machines are not allowed to get sick, complain, make mistakes, question anything, or correct anything. You work everyday knowing your every move including bathroom breaks are being tracked. Only work here if you are desperate and use your free time to look for better options, this is the bottom of the barrel.
Verbesserungsvorschläge
Start promoting more from within, young students should not be given leadership roles above veterans. The company needs a work council which they're actively incorporating now. And retaliation for HR complains or taking sick days needs to be stopped.
Arbeitsatmosphäre
Level 1 associates are treated as disposable. Everything they do is tracked, regardless of how well they perform. They are treated poorly and replaced often.
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No, I doubt you anyone L1-L3 would say anything positive about the company if asked anonymously. You are nothing more than a number.
Work-Life-Balance
The hours are fine and you are encouraged to never work more than agreed upon. That said, employees are working off the clock daily due to understaffing of important departments and sick days are heavily retaliated against.
Karriere/Weiterbildung
Promotion within the company almost never sees anyone moving past L1/L3 positions. However, Amazon will sponsor some educational endeavors but they never make it very clear on how to take advantage of it. For example, my shift manager told me nothing like this existed when I asked. I was only informed nearly six months later from a colleague.
Gehalt/Benefits
Salary is bare minimum, there are benefits but leadership makes no effort to inform associates of how to take advantage of them or even acknowledge they exist.
Umwelt-/Sozialbewusstsein
This is something I don't have much knowledge on but I do know that nobody wanted the sustainability leadership role as the guidelines were never being followed.
Kollegenzusammenhalt
The best part of the company are the hard working Level 1-3 employees who do the vast majority of the work and keep a great attitude while doing it no matter the difficulty of delivering 100k+ packages every day.
Umgang mit älteren Kollegen
It's a very physically demanding job, a few easier roles are used to give a few older associates a position without impacting the overall performance of the station.
Vorgesetztenverhalten
DSY1 hires the majority of their L4+ management roles directly from their student program. These students come in without knowing the process or the difficulty involved. However, they're also expected to be the boss and will often create division between veteran employees and themselves. They simply delegate every task they don't want to do and then spend the extra time micromanaging.
Arbeitsbedingungen
Everything is outdated, all of the tools and equipment are old, some older than a decade. Associates complaints about possible mold in the ventilation system was also ignored.
Kommunikation
Everything is heavily mismanaged. You'll be given very short specific training and then be expected to know everything regardless if you were trained for it or not and the management does not have the leadership skills to overcome the problem.
Gleichberechtigung
Equality couldn't possibly be worse. Handicap people are treated like abominations. I personally am being let go because I could not find a "compromise" between my cancer treatment and work capacity even though I used less sick days than my shift manager. I was repeatedly met with frustration every time I needed a day for treatment. My direct managers tried to convince me to take "unpaid sick leave" for treatment without acknowledging the ethical dilemma. They've now followed through with their veiled threat not to extend my contract if I couldn't "compromise." However, I went above and beyond in my role duty and they could not give me the reason on why they weren't extending my contract. Obviously the reason being you can't openly admit it's because of my handicap/retaliation as they would be liable for discrimination.
I've also heard many stories from colleagues of other associates who were retaliated against for sick days. Stories and even a personal event in which female colleagues were sexually harassed. Including an event where a supervisor threw a pen on the ground and forced a female associate to bend over and pick it for him while staring at her behind.
Interessante Aufgaben
Varies by department but most employees will be doing the same thing everyday.