Degree Need Only Apply - Associate Amazon Employee Review

1.0
28 Oct 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Yes, Amazon Fresh does provide opportunities for Tier One employees, but only if have a degree or are under 25 years old. The pay for warehouse work starts at $12.75 for Tier One, plus benefits for over 30 hours a week. Tier Three pay starts at $18.50.

Cons

If you have experience from past employment, Manager, Owner, Annalist etc., and over 40 years old, they will not even consider you for advancement. Most managers, Tier 4 where I work, are under 30 years old, have no manager experience, but all hold degrees in unrelated fields. One a Masters in Economics, Masters in Foreign Studies, Bachelors in Communications... so why are they working in a warehouse...? Completely unorganized productivity and instructions from the Management... they say one thing one day and change it the next... on and on and on. They take absolute no responsibility for anything. If 4 people check a tote before it is sent to the customer (including 2 managers), and the tote is supposed to contain 7 ounces of deli meat and 7 pounds is sent instead (yes, this really did happen), then all 50 employees are help responsible. You would be amazed at the amount of 'passing the work' off on someone else, there is here at Amazon Fresh. Every position, from Pickers to Problem Solvers to Managers...all pass a mistake... in the system... off to someone else. For example; my scanner wants me to stow (put an item on a shelf), flour which is in a paper container, just like the flour you can buy in any store. The programmers have categorized flour as Hazmat or a hazard. We stow all products like; bleach, detergents or any thing explosive or dangerous in Hazmat. Flour is also stowed in Hazmat. So the whole wheat flour in the paper container is being stowed in the same bin, next to the smelly detergents and bleach. The flour will absorber the smell of the Hazmat items since they are stowed all in the same bins, within one row.

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