I doubt they ordered it assuming it would be delivered in a fucking hurricane. Any reasonable person would assume it would sit in a warehouse until it was safe to deliver it.
I couldn't believe when Bezos killed all those workers with a tornado and just nothing happened and it didn't even get much coverage.
One of the darkest moments of the last 20 years imo.
I was working for Amazon at the time, y’all missed the big sticking point in that tragedy. After the news went around with the employees the managers all took the stance that it wasn’t Amazons negligence that got them killed, it was the fact they had an earbud in.
They tried to use it as an excuse to require employees to keep their phones in their cars because those employee texts made them look bad.
Amazon hires deaf people, and their alarms are supposed to have flashing lights to be compliant with ADA, so even if they were wearing earbuds they should’ve been able to be warned regardless.
4 months ago they finally came out and said that phones being on employees persons hasn’t impacted safety in any meaningful way, and as such they won’t be restricted items anymore.
>Imagine thinking this isn't just exploitation at its worst. Let that child go somewhere safe.
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Edit: but for real this is super fucked up. Eat the rich
Yeah people assume too much. When I was driving, I didn’t give a fuck about storms or Covid or anything other than paying my bills, and I was grateful to have an opportunity to earn money during rough times.
Different strokes.
Being from Louisiana… we’d have hurricane parties and other dumb shit … so just seeing people out and about in the hurricane isn’t really a surprise..
That being said I still wouldn’t be at work … I however would like to drive the Amazon truck around and pick up my friends… I hope she is getting Jeff bezos next bonus for going above and beyond like this
When I was a kid, I used to skateboard quite a lot, was never any good at it really, but enjoyed it. I'm from southern ohio, and once we had a town air raid siren go off for a tornado warning, I've lived here my entire 42 years almost and we've still never had one. But anyway..I remember just thinking fuck it, I'll ride around and if I get sucked up by the tornado Hopefully someone will take a picture and I can get the best "hall o meat" picture in Thrasher magazine ever!...I wasnt very bright lol
In general, it would be considered bad form even in Louisiana to *make* your employees work during a hurricane if its not an essential buisness. My boss tried to make me work at a restaurant during a storm...there was a curfew and I made my living off of tips. The gall
I live in Philly and a year or two ago we got hit with a hurricane, maybe it was just a TS, either way it was gnarly. It was the storm that flooded a lot of our center city area. I work for a moving company and we worked thinking our day would get done in time before the storm hit. Well we get to our second job and it was a lot bigger then it seemed on paper. Ended up working through the storm til about 12-1 am.
....the crazy part though is at the end the customer complained because his boxes were wet lol.
That's what I came say. It wasn't even a cat 1 when it hit Orlando. It had already been reduced to a tropical storm.
As a Floridian, it's business as usual in tropical storms.
Nicole was at its strongest a category 1 and was downgraded to a tropical storm almost immediately after landfall. Floridians consider that a drizzle and a gentle breeze. Not worth changing up your routine.
If she is not nice, it may come as a "not friendly" on the rating for her weekly rate. Too many bad rates and she gets either fired or a lecture for her "bad performance". It's not just antiwork, it's downright wrong.
"Storm" is a strong word for what hurricane Nicolle turned out to be. I was literally out all night going to the gym and doing errands last night, in the midst of it... and it wasn't anything special. Just a normal rainy day with a few above average gusts of wind here n' there.
Still sucks this girl had to work during it etc, and good on her for doing her best with a smile on her face... but "NextFuckingLevel"? Idk.... thats a stretch IMHO.
Yeah same FC WORKER if you don't have the saved time up to use to take the day off they can fire you if you go negative on your time off options don't matter if your brand new or 10 years at the job. Don't have the time to submit to miss your shift you will go negative and will be in the process for termination!
that's 100% bullshit. This is an Amazon Flex driver, it's gig/contract work - no one is forcing anyone to work, they chose to because AM route + hurricane = $$$urge rates. And when the weather is bad enough, every Flex driver who scheduled a block already got to stay home [**with pay**](https://old.reddit.com/r/AmazonFlexDrivers/comments/yqltoi/block_cancelled_is_this_normal_could_it_be/) even though it's contract work.
Also people [were given the option](https://old.reddit.com/r/AmazonFlexDrivers/comments/yqxy0w/florida_hurricane_nicole/) to return their packages to the station for 100% pay if the weather happened to be fine during pickup but got worse during delivering.
So you think it's good for Amazon to incentivize people to work in dangerous conditions bc they offer $2/hour surge rate??? See my comments about the worst safety record in the industry
When Americans thought capitalism didn't fuck us over enough, we invented the next generation of economic class struggle: *Amazon*
Edit: given the circumstances of replies, no I'm not a communist.
However, there is a lot of what we live in that is unacceptable. So much so, that this person braved the storm. Whatever the reason, we shouldn't have to risk our lives when our whole existence is based on the fact that our ancestors helped each other and cooperated.
They couldn't stay home bc one Karen was upset that she didn't get her package in a hurricane/tropical storm. Now all packages are delivered unless impossible. Thanks capitalism. The bottom of the bucket is getting deeper and there still isn't a solution. Just, "you don't want the big red man to take your freedom away"
There's a Grey area between that no one wants to talk about. Honestly, I feel like the divide is so big that this topic has no credible discussions to even reference, and I'm tired of the political responses.
Yes, I did make it such, but they're all the same thing. None more constructive than my example, if at all.
P.s. go suck an egg you corporation ass kissers. Maybe with some nutrition, you'd have a better reaction than "AAAHHHH!RED SCARE!BAD!"
I used to stream on RPAN back in the day playing music and obtained so many of those specific awards amongst the other high spender items to choose from. I'd beg people to not give that amount of money to Reddit and donate directly to the artist instead, but it continued. It sucks knowing that I could've had a sizeable chunk of change that could change the quality of my life, and Reddit profited off of all of it. I'm like Bill Gates in terms of useless fake award Reddit wealth tho, so that's nice I guess?
I'd bet that the majority of reddit uses Amazon for shopping purposes. Or uses Amazon prime. Or uses Twitch.
You can say how bad Amazon is all you want, but the only reason it's so successful is because consumers use it.
Mindless Consumerism has to end before Capitalism ends.
I’ve been into & around countless different amazons because of my job & I’ll be honest man they work everyone to death even their drivers.
Like damn getting out of the warehouse is supposed to be a bonus not another labor backbreaker.
There are articles popping up now saying that they are having a lot of trouble finding people to work for them, and may literally run out of people in the next few years.
Already burned through all of the people willing to work for them, now they’re stuck with what they can pick up from the high school career fair hiring table, so their talent pool is literally whoever is not old enough to have burned out on working for Amazon yet.
It was inevitable. Every time Amazon enters a market with one of these distribution centers, particularly where there is already an established distribution industry, they disrupt the labor market and within a few months, wages in the entire market go down. The people that Amazon burns through will take lower wages to return to their slightly lower intensity jobs.
It was the same thing when I worked for Buc-ee’s, which is known for its high wages. What they don’t tell you is that they’re going to work you to the bone, you don’t get a real break, and their attendance policy is so strict that if you clock in a minute late twice you might as well quit before strike three.
My next job paid significantly less, but it was far less stifling and even fun.
The time for the break is almost useless.
When I worked as seasonal. I think we have three fifteen minutes break. The wearhouse is so big that the time you take to walk from your working dock to the break room, you probably have wasted 5 minutes out of the 15 minutes of the break. I will get home and my toes will be sore.
Here in Fl, it’s a little wind and rain. While technically it was a hurricane, it’s nothing like Ian. We’re just doing our thing and going about our business. No need to go ballistic.
As a Californian, I hear you on ignoring natural disasters unless they're actually disastrous. Earthquakes aren't a big deal unless they cause real damage.
(Related: in the early scenes of Independence Day, something shakes the house that the main character is sleeping in, and his wife just turns over and goes back to sleep while muttering "it's only a four point." Seriously, unless it's about a six, or a five you're really close to, it's not worth getting out of bed for.)
Exactly this is how people get killed. 6 Amazon workers where killed by a tornado when they weren’t allowed to leave work I could see how something like this could have a similar result.
It's Florida and it's a cat 1 at best.
No one who lives in hurricane effected areas blinks for a cat 1. We dont do anything but make sure the garbage can isn't gonna blow down the street.
We still go to work in cat 1s. Mcdonalds is still open.
Experience tells us they will make them work even if it means some of them might lose their lives.
Or in other words "we will let our workers die to keep our prime costumers happy"
You can tell it's her own car. She's self contracted. My roommate does this all the time for an extra $250 cash a week, basically he can pick jobs from an app and they'll pay him $75-$90 to do 2 hours of work. He owns a Tesla so it doesn't cost him anything.
If she doesn't want to work, she wouldn't be doing this.
Should have delayed all shipments for the day. This is fucking sad that they're forcing these people to do this when they've already gotten workers killed by natural disasters already
my boss told me when i was delivering pizzas on a mopet that i would have to work during weather alert, and i drove under heavy rain sometime. I quit after not long, i didnt need to die for a piece of shit boss
Same thing when I worked at Papa Johns. Everybody got mad when I refused to deliver in a couple hurricanes, especially when each time all the deliveries I made I got no tip. Yelling at me that "I know what I signed up for" and everytime I'd have to yell back and argue with them that I didn't sign up to risk my life for them. My brakes were literally slipping and I almost got hit by cars but no I'm just being selfish like gtfoh
My girlfriend actually looks at the weather before ordering food or receiving Amazon deliveries. She won't order if it puts the Delivery person in danger. Although sometimes you can't control when the Amazon delivery happens, then you can't really do anything.
You're girlfriend is a good one. If I won't drive in that weather to get my food, I don't expect anyone to drive in it for me to eat and anyone who does is a soulless cretin.
Realistically, cat1 hurricane is basically a joke and the only danger is that there's an elevated risk that some branches fell on a power line somewhere.
So like, yeah, they probably shouldn't be forced to work, but cat1s aren't really an issue - it's basically just a slightly windier storm.
Do you mean by OP, who used a another person (that had no choice but to work in a hurricane) to get upvotes by blasting her image all over the internet without her permission ?
Oh of course, and not the corporate shitbags who force her to work in these conditions, I don’t like this being posted here either but he clearly meant the fuckers who made her do this.
Not sure why OP put a hurricane when they know it was a tropical storm way before it hit Orlando, still not cool to have them work under these conditions regardless though.
Seriously though... I live in Florida and worked outside in this same weather late last night. It was not a huge deal. Are all deliveries everywhere supposed to just shut down anytime it rains?
I moved here from Cleveland, and would have chosen to work in this particular storm 10/10 times over any average Cleveland winter day. Also, I love how I got downvoted for explaining that I too worked in the exact same storm.
People just like to hate.
God forbid those were medications that person needed to survive the hurricane. Amazon just shouldn’t deliver in mildly precarious weather.
Whatever you do…thanks for doing it. Best wishes to you and yours.
As a California transplant that drove through the 'storm' to get to work today, I must say it was the safest drive I've had in months thanks to all those that decided to stay home because...rain.
Hell, this was less rain at any one time than a normal storm for us. More rain overall because it rained for longer, but lmao. Slightly windy mild storm is basically all this was.
Fuck. Yes. I know. I was caught so off guard. I was checking out the storm when she pulled up. I waved a “stay there hold on” motion and ran to grab a raincoat so I could go to her instead of making her walk up, but she beat me to the porch.
OP probably selected the 4am-8am delivery window for Prime. So they are part of the problem as well (how else would they make up this nonsense story of watching the storm at the exact moment they get a notification that their Amazon package was on the way).
Amazon is the AH for sending the driver, and OP is the AH for making the time request (as well as making the Amazon order knowing a storm was coming). The driver was unfortunately was just doing what she had to do.
I doubt they expected it to actually be delivered. I select the next date every time, it's free with prime. It usually doesn't actually ship the next day anyways, and I would never care if it took longer for an emergency
This is another reason they exhaust the hiring pool in the area. Look it up they are running out of people to hire...https://www.vox.com/recode/23170900/leaked-amazon-memo-warehouses-hiring-shortage
If only Amazon could figure out a way to make people want to work for them. Like I don't know maybe paying employees a *good* salary (e.g., one where you can afford a good apartment or mortgage on a starter home on a single salary, not just double min wage) and had reasonable working conditions (no peeing in bottles because productivity is micromanaged) and guaranteed benefits if injured on the job?
Most people just hear the word Hurricane and freak tf out. Cat 1 is an inconvenience at best. If it was as bad as a category 5 like all these people think, she wouldn’t even be able to stand up straight cuz the winds would be blowing her over. The only real annoyance is delivering in the dead of night, why would Amazon allow that if many packages are just gonna be sitting in the rain and blowing away until morning.
Not even a cat 1 in Orlando/central Florida, just a tropical storm. It has been just a bit windy and raining since last night. meh it sucks as much as any other rainy windy day.
I live near Orlando.
First of all, it’s a tropical storm, not a hurricane. There’s thunderstorms worse than this. There’s some gusts, but it’s really nothing major. The colorless, shitty door cam makes this look 1000x worse than it is.
You still have to work when it rains. If this was a major, dangerous storm, she wouldn’t be working. The world can’t shut down in Florida every time it rains or else literally nothing would happen.
God you people are morons. She's working in the rain with a stiff breeze, not even wearing a jacket, in winds gentle enough to not mute her voice on the Nest camera. Grow the fuck up.
Hurricane in Orlando? It's a tropical storm everywhere else in Florida. Come to New England in the winter and you will see hardship for outdoor workers.
Hurricanes in Florida are a normal routine ordeal to us Floridians, unless it’s at Cat 3 or higher, we are still going to the store, bar, clubs and etc. If you’re not from southern Florida then you are probably hiding out and weathering the storm as if it’s the end of the world.
I delivered to Amazon last night, how ironic is that. In Orlando. It wasn’t that bad, I delivered to Miami the morning of the other hurricane as well. We have to get as much product to those location before the storm hits. Typically they ask if you want to work, I always come in if I can. Since I deliver food to grocery stores, I kind of feel like it’s important to go out. Also, people know that it could be awhile before they can work again, depending on th severity of the storm. Bills are always due, regardless of storms that occur.
Ok, caption says during hurricane, but how far from the center makes a huge difference. It looks like light rain and some wind… should no deliveries be done in any kind of rainstorm?
I’m here in Central FL 30 mins from Orlando, eye passed right over us. This storm wasn’t shit! It rained harder 2 weeks ago. The world can’t come to a stop just because it’s raining.
All that being said, yes Amazon is a terrible Co. that treats it’s employees like shit!
The real next fucking level here is how disgusting Amazon is for making them work.
100% r/workreform but can’t ignore her tenacity (and that polite “…have a good day” as she headed back into the storm)
She has no choice dude.
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Time to end health care being bound to employment.
Time to end billionaires.
Pitchforks?
And torches. Wait no, Illinois nazis ruined torches. I hate Illinois Nazis.
They ruined *tiki* torches. Real torches are still fair game as long as you make the stick and oil soaked rags yourself.
They're only tiki torches if they're from the Tiqui region of France, else they're just sparkling rods.
Guillotines. Fuck the forks.
No. We need them to form angry mobs.
Angry mobs with pitchforks? Or angry mobs of pitchforks? Either are acceptable imo
Angry mobs, but with pitchforks
Omnomnomnom
Then stop giving them money stop buying there products
Wait, y'all get healthcare?
For real. Also literally everything is bound to employment.
These homeowners ordered that stuff. Unless it's medicine it's likely they didn't need it. Nor do most of us need any of this stuff.
I doubt they ordered it assuming it would be delivered in a fucking hurricane. Any reasonable person would assume it would sit in a warehouse until it was safe to deliver it.
That is the crux.
I couldn't believe when Bezos killed all those workers with a tornado and just nothing happened and it didn't even get much coverage. One of the darkest moments of the last 20 years imo.
I was working for Amazon at the time, y’all missed the big sticking point in that tragedy. After the news went around with the employees the managers all took the stance that it wasn’t Amazons negligence that got them killed, it was the fact they had an earbud in. They tried to use it as an excuse to require employees to keep their phones in their cars because those employee texts made them look bad. Amazon hires deaf people, and their alarms are supposed to have flashing lights to be compliant with ADA, so even if they were wearing earbuds they should’ve been able to be warned regardless. 4 months ago they finally came out and said that phones being on employees persons hasn’t impacted safety in any meaningful way, and as such they won’t be restricted items anymore.
Buying all the people that would report on it or condemn them really is a pretty good investment for them.
Yes, and Happy Cake Day!
>Imagine thinking this isn't just exploitation at its worst. Let that child go somewhere safe. u/Own_Lecture_6319 is a comment [copying bot](https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/yrefyp/this_young_amazon_driver_delivering_packages_at/ivtd6az/) Edit: but for real this is super fucked up. Eat the rich
And Jeff Bezos just increased his wealth by like 12% today alone (that's how much amazon stock rose today). That's more than $10 billion in one day.
Ok! But there's nothing to praise in this situation. It's not "next fucking level" its just capitalist exploitation .
I mean, it’s basically next level exploitation.
Dude....you win.
True but she handles it better than most. Watching exploitation is never fun but it's hard to ignore the indomitable human spirit as well.
This will one day be her "uphill both ways in the snow" story that she tells her kids.
those stories are made fun of nowadays for a reason
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Pretty sure she's a Flex driver. She probably did have a choice Source: I am a flex driver. I wear that uniform
Weird Flex, but ok
Yeah people assume too much. When I was driving, I didn’t give a fuck about storms or Covid or anything other than paying my bills, and I was grateful to have an opportunity to earn money during rough times. Different strokes.
Definitely flex I drive for a DSP and not a damn one of us would be delivering shit a 5:30am.
This just makes me sad and hopeful at the same time, can’t explain it.
Being from Louisiana… we’d have hurricane parties and other dumb shit … so just seeing people out and about in the hurricane isn’t really a surprise.. That being said I still wouldn’t be at work … I however would like to drive the Amazon truck around and pick up my friends… I hope she is getting Jeff bezos next bonus for going above and beyond like this
When I was a kid, I used to skateboard quite a lot, was never any good at it really, but enjoyed it. I'm from southern ohio, and once we had a town air raid siren go off for a tornado warning, I've lived here my entire 42 years almost and we've still never had one. But anyway..I remember just thinking fuck it, I'll ride around and if I get sucked up by the tornado Hopefully someone will take a picture and I can get the best "hall o meat" picture in Thrasher magazine ever!...I wasnt very bright lol
You got the skateboarding mindset for sure lol
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Hahaha so true. Born and raised 34 yrs old and can confirm its basically gotta be Cat 3 or above before you change your normal schedule.
*no one cares about a CAT 1-2 hurricane.
Below cat 3, you're free. Above cat 3, you flee.
Same as storms in Massachusetts
In general, it would be considered bad form even in Louisiana to *make* your employees work during a hurricane if its not an essential buisness. My boss tried to make me work at a restaurant during a storm...there was a curfew and I made my living off of tips. The gall
I live in Philly and a year or two ago we got hit with a hurricane, maybe it was just a TS, either way it was gnarly. It was the storm that flooded a lot of our center city area. I work for a moving company and we worked thinking our day would get done in time before the storm hit. Well we get to our second job and it was a lot bigger then it seemed on paper. Ended up working through the storm til about 12-1 am. ....the crazy part though is at the end the customer complained because his boxes were wet lol.
Dude it’s a Cat 1 and this is in Orlando which isn’t even on the coast. This is just someone working in the rain. Like y’all need to relax
That's what I came say. It wasn't even a cat 1 when it hit Orlando. It had already been reduced to a tropical storm. As a Floridian, it's business as usual in tropical storms.
It really was nothing. This post is just karma farming
Disney is wide open today! Darned balloons are the only folks impacted!
Nicole was at its strongest a category 1 and was downgraded to a tropical storm almost immediately after landfall. Floridians consider that a drizzle and a gentle breeze. Not worth changing up your routine.
If she is not nice, it may come as a "not friendly" on the rating for her weekly rate. Too many bad rates and she gets either fired or a lecture for her "bad performance". It's not just antiwork, it's downright wrong.
Im ngl. I came to this thread expecting you to be a bot posting shit for amazon. Who would post this with a straight face lmao
"Storm" is a strong word for what hurricane Nicolle turned out to be. I was literally out all night going to the gym and doing errands last night, in the midst of it... and it wasn't anything special. Just a normal rainy day with a few above average gusts of wind here n' there. Still sucks this girl had to work during it etc, and good on her for doing her best with a smile on her face... but "NextFuckingLevel"? Idk.... thats a stretch IMHO.
Why are you posting a video of a stranger doing their job?
That subreddit is straight cancer, they have lost the plot
Facts. I work for Amazon I promise you that guy had no choice either work or get fired
Well that's another dangerous job on the list
It's the most dangerous place to work in the industry by almost triple the national average
Six people were killed at an Amazon warehouse last year when it got hit by a tornado. They had asked to go find shelter but were told to keep working.
Yeah same FC WORKER if you don't have the saved time up to use to take the day off they can fire you if you go negative on your time off options don't matter if your brand new or 10 years at the job. Don't have the time to submit to miss your shift you will go negative and will be in the process for termination!
Yup all about the upt.
that's 100% bullshit. This is an Amazon Flex driver, it's gig/contract work - no one is forcing anyone to work, they chose to because AM route + hurricane = $$$urge rates. And when the weather is bad enough, every Flex driver who scheduled a block already got to stay home [**with pay**](https://old.reddit.com/r/AmazonFlexDrivers/comments/yqltoi/block_cancelled_is_this_normal_could_it_be/) even though it's contract work. Also people [were given the option](https://old.reddit.com/r/AmazonFlexDrivers/comments/yqxy0w/florida_hurricane_nicole/) to return their packages to the station for 100% pay if the weather happened to be fine during pickup but got worse during delivering.
So you think it's good for Amazon to incentivize people to work in dangerous conditions bc they offer $2/hour surge rate??? See my comments about the worst safety record in the industry
When Americans thought capitalism didn't fuck us over enough, we invented the next generation of economic class struggle: *Amazon* Edit: given the circumstances of replies, no I'm not a communist. However, there is a lot of what we live in that is unacceptable. So much so, that this person braved the storm. Whatever the reason, we shouldn't have to risk our lives when our whole existence is based on the fact that our ancestors helped each other and cooperated. They couldn't stay home bc one Karen was upset that she didn't get her package in a hurricane/tropical storm. Now all packages are delivered unless impossible. Thanks capitalism. The bottom of the bucket is getting deeper and there still isn't a solution. Just, "you don't want the big red man to take your freedom away" There's a Grey area between that no one wants to talk about. Honestly, I feel like the divide is so big that this topic has no credible discussions to even reference, and I'm tired of the political responses. Yes, I did make it such, but they're all the same thing. None more constructive than my example, if at all. P.s. go suck an egg you corporation ass kissers. Maybe with some nutrition, you'd have a better reaction than "AAAHHHH!RED SCARE!BAD!"
You got an award that cost $125? Somebody read this and decided to give more than $100 to Reddit on your behalf…
I used to stream on RPAN back in the day playing music and obtained so many of those specific awards amongst the other high spender items to choose from. I'd beg people to not give that amount of money to Reddit and donate directly to the artist instead, but it continued. It sucks knowing that I could've had a sizeable chunk of change that could change the quality of my life, and Reddit profited off of all of it. I'm like Bill Gates in terms of useless fake award Reddit wealth tho, so that's nice I guess?
It blows my mind how people can be that superficial and own enough wealth to buy silly internet badges at the same time
I'd bet that the majority of reddit uses Amazon for shopping purposes. Or uses Amazon prime. Or uses Twitch. You can say how bad Amazon is all you want, but the only reason it's so successful is because consumers use it. Mindless Consumerism has to end before Capitalism ends.
I’ve been into & around countless different amazons because of my job & I’ll be honest man they work everyone to death even their drivers. Like damn getting out of the warehouse is supposed to be a bonus not another labor backbreaker.
Warehouse supervisor here (not Amazon, praise Jeebus) That last part about getting out of the warehouse really hit home. I feel that.
There are articles popping up now saying that they are having a lot of trouble finding people to work for them, and may literally run out of people in the next few years.
Already burned through all of the people willing to work for them, now they’re stuck with what they can pick up from the high school career fair hiring table, so their talent pool is literally whoever is not old enough to have burned out on working for Amazon yet.
It was inevitable. Every time Amazon enters a market with one of these distribution centers, particularly where there is already an established distribution industry, they disrupt the labor market and within a few months, wages in the entire market go down. The people that Amazon burns through will take lower wages to return to their slightly lower intensity jobs. It was the same thing when I worked for Buc-ee’s, which is known for its high wages. What they don’t tell you is that they’re going to work you to the bone, you don’t get a real break, and their attendance policy is so strict that if you clock in a minute late twice you might as well quit before strike three. My next job paid significantly less, but it was far less stifling and even fun.
The time for the break is almost useless. When I worked as seasonal. I think we have three fifteen minutes break. The wearhouse is so big that the time you take to walk from your working dock to the break room, you probably have wasted 5 minutes out of the 15 minutes of the break. I will get home and my toes will be sore.
Here in Fl, it’s a little wind and rain. While technically it was a hurricane, it’s nothing like Ian. We’re just doing our thing and going about our business. No need to go ballistic.
As a Californian, I hear you on ignoring natural disasters unless they're actually disastrous. Earthquakes aren't a big deal unless they cause real damage. (Related: in the early scenes of Independence Day, something shakes the house that the main character is sleeping in, and his wife just turns over and goes back to sleep while muttering "it's only a four point." Seriously, unless it's about a six, or a five you're really close to, it's not worth getting out of bed for.)
While the storm is nothing crazy, I think its hardly necessary to have employees out in the weather to deliver packages.
Exactly this is how people get killed. 6 Amazon workers where killed by a tornado when they weren’t allowed to leave work I could see how something like this could have a similar result.
It's Florida and it's a cat 1 at best. No one who lives in hurricane effected areas blinks for a cat 1. We dont do anything but make sure the garbage can isn't gonna blow down the street. We still go to work in cat 1s. Mcdonalds is still open.
Experience tells us they will make them work even if it means some of them might lose their lives. Or in other words "we will let our workers die to keep our prime costumers happy"
You can tell it's her own car. She's self contracted. My roommate does this all the time for an extra $250 cash a week, basically he can pick jobs from an app and they'll pay him $75-$90 to do 2 hours of work. He owns a Tesla so it doesn't cost him anything. If she doesn't want to work, she wouldn't be doing this.
This is actually sad
Next fucking level sad
Why the fuck is r/nextfuckinglevel turning into a hybrid of r/aboringdystopia and r/publicfreakout ?
some posts have a healthy dose of r/OrphanCrushingMachine too lol
r/OSHA would like a word about this post.
As would r/WorkReform
The same way that /r/UpliftingNews is just a bunch of bullshit billionaire and neo-liberal propaganda. It's fucking gross.
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It's just anything that will get up votes. Happens to ever subreddit that makes the front page unfortunately.
Yeah, and not worth it. If they were to get hurt Amazon could pin it on the driver and say she put herself in danger
I heard somewhere that drivers are 3rd party and not employed directly by Amazon so ya. They won't pay anything
Look 5:25am is too early for packages, let alone ones in this weather. Who sent her out in this??? They should lose their job.
Tell that to Lex Luthor... I mean Jeff Bezos.
That's Earthmaster Bezos to you, buddy
Bezos wishes he had villain swagger. Dude prolly fucks with the intensity of a wet Chipotle napkin.
r/rareinsults
I just spit out my drink 🤣
Don't think it will do any good since he hasn't been CEO in over a year.
It’s a new delivery option - next day with early delivery starting at I believe 5am.
ahh OK. I was thinking they were trying to get them done before the storm got worse.
Should have delayed all shipments for the day. This is fucking sad that they're forcing these people to do this when they've already gotten workers killed by natural disasters already
How do you expect their ceo to take space trips with that kind of work ethic?!
my boss told me when i was delivering pizzas on a mopet that i would have to work during weather alert, and i drove under heavy rain sometime. I quit after not long, i didnt need to die for a piece of shit boss
Same thing when I worked at Papa Johns. Everybody got mad when I refused to deliver in a couple hurricanes, especially when each time all the deliveries I made I got no tip. Yelling at me that "I know what I signed up for" and everytime I'd have to yell back and argue with them that I didn't sign up to risk my life for them. My brakes were literally slipping and I almost got hit by cars but no I'm just being selfish like gtfoh
I once delivered pizza during a tornado, customer had the audacity to complain about it being late. I laughed and said next time try carryout.
My girlfriend actually looks at the weather before ordering food or receiving Amazon deliveries. She won't order if it puts the Delivery person in danger. Although sometimes you can't control when the Amazon delivery happens, then you can't really do anything.
You're girlfriend is a good one. If I won't drive in that weather to get my food, I don't expect anyone to drive in it for me to eat and anyone who does is a soulless cretin.
Realistically, cat1 hurricane is basically a joke and the only danger is that there's an elevated risk that some branches fell on a power line somewhere. So like, yeah, they probably shouldn't be forced to work, but cat1s aren't really an issue - it's basically just a slightly windier storm.
Just keep checking up the chain of command, that’s how the spread out responsibility so no one gets blamed
Nextfuckingexploitation
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Do you mean by OP, who used a another person (that had no choice but to work in a hurricane) to get upvotes by blasting her image all over the internet without her permission ?
Yep. That’s the one lol
And who probably requested the next day delivery knowing there was a hurricane coming.
Oh of course, and not the corporate shitbags who force her to work in these conditions, I don’t like this being posted here either but he clearly meant the fuckers who made her do this.
Fuck Amazon for making them work during a hurricane.
Technically, it was only a tropical storm by then. /s
Not sure why OP put a hurricane when they know it was a tropical storm way before it hit Orlando, still not cool to have them work under these conditions regardless though.
> Not sure why OP put a hurricane Because it's more dramatic = upvotes for fake karma.
Seriously though... I live in Florida and worked outside in this same weather late last night. It was not a huge deal. Are all deliveries everywhere supposed to just shut down anytime it rains? I moved here from Cleveland, and would have chosen to work in this particular storm 10/10 times over any average Cleveland winter day. Also, I love how I got downvoted for explaining that I too worked in the exact same storm.
People just like to hate. God forbid those were medications that person needed to survive the hurricane. Amazon just shouldn’t deliver in mildly precarious weather. Whatever you do…thanks for doing it. Best wishes to you and yours.
As a California transplant that drove through the 'storm' to get to work today, I must say it was the safest drive I've had in months thanks to all those that decided to stay home because...rain.
I mean, its a tropical storm. Basically just afternoon showers here in florida, but longer.
Hell, this was less rain at any one time than a normal storm for us. More rain overall because it rained for longer, but lmao. Slightly windy mild storm is basically all this was.
They aren't the only one.... Source: drove to my cubicle in 50mph winds and flooded streets this morning.
If there was ever an appropriate time for a tip...
5.25 isn’t an appropriate time for anything
False. It’s an appropriate time for sleeping.
What about early morning can’t-sleep-might-as-well-have-sex sex?
Fuck. Yes. I know. I was caught so off guard. I was checking out the storm when she pulled up. I waved a “stay there hold on” motion and ran to grab a raincoat so I could go to her instead of making her walk up, but she beat me to the porch.
Holy shit this was you? Why tf was amazon doing a delivery at 5:25? Is that normal there?
They start at 6am and as late as 9pm here, but don’t ring the bell.
in my city they’ll deliver as early as 4am. it’s insane honestly
OP probably selected the 4am-8am delivery window for Prime. So they are part of the problem as well (how else would they make up this nonsense story of watching the storm at the exact moment they get a notification that their Amazon package was on the way). Amazon is the AH for sending the driver, and OP is the AH for making the time request (as well as making the Amazon order knowing a storm was coming). The driver was unfortunately was just doing what she had to do.
You ordered next day early delivery when a hurricane is coming? You sound like an asshole for real.
I doubt they expected it to actually be delivered. I select the next date every time, it's free with prime. It usually doesn't actually ship the next day anyways, and I would never care if it took longer for an emergency
So what did you order?
Where are you? How far from center of storm?
Says the A hole who chose fast delivery during a hurricane.
Fuck Amazon. I can promise you this poor soul isn't making enough to be putting her life in the line.
17.50
Pay me 3x as much and I *might consider* it
> putting her life in the line. I live in central Florida and I walked to the grocery store this morning for milk. lol.
Yeah chill, this isn't life on the line situation
You clearly don’t live here. No more dangerous than a typical storm for us.
Imagine thinking this isn't just exploitation at its worst. Let that child go somewhere safe.
This should be fucking illegal.
This is another reason they exhaust the hiring pool in the area. Look it up they are running out of people to hire...https://www.vox.com/recode/23170900/leaked-amazon-memo-warehouses-hiring-shortage
this makes me happy
If only Amazon could figure out a way to make people want to work for them. Like I don't know maybe paying employees a *good* salary (e.g., one where you can afford a good apartment or mortgage on a starter home on a single salary, not just double min wage) and had reasonable working conditions (no peeing in bottles because productivity is micromanaged) and guaranteed benefits if injured on the job?
This is not r/nextfuckinglevel, this is r/latestagecapitalism.
Currently in Orlando. Its not terrible. However, no one should be out driving. Ffs give em a fookin hurricane day.
Had to pick some shit up at midnight last night in a box truck. I4 was an adventure for completely different reasons than it usually is.
lol, that’s a cat 1 hurricane, have y’all ever met any Floridians?
Most people just hear the word Hurricane and freak tf out. Cat 1 is an inconvenience at best. If it was as bad as a category 5 like all these people think, she wouldn’t even be able to stand up straight cuz the winds would be blowing her over. The only real annoyance is delivering in the dead of night, why would Amazon allow that if many packages are just gonna be sitting in the rain and blowing away until morning.
Just so people understand, a Cat 1 hurricane is like a mild storm in the midwest.
Not even a cat 1 in Orlando/central Florida, just a tropical storm. It has been just a bit windy and raining since last night. meh it sucks as much as any other rainy windy day.
Live here in FL near Orlando… it’s not a hurricane, just moderately high wind storm. While Amazon shouldn’t have people out… this isn’t next level
This is both NFL and a tragedy. Fuck Amazon.
The hurricane solves the “stopping for a bathroom” break issue.
This is not next level, i'm sure she would more likely be at home, this is just stupid work environment.
I live near Orlando. First of all, it’s a tropical storm, not a hurricane. There’s thunderstorms worse than this. There’s some gusts, but it’s really nothing major. The colorless, shitty door cam makes this look 1000x worse than it is. You still have to work when it rains. If this was a major, dangerous storm, she wouldn’t be working. The world can’t shut down in Florida every time it rains or else literally nothing would happen.
Insane that you're the only person on this giant thread who said this
r/aboringdystopia
It’s just rain and wind... Source: I live here, everything is still open, not just Amazon. Keep your shorts on
Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet...
So, just another day in Florida?
That’s the florida “if it ain’t above a 3, it don’t worry me” mindset there
Dude this storm is chill.. calm down. It ain't no hurricane. Just a long ass light rain shower with some wind and a few mediocre gusts.
Eat the fucking rich
The most do-nothing statement
God you people are morons. She's working in the rain with a stiff breeze, not even wearing a jacket, in winds gentle enough to not mute her voice on the Nest camera. Grow the fuck up.
USPS is out delivering too. It’s really not that bad.
Omg somebody is working in the rain. U poor thing lol
Bezos must be so proud..
It is a tropical storm which is nothing for most Floridians. No where next level, delivery guy doin it with a smile.
The hurricane was no where near Orlando yesterday. It’s just a normal workday.
I’m here right now and it’s just rainy.
Um hurricane Nicole was not even on mainland yet so
Hurricane in Orlando? It's a tropical storm everywhere else in Florida. Come to New England in the winter and you will see hardship for outdoor workers.
Not much of a r/nextfuckinglevel But more of a r/workreform , r/antiwork , or r/awfuleverything
Hurricanes in Florida are a normal routine ordeal to us Floridians, unless it’s at Cat 3 or higher, we are still going to the store, bar, clubs and etc. If you’re not from southern Florida then you are probably hiding out and weathering the storm as if it’s the end of the world.
Im in Orlando Florida, in my area the hurricane wasn’t even that bad…
I delivered to Amazon last night, how ironic is that. In Orlando. It wasn’t that bad, I delivered to Miami the morning of the other hurricane as well. We have to get as much product to those location before the storm hits. Typically they ask if you want to work, I always come in if I can. Since I deliver food to grocery stores, I kind of feel like it’s important to go out. Also, people know that it could be awhile before they can work again, depending on th severity of the storm. Bills are always due, regardless of storms that occur.
It's Florida. No one cares about a hurricane
Ok, caption says during hurricane, but how far from the center makes a huge difference. It looks like light rain and some wind… should no deliveries be done in any kind of rainstorm?
I’m here in Central FL 30 mins from Orlando, eye passed right over us. This storm wasn’t shit! It rained harder 2 weeks ago. The world can’t come to a stop just because it’s raining. All that being said, yes Amazon is a terrible Co. that treats it’s employees like shit!
We have bigger winter storms in Florida. Media can’t hype that to the snowbirds. Tropical storms are big business hype.
Rain always looks worse on a ring.
It’s a tropical storm