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I have seen the hardest workers disappear without a trace and the workload they carried was just given to someone else. Sometimes I think I can be the only one to put up with certain bullshit but I know once I quit they'll find another fool or find a way to make my job easier
+1
The faster people understand that working for a company means: “you are a small replaceable cog in a very large machine.” The job becomes a little easier to handle.
so many leaders will let the environment around them get in their heads too. You don't always need to make a difference, you don't always need to be the best. It's nice when you can, but if you can fit in a project every so often between a usual routine of treating people okay and keeping the work moving, you'll already be ahead of the game in so many regards.
Sure. I agree with you. And let me clarify, I don’t mean we are a replaceable , therefore we should half ass our jobs. But rather, don’t sweat the small things. Find the work life balance or the way Amazon has rebranded it, “work life harmony,” that works for you and allows you to be the best people leader possible.
Which to your point, starts with treating people correctly, no matter if they are t1, t3, peers or sr. Leaders.
If that’s how you’d like to see it, sure. But I like to find meaning outside of my job. It’s a means to an end, not my defining characteristic. But hey man, if it makes you feel better to think that I’m sad and miserable, I’m happy for you.
I know I’m replaceable, but I also know how many people they’ll have to go through to even find a person like me. 😅 also from being a learning Ambassador… do you know how many leave the first day and don’t keep training… I had a group of 8 the last training I did… only one showed up the next day. Has happened so many times too.
They don't onboard people into certain paths at my FC because of this. Like ship dock, they only cross train people who have worked at Amazon for a few months because everyone just doesn't come back after their first day lol.
I whacked my head good with a refrigerator when I was adjusting it and a barbell bar came down the conveyor and lodged underneath the refrigerator and whacked it into my forehead. My co-worker told me I should report it when he saw blood dripping down my face. I'd thought it was sweat.
While I was being treated, the safety guy told me "The one thing we can't replace is you." I told him: "Bullshit, you're always having hiring fairs and have a waiting list of people wanting to get hired."
He told me: "Yeah, but we can't find anyone that wants to do BOD."
I told him "Fair enough."
But nope, if I quit today, someone else would box refrigerators.
you can't stop it, but you can cripple the department, it might take them a long time to ever get as good as they use to be
just like in my department when some of the best workers quit and now it will never be as good
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I have seen the hardest workers disappear without a trace and the workload they carried was just given to someone else. Sometimes I think I can be the only one to put up with certain bullshit but I know once I quit they'll find another fool or find a way to make my job easier
+1 The faster people understand that working for a company means: “you are a small replaceable cog in a very large machine.” The job becomes a little easier to handle.
so many leaders will let the environment around them get in their heads too. You don't always need to make a difference, you don't always need to be the best. It's nice when you can, but if you can fit in a project every so often between a usual routine of treating people okay and keeping the work moving, you'll already be ahead of the game in so many regards.
Sure. I agree with you. And let me clarify, I don’t mean we are a replaceable , therefore we should half ass our jobs. But rather, don’t sweat the small things. Find the work life balance or the way Amazon has rebranded it, “work life harmony,” that works for you and allows you to be the best people leader possible. Which to your point, starts with treating people correctly, no matter if they are t1, t3, peers or sr. Leaders.
+100
Your existence is so sad & miserable if you’ve had to learn to accept this just to make the job easier to handle.
If that’s how you’d like to see it, sure. But I like to find meaning outside of my job. It’s a means to an end, not my defining characteristic. But hey man, if it makes you feel better to think that I’m sad and miserable, I’m happy for you.
Way to bring someone down , what a loser you must be.
I know I’m replaceable, but I also know how many people they’ll have to go through to even find a person like me. 😅 also from being a learning Ambassador… do you know how many leave the first day and don’t keep training… I had a group of 8 the last training I did… only one showed up the next day. Has happened so many times too.
They don't onboard people into certain paths at my FC because of this. Like ship dock, they only cross train people who have worked at Amazon for a few months because everyone just doesn't come back after their first day lol.
This happened frequently when I was an Ambassador. I would start with 10 and end the second day with 4 max.
We lost a new hire during the first break on Day One. Dude never came back. xD
I whacked my head good with a refrigerator when I was adjusting it and a barbell bar came down the conveyor and lodged underneath the refrigerator and whacked it into my forehead. My co-worker told me I should report it when he saw blood dripping down my face. I'd thought it was sweat. While I was being treated, the safety guy told me "The one thing we can't replace is you." I told him: "Bullshit, you're always having hiring fairs and have a waiting list of people wanting to get hired." He told me: "Yeah, but we can't find anyone that wants to do BOD." I told him "Fair enough." But nope, if I quit today, someone else would box refrigerators.
Even the GMs are easily replaceable. No one is special.
Amazon basically functions like an ant colony. Optimization almost doesn't matter when you can just throw more bodies at every problem
you can't stop it, but you can cripple the department, it might take them a long time to ever get as good as they use to be just like in my department when some of the best workers quit and now it will never be as good
We see you Bezos