In a statement to Insider, Amazon spokesperson Deborah Bass wrote: 'Like most companies, we have performance expectations for every Amazon employee and we measure actual performance against those expectations. ( PTO is determined by how an employee is classified, whether part-time, full-time, or salaried, and increases based on years spent working for Amazon.)Ī lot of Amazon workers are paying attention to what happens in Alabama with the union vote and believe unionizing is the way to go for better pay and better working conditions. Managers would often tell associates to 'be careful' of how we spent our PTO because if we ever had an emergency and didn't have enough hours to make up the rest of our shifts, we wouldn't be able to leave. It also felt as if we were discouraged from using our paid time off and vacation hours. It felt as if the company had no structure, and anyone could make up the rules as they went along. Sometimes managers would yell at one another in the presence of associates The managers often disagreed on the right ways to train new hires and coach associates on simple tasks like processing items. One manager would tell me to do a task a certain way, and another would tell me to do the opposite. Members of leadership also contradicted one another often. I applied for 'ambassador' roles (workers who trained new hires) multiple times and never received a promotion or raise. In my experience, managers showed favoritism to some and overlooked others when it came to promotions. The most challenging thing about working in the warehouse was leadership and management Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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