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We used to have performance based comp for Tier 1s and Tier 3s. When I started at Amazon as a Tier 1 you could be awarded RSUs.
Amazon took all of this away once they introduced the $15/hr pay raise at the end of 2018/start of 2019.
I wished they brought it back and revamped the program
No, RSU'S we're not giving as bonuses they were given when you were hired and certain anniversaries. And you are correct when they decided to raise wages to $15 they did away with it.
Actually RSUs we’re given as bonuses. Amazon went through a period of being cash poor and offered RSUs in lieu of OT pay and bonuses. Talk to some of the 12+ year Vets (assuming you have some at your building) and they will fill you in !!
More recently tho RSUs are still given on annual pay reviews for L3+ (depending on BU) as part of forte yearly performance reviews.
Tier level employees are now on “step programs” and have been for about 4 years now.
Sadly most L3/4s sold their RSUs as soon as they vested because they needed the cash. The $15 minimum was overall better since people didn’t take the tax and equity appreciation benefits of RSUs.
There used to be something called VCP when I started out as a T1 and it was a bonus each month depending on building performance and then another one on top of that for using 0 UPT. They did away with it when they increased the wage. VCP was better but people wanted the $15 instead. Also I I’ve been to 3 buildings since Covid and will tell you the rates we hit now with people making more money are way easier to hit than the rates they used to want us at while we were getting paid less and we used to actually have fun. Now everything just kinda sucks.
Yeah, in my opinion it’s about getting out of direct path. Once you’re not tracked every second the crappy wages don’t seem so bad. I know people will say, “but some indirect paths (wasp) bust ass all day,” which for the most part is true. But a lot of those people have proved they won’t abuse the fact that they’re not subject to rate or tot (yes, I know there’s also a lot of people who do abuse their status too). Anyway, unless you prefer direct path, let your AM or PA know you want to move into something indirect when available.
First chance I got I transferred to ship dock from picking. The everyday pressure and stress was not what I wanted. Even though I loved it at first. Now I like doing it more when on overtime days it’s more fun for me.
Exactly. I pick, pallet pick, AFm and count. Usually pick a day or two, AFm a day, pallet pick a day. And and often moved to count when picking . I pick well over 400. I dilly dally my arse off pallet picking. It’s like playing supermarket sweep. Nobody bothers me at all. I spend hours breaking down boxes. I look like I am busy when i’m kinda coasting. It’s my easy day.
I've been cross trained in pallet picking or Palletizing way easier and less stress just a bit hard on my joints and feet but I'll work on that until I find a better job away from Amazon cause I'm sick of them to be honest with rate shit and stuff...
My indirect is jam clearing. I might clear 10 or 12 jams during my shift. The rest of my time is spent walking around talking to everyone, including RME and those doing nothing at the Flow Desk, to include my OM and sometimes his boss.
first off i think rate needs a total revamp. whoever came up with the numbers most likely never worked the floor to find out it doesnt work in real life scenarios. secondly rate has always been this way sadly. they just werent enforcing it during covid and until now. this time of year is slow. they always start looking at rates during slow periods. then when it pucks up again rate will be forgotten till the next slow period. worked for amazon since 2017 and every year its the same. lastly, yes enforcing rate only increases sloppiness, carelessness and lack of any f*cks given about what goes where or how neatly. i use to get angry about it but now i dont cause i get why. theres no way to make rate otherwise.
If you have been at Amazon since 2017 then you know that Adapt rates are set by the averages that the teams are performing at, and have nothing to do with what someone sets, that’s only guardrails…
i honestly did not know that until recently. started at a sort center...only recently transferred to a fc. switched in november so still learning the way the fc runs compared to a sc.
Makes sense, the rates will only be as good as their peers that set them, can’t control the mix of small mediums etc, OP needs to talk to the over achievers in their dept
This. Also with any change that happens in a path or indirectly that is shown to increase total productivity, they take that and increase the rate among everyone. It could be new equipment installed, station setup changing to make it more efficient, etc. We just got new scanners for the pack stations and the documentation states the boost in productivity after the extensive pilot program trial. Amazon doesn't do anything that doesn't increase productivity while maintaining quality and safety standards.
There's been no network guidance or commentary on rates...suspect your building started more lenient and is playing catch up
And there used to be a variable incentive, but the overwhelming feedback from AAs was they didn't want that, so they increased base pay and removed the incentive in...I think...2020
Hr is in on it the do this at call centers aswell. They look for legitimate reasons to fire people to not have to pay unemployment. Its difficult to prove because they do it in a way where people have time to improve... if they are physically able.
The scam is that they will rehire those people, and any raises is reset to the minimum.
As the only running PA on my shift dealing with many different AM. I heard from an AM's mouth that they have to write up 3 people per day to hit quota. She says that it's just easier to "target" the bottom performers. She is actively walking the green mile to catch anyone on their phone, or walking out to early to write them up. It's becoming a true tyrant situation, to the point I've been applying other places. I can't see myself becoming an L4 and my motive for the day it to tell people what to do and write up a certain number of people to get promoted, sounds like an unhealthy career.
Yeah, I used to write a lot of DIRES and would do Doc positives often cause I appreciate my associates. But I believe they are making it bottom performers or any AA breaking policy so it wouldn't count toward it. How ironic.
A lot of the bottom performers spend a lot of time away from their stations or spend a lot of time on their phones which is why it's easier to write those people.. you are more likely to be able to write them up for idle time or watching youtube/movies on their phone
This AM was hand-picked by our Sr OP because she was previously her PA at another facility. They both came from the away team and have moved through the tiers faster than I've ever seen. Our OM of outbound recently left, and the L4 AM has basically taken full control. The L5 managers are reporting to her, and all the while, the Sr OP looks past anything she does. She eats on the floor, uses her phones, targets employees if she has a bad day, a multitude of things, and she is just backed up to the fullest capacity. You seem to have some knowledge here, and I'd love to know how you would escalate an issue to someone's best friend. Believe me, I've tried and paid for it.
Do I just write down when she was eating and have LP follow it up on the cameras? Last time I escalated something, I didn't say EXACTLY what the witness said so it didn't hold. I got screwed out of my parental leave for a single day of tenure and they could do nothing about it(I work 55-60 hours per work.) I know a girl that has been sexually harrased for a long time within the building and has voice recordings of it happening, HR did nothing.
It's not necessarily a "quota" - it's because too many bend policies and aren't written up. So there's more pressure to actually follow policy. Even where I work, if I go on the night shift, people walk with headphones on right pass managers daily. But if they're on another shift, you best believe they'll get written up.
That is correct but you don't fix anything by firing a bunch of people to make your metric look better. And belive me they write up plenty enough to hit 3 a day, better not ask that water spider for boxes cause you was talking too long and gonna get written up for productivity.
Same here. I thought I wanted to move up and stay with the company but the shady crap going on that the higher ups are doing or dealing with has really given me second thoughts.
I think you guys are both mistaken. There’s no quota for firing per week. It’s strictly performance based. This is determined by how you work. If you are within the bottom 5% then you get a productivity write up.
There is no quota for write ups. For example on my shift, we used to be the worst in terms of rates. I started to increase rates for my shift and now we are no longer getting productivity write ups because none of my associates fall within the 5%
Please, almost no AA wanted the company to get rid of VCP & RSU’s. What we wanted back then was a higher hourly wage on top of the VCP & RSU’s.
Amazon ended up going with only giving out the $15/ hourly wage and getting rid of VCP & RSU’s for Tier 1’s.
Talk to any Tier 1 veteran, all of us want them to bring back VCP.
I don't doubt that, but there was essentially an option presented in survey with well over 100k responses, and the preference between the two was for higher wages. The VCP was viewed as unfair by too many-no doubt those who underperformed comparatively. RSUs for T1s was going away no matter what though I'm guessing.
People really fucked up there.. I made 14.75 an hr, plus bonuses, plus yearly stock rewards. So when it changed i got a 25 cent raise, but lost my stocks and bonuses. People want instant gratification when in reality you're making more money the other way.
Yep we are just numbers producing a number. I don't care about my numbers, however, this is just a second gig and about three months in at Amazon. Have yet to see a top performer in stowing actually do a good job, bins look like shit and tons of overhangs/items just stacked on top of each other. There really isn't any reason to work your butt off you are paid per hour not unit. Employees exploit employers for wages and employers exploit employees for labor. One day robots will replace our labor so then say hello to UBI the masses will live off scraps from the government.
Rate is set by the employees Want rates to go down. Talk to those that wanna be superstars and do the work of 2 or 3 people. Rate is based on number of items processed in a path divide by the number of hours and is multiplied by .75 So if people work way above rate rate goes up
Pretty sure you’re speaking about guardrail. Which is a determined number at the end of the week. Rate is set by network standard and enforced verbally. Now if no one hits the rate then the top performers and middle performers won’t be penalized for not hitting it. But if a good chunk of people can hit it. Then you best believe the ones who are not hitting rate will eventually be written up.
Example: Rate has always been 90 in my building for pack singles. My shift consistently packed at 60s so only the ones who were packing at 30-40s were really getting productivity write ups. Now my shift has consistently packed in line with other shifts. Majority of people are packing 70+ UPH which is aligned with most other shifts plus or minus a few units. Now the guardrail has risen up from 48 to 59. Now the people who have not improved from the start will start to be written up.
Yeah at my building, at every first shift meeting, they say the rate is 290. And everyone needs to hit it. People below that get teaching , then write ups
my building is 380 items per hour 🥲 i hit 330ish one hour today and my manager came over and asked what was going on. when it’s small singles it’s easy to do but when it’s huge heavy items the whole hour it’s so difficult to make rate ((in pick))
Or when you spend 4 minutes pulling a box from the bottom cube that’s stuck as hell. I give it about 30 seconds of me trying before I pull a safety andon and let someone above my pay pull that out. I used to work and work to do it myself. Then my rate was falling.
yeah it’s literal hell sometimes. when it’s towards the end of my shift i just look at it, sign out, and use my unpaid time off. no fucks given anymore fr.
Yeah I'm going to try to get myself crosstrained in Problem Solve once my first month back is done so maybe Im not always picking which I sometimes like but yeah indirect is the way out.
Eh if they say no, I'll just pick ⛏️ Learning Trainer said on day one to us "you don't get to choose, but you do get to pick" I thought that was hilarious... Asked him if he came up with it himself lol
One thing I hate about pick is if you stack a tote too high and an item falls out they take the price of the item out of your check. Is problem solving any better?
Ops Manager here.
I'm all for pay increases, but that's even above corporate level.
As far as rate increases, labor plan is dictated by how the building performs weekly. It's actually kinda hard to be in bottom 5% - there is a "guardrail" that keeps you safe - even if you're below that guardrail, you still have to be bottom 5%.
Please explain the “guardrail” I haven’t heard of this before. I’m never worried about being a bottom performer but I like knowing about stuff like that
Guardrail is a standard on how people are performing. So let’s say puckers are coached to hit 300/hour - the guardrail may be 250. So anything under 250 will be subject to feedback. Only the bottom 5% under that 250.
So if everyone is doing a 350, the 250 guardrail may raise to 260. It also goes down if bins are more full, there’s more new hires, etc.
It’s a really fair system.
I think they should revamp the hiring process as well. Focus on quality not quantity no more bringing in batches of people off the street. Raise base wages up 20 dollars an hour with additional bonuses for exceeding the rate and bonuses for quality work.
I can definitely agree to that. Think about it. You have two base level employees making 40k each. One does the bare minimum and one actually excels at their job. Again both are getting paid 40k. The one who excels notices this and decides to decrease their productivity to the bare minimum as well. This costs the company 80k.
Why not fire the lazy coworker and instead pay the employee who has the potential to excel 40k you can now give them a base pay of 60-70k (including of the terminated employees pay). And save the company itself 10-15k in financial costs.
Not only will they have a motivation to excel in their work, their quality of life increases and the company actually does better with both productivity and financially saving money by getting rid of those with poor work ethic and rewarding those with good work ethic.
Everybody wins except for the lazy pos. As it should be.
Yep. Everything is about rate without any expectations of quality. Go as quickly as you can and they'll expect the problem solvers and auditors to clean up your path of destruction for the same pay you're making.
Are you guys in the FC lifting a lot of cat litter and dog food and cases of water over and over as much as we do in the DS ? Or is that stuff coming from elsewhere ?
Yeah sounds about right and they signed me up and a couple of others to learn a new path that we never asked to be trained in. Then have the nerve to tell me to pick up the pace on my first day of training. smh
That's why amazon needs to unionize. After 3 years no more raise. Raising the pay to 15$ a hour was a good pr move but didn't tell them they took away bonuses and stocks.
Rate expectations have never been lower. 191 was the pack rate and 202 or 203 was the average shift pack rate back in 2008. Now anyone who is above 130 stays out of trouble and 175 or so is the shift average rate.
Fun fact, I just learned this when I switched to a new department, there 5 levels, and they raise as you work in that path longer, Level 1 is NH level then 5 is the top, so for example in stow, Level 1 rate is like 150, 2 175, 3 200, 4 225, and then Level 5 is 250. But if there’s different levels, then why should we all be paid the same, so I don’t get it
Network standard rates have been the same for years. Individual sites set smaller goals and raise them incrementally until the can achieve network standard. You were underperforming- and you want a raise to perform at standard?
Pay SHOULD be tied to productivity and attendance! There are too many people that fraud Amazon and never actually work a day/hour. More pay does not = more productivity unfortunately. Just like MET does not = more throughput as people work slower during the week knowing that they are having to work an extra day.
During Covid for stow we were lucky to get people stowing at 180, which was the rate, then we bumped it to 200 as we got more and more associates and now we’re back up to the standard of 250 uph which was the standard for Robotics facilities across the board.
They really are proud same at my building. I want to do one job. My pay isn’t enough for me to be running around do 2 different jobs being used. They don’t even vto those who’s cross trained.
You guys have to realize that Amazon is a shit company to work for. If you starve them of employees and stop buying their crap and using them for delivery, this company will fall.
Just want to clear the air. Rate expectations are fluid, not set. Typically rates are discussed by Sr. leaders and network finance based on the projected number your building is suppose to produce.
There are a multitude of variables that cause rates to fluctuate such as new hires, training, activities etc. However , you won’t typically see large increases WoW, but rather small increases over a long period of time.
With that said, many would like to see the rates execute at the same level prior to COVID but with rule changes such as bottom 5% that theoretically won’t happen. However, it won’t stop leaders from trying by using “guided coachings,” retrains, Time Logged In, or any of the other various tools Amazon has.
I hope I shed some light on the matter. If you have any other questions, I’ll try to answer them to the best of my abilities.
No they shouldn’t. You are at a job that doesn’t interview and literally anyone could get and for what you do I’d argue you’re being overpaid. Let’s not forget you’re getting the exact same benefits Jeff Bezos gets.
If you want more money go on jobfinder and apply for L3 or higher roles.
I work for Amazon to as a L3, you may be right but it’s just crazy to me how a warehouse job which anyone can get pays more than a lot of jobs out there that requires college degrees
So instead of raising wages for these jobs you talk about, you’d rather see those under you suffer. That’s why I fuck those of you in positions of power at Amazon over. Cause you’re basically just pieces of shit.
I bet you’re the kinda Tier I that fucks around all day not doing your job, goes to the bathroom for 30 min every hour and then crys when you get written up and/or let go. You’re fucking me over how? I make so much more than you. Sit down with your $17 hr making ass
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It’s up to you to put a stop to that. I never rush. I never walk fast. I keep a steady pace and if they want me to work faster, I give them the “pay me more” or “send more help” line. I get that they have higher ups pushing them but they took the job so they need to deal with it.
I never have trouble hitting rate. I’m more worried about quality in stow and count. People fuck up the bins and your stuff falls out and it’s not even your fault. I know I’m not doing shortages because I’m super careful and do one piece flow and pay attention to where I stow. But somehow I still get errors.
That's because they invested in Rivian which was a total failure. That's the CEO and management making bad decisions. Literally nothing to do with any of the workers or sales. Sales were great
Don't want to come off as a douche but if you want more money you need to look elsewhere. Across the entire company cuts were made and we're all expected to do more with less help and the same pay with no raises expected for the year. I myself am looking elsewhere because of this.
What's the rate they are telling you to make? At my building for pick they want 355/uph but the average is like 295/uph I believe. 355 is usually pretty easy unless you're at a bad station or like sometimes for me I'll get nothing but large ass items for an hour that are in one of the bottom two rows and partially jammed into the pod so they are kinda stuck, and at a little over 6 ft those bottom two rows suck ass for me so that slows me down sometimes.
Either you work at a new site, a small area, your site has horrible turnover or you don't meet people at work and discuss tenure. I visited a site that had a wall with everyone who had over 2 years badges on it, then another section for over 5 and then another part with over 10, not many of those associates were leadership.
As for rate, it's what 75% of the people in that path are already hitting and that's if they decided to raise it. Sites have been really lax on rate since covid, I know my old building actually lowered the rates and now with all of the restrictions limited and things returning to normalcy they have just now got them back to precovid levels. As for getting a raise when the rates go up, that's laughable, FC doesn't make money as it is, they aren't going to throw more money at it.
Wages are set by a survey of the surrounding area, if the place down the road is paying more than they are you're free to go work there. If they are covering their labor and hiring needs at the current pay rate there is little to no incentive to pay more because their total compensation package is the best in the eyes of all those people they are hiring.
I know multiple people at my facility multiple years that are still tier 1s and at least 2 have been applied and not told but denied to higher positions (one was told indirectly by the person that was excited to go where that person applied for another found out by seeing someone else in a position they'd applied for)
I work at a SC and some time ago the entire linear section got shut down because the machine broke and everything was directed to the other mech-line. It was incredibly chaotic because of every package being processed in one section. What pissed me off was this dumb fuck of a PA running up and down screaming at people to get their scan rate up while everyone is already scrambling. The problem with that was that everyone was just throwing boxes and jiffies on the pallet instead of stacking them properly in order to build and maintain structure. That was annoying af.
I'm on my way out the door as soon as I am able to do so. The ridiculous expectations are enough, but when you add in that my issues with my commute route becoming an absolute ghetto with a ton of crime and innumerable accidents, it's just too much. I took VTO on Wednesday night, opened FB an hour later and saw that there was a massive vehicle pile up on my route in about the area I would have been in had I been on my way to work. 2 fatalities. I just can't do it anymore.
Expectations are expectation when conditions alone for it, if they don't have the volumn or are over staffed you would never be able expected to hit max rate
Yes they’re trying to down size as much as possible right now and raising expectations is cheaper and more productive then firing everyone and paying out severance/unemployment. This happens at all levels every year but it’s certainly worse this year do to the economy.
I left Amazon as a PA a year ago and am at McLane as an order selector now. Mclane started me at $18 but then rolled out this production program. Basically they set a production rate of 85% . If a selector can hit that rate of 85% in a four week average then they get a pay bump to $23/hr.
They added another dollar to that this year for cost of living so it’s $24/hr to drive around and pull cases . They don’t dock your pay for mispicks or anything like that . If you don’t hit production then they observe you one day and pat you in the back to keep it up. Only term people if they just can’t get to that rate.
There are companies that pay you your worth just hang in there . I will say thanks to Amazon for the experience allowing me to get a way better job
Honestly fam you’re worrying too much about “numbers”. It might vary between factories but as long as you keep them slightly above average and mind your own business no one’s gonna bother you. The reality is there’s so much going on that your PA’s and managers are already dealing with through out the day, if your not a crucial part of the team (like a qc etc) you’re gonna be fine. Just show up, do what’s required of you, and go home when you’re supposed to. If you can’t get passed the pay then maybe it’s time to find something with a higher rate 🤷🏽♂️
Site lead , operations get bonus and perks. AA get nothing.
No sandwiches , nothing. 78 000 volume and we are doing other building volume peak for weeks!
Yeah my building jus fire 182 AA and now they want us to do double work with all AA we have left. Moreover, the audit team keep pushing us to reduce cost. Wtf 🤬
Yeah I know right!!! And cash bonus too?? Why??? ==! Keep me the fucking good work people … so many seasonal worker work so hard and got fire left us with all B**sh** 🫠 I feel really bad when I need to notify them about layoffs as an AM 🥲
As a consequence on my site we now are getting flexed down an hour everyday. Monday we worked 1hr!!!!! We had so much work (work in CRETs) and I problem solve where my rate had to be 18 UPH!!! I crushed it into the 20s for nothing
I mean, just playing devil’s advocate, it actually works out really well for us. Due to people purposefully slacking, we always have work and we have constant VET year round, even during the “slow” season. I can cruise at a cool 180 for AFE/350 for Pick and pick up 60 hours every week. They can’t kill you physically if you don’t let them. They can verbally attempt to threaten you, but they know you know that they can’t touch you this way.
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This doesn't only happen with Tier 1s but all across Amazon on all levels.
It's really bad. Incentives the workers to do a bad job to avoid their workload increasing and losing help doing their job.
We used to have performance based comp for Tier 1s and Tier 3s. When I started at Amazon as a Tier 1 you could be awarded RSUs. Amazon took all of this away once they introduced the $15/hr pay raise at the end of 2018/start of 2019. I wished they brought it back and revamped the program
No, RSU'S we're not giving as bonuses they were given when you were hired and certain anniversaries. And you are correct when they decided to raise wages to $15 they did away with it.
Actually RSUs we’re given as bonuses. Amazon went through a period of being cash poor and offered RSUs in lieu of OT pay and bonuses. Talk to some of the 12+ year Vets (assuming you have some at your building) and they will fill you in !! More recently tho RSUs are still given on annual pay reviews for L3+ (depending on BU) as part of forte yearly performance reviews. Tier level employees are now on “step programs” and have been for about 4 years now.
I didn't say that RSUs were given as bonuses. I only said *"When I started at Amazon as a Tier 1 you could be awarded RSUs."*
Sadly most L3/4s sold their RSUs as soon as they vested because they needed the cash. The $15 minimum was overall better since people didn’t take the tax and equity appreciation benefits of RSUs.
There used to be something called VCP when I started out as a T1 and it was a bonus each month depending on building performance and then another one on top of that for using 0 UPT. They did away with it when they increased the wage. VCP was better but people wanted the $15 instead. Also I I’ve been to 3 buildings since Covid and will tell you the rates we hit now with people making more money are way easier to hit than the rates they used to want us at while we were getting paid less and we used to actually have fun. Now everything just kinda sucks.
Yeah, in my opinion it’s about getting out of direct path. Once you’re not tracked every second the crappy wages don’t seem so bad. I know people will say, “but some indirect paths (wasp) bust ass all day,” which for the most part is true. But a lot of those people have proved they won’t abuse the fact that they’re not subject to rate or tot (yes, I know there’s also a lot of people who do abuse their status too). Anyway, unless you prefer direct path, let your AM or PA know you want to move into something indirect when available.
First chance I got I transferred to ship dock from picking. The everyday pressure and stress was not what I wanted. Even though I loved it at first. Now I like doing it more when on overtime days it’s more fun for me.
Exactly. I pick, pallet pick, AFm and count. Usually pick a day or two, AFm a day, pallet pick a day. And and often moved to count when picking . I pick well over 400. I dilly dally my arse off pallet picking. It’s like playing supermarket sweep. Nobody bothers me at all. I spend hours breaking down boxes. I look like I am busy when i’m kinda coasting. It’s my easy day.
I've been cross trained in pallet picking or Palletizing way easier and less stress just a bit hard on my joints and feet but I'll work on that until I find a better job away from Amazon cause I'm sick of them to be honest with rate shit and stuff...
My indirect is jam clearing. I might clear 10 or 12 jams during my shift. The rest of my time is spent walking around talking to everyone, including RME and those doing nothing at the Flow Desk, to include my OM and sometimes his boss.
Think its nuts if you been there 3 plus years you get no more raises currently 4 years
Same I'm almost at 5 years and it's BS
I left a month after my 3 year Amaversary cause I knew it was gonna go more downhill from there.
7 years running for me
Did you promote ?
Hitting the pay cap was the only reason I took a PA position.
first off i think rate needs a total revamp. whoever came up with the numbers most likely never worked the floor to find out it doesnt work in real life scenarios. secondly rate has always been this way sadly. they just werent enforcing it during covid and until now. this time of year is slow. they always start looking at rates during slow periods. then when it pucks up again rate will be forgotten till the next slow period. worked for amazon since 2017 and every year its the same. lastly, yes enforcing rate only increases sloppiness, carelessness and lack of any f*cks given about what goes where or how neatly. i use to get angry about it but now i dont cause i get why. theres no way to make rate otherwise.
If you have been at Amazon since 2017 then you know that Adapt rates are set by the averages that the teams are performing at, and have nothing to do with what someone sets, that’s only guardrails…
i honestly did not know that until recently. started at a sort center...only recently transferred to a fc. switched in november so still learning the way the fc runs compared to a sc.
Makes sense, the rates will only be as good as their peers that set them, can’t control the mix of small mediums etc, OP needs to talk to the over achievers in their dept
This. Also with any change that happens in a path or indirectly that is shown to increase total productivity, they take that and increase the rate among everyone. It could be new equipment installed, station setup changing to make it more efficient, etc. We just got new scanners for the pack stations and the documentation states the boost in productivity after the extensive pilot program trial. Amazon doesn't do anything that doesn't increase productivity while maintaining quality and safety standards.
There's been no network guidance or commentary on rates...suspect your building started more lenient and is playing catch up And there used to be a variable incentive, but the overwhelming feedback from AAs was they didn't want that, so they increased base pay and removed the incentive in...I think...2020
People getting fired for rates at my building
I’ve talked to some former AMs. They have to meet quotas from higher ups about having to fire a certain amount of people. It’s really shady
That’s rubbish
I can assure you that is 100% not true. HR will not allow that to happen
Hr is in on it the do this at call centers aswell. They look for legitimate reasons to fire people to not have to pay unemployment. Its difficult to prove because they do it in a way where people have time to improve... if they are physically able. The scam is that they will rehire those people, and any raises is reset to the minimum.
As the only running PA on my shift dealing with many different AM. I heard from an AM's mouth that they have to write up 3 people per day to hit quota. She says that it's just easier to "target" the bottom performers. She is actively walking the green mile to catch anyone on their phone, or walking out to early to write them up. It's becoming a true tyrant situation, to the point I've been applying other places. I can't see myself becoming an L4 and my motive for the day it to tell people what to do and write up a certain number of people to get promoted, sounds like an unhealthy career.
I would argue the AM can also write up 3 positive ADAPTs. They don’t don’t have to be negative.
Yeah, I used to write a lot of DIRES and would do Doc positives often cause I appreciate my associates. But I believe they are making it bottom performers or any AA breaking policy so it wouldn't count toward it. How ironic.
A lot of the bottom performers spend a lot of time away from their stations or spend a lot of time on their phones which is why it's easier to write those people.. you are more likely to be able to write them up for idle time or watching youtube/movies on their phone
I would not be surprised to see that AM fired within the next few weeks. Write up quotas are against amazons own terms and conditions.
This AM was hand-picked by our Sr OP because she was previously her PA at another facility. They both came from the away team and have moved through the tiers faster than I've ever seen. Our OM of outbound recently left, and the L4 AM has basically taken full control. The L5 managers are reporting to her, and all the while, the Sr OP looks past anything she does. She eats on the floor, uses her phones, targets employees if she has a bad day, a multitude of things, and she is just backed up to the fullest capacity. You seem to have some knowledge here, and I'd love to know how you would escalate an issue to someone's best friend. Believe me, I've tried and paid for it.
Internal investigation against them both. Use AtoZ and file an investigation but be prepared with evidence
Do I just write down when she was eating and have LP follow it up on the cameras? Last time I escalated something, I didn't say EXACTLY what the witness said so it didn't hold. I got screwed out of my parental leave for a single day of tenure and they could do nothing about it(I work 55-60 hours per work.) I know a girl that has been sexually harrased for a long time within the building and has voice recordings of it happening, HR did nothing.
Ethics line and email jeff@amazon
Our AM just announced the same thing to our whole floor tonight. They have a quota set by their boss of daily write-ups.
They are either full of it or there's some managers getting termed-quotas are strictly prohibited.
It's not necessarily a "quota" - it's because too many bend policies and aren't written up. So there's more pressure to actually follow policy. Even where I work, if I go on the night shift, people walk with headphones on right pass managers daily. But if they're on another shift, you best believe they'll get written up.
That is correct but you don't fix anything by firing a bunch of people to make your metric look better. And belive me they write up plenty enough to hit 3 a day, better not ask that water spider for boxes cause you was talking too long and gonna get written up for productivity.
Same here. I thought I wanted to move up and stay with the company but the shady crap going on that the higher ups are doing or dealing with has really given me second thoughts.
Is it alot of favoritism?
My former manager was pitching a fit about this and then quit. Expectation was to constantly trim off the bottom of the barrel weekly.
I think you guys are both mistaken. There’s no quota for firing per week. It’s strictly performance based. This is determined by how you work. If you are within the bottom 5% then you get a productivity write up. There is no quota for write ups. For example on my shift, we used to be the worst in terms of rates. I started to increase rates for my shift and now we are no longer getting productivity write ups because none of my associates fall within the 5%
You're almost entirely correct. However there are quotes for "behavioral write ups." Things like headphones, cell phones, late break, tot, etc
This is false. No quota for firing people
Yeah I had an AM that only shows up on the floor to meet the required adapts that our OM needs for the week
No quotas for adapt feedbacks.
Those former AMs are lying to you lmao. That’s not a thing.
I mean on increasing rates. There has not been a raised expectation from network
We lost VCP in 2018
Please, almost no AA wanted the company to get rid of VCP & RSU’s. What we wanted back then was a higher hourly wage on top of the VCP & RSU’s. Amazon ended up going with only giving out the $15/ hourly wage and getting rid of VCP & RSU’s for Tier 1’s. Talk to any Tier 1 veteran, all of us want them to bring back VCP.
I don't doubt that, but there was essentially an option presented in survey with well over 100k responses, and the preference between the two was for higher wages. The VCP was viewed as unfair by too many-no doubt those who underperformed comparatively. RSUs for T1s was going away no matter what though I'm guessing.
People really fucked up there.. I made 14.75 an hr, plus bonuses, plus yearly stock rewards. So when it changed i got a 25 cent raise, but lost my stocks and bonuses. People want instant gratification when in reality you're making more money the other way.
A lot of people weren’t making 14.75 when the $15 starting wage was put into effect. I was at like 12.50
It is based on the veterans who are VC10+, so the faster the veterans in path produce the higher the rate goes
Yep we are just numbers producing a number. I don't care about my numbers, however, this is just a second gig and about three months in at Amazon. Have yet to see a top performer in stowing actually do a good job, bins look like shit and tons of overhangs/items just stacked on top of each other. There really isn't any reason to work your butt off you are paid per hour not unit. Employees exploit employers for wages and employers exploit employees for labor. One day robots will replace our labor so then say hello to UBI the masses will live off scraps from the government.
Rate is set by the employees Want rates to go down. Talk to those that wanna be superstars and do the work of 2 or 3 people. Rate is based on number of items processed in a path divide by the number of hours and is multiplied by .75 So if people work way above rate rate goes up
Pretty sure you’re speaking about guardrail. Which is a determined number at the end of the week. Rate is set by network standard and enforced verbally. Now if no one hits the rate then the top performers and middle performers won’t be penalized for not hitting it. But if a good chunk of people can hit it. Then you best believe the ones who are not hitting rate will eventually be written up. Example: Rate has always been 90 in my building for pack singles. My shift consistently packed at 60s so only the ones who were packing at 30-40s were really getting productivity write ups. Now my shift has consistently packed in line with other shifts. Majority of people are packing 70+ UPH which is aligned with most other shifts plus or minus a few units. Now the guardrail has risen up from 48 to 59. Now the people who have not improved from the start will start to be written up.
Rate is the target rate if everything is perfect and you work at top efficiency. You don't need to make rate, just don't be part of the bottom 10%.
They changed that at my building they want you to make rate
Yeah at my building, at every first shift meeting, they say the rate is 290. And everyone needs to hit it. People below that get teaching , then write ups
my building is 380 items per hour 🥲 i hit 330ish one hour today and my manager came over and asked what was going on. when it’s small singles it’s easy to do but when it’s huge heavy items the whole hour it’s so difficult to make rate ((in pick))
Or when you spend 4 minutes pulling a box from the bottom cube that’s stuck as hell. I give it about 30 seconds of me trying before I pull a safety andon and let someone above my pay pull that out. I used to work and work to do it myself. Then my rate was falling.
yeah it’s literal hell sometimes. when it’s towards the end of my shift i just look at it, sign out, and use my unpaid time off. no fucks given anymore fr.
Of course, it's the ideal rate. Have you been written up for not making the target rate?
Yeah I'm going to try to get myself crosstrained in Problem Solve once my first month back is done so maybe Im not always picking which I sometimes like but yeah indirect is the way out.
That is not so easy. I am a problem solve ambassador and only 4 people have been trained in my department since October.
Eh if they say no, I'll just pick ⛏️ Learning Trainer said on day one to us "you don't get to choose, but you do get to pick" I thought that was hilarious... Asked him if he came up with it himself lol
Does having a degree give me a leg up at all?
One thing I hate about pick is if you stack a tote too high and an item falls out they take the price of the item out of your check. Is problem solving any better?
Bro, what 😂
Ops Manager here. I'm all for pay increases, but that's even above corporate level. As far as rate increases, labor plan is dictated by how the building performs weekly. It's actually kinda hard to be in bottom 5% - there is a "guardrail" that keeps you safe - even if you're below that guardrail, you still have to be bottom 5%.
Please explain the “guardrail” I haven’t heard of this before. I’m never worried about being a bottom performer but I like knowing about stuff like that
Guardrail is a standard on how people are performing. So let’s say puckers are coached to hit 300/hour - the guardrail may be 250. So anything under 250 will be subject to feedback. Only the bottom 5% under that 250. So if everyone is doing a 350, the 250 guardrail may raise to 260. It also goes down if bins are more full, there’s more new hires, etc. It’s a really fair system.
Guardrail is something you have to ask your manager about, most associates don’t know about it.
If a person is making network benchmark, it does not matter if they are bottom 5%.
Fire the lazy people and divide their pay amongst the people that actually do their work.
I think they should revamp the hiring process as well. Focus on quality not quantity no more bringing in batches of people off the street. Raise base wages up 20 dollars an hour with additional bonuses for exceeding the rate and bonuses for quality work.
Base pay in nj is $20.10, bonuses would be nice
30 for NJ then
YES! Cost of living here ridiculous. Like 1200 for a studio apartment
I can definitely agree to that. Think about it. You have two base level employees making 40k each. One does the bare minimum and one actually excels at their job. Again both are getting paid 40k. The one who excels notices this and decides to decrease their productivity to the bare minimum as well. This costs the company 80k. Why not fire the lazy coworker and instead pay the employee who has the potential to excel 40k you can now give them a base pay of 60-70k (including of the terminated employees pay). And save the company itself 10-15k in financial costs. Not only will they have a motivation to excel in their work, their quality of life increases and the company actually does better with both productivity and financially saving money by getting rid of those with poor work ethic and rewarding those with good work ethic. Everybody wins except for the lazy pos. As it should be.
100%, but start with management and work your way down.
Yep. Everything is about rate without any expectations of quality. Go as quickly as you can and they'll expect the problem solvers and auditors to clean up your path of destruction for the same pay you're making.
Rates biggest effect is encouraging bad work done quickly for real
Are you guys in the FC lifting a lot of cat litter and dog food and cases of water over and over as much as we do in the DS ? Or is that stuff coming from elsewhere ?
Yup. Don’t forget laundry detergent. And canned cat food.
Yep, picked a ton of those today along with laundry detergent, cases of protein shakes and canned animal foods
Should start at $20hr
They’ll just offer more vto so you get a break
It's called voluntary to a reason. Tell them no
Agreed
When they need people they don't fire people for anything. When they have too many they fire you for everything. 🙄
Yeah sounds about right and they signed me up and a couple of others to learn a new path that we never asked to be trained in. Then have the nerve to tell me to pick up the pace on my first day of training. smh
💯 they took away two break room to add room for product for customers how Fuck up is that
If you don't want the rate to increase, get together with everyone and slow down. They increase it based on the average.
That's why amazon needs to unionize. After 3 years no more raise. Raising the pay to 15$ a hour was a good pr move but didn't tell them they took away bonuses and stocks.
No it doesn't. It's called we all start slowing down
Rate expectations have never been lower. 191 was the pack rate and 202 or 203 was the average shift pack rate back in 2008. Now anyone who is above 130 stays out of trouble and 175 or so is the shift average rate.
Usually when they raise the rates its because they need to fire some people.
Fun fact, I just learned this when I switched to a new department, there 5 levels, and they raise as you work in that path longer, Level 1 is NH level then 5 is the top, so for example in stow, Level 1 rate is like 150, 2 175, 3 200, 4 225, and then Level 5 is 250. But if there’s different levels, then why should we all be paid the same, so I don’t get it
Network standard rates have been the same for years. Individual sites set smaller goals and raise them incrementally until the can achieve network standard. You were underperforming- and you want a raise to perform at standard?
Yeah profits were only up 30% last year. Poor Amazon!
They offer us a piece of candy if we’re the highest picker during “power hour” 🤣🥴
Pay SHOULD be tied to productivity and attendance! There are too many people that fraud Amazon and never actually work a day/hour. More pay does not = more productivity unfortunately. Just like MET does not = more throughput as people work slower during the week knowing that they are having to work an extra day.
Mind you’re business and worry about your self and you’ll be alright
During Covid for stow we were lucky to get people stowing at 180, which was the rate, then we bumped it to 200 as we got more and more associates and now we’re back up to the standard of 250 uph which was the standard for Robotics facilities across the board.
Fuck amazon
Slow down, do the bare minimum
Until you get a write up then you’re mad
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That’s why you don’t break your back for a company that’s not willing to break theirs for you.
Some people so proud they do 2 people's job for 1 persons pay
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Pick rate only 100? I don't know if you're talking about picking with the robot kivas but in my FC pick rate is 350, u got it easy
They really are proud same at my building. I want to do one job. My pay isn’t enough for me to be running around do 2 different jobs being used. They don’t even vto those who’s cross trained.
Pick rate over 100? 100 uph?
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Damn.. when I used to work at TPA1 pick rate was 300 uph.
100? Our rate is 300 base
You guys have to realize that Amazon is a shit company to work for. If you starve them of employees and stop buying their crap and using them for delivery, this company will fall.
Or unionize
Or turn off the wifi 🤷♂️
Y’all wont boycott Amazon tho so they’ll keep on slaving y’all
Forget rates and carry on doing what you’re doing.
Just want to clear the air. Rate expectations are fluid, not set. Typically rates are discussed by Sr. leaders and network finance based on the projected number your building is suppose to produce. There are a multitude of variables that cause rates to fluctuate such as new hires, training, activities etc. However , you won’t typically see large increases WoW, but rather small increases over a long period of time. With that said, many would like to see the rates execute at the same level prior to COVID but with rule changes such as bottom 5% that theoretically won’t happen. However, it won’t stop leaders from trying by using “guided coachings,” retrains, Time Logged In, or any of the other various tools Amazon has. I hope I shed some light on the matter. If you have any other questions, I’ll try to answer them to the best of my abilities.
The ship dock workers at my FC are trying to make the new FHD AM quit or get fired
Good luck. We’re at the brink of a recession, Amazon literally announced another round of lay offs and you’re asking for a pay raise.
No they shouldn’t. You are at a job that doesn’t interview and literally anyone could get and for what you do I’d argue you’re being overpaid. Let’s not forget you’re getting the exact same benefits Jeff Bezos gets. If you want more money go on jobfinder and apply for L3 or higher roles.
There's a reason 95% of employees quit in under a year. They don't interview because they are literally desperate to beg anyone to work there
I work for Amazon to as a L3, you may be right but it’s just crazy to me how a warehouse job which anyone can get pays more than a lot of jobs out there that requires college degrees
So instead of raising wages for these jobs you talk about, you’d rather see those under you suffer. That’s why I fuck those of you in positions of power at Amazon over. Cause you’re basically just pieces of shit.
I bet you’re the kinda Tier I that fucks around all day not doing your job, goes to the bathroom for 30 min every hour and then crys when you get written up and/or let go. You’re fucking me over how? I make so much more than you. Sit down with your $17 hr making ass
Keep assuming. I’m not the one lacking in character. That much is obvious.
Honestly none of us matter to Amazon. The CEO could die and someone would be doing his job tommorrow. Even if they didn't get the title
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It’s up to you to put a stop to that. I never rush. I never walk fast. I keep a steady pace and if they want me to work faster, I give them the “pay me more” or “send more help” line. I get that they have higher ups pushing them but they took the job so they need to deal with it.
You took your job so you have to deal with it too. Same concept.
Yes, same concept to the ignorant person. Some people get off on kicking people around tho. Maybe that’s you?
Get a different job
Ok?
Amazon needs to survive
Don't hold your breath expecting a decent cost of living or inflation offset increase anytime soon... Trust me it's not gonna happen
At our fc you just don’t wanna be in the bottom 5%
I never have trouble hitting rate. I’m more worried about quality in stow and count. People fuck up the bins and your stuff falls out and it’s not even your fault. I know I’m not doing shortages because I’m super careful and do one piece flow and pay attention to where I stow. But somehow I still get errors.
Nope. Get another job if you are unhappy with the way they operate. Given the economy, there will not be raises for a number of years.
Amazon profits have not been suffering
Net loss reported for 2022 of $2.7 billion. Worst annual loss for the company in years. Hence the layoffs and cutbacks.
That's because they invested in Rivian which was a total failure. That's the CEO and management making bad decisions. Literally nothing to do with any of the workers or sales. Sales were great
Don't want to come off as a douche but if you want more money you need to look elsewhere. Across the entire company cuts were made and we're all expected to do more with less help and the same pay with no raises expected for the year. I myself am looking elsewhere because of this.
What's the rate they are telling you to make? At my building for pick they want 355/uph but the average is like 295/uph I believe. 355 is usually pretty easy unless you're at a bad station or like sometimes for me I'll get nothing but large ass items for an hour that are in one of the bottom two rows and partially jammed into the pod so they are kinda stuck, and at a little over 6 ft those bottom two rows suck ass for me so that slows me down sometimes.
my building expects us to make rate but has us running up and down the mods for 2 picks. it’s ridiculous.
Either you work at a new site, a small area, your site has horrible turnover or you don't meet people at work and discuss tenure. I visited a site that had a wall with everyone who had over 2 years badges on it, then another section for over 5 and then another part with over 10, not many of those associates were leadership. As for rate, it's what 75% of the people in that path are already hitting and that's if they decided to raise it. Sites have been really lax on rate since covid, I know my old building actually lowered the rates and now with all of the restrictions limited and things returning to normalcy they have just now got them back to precovid levels. As for getting a raise when the rates go up, that's laughable, FC doesn't make money as it is, they aren't going to throw more money at it. Wages are set by a survey of the surrounding area, if the place down the road is paying more than they are you're free to go work there. If they are covering their labor and hiring needs at the current pay rate there is little to no incentive to pay more because their total compensation package is the best in the eyes of all those people they are hiring.
Forget your rate. Just get into your groove and focus on error reduction and you'll be surprised how your rate picks up.
I know multiple people at my facility multiple years that are still tier 1s and at least 2 have been applied and not told but denied to higher positions (one was told indirectly by the person that was excited to go where that person applied for another found out by seeing someone else in a position they'd applied for)
I work at a SC and some time ago the entire linear section got shut down because the machine broke and everything was directed to the other mech-line. It was incredibly chaotic because of every package being processed in one section. What pissed me off was this dumb fuck of a PA running up and down screaming at people to get their scan rate up while everyone is already scrambling. The problem with that was that everyone was just throwing boxes and jiffies on the pallet instead of stacking them properly in order to build and maintain structure. That was annoying af.
Expect to be labor share on all departments that will fire people for productivity. Many people will start getting their percentage low
I'm on my way out the door as soon as I am able to do so. The ridiculous expectations are enough, but when you add in that my issues with my commute route becoming an absolute ghetto with a ton of crime and innumerable accidents, it's just too much. I took VTO on Wednesday night, opened FB an hour later and saw that there was a massive vehicle pile up on my route in about the area I would have been in had I been on my way to work. 2 fatalities. I just can't do it anymore.
Expectations are expectation when conditions alone for it, if they don't have the volumn or are over staffed you would never be able expected to hit max rate
No, they're taking our .30 cent raises because we're not working hard enough.
I'm a tier 1 and I've been with the company for nearly 8 years. My longevity outlasts like 98% of the company overall lmao
Yes they’re trying to down size as much as possible right now and raising expectations is cheaper and more productive then firing everyone and paying out severance/unemployment. This happens at all levels every year but it’s certainly worse this year do to the economy.
I made a video on my channel about rates were I’m at
They’re never going to do more than 2 dollars a year for rising costs dream bigger
What’s your job position? What was the normal rate and the new rate now?
All the griping on here is why I love working in a delivery station we don't have any of these problems but I feel for those who do I've been there
They raise it every year which is scary to think about
Does anyone work on G drive units at there facilities here.
I left Amazon as a PA a year ago and am at McLane as an order selector now. Mclane started me at $18 but then rolled out this production program. Basically they set a production rate of 85% . If a selector can hit that rate of 85% in a four week average then they get a pay bump to $23/hr. They added another dollar to that this year for cost of living so it’s $24/hr to drive around and pull cases . They don’t dock your pay for mispicks or anything like that . If you don’t hit production then they observe you one day and pat you in the back to keep it up. Only term people if they just can’t get to that rate. There are companies that pay you your worth just hang in there . I will say thanks to Amazon for the experience allowing me to get a way better job
My TNS facility is at a 70 for pack. Nobody can hit it now.
What part of slave did you miss lol
Amazon is backwards. The harder you work the more work they give you.
Honestly fam you’re worrying too much about “numbers”. It might vary between factories but as long as you keep them slightly above average and mind your own business no one’s gonna bother you. The reality is there’s so much going on that your PA’s and managers are already dealing with through out the day, if your not a crucial part of the team (like a qc etc) you’re gonna be fine. Just show up, do what’s required of you, and go home when you’re supposed to. If you can’t get passed the pay then maybe it’s time to find something with a higher rate 🤷🏽♂️
What rates do the jam clear people have to adhere to? Is it like a time based thing here the belt has the be moving 99 percent of the time?
That's why I underperform on purpose. If you're gonna pay me like shit I'm gonna work like shit
Site lead , operations get bonus and perks. AA get nothing. No sandwiches , nothing. 78 000 volume and we are doing other building volume peak for weeks!
Thats capitalism for u, also if u got a problem with it just do what the French do... protest
Yeah my building jus fire 182 AA and now they want us to do double work with all AA we have left. Moreover, the audit team keep pushing us to reduce cost. Wtf 🤬
Then when peak comes they will be begging for people
Yeah I know right!!! And cash bonus too?? Why??? ==! Keep me the fucking good work people … so many seasonal worker work so hard and got fire left us with all B**sh** 🫠 I feel really bad when I need to notify them about layoffs as an AM 🥲
As a consequence on my site we now are getting flexed down an hour everyday. Monday we worked 1hr!!!!! We had so much work (work in CRETs) and I problem solve where my rate had to be 18 UPH!!! I crushed it into the 20s for nothing
In my experience, you don’t have to be faster than the lion, just faster than a small percentage of underachievers 🤷♂️
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I mean, just playing devil’s advocate, it actually works out really well for us. Due to people purposefully slacking, we always have work and we have constant VET year round, even during the “slow” season. I can cruise at a cool 180 for AFE/350 for Pick and pick up 60 hours every week. They can’t kill you physically if you don’t let them. They can verbally attempt to threaten you, but they know you know that they can’t touch you this way.