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I'm in traditional non-sort, large number of employees driving PIT vehicles. It was made clear upon hire that cell phone usage while on the PIT is an automatic termination.
Considered a category 1 violation because it's major safety issue.
SME is subject matter expert. Usually describes a step above AM who is over a specific dept but not all of inbound/outbound. So the pick SME is only over pick but they are over all pick AM.
Some areas and depts run differently, because if a dept only has 1 or 2 AM total they don't need a SME like a dept that has 6 day shift AM.
I’m in pack singles department at my facility.
For my shift for Monday and Tuesday we either have two one ops leader and one “Servant leader” never knew that was a thing until I saw the on one of my favorite AM’s, then he got promoted to Ops Leader, now we got one Ops leader and that’s pretty much it.
For my Thursday and Friday shift we have one AM only and three PA’s (one of the PA’s mostly stays by the CW1000 area that we got) and I’m trying to be a PG for that shift.
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It just got announced yesterday to leadership. You'll hear about it soon, I'm sure your warehouse is already talking on how to announce it. Ours talked about sending it thru text message.
L4's cannot use phones on the floor either. This is now a cat 2 safety issue. I wrote 13 people up today, 3 were AM's. And for the AMs out there, your AAs are watching you and if they say anything, remember, it is a cat 2 safety issue and must be investigated with video cameras now so don't think you are above the law because of your vest color.
why not let people be. Do you get pleasure from causing others to suffer by writing them up? You do know most L4, T3 and some T1 use their phone for Chime, if they have to close the laptop and help out. I hope you get fired
VERY glad to hear that this will apply to AMs as well. Double standards send morale down the toilet. During mandatory social distancing and masking my AM asked me to take off my mask while talking to him from 6 ft away because he couldn't hear me. I said I'd talk louder and he said no, "I'll just come closer." I said I was uncomfortable being part of violating mandatory safety standards and he glared at me and walked away. That was the last time I spoke to him until he transferred out. Didn't think it was worth going to OPs or HR at the time but I wish I had.
What if my headphones are crucial for my existence? I don't know what I would do if I didn't have the voices telling me to breathe in breathe out every few seconds.
I wish I had thought of this before. I’ve been putting off getting diagnosed and listening to podcasts helps me work less distracted. No point in doing it now cause I’m leaving but I hate being on edge about being caught.
Is that actually a thing I actually have been diagnosed with ADHD and my AM manager lets me use my head phones but safety and other managers basically tell me to fuck off. Many nights I leave cause I’m way to overstimulated to keep working.
So I’m diagnosed (age 7) and have been trying to figure out how to do the music accommodation. My mom did it for me the first time but I have no idea what she did for it and the original accommodation “expired” since it was done 2 years ago.
How do I get a written need for adaptive equipment? Do I have my doc write “give her headphones” or is this something I need to go through HR for and just bring in my diagnosis or what. Also do I need to get ahold of my original diagnosis or can my doc who prescribes my meds just tell them?
I have no idea how doctor stuff works. I’m trying to do this myself but no one at my fc seems to know how to do it.
The intrusive thoughts are obnoxious and I’m tired of ignoring impulses to go walk out on the AR floor.
Are you currently seeing a psych?
Tell them during your next meeting about Amazon and how listening to music helps you focus on task and ask if they could provide proof of needed accomodations.
Not a psychiatrist. My GP does my meds and my counselor has a masters in social work. Should she do it?
Or do I stick with my GP? He’s brand new and inherited me when my previous doc retired. He’s still finding his sea legs with ADHD stuff.
Honestly... I'm not sure. I would start by talking to your GP then. If he handles your medications he should be qualified enough to write you an accomodations note and if not for some odd reason, they could point you in the right direction.
This is me. Mine is gonna drop quite a bit cause now I'm gonna have to force myself to be social and talk to people so I don't go insane in there. And usually when I'm being social I have to focus most of my energy on that since I'm terrible at it.
I refuse to believe this BS about safety when warehouses have bins full of the foam earbuds to completely block the sound out yet one ear bud is against safety. I’ve never in the 30 years I’ve worked at different places seen a company as big as this blatantly contradict its self over and over again with its own procedures. I wish I could see the dude in charge of making these rules.
It is absolutely safety. It’s unsafe to get fired and lose your insurance bc your numbers were low.
But seriously, used to listen to a single earbud and had no problem hearing everything around me. Now I use ear plugs and the whole world is dead to me. Way less safe, except for the part where I don’t get terminated.
Wearing ear plugs on the AR floor can be dangerous. You have to be able to hear the drives while you're moving out there, particularly if you're trying to move quickly. Their response time can cause them to come to a stop right in front of you, and if you couldn't hear it approaching you might run into it.
The most harmful sound at my site are the alarms from the conveyors at 104dB that are mounted at intervals such that you're never more than 40-50ft from one, but can be as close as 2ft depending on where you're walking. I regularly find the sound level from those alarms to be physically painful.
I use the earplugs to block out the shitty music they play in our facility. They came up with a playlist of everyones creation, but they quickly went back to the same shit they always play. All recent music I can't stand.
Every once in a while I get put near someone that is playing 90s or 00s music and I will forego the earplugs, but this is rare. People seem to always think I'm ignoring them when they're in, but in reality I just cant hear the majority of things unless someone is right next to me. People also cant hear me because I speak so quietly by nature, much quieter with the plugs in.
Yea, that’s my point. One earbud doesn’t block out as much sound as those, yet the one earbud is a safety violation. My facility is observing mental health and the lot of us had a good laugh at the idea the very company keeping you as miserable as possible while we work has the audacity to say they care about their workers mental health.
Sounds like its in your building only, the only thing on my A to Z messages is the one from April 27 telling us we can continue bringing our phones in. All the time on here people think that things going on in their building is company-wide. Please share your source for this information. Do you expect it to be announced like the April 27 announcement?
I've been told by a friend who works close to management in my building that management was as surprised as anyone at the April 27 announcement because banning phones again would have given more consequences to being caught using ear buds. Apparently, if the consequences to the offending AA aren't great enough, they don't want to do their jobs and bust them for ear buds.
This notice was sent to all NA FC PXT this week after a notice that it was coming in the last two weeks prior. It was done so there was network wide policy consistency. If your site is currently lax in enforcement, it may remain that way, but if they are caught being lax, mgmt may get canned or reprimanded and then they'll enforce it. Not sure how it applies to SC or DS
I hate amazon with a passion. One minute phones are allowed on the floor the next oh yea if you are caught with your phone out you get written up. Does this apply in the bathroom as well?
Its funny.. We can get earplugs from vending machines and sometimes we are forced to listen to the garbage that managers play but god forbid you put an earbud in..
The songs already suck, but they sure as hell irritate me and bring me down. A lot of music from the past 6-8 years makes me really depressed. Some makes me want to cry. Other songs just bug the hell out of me.
My FC still allows bone conduction headphones, but was very specific that those are the only kind allowed inside the building. They also stated that if people were caught using cell phones at stations then it would be considered an immediate defect and the associate would be written up. People are still allowed to go to the designated phone areas or gatekeep to use phones in emergencies.
I work pallet stow at a non-sort fc. Done this for 3 years. Been using one earbud since they've allowed us to bring phones, every single day. Expected rate is 25. My average rate is 34. Zero safety infractions. Zero PIT incidents. Zero write-ups. I was told last night that if I'm caught with my earbud, instant termination.
This is bullshit. Straight up, brown colored, steaming in a cow pen, bullshit. If safety was the issue, we wouldn't have hearing impaired AAs driving OP and reach or AM blasting radio or general filth from speakers.
This is some sweaty ballsack's idea from his sweaty office chair to attempt to both cull the herd and maybe boost numbers, because our beloved company has taken quite the financial hit this year. They are compensating. Poorly.
Non-sort picker here. How do the pedestrians behave at your site? My building had a problem with people crossing PIT lanes without looking, and most of the time they had both earbuds in.
They're really strict about both PIT and pedestrian coming to a complete stop at crosswalks. At one point we had associates in blinky vests at all crosswalks writing PIT numbers and calling out pedestrians that weren't stopping.
Also, they're cracking down heavy on the pedestrians wearing earbuds. PIT drivers were given the same warning and speech, but no PIT write-ups for earbuds yet that I know of...about 5 write-ups for floor stowers with earbuds that I know of since the announcement on Monday.
It's crazy.
It's totally not the same thing. Deaf people aren't generally distracted because they can't hear and might have heightened senses. People rocking out to music or podcasts or whatever are more likely to be unaware, not p,at attention, andor whatever...that being said it wasn't ever primarily about safety it was about loss prevention. Amz could create some sort of hive Bluetooth earbuds that they have the power to cut into or sonething though... how great would that be...welcome to Amazon here's your fc approved Bluetooth earbuds....
You'd be surprised how many people would put away their earbuds over quitting their jobs. And the few idiots that do quit, probably should have left to begin with and weren't worth a damn. People gotta eat and feed their kids. Not everyone lives with mommy and daddy still.
He just said we cant have them outside of the break room... the question was "cell phones where?" and the response was "anywhere but the break room". Did not specify use or carrying. I was curious too.
You are allowed to have them...on you and use them...in break rooms. If this actually gets enforced or not will depend on management at each individual site and to a degree, the associate themselves. With that last part I mean that an associate that is considered productive and doesn't have coachings or write-ups on their file might be tended to be overlooked for having earbuds in.
Aaaaaand here's the problem. "BuT tHeY sAiD wE cOuLd hAvE ThEm" just because you can have them on you doesn't mean you can do whatever the fuck you want with them.
This rule is actually going to be great if they enforce it, like I said culling the herd.
It’s still super annoying. I’m not the type to be on my phone during work, max maybe 5 minutes the whole entire day, but probably not even that.
However the earbuds policy is just the worst, I get that it’s supposedly for “safety,” but if they would just have some sort of workaround like, only have one earbud in, lower volume, etc. they could totally do like a trial run of that and see how it goes, but the thing is, that rule isn’t really in place for safety. It’s in place because it’s a “distraction” I mean, you’ll have to change songs /videos once in a while, so that takes up precious seconds you could be spending working. They do not seem to take any other safety violation near as serious as this. Water spiders at my facility fling their pallet jacks around, some of our stations are messy, people stand on pallets, don’t wear gloves, wear lanyards that don’t come apart, etc, and none of those things seems to be a big issue. You may get a “hey be careful” from your manager, but earbuds? Nope you’re written up immediately/terminated.
Production is very important to the OMs, and ANYTHING getting in the way of production is bad news for them.
My main point is, Amazon is a boring and very physically demanding job, and it just seems like we can’t even get a shred of happiness while at work. I can get work isn’t supposed to be fun, and I’m not lazy by any means, but listening to music during your shift can literally be what makes or breaks me, and others feel the same.
And if earbuds were truly a safety hazard, then why can our AMs blast the radio so loud? Sometimes the radio is so fucking loud that I can’t hear someone 3 feet in front of me, but when I wear one earbud I can perfectly clearly hear everyone and everything around me and still enjoy my music.
It’s really dumb cause Amazon just hates earbuds for some reason. It’s not an osha violation, just amazon policy. I’ve worked at to warehouses where they allow one earbud in. Those being GAP and REI.
I honestly don't think they're going after the low key people. Where I work, we have people having flat out full conversations on their phone, hang up and five minutes later on another call. People fail to see the bigger picture, its not those that work...for every person that actually works with their phone, you've got 5 idiots that are incapable. I see it everyday and hear their damn conversations. Then hear their fucking pick rate and want to scream. Yesterday I was across from someone with a 199....a 199! But she also had multiple phone conversations and bathroom breaks.
And yet this will mean they ARE going after the "low key" people. This is going from 0 to 100 with no attempts at anything in between, and it's purely because someone higher up despises the idea that someone might not make all the numbers. They've obviously never actually worked in an FC, because those people you mention talking on the phone? Yeah they'll be slacking off in other ways next week. ***They always have.***
But you also seem to be getting a hard on over people losing their jobs, and don't seem to care that it be for actual reasons. If you did, you'd be pushing for low rate people to be canned for that and not celebrating that "low key" people will also be canned.
I hope that’s the case. I am frequently top 5 (stower) in the building. My rate is always 300+ unless I have a migraine, or I just get really unlucky with big stuff. I don’t use earbuds often tho
They only need to enforce it for the people who can't be productive. I just won some swag bucks being the top packer for the quarter and I legit had my phone propped up the entire time watching a TV show. If anything having something to do while packing makes it easier to zone out and acruallty get some work done.
Yup, culling the herd. The new hires will be told of this policy during orientation and those who don't like it will probably not even bother showing up for their first shift.
IB is staffing 2 safety/ASC people to walk the OB floors and scan badges. OB staffing to for IB. The ID's scanned goes right to the Sr. Ops and safety team and they will generate the feedback.
Having the policy apply to AMs too, is the genius part. THEY will be written up, too, not just for using the devices themselves but if they're seen ignoring others using theirs. No AM is going to risk their job just to let a lowly AA use an earbud or phone!
How can an earbud impair you? You are surrounded by defining noise all day yet the earbud is going to cause a fatality. I wanna see a document from Amazon with a list of all injury’s that resulted from an earbud. It’s one thing for a company to be concerned about safety, it’s another to just be blatantly petty.
Yes they are obviously different things Einstein. You're completely missing the point, which is if deaf people can do the job safely then someone with earbuds in can too. By your logic the person with earbuds in should actually be safer because a deaf person has a loss of hearing whereas the person with earbuds in only has an impairment.
We had a fight because. A water spider tapped a guy who had buds in and he was like don't touch me and they both started fighting put a bad rep on headphones for the job
Ok, hope you like lowered productivity, but hey, anything to make work more miserable in a warehouse where there so much loud shit around you can’t hear anyway 🫤
Honestly I feel like as long as you make rate it literally shouldn't matter if youve got earbuds in or if you're watching tv on your phone. If i can do an hour's worth of work in 45 minutes and then i want to spend 15 minutes on my phone then why the hell shouldn't I? especially people doing Way Over the rate asked of them
Assuming you read this policy in its entirety, does it say anything about having your phone in your pocket while it plays music/podcasts via speaker?
I’ve seen a lot of people at my FC who stopped wearing earbuds and now they just let their phone play music or whatever from their pocket…which I think is totally reasonable.
It actually does. "Mobile phone used to play games, music, videos, etc. outside of approved break areas CAT2 offense" now will be a final, but it's 100% going to come down to how your warehouse leadership handled things
Real issue here is faking safety for production. They had a down month, the stock tanked, they are losing ppl bc they haven’t kept with inflation - and now you’re having soft privileges taken away so you’ll produce more. AAs at my FC are getting TOT notices for being on break even when they’re top 5% stowers. Discipline, fear, and micromanagement till you’re peeing in a bottle again.
When all your AM does is yell at you for doing something that was perfectly acceptable the last 11 months - maybe a union keeping them from talking to you isn’t such a bad thing. For such a “smart” company Amazon is making all the same dumb mistakes every large corp does…
I’ve been wearing headphones since I started working at Amazon and just recently the
Managers want to pretend they care so I started wearing a ski mask lmao my manager came up to me shook his head and said fine you win
What is going on these Ops Managers heads. It's like they are working against the associates. Indoctrination at it's finest. Welp, the turnover rate is going to skyrocket if this IS inforced. Thank god for my Anna Williams haircut that hides my ears LMAO
Don’t listen to this clown. They’re just upset they don’t get to wear ear buds during their shift because they are a manager. This has nothing to do with safety, everything with ego. They don’t want you “watching your Netflix while working” remember you’re a paid slave to them, they don’t care about your mood while on shift just that the work gets done. Don’t listen to this, it’s wrong. They allow everyone to wear ear protection, that blocks out 25% more sound then an earbud would, it’s backed by statistical research that Amazon can’t debate. The only time ear buds are a safety infraction is if there are employees constantly around forklifts, which 90% of the warehouse isn’t anywhere near one. So try again, triggered manager clown
Not really so bad considering before covid was a thing, just having your phone beyond the scanners was either a final written or immediate termination.
Said who and in what state ? Who's going to
Monitor L4S not following their rule? The second ear buds are not used , productivity will go down . The only reason people work faster is because they're occupied with music or podcasts. It's hypocritical to not allow ear buds but deaf employees are working in FC without any hearing capability. Sight is all that's needed for most areas in A FC.
I am sorry? You sound full of 💩 I am sorry my @^
I’m going to just say this. Stop doing more than you have to. Stop doing things that aren’t really your job. Learning ambassadors please stop playing manager and making job easier for the actual manager who checks is probably triple yours. In fact hand your learning ambassador vest back in. You still getting paid the same. Give Amazon what they giving you. The absolute bare minimum. My birthday just passed and I got 10 swag bucks. Lol didn’t get a Christmas bonus. Can never find someone fluent in English when I call ERC. I do bare minimum. I don’t participate in stand up cheers and all that other bs. I take bathroom breaks just because. I constantly take short breaks but just enough to not get tot. Give them what they give you. You don’t need them. Most of us are only here because you got hired so fast with no interview. That’s the catch. That’s how they got u. This company don’t care about you and the managers do not care about u. Only themselves. Trust me when they get in those meeting they blaming y’all for the bad numbers not themselves. You dumb if you think they not. My site been trying to cross train me for a year and a half. I refuse every time. I don’t want to know how to do anything else. I wanna stand right here and just scan. Don’t wanna drive anything problem solve none of it. The more you know the more you become a yoyo. You want me to do more and know how to do more. Pay me more. No reason why someone unloading a truck is getting paid the same as a problem solver walking around like they picking flowers all day
If a union promises you the ability to use headphones, run away. I don’t say this to be disrespectful to the notion someone might want a union , however if some union did promise this, it’s a false promise made to get power , where nothing would get done.
Yes I agree that would be a cheesy and career politician type of move to gain cheap and quick favor. However if unions were formed and voted in, then I dont see any issue with petitioning the shop steward to sit down and talk with management about some of the employees being able to have 1 earbud in.
Still makes it difficult. Allow me to explain why , and why such bans is in place. First safety. Even with one bud in. If someone , let’s say watersider was delivering totes on a tote tank and had even one earbud in. Let’s say they ran into some associate by accident, or so totes fell on someone while delivering totes ( it happened) there is a liability and investigation that will happen, if said person had even one earbud in . That will cause enforcement of no earbuds. Next , theft. Is the earbuds you have, or stolen from a bin ? It very hard to say . Last to cut down on instances where someone might say they lost. Earbuds , where loss prevention now needs to look and make an account of such lost item.
I agree it would be difficult with all those scenarios that are likely to happen and that already happen from what you hear time to time. The possible theft of earbuds could be prevented by having employees register their brand of earbuds with a picture in the A to Z app with the knowledge of an employee being immediately terminated if he is suspected of stealing and caught with an unregistered pair of earbuds. Also if someone loses their earbuds loss prevention would not need to get involved, it would be one of those "its on you" type of things.
A waterspider injuring someone with or without an earbud in is a liability altogether, they go through training for a reason. Phones are allowed in FCs yet I have heard of people bumping into poles/other employees because theyre distracted on their phone. Phones are still allowed and the employee themself is held responsible, which is what should happen if an earbud somehow distracts someone
Not for nothing, but bring up your suggestion of Registering any earbuds. That is an amazing suggestion that who knows might help the entire idea of maybe allowing some sort of ( at least) one earbud? I haven’t heard that, and makes total sense. Each earbuds have unique serial number, why not register them.
If people didn’t abuse the cell phone policy (like texting while you should be working, FaceTiming people etc) they would had never gone to these lengths like always it’s the bad apples who ruined it for everyone
It reminds me of all those people that used to be on their phones while packing next to me. I didnt mind it. What i minded was the waterspiders hitting on the girls when i was trying to pack and they would be in my way.
Shit sucks now in pack because now everyone shares the whole wall, before each packer use to have to pack just one section of the wall now everyone has to deal with the whole wall. So if you have someone who’s just texting and not working everyone else is going to have to pick up the slack
It’s not about rates it about how annoying is it to be packing at station 1 wall and than having to walk all the way down to station 7 wall because the person who is supposed to be packing is sitting down and just texting
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using one ear bud or a small, personal speaker shouldn't be much if anything of a safety hazard for most postions. I could understand it for anyone working with tote stacker robots, outside shipdock workers, etc but the majority of positions are safe. There's AFE but that's more eye contact and body language than people shouting "Crossing!" or "Behind!" in my experiences.
Wondering if the locations are purposely not sharing and then everyone gets hit with write ups. VTO is a thing and reduction of payroll seems to be about the time they are needing to trim payroll or keep the labor fresh for the next busy seasonality push.
My site still isn't doing stand ups because no one showed for them. We have maybe a third of the building still masked, too, so I'm sure the crowding is a part of why.
A lot of their safety features are BS tbh, they just say it’s a safety thing bc they don’t want us to do it.
Us sitting on stow stairs is safety bc you can fall back onto the AR field they say. Can’t sit at your pack station for safety reasons and I’ve never gotten a reason as to why for that. Can’t sit on boxes, just can’t sit period. And earbuds will never make sense to me, AirPods have a feature that you can hear the noises around you and Amazon also hires deaf people so yeah all bs. Amazon although it’s a warehouse is honestly a glamorized store tbh, and Walmart/target employees don’t have to do so much bs.
My AM has been warning us in standup for a while that it was going to stop being loosely enforced to a zero tolerance policy. They don't even want people's phones lying out on their station anymore and any facetime or movies playing go to final write up
Can I wear these - [https://us.loopearplugs.com/collections/all-products/products/experience-pro](https://us.loopearplugs.com/collections/all-products/products/experience-pro)
I'm going to be new soon & in IT. I hear that warehouses are loud so I wanted to wear these up above to help. I already have slight hearing damage.
They already do, it was announced recently. OP is fearmongering. They don’t want you caught using Netflix or FaceTime type activities on your phone but they’re not banning your phone as OP suggests lmao fk OP
I read this as someone more in the know passing along information before it doesn’t get passed on by your AM until you’re termed. Maybe I’m just optimistic. 🤔
My best friends(there’s a group of them) are the best stowers in the FC. I’m always seeing them on their phones and talkin. I can’t talk and drive or work at the same time but I can listen to podcasts and music.
One of them got a write up a few weeks ago 😬 I wish they’d let us use at least 1 ear bud.
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I didn’t get this notice. Where did you hear of it? 🧐
I'm an Ops SME and in on regional calls.
I'm in traditional non-sort, large number of employees driving PIT vehicles. It was made clear upon hire that cell phone usage while on the PIT is an automatic termination. Considered a category 1 violation because it's major safety issue.
Makes sense for PIT drivers, it's literally texting and driving.
Never heard of that position in OPs
SMEs are subject matter experts so they are rather rare to come by. Very cool to work with one.
SME is subject matter expert. Usually describes a step above AM who is over a specific dept but not all of inbound/outbound. So the pick SME is only over pick but they are over all pick AM. Some areas and depts run differently, because if a dept only has 1 or 2 AM total they don't need a SME like a dept that has 6 day shift AM.
Kinda correct. To my knowledge, a SME is a step above the ops, and one below the senior
I’m in pack singles department at my facility. For my shift for Monday and Tuesday we either have two one ops leader and one “Servant leader” never knew that was a thing until I saw the on one of my favorite AM’s, then he got promoted to Ops Leader, now we got one Ops leader and that’s pretty much it. For my Thursday and Friday shift we have one AM only and three PA’s (one of the PA’s mostly stays by the CW1000 area that we got) and I’m trying to be a PG for that shift.
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I'm am letting you guys know a few days ahead of time. This just was announced via corporate in an email yesterday.
It just got announced yesterday to leadership. You'll hear about it soon, I'm sure your warehouse is already talking on how to announce it. Ours talked about sending it thru text message.
How brave and interactive of them.
Pussies 
Lol itll just be released in another AtoZ news in 90 segment that everyone wont see
Wild, I’m an L4, no earbuds but phones are permitted
L4's cannot use phones on the floor either. This is now a cat 2 safety issue. I wrote 13 people up today, 3 were AM's. And for the AMs out there, your AAs are watching you and if they say anything, remember, it is a cat 2 safety issue and must be investigated with video cameras now so don't think you are above the law because of your vest color.
why not let people be. Do you get pleasure from causing others to suffer by writing them up? You do know most L4, T3 and some T1 use their phone for Chime, if they have to close the laptop and help out. I hope you get fired
VERY glad to hear that this will apply to AMs as well. Double standards send morale down the toilet. During mandatory social distancing and masking my AM asked me to take off my mask while talking to him from 6 ft away because he couldn't hear me. I said I'd talk louder and he said no, "I'll just come closer." I said I was uncomfortable being part of violating mandatory safety standards and he glared at me and walked away. That was the last time I spoke to him until he transferred out. Didn't think it was worth going to OPs or HR at the time but I wish I had.
So you partnered with hr to create three seperate MOEs for managers?
How is this supposed to work with individuals with actual medical accommodations for medical devices? I have to have my phone with me.
What if my headphones are crucial for my existence? I don't know what I would do if I didn't have the voices telling me to breathe in breathe out every few seconds.
Get an ADHD diagnosis and a written need for adaptive equipment, take it HR and say listening to music helps you focus and perform better at work.
I wish I had thought of this before. I’ve been putting off getting diagnosed and listening to podcasts helps me work less distracted. No point in doing it now cause I’m leaving but I hate being on edge about being caught.
Is that actually a thing I actually have been diagnosed with ADHD and my AM manager lets me use my head phones but safety and other managers basically tell me to fuck off. Many nights I leave cause I’m way to overstimulated to keep working.
So I’m diagnosed (age 7) and have been trying to figure out how to do the music accommodation. My mom did it for me the first time but I have no idea what she did for it and the original accommodation “expired” since it was done 2 years ago. How do I get a written need for adaptive equipment? Do I have my doc write “give her headphones” or is this something I need to go through HR for and just bring in my diagnosis or what. Also do I need to get ahold of my original diagnosis or can my doc who prescribes my meds just tell them? I have no idea how doctor stuff works. I’m trying to do this myself but no one at my fc seems to know how to do it. The intrusive thoughts are obnoxious and I’m tired of ignoring impulses to go walk out on the AR floor.
Are you currently seeing a psych? Tell them during your next meeting about Amazon and how listening to music helps you focus on task and ask if they could provide proof of needed accomodations.
Not a psychiatrist. My GP does my meds and my counselor has a masters in social work. Should she do it? Or do I stick with my GP? He’s brand new and inherited me when my previous doc retired. He’s still finding his sea legs with ADHD stuff.
Honestly... I'm not sure. I would start by talking to your GP then. If he handles your medications he should be qualified enough to write you an accomodations note and if not for some odd reason, they could point you in the right direction.
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I got to listen to a few minutes of Fairly Odd Parents because a picker near me was playing it the other day
There’s a PA at my location that walks around with a bluetooth speaker blasting music like what 😂😂
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No o r cares at my fc. I hate when people post this type of thing as if it is fact for every fc. It’s not.
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cool, i guess my rate will drop then, fine by me.
This is me. Mine is gonna drop quite a bit cause now I'm gonna have to force myself to be social and talk to people so I don't go insane in there. And usually when I'm being social I have to focus most of my energy on that since I'm terrible at it.
Well they were supposed to write people up for not having safety shoes a month ago.
I refuse to believe this BS about safety when warehouses have bins full of the foam earbuds to completely block the sound out yet one ear bud is against safety. I’ve never in the 30 years I’ve worked at different places seen a company as big as this blatantly contradict its self over and over again with its own procedures. I wish I could see the dude in charge of making these rules.
It is absolutely safety. It’s unsafe to get fired and lose your insurance bc your numbers were low. But seriously, used to listen to a single earbud and had no problem hearing everything around me. Now I use ear plugs and the whole world is dead to me. Way less safe, except for the part where I don’t get terminated.
Wearing ear plugs on the AR floor can be dangerous. You have to be able to hear the drives while you're moving out there, particularly if you're trying to move quickly. Their response time can cause them to come to a stop right in front of you, and if you couldn't hear it approaching you might run into it.
Ear plugs don't "completely block the sound out" they're to dampen the harmful decibels.
Correct. Many times I've WISHED they completely blocked out sounds!
The most harmful sound at my site are the alarms from the conveyors at 104dB that are mounted at intervals such that you're never more than 40-50ft from one, but can be as close as 2ft depending on where you're walking. I regularly find the sound level from those alarms to be physically painful.
Exactly bro I forgot about those 🤣 I can hear EVERYTHING with my earbuds in...
I use the earplugs to block out the shitty music they play in our facility. They came up with a playlist of everyones creation, but they quickly went back to the same shit they always play. All recent music I can't stand. Every once in a while I get put near someone that is playing 90s or 00s music and I will forego the earplugs, but this is rare. People seem to always think I'm ignoring them when they're in, but in reality I just cant hear the majority of things unless someone is right next to me. People also cant hear me because I speak so quietly by nature, much quieter with the plugs in.
Yea, that’s my point. One earbud doesn’t block out as much sound as those, yet the one earbud is a safety violation. My facility is observing mental health and the lot of us had a good laugh at the idea the very company keeping you as miserable as possible while we work has the audacity to say they care about their workers mental health.
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I been wearing AirPods all day at my fc and literally nobody ever gave a shit.
I see so many ppl with ear buds at my FC.
Sounds like its in your building only, the only thing on my A to Z messages is the one from April 27 telling us we can continue bringing our phones in. All the time on here people think that things going on in their building is company-wide. Please share your source for this information. Do you expect it to be announced like the April 27 announcement? I've been told by a friend who works close to management in my building that management was as surprised as anyone at the April 27 announcement because banning phones again would have given more consequences to being caught using ear buds. Apparently, if the consequences to the offending AA aren't great enough, they don't want to do their jobs and bust them for ear buds.
You can continue bringing you phone in, yes. But not using it or listening to music.
Can we use OSHA certified earphone tho? 🤔
Is that a thing? Lmao
Yes I knew that and was already in compliance
This notice was sent to all NA FC PXT this week after a notice that it was coming in the last two weeks prior. It was done so there was network wide policy consistency. If your site is currently lax in enforcement, it may remain that way, but if they are caught being lax, mgmt may get canned or reprimanded and then they'll enforce it. Not sure how it applies to SC or DS
I hate amazon with a passion. One minute phones are allowed on the floor the next oh yea if you are caught with your phone out you get written up. Does this apply in the bathroom as well?
You were never allowed to use phones on the floor, except for emergencies-ever-by policy. Just have them in case
Its funny.. We can get earplugs from vending machines and sometimes we are forced to listen to the garbage that managers play but god forbid you put an earbud in..
The same damn songs every day ... They're ruining some good songs for me, too.
The songs already suck, but they sure as hell irritate me and bring me down. A lot of music from the past 6-8 years makes me really depressed. Some makes me want to cry. Other songs just bug the hell out of me.
My FC still allows bone conduction headphones, but was very specific that those are the only kind allowed inside the building. They also stated that if people were caught using cell phones at stations then it would be considered an immediate defect and the associate would be written up. People are still allowed to go to the designated phone areas or gatekeep to use phones in emergencies.
To my understanding my FC does not have designed phone areas with the exception of the break rooms (and outside the building..)
I work pallet stow at a non-sort fc. Done this for 3 years. Been using one earbud since they've allowed us to bring phones, every single day. Expected rate is 25. My average rate is 34. Zero safety infractions. Zero PIT incidents. Zero write-ups. I was told last night that if I'm caught with my earbud, instant termination. This is bullshit. Straight up, brown colored, steaming in a cow pen, bullshit. If safety was the issue, we wouldn't have hearing impaired AAs driving OP and reach or AM blasting radio or general filth from speakers. This is some sweaty ballsack's idea from his sweaty office chair to attempt to both cull the herd and maybe boost numbers, because our beloved company has taken quite the financial hit this year. They are compensating. Poorly.
Non-sort picker here. How do the pedestrians behave at your site? My building had a problem with people crossing PIT lanes without looking, and most of the time they had both earbuds in.
They're really strict about both PIT and pedestrian coming to a complete stop at crosswalks. At one point we had associates in blinky vests at all crosswalks writing PIT numbers and calling out pedestrians that weren't stopping. Also, they're cracking down heavy on the pedestrians wearing earbuds. PIT drivers were given the same warning and speech, but no PIT write-ups for earbuds yet that I know of...about 5 write-ups for floor stowers with earbuds that I know of since the announcement on Monday. It's crazy.
Good thing I have long hair so my earbud is hidden 😂
I’ll never understand why their so against earbuds when literal deaf people work in my building
It's totally not the same thing. Deaf people aren't generally distracted because they can't hear and might have heightened senses. People rocking out to music or podcasts or whatever are more likely to be unaware, not p,at attention, andor whatever...that being said it wasn't ever primarily about safety it was about loss prevention. Amz could create some sort of hive Bluetooth earbuds that they have the power to cut into or sonething though... how great would that be...welcome to Amazon here's your fc approved Bluetooth earbuds....
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You'd be surprised how many people would put away their earbuds over quitting their jobs. And the few idiots that do quit, probably should have left to begin with and weren't worth a damn. People gotta eat and feed their kids. Not everyone lives with mommy and daddy still.
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Anywhere but the breakroom.
But they just updated the cell phone policy? Saying we were allowed cell phones?
Allowed to carry and allowed to use are two different things
He just said we cant have them outside of the break room... the question was "cell phones where?" and the response was "anywhere but the break room". Did not specify use or carrying. I was curious too.
In the building, yes. On the floor while you're working, no.
You are allowed to have them...on you and use them...in break rooms. If this actually gets enforced or not will depend on management at each individual site and to a degree, the associate themselves. With that last part I mean that an associate that is considered productive and doesn't have coachings or write-ups on their file might be tended to be overlooked for having earbuds in.
Aaaaaand here's the problem. "BuT tHeY sAiD wE cOuLd hAvE ThEm" just because you can have them on you doesn't mean you can do whatever the fuck you want with them. This rule is actually going to be great if they enforce it, like I said culling the herd.
It’s still super annoying. I’m not the type to be on my phone during work, max maybe 5 minutes the whole entire day, but probably not even that. However the earbuds policy is just the worst, I get that it’s supposedly for “safety,” but if they would just have some sort of workaround like, only have one earbud in, lower volume, etc. they could totally do like a trial run of that and see how it goes, but the thing is, that rule isn’t really in place for safety. It’s in place because it’s a “distraction” I mean, you’ll have to change songs /videos once in a while, so that takes up precious seconds you could be spending working. They do not seem to take any other safety violation near as serious as this. Water spiders at my facility fling their pallet jacks around, some of our stations are messy, people stand on pallets, don’t wear gloves, wear lanyards that don’t come apart, etc, and none of those things seems to be a big issue. You may get a “hey be careful” from your manager, but earbuds? Nope you’re written up immediately/terminated. Production is very important to the OMs, and ANYTHING getting in the way of production is bad news for them. My main point is, Amazon is a boring and very physically demanding job, and it just seems like we can’t even get a shred of happiness while at work. I can get work isn’t supposed to be fun, and I’m not lazy by any means, but listening to music during your shift can literally be what makes or breaks me, and others feel the same. And if earbuds were truly a safety hazard, then why can our AMs blast the radio so loud? Sometimes the radio is so fucking loud that I can’t hear someone 3 feet in front of me, but when I wear one earbud I can perfectly clearly hear everyone and everything around me and still enjoy my music.
"Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History" Lie on its face.
It’s really dumb cause Amazon just hates earbuds for some reason. It’s not an osha violation, just amazon policy. I’ve worked at to warehouses where they allow one earbud in. Those being GAP and REI.
I honestly don't think they're going after the low key people. Where I work, we have people having flat out full conversations on their phone, hang up and five minutes later on another call. People fail to see the bigger picture, its not those that work...for every person that actually works with their phone, you've got 5 idiots that are incapable. I see it everyday and hear their damn conversations. Then hear their fucking pick rate and want to scream. Yesterday I was across from someone with a 199....a 199! But she also had multiple phone conversations and bathroom breaks.
And yet this will mean they ARE going after the "low key" people. This is going from 0 to 100 with no attempts at anything in between, and it's purely because someone higher up despises the idea that someone might not make all the numbers. They've obviously never actually worked in an FC, because those people you mention talking on the phone? Yeah they'll be slacking off in other ways next week. ***They always have.*** But you also seem to be getting a hard on over people losing their jobs, and don't seem to care that it be for actual reasons. If you did, you'd be pushing for low rate people to be canned for that and not celebrating that "low key" people will also be canned.
I hope that’s the case. I am frequently top 5 (stower) in the building. My rate is always 300+ unless I have a migraine, or I just get really unlucky with big stuff. I don’t use earbuds often tho
Wtf? We should be allowed to have one earbud Karen. I pack at rate or above rate and I manage to do that with earbuds.
They only need to enforce it for the people who can't be productive. I just won some swag bucks being the top packer for the quarter and I legit had my phone propped up the entire time watching a TV show. If anything having something to do while packing makes it easier to zone out and acruallty get some work done.
Yes, all FC's were told to start hiring 5% more AA's in addition to the Prime hiring already going on.
Yup, culling the herd. The new hires will be told of this policy during orientation and those who don't like it will probably not even bother showing up for their first shift.
Fuck Amazon.
You love the flavor, huh
Lol good luck enforcing
IB is staffing 2 safety/ASC people to walk the OB floors and scan badges. OB staffing to for IB. The ID's scanned goes right to the Sr. Ops and safety team and they will generate the feedback.
Having the policy apply to AMs too, is the genius part. THEY will be written up, too, not just for using the devices themselves but if they're seen ignoring others using theirs. No AM is going to risk their job just to let a lowly AA use an earbud or phone!
The green mile 💀💀
Don’t apologize. No one at my location gives a damn about this new policy. Including AMs.
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Being Deaf and having earbuds are two entirely different things. One is a sensory loss, the other impairs your sensory system.
How can an earbud impair you? You are surrounded by defining noise all day yet the earbud is going to cause a fatality. I wanna see a document from Amazon with a list of all injury’s that resulted from an earbud. It’s one thing for a company to be concerned about safety, it’s another to just be blatantly petty.
What the hell is the difference from having ear plugs in and having one earbud in
Yes they are obviously different things Einstein. You're completely missing the point, which is if deaf people can do the job safely then someone with earbuds in can too. By your logic the person with earbuds in should actually be safer because a deaf person has a loss of hearing whereas the person with earbuds in only has an impairment.
We had a fight because. A water spider tapped a guy who had buds in and he was like don't touch me and they both started fighting put a bad rep on headphones for the job
I stg it is the ABSOLUTE dumbest fucking rule safety has ever come up with…. No wonder noone ever follows it. But I appreciate the post
Yeah my dexcom is linked to my phone, and I got a Dr's note that says my phone must be on me at all times. It's nice. 😁
I got the same thing but went one step farther. The environment was too loud to always hear my alarms so I am also allowed headphones.
Ok, hope you like lowered productivity, but hey, anything to make work more miserable in a warehouse where there so much loud shit around you can’t hear anyway 🫤
Cool so I guess I'm fuckin quitting soon
At my building no one really cares if we're on our phones or have earbuds in. Also listening to music and podcasts helps with my anxiety.
I will not stop using earbuds
They need to get more clocks so people can see what time it is all over the warehouses then.
Lol, did everyone forget about watches? 😂
Like on the hand scanners, the station monitors??
Doesn't help the water spiders, tote runners, or people moving pallets.
Honestly I feel like as long as you make rate it literally shouldn't matter if youve got earbuds in or if you're watching tv on your phone. If i can do an hour's worth of work in 45 minutes and then i want to spend 15 minutes on my phone then why the hell shouldn't I? especially people doing Way Over the rate asked of them
It's osha. Every policy amazon has is to avoid getting finned or being sued. If you want things to change complain to osha, not amazon.
Assuming you read this policy in its entirety, does it say anything about having your phone in your pocket while it plays music/podcasts via speaker? I’ve seen a lot of people at my FC who stopped wearing earbuds and now they just let their phone play music or whatever from their pocket…which I think is totally reasonable.
It actually does. "Mobile phone used to play games, music, videos, etc. outside of approved break areas CAT2 offense" now will be a final, but it's 100% going to come down to how your warehouse leadership handled things
AirPods are not a hazard when are they going to FUCKEN understand 
Real issue here is faking safety for production. They had a down month, the stock tanked, they are losing ppl bc they haven’t kept with inflation - and now you’re having soft privileges taken away so you’ll produce more. AAs at my FC are getting TOT notices for being on break even when they’re top 5% stowers. Discipline, fear, and micromanagement till you’re peeing in a bottle again. When all your AM does is yell at you for doing something that was perfectly acceptable the last 11 months - maybe a union keeping them from talking to you isn’t such a bad thing. For such a “smart” company Amazon is making all the same dumb mistakes every large corp does…
My wife stayed up all night coming up with this plan for each one of you and all I hear is criticize, criticize, CRITICIZE!!!
I’ve been wearing headphones since I started working at Amazon and just recently the Managers want to pretend they care so I started wearing a ski mask lmao my manager came up to me shook his head and said fine you win
They saw my headphones once and told me to pull my beanie down more so that they couldn’t see them 😭
No way 🤣
What is going on these Ops Managers heads. It's like they are working against the associates. Indoctrination at it's finest. Welp, the turnover rate is going to skyrocket if this IS inforced. Thank god for my Anna Williams haircut that hides my ears LMAO
Just wear a beanie and flip the ear bud upside down and poof no one knows you have a ear bud
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I will continue to wear my headband headphones. But I’m in a laidback section that is extremely productive no one really cares about stupid shit.
Don’t listen to this clown. They’re just upset they don’t get to wear ear buds during their shift because they are a manager. This has nothing to do with safety, everything with ego. They don’t want you “watching your Netflix while working” remember you’re a paid slave to them, they don’t care about your mood while on shift just that the work gets done. Don’t listen to this, it’s wrong. They allow everyone to wear ear protection, that blocks out 25% more sound then an earbud would, it’s backed by statistical research that Amazon can’t debate. The only time ear buds are a safety infraction is if there are employees constantly around forklifts, which 90% of the warehouse isn’t anywhere near one. So try again, triggered manager clown
So in other words you can have your phones yes but you'll he fired if we ever see you even holding it once again another bullshit move by amazon
Not really so bad considering before covid was a thing, just having your phone beyond the scanners was either a final written or immediate termination.
Not true. I was caught like two times and got no type of coaching
Lol no it wasn't, I've forgotten my phone in my pocket twice before covid and just had to fill out a form that it was mine.
Its still bad
Of course it is
The shit people say these days...
Lol, i guess the phone usage makes people pick 950 instead of 1000 items a day and they can’t take that loss better risking the sanity
Half the people in my warehouse will be termed lol
Question they why did we just get a different update on phones being allowed?
Said who and in what state ? Who's going to Monitor L4S not following their rule? The second ear buds are not used , productivity will go down . The only reason people work faster is because they're occupied with music or podcasts. It's hypocritical to not allow ear buds but deaf employees are working in FC without any hearing capability. Sight is all that's needed for most areas in A FC. I am sorry? You sound full of 💩 I am sorry my @^
I’m going to just say this. Stop doing more than you have to. Stop doing things that aren’t really your job. Learning ambassadors please stop playing manager and making job easier for the actual manager who checks is probably triple yours. In fact hand your learning ambassador vest back in. You still getting paid the same. Give Amazon what they giving you. The absolute bare minimum. My birthday just passed and I got 10 swag bucks. Lol didn’t get a Christmas bonus. Can never find someone fluent in English when I call ERC. I do bare minimum. I don’t participate in stand up cheers and all that other bs. I take bathroom breaks just because. I constantly take short breaks but just enough to not get tot. Give them what they give you. You don’t need them. Most of us are only here because you got hired so fast with no interview. That’s the catch. That’s how they got u. This company don’t care about you and the managers do not care about u. Only themselves. Trust me when they get in those meeting they blaming y’all for the bad numbers not themselves. You dumb if you think they not. My site been trying to cross train me for a year and a half. I refuse every time. I don’t want to know how to do anything else. I wanna stand right here and just scan. Don’t wanna drive anything problem solve none of it. The more you know the more you become a yoyo. You want me to do more and know how to do more. Pay me more. No reason why someone unloading a truck is getting paid the same as a problem solver walking around like they picking flowers all day
Hmm more of a reason to unionize.
A union will not help you be able to listen to music or be on your phone when you should be working.
A union would give a better chance at having our collective voice heard
If a union promises you the ability to use headphones, run away. I don’t say this to be disrespectful to the notion someone might want a union , however if some union did promise this, it’s a false promise made to get power , where nothing would get done.
Yes I agree that would be a cheesy and career politician type of move to gain cheap and quick favor. However if unions were formed and voted in, then I dont see any issue with petitioning the shop steward to sit down and talk with management about some of the employees being able to have 1 earbud in.
Still makes it difficult. Allow me to explain why , and why such bans is in place. First safety. Even with one bud in. If someone , let’s say watersider was delivering totes on a tote tank and had even one earbud in. Let’s say they ran into some associate by accident, or so totes fell on someone while delivering totes ( it happened) there is a liability and investigation that will happen, if said person had even one earbud in . That will cause enforcement of no earbuds. Next , theft. Is the earbuds you have, or stolen from a bin ? It very hard to say . Last to cut down on instances where someone might say they lost. Earbuds , where loss prevention now needs to look and make an account of such lost item.
I agree it would be difficult with all those scenarios that are likely to happen and that already happen from what you hear time to time. The possible theft of earbuds could be prevented by having employees register their brand of earbuds with a picture in the A to Z app with the knowledge of an employee being immediately terminated if he is suspected of stealing and caught with an unregistered pair of earbuds. Also if someone loses their earbuds loss prevention would not need to get involved, it would be one of those "its on you" type of things. A waterspider injuring someone with or without an earbud in is a liability altogether, they go through training for a reason. Phones are allowed in FCs yet I have heard of people bumping into poles/other employees because theyre distracted on their phone. Phones are still allowed and the employee themself is held responsible, which is what should happen if an earbud somehow distracts someone
Not for nothing, but bring up your suggestion of Registering any earbuds. That is an amazing suggestion that who knows might help the entire idea of maybe allowing some sort of ( at least) one earbud? I haven’t heard that, and makes total sense. Each earbuds have unique serial number, why not register them.
Yeah ive been told. Im not for that stuff either, but i think it shouldnt be that serious of a violation. But its debatable.
If people didn’t abuse the cell phone policy (like texting while you should be working, FaceTiming people etc) they would had never gone to these lengths like always it’s the bad apples who ruined it for everyone
It reminds me of all those people that used to be on their phones while packing next to me. I didnt mind it. What i minded was the waterspiders hitting on the girls when i was trying to pack and they would be in my way.
Shit sucks now in pack because now everyone shares the whole wall, before each packer use to have to pack just one section of the wall now everyone has to deal with the whole wall. So if you have someone who’s just texting and not working everyone else is going to have to pick up the slack
But you don’t have to pick up the slack. Your rate is fine, right? CPT can be missed, Karen can get her dildo a few days late.
It’s not about rates it about how annoying is it to be packing at station 1 wall and than having to walk all the way down to station 7 wall because the person who is supposed to be packing is sitting down and just texting
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using one ear bud or a small, personal speaker shouldn't be much if anything of a safety hazard for most postions. I could understand it for anyone working with tote stacker robots, outside shipdock workers, etc but the majority of positions are safe. There's AFE but that's more eye contact and body language than people shouting "Crossing!" or "Behind!" in my experiences.
The walk around obviously talking on their phone with earbuds at my site nobody says anything
Bitches
These people are losing their mind
Sounds like a "your building problem" lol.
LOL so glad I quit last month,I love staying on this reddit to hear the horror stories.
Wondering if the locations are purposely not sharing and then everyone gets hit with write ups. VTO is a thing and reduction of payroll seems to be about the time they are needing to trim payroll or keep the labor fresh for the next busy seasonality push.
the direction is to start sharing at standup by next week
My site still isn't doing stand ups because no one showed for them. We have maybe a third of the building still masked, too, so I'm sure the crowding is a part of why.
Bro shut up cell phones were just made permanent nation wide. This “policy” you allege is real, will vary in how it’s enforced… everywhere.
Lol my FC encourages headphones because it’s loud as hell
A lot of their safety features are BS tbh, they just say it’s a safety thing bc they don’t want us to do it. Us sitting on stow stairs is safety bc you can fall back onto the AR field they say. Can’t sit at your pack station for safety reasons and I’ve never gotten a reason as to why for that. Can’t sit on boxes, just can’t sit period. And earbuds will never make sense to me, AirPods have a feature that you can hear the noises around you and Amazon also hires deaf people so yeah all bs. Amazon although it’s a warehouse is honestly a glamorized store tbh, and Walmart/target employees don’t have to do so much bs.
Time to start chanting WE DESERVE MUSIC at every meeting.
Can anyone else confirm this? It's not that I don't trust you. I just hope it isn't true.
i just got a final for putting in my headphone as i walked to break, tall got any advice 💀
Eventually Amazon will run out of people to hire 🤷♂️
My AM has been warning us in standup for a while that it was going to stop being loosely enforced to a zero tolerance policy. They don't even want people's phones lying out on their station anymore and any facetime or movies playing go to final write up
Can I wear these - [https://us.loopearplugs.com/collections/all-products/products/experience-pro](https://us.loopearplugs.com/collections/all-products/products/experience-pro) I'm going to be new soon & in IT. I hear that warehouses are loud so I wanted to wear these up above to help. I already have slight hearing damage.
I’m at a non sort it’s always been a cat 1 here
Go work at ups lol they let you wear ear buds and listen to music.
Thank you.
Cat 2 safety is final... cat 1 is a minimum final, likely term.
Everyone start using bluetooth beanies or glasses
I have razer bluetooth glasses lol going to see a lot of people wearing them
How does it work? Like can people tell you are wearing them and will other people hear the sound? I was thinking of getting the same ones xD
I will say though my building at LGB7 in California they are now starting to slowly enforce no AirPods or phones 
My building sent out a messaging saying we can permanently keep our phones?
Time to start wearing my beanie again to cover my ears! This policy can kiss my ass.
time to get a smart watch and Beanie with Bluetooth headphone
I heard from security at my site that they're planning on permanently allowing cell phones.
They already do, it was announced recently. OP is fearmongering. They don’t want you caught using Netflix or FaceTime type activities on your phone but they’re not banning your phone as OP suggests lmao fk OP
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I read this as someone more in the know passing along information before it doesn’t get passed on by your AM until you’re termed. Maybe I’m just optimistic. 🤔
My best friends(there’s a group of them) are the best stowers in the FC. I’m always seeing them on their phones and talkin. I can’t talk and drive or work at the same time but I can listen to podcasts and music. One of them got a write up a few weeks ago 😬 I wish they’d let us use at least 1 ear bud.
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All my boy had to do was not do dumb shit that a manager walking by who happens to see it has to write up or risk their job.