Posted on 11/12/2018 2:13:20 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Amazon is hiring its own fleet of full-time drivers to deliver packages to Prime customers. Amazon will manage these drivers directly, meaning the company will set their wages, provide them delivery vehicles, and schedule their routes. Amazon has previously relied on delivery services provided by UPS, FedEx, and the US Postal Service, as well as contractors employed through its Flex delivery program and third-party courier companies it calls delivery service partners. At a recent Amazon training for the new program, drivers were told the company "didn't want people peeing in bottles," a source told Business Insider.
Amazon is launching a new last-mile shipping program this holiday season.
For the first time, the company is planning to hire and manage thousands of full-time drivers to transport packages to customers from Amazon delivery outposts across the US, the company confirmed to Business Insider on Monday.
Amazon will manage these drivers directly, meaning the company will set their wages, provide them delivery vehicles, and schedule their routes. The drivers are seasonal but will have the option to apply to continue their employment with Amazon following the holiday season.
"Seasonal employees have long been utilized to supplement capacity during peak shopping periods," an Amazon spokeswoman said. "This holiday, thousands of full-time, seasonal Delivery Associates will deliver to customers during the busy retail shopping season."(continued)
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The peeing part is what makes this article interesting.
This probably has to do with California’s new law against using contractors. I would be interested to know what impact the new law has had on tax revenues. (Its purpose was to increase income tax revenues. A second purpose was to force “employers” to offer mandated benefits. The unintended outcome will be to make lots of people unemployed and increase the expenses of the citizens.)
I like the GPS tracking that these drivers have.
You can actually see them driving around your neighborhood delivering packages on the Amazon website.
I wonder if that was a direct dig at illegals because when I use to drive a taxi in New york city years ago we had a huge problem with drivers with questionable legal status constantly peeing in bottles and a lot of times spilling it which would make the cab unusable from the stink. These guys were obsessed with freakin bottles and pee, I’d find them all over the place, under the seat, in the parking lot, even in the garage bathroom
Amazon workers are not unionized.....yet.
There was a story earlier in the year about an British Amazon facility - https://nypost.com/2018/04/16/amazon-warehouse-workers-pee-into-bottles-to-avoid-wasting-time-undercover-investigator/
Now we will see the human workers contribution to a corporate business trajectory....gonna be very hard to manage these folks...lawsuits here we come...i think it might be better to have delivery hubs...located adjacent to grocery stores....you go to ggt fresh self chosen groceries and pick up your online/mail ordered stuff same time...less traffic with scooting delivery trucks all over duh place.
I see water bottles filled with urine on the streets of NYC. Cab drivers are the culprits because they don’t have public restrooms to use. It’s not a huge problem, it’s just gross. There are waste baskets on every corner so thankfully most drivers toss the bottles away.
“gonna be very hard to manage these folks”
Good point. What happens when an employee rapes somebody where he is delivering a package? And, yes, it probably will happen. As you point out, the operation is too distributed to effectively managed. Also, there are more and more laws to the effect that, sure this guy is an ex-con who raped and killed but he is back in society now, having “paid” his debt and you, the employer, must treat him like any other person looking for a job. If you don’t, we, the state, will take you to the cleaners. Oh, by-the-way, you are responsible for anything bad that happens because you hired this guy.
My own experience with ex-cons has been mixed, but mostly negative. Two of them were renters I have had to remove from the property. I have an ex working for me. He’s wonderful, except he has impulse control problems and can be set off in an angry tirade in an instant. When he goes off, he’s scary.
I see drone delivery in my future.
When governments begin to mandate workers pay, benefits and hours a few benefit but many are hurt.
I think San Francisco is a sanctuary city from this rule.
Good luck finding people. Amazon can’t even fully staff the local distribution center.
Heh. I always thought my freeper name was in reference to resistance against a totalitarian government or one-world order. Now I’m thinking it might have been Amazon all along. (Only 1/4 joking.)
RUSH - 2112
We’ve taken care of everything
The words you read
The songs you sing
The pictures that give pleasure
To your eye
One for all and all for one
Work together
Common sons
Never need to wonder
How or why
We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx
Our great computers fill the hallowed halls.
We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx
All the gifts of life are held within our walls.
Look around this world we made
Equality our stock in trade
Come and join the Brotherhood of Man
Oh what a nice contented world
Let the banners be unfurled
Hold the Red Star proudly high in hand.
There will be so much work that they’ll have to offer bonuses, probably monthly, to keep them around.
I wonder who else can see Amazon drivers driving around neighborhoods delivering packages.
I live in a fairly well-to-do neighborhood and I don't want Amazon Drivers going around my neighborhood delivering packages. We had big problems here last year with what I'll only call "unscrupulous" people following UPS and FedEx around and taking packages off people's doorsteps during the Thanksgiving to Christmas season.
If those same people see an Amazon car driving around their neighborhoods, what do you think is going to happen to those packages being delivered to front doorsteps?
I seldom shop on Amazon anymore because of that specific problem and using an Amazon Locker just eliminates the entire convenience of using Amazon in the first place, which was home delivery, at least for me that was the #1 reason.
You can actually see them driving around your neighborhood delivering packages on the Amazon website.
The mind reels. Imagine where this tech will be in 20 years.
When he goes off, he’s scary...
What could go wrong? :)
Seriously, nice thing you did but be careful brother.
Always liked the music but never understood the words when I was young.
Now I do.
Wow.
That’s because the pay sucks!
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