Vantaggi
Plenty of work available, above minimum wage, friendly co-workers, part-time work, casual dress with no uniforms, vest and gloves provided.
Svantaggi
Exhausting back breaking work scanning packages and building pallets for Amazon DFW8 Irving sorting facility. Misled new hires that part time shift is four hours per day five days a week which is tolerable when standard is always five hours which is intolerable. Minimal training, many batteries go dead in mid shift on scanner guns. No cafeteria. Only junk food in break room vending machines although you can bring your own food. Employees are treated like children with the 15 minute break calling out END of break three minutes early. Computer hardware in data center racks are treated better. No air conditioning, stale cardboard particle infested air. There is very high turnover among the workforce because the shift is too long based on the physical demand. Hence HR has to hire more "slaves" every two weeks who are unaware what they are getting themselves into. They have created a Voice of the Associate whiteboard for suggestions to improve things all of which are completely ignored. Supervisors do not even know who their employees are, there is so much churn among personnel. They have a six point demerit system to ding you for attendance or tardiness issues to fire you. Again, treating you like you are in high school. A sweat shop disguised as a high tech company. It is disrespectful to adults age 18 to 70. Their goal in 8 to 11 months is to convert part time people to full time people to work four 10 hour days with benefits. I do not know how you do that job for ten hours with a 30 minute lunch break as five hours just about kills you. Currently running three part time shifts per day sorting 135,000 packages. With the holiday season approaching even MORE packages.