I will list the main cons, but to sum it up it’s all based off the face that corporate is not concerned whatsoever with what actually happens during the operations, the safety of the employees, or the warehouse environment as long as they can be as cheap as possible - regardless of the effect
- the warehouses are not with A/C which is fairly common, however the job requires you to essentially brisk walk and carry 50lb boxes for 7-9 hours overnight
Again, not an uncommon warehouse job until you add in the rest:
- over a 9 hour shift, you are alotted a single 10 (not 15) min break. When I first started, there wasn’t even this 10 min break - it took half the staff walking out to then get a deserved break… in a 90 degree warehouse.
- the company doesn’t provide hydration, the team leaders use their own money to fill up water coolers to help the warehouse workers prevent heat stroke
- at one point, the pay was $21-22/hour for this overnight shift burning 1500 calories non stop, then one day they moved it to $20, then $19, then $17 until at $17 people stopped coming. So then they settled at $19
- even the district/area managers who are supposedly required to come into the warehouses multiple times per week will rarely show up, and when they do I’ve literally seen them show face for 10 mins before going to their car to sleep for hours on the clock
- lastly, the most major problem is that the people deciding staffing are people that don’t even work in the warehouse, have never once worked in A warehouse, and have no idea on the pace of operations. The amount of times I’ve witnessed them try to get supervisors to send everyone home (to save hours) with thousands of packages left (because they understaffed to save hours) makes the full time employees worried about the companies future. They’re cutting costs so much that it destroys the flow of day to day operations and pushes everyone back.
But again they wouldn’t understand because they work in an AC corporate office making these decisions