Amazon Confidential: Week 9, The Power of Peak
Just a few weeks ago the Amazon fulfillment center where I work as a temporary stower was just gearing up for the first big holiday sales of the year. The entire plant now hums with […]
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Amazon Confidential: Week 8 – Incentives, Returns and Overtime
First there was Black Friday. Then Cyber Monday. Based on the incentives being offered by Amazon, all of us who worked that long weekend anticipated a mass confusion of pickers and stowers fighting for space […]
Amazon Confidential: Week 7, Ghost Walkers and the Rule of Three
It occurred to me the other night looking over at my fellow Amazon workampers that a transformation has come to pass. Ghosts of our former selves, we have turned into zombies, mouths slightly agape, just […]
Amazon Confidential: Week 6, The Pink Hand of Fate
I should start off by saying this week’s column is for adults only. It wasn’t planned this way; it just happened. About week three of my Amazon workamper experience, one of my fellow nighttime stowers […]
Amazon Confidential: Week 5, Who Needs Whom?
When the going gets tough, the tough get going – sometimes all the way out the door, Anonymous learns in week 5 of an assignment at an Amazon fulfillment center. As the holiday shopping season […]
Amazon Confidential: Week 4, The Investment Strategy
At an all hands meeting of Amazon warehouse workers, managers prep them for the peak season, with CEO Jeff Bezos himself making an appearance via webcast, in Part Four of Amazon Confidential: Confessions of a […]
Amazon Confidential: Week 3, The Amazon Weight Loss Program
The continuing saga of a temporary stower working at an Amazon fulfillment center during the holiday shopping season. See Amazon Confidential: Confessions of a Warehouse Worker, Part One and Part Two. When I first arrived at our RV […]
Amazon Confidential – Week Two, The Hardening Process
“Anonymous” survived week one working as a stower at an Amazon fulfillment center and in today’s installment, describes how merchandise makes its way from receiving into the warehouse. See Part One of Amazon Confidential: Confessions […]
Amazon Confidential: Confessions of a Warehouse Worker
What’s it like to be a temporary worker in a vast fulfillment center during the busy holiday shopping season? Buckle your seatbelts as we follow the life of a seasonal worker in an Amazon fulfillment […]