the delivery drivers, and one more passed by the managers. We with Amazon, I moved up again hour of cleaning up for the next were pressured to work six days to Process Assistant, one step day. below Manager, for a different in a row every week during peak After a month, the station season and had our schedules department. This time I got a flumanagers noticed my hard work changed from early morning to orescent yellow vest with orange and wanted to promote me to late night shifts with only a day trim and was making a dollar Ambassador. The job of an Am- notice. We were told we would more than the average Associate. bassador meant that I would wear be given assistance, but never This position is better than the a bright yellow vest with blue received it during the holiday others, but this is where my climb trim, no longer be a “box pusher,” season, when we up the ladder as my manager liked to call us, single-handed- “The floor managers ends. run the assembly line and when- ly trained more I underthat loved me [...] stand that, ever they needed it; I would train than 200 seaa class of new hires. is how sonal workers in now resented me as a “This I was excited that I was mov- two months. We it works in the ing up fast, and was given more begged them to full-time trainer.” real world,” as responsibilities, but with a lot stop hiring peomy dad always more pressure and being scold- ple that they would just end tells me, but I loathe my job. I ed for making mistakes that I up letting go anyways, but they hate the feeling of being a part of shouldn’t have gotten the oppor- didn’t listen. a cult where I have to please the tunity to make in the first place. minions that work under Bezos, I noticed fast that if you Since I was being compensated as were not useful, they didn’t care who treat him as a savior for supan associate, I started to regret my about you. They often corrected plying jobs during a time of desdecision to put the blue vest on. me in front of my class, blamed peration and global fear fueled by I moved up again with- me for the low rates of associthe pandemic, when in reality he in a couple weeks and became a ates and mocked me by asking is benefiting the most from CoroLearning Coordinator. I trained a “What do you even do here?” navirus. class every day, There has to be more to life As much tracked the perthan this cycle where the wealthhate the “We were told we aswayI they formances of iest men on the planet sit pretty treat would be given the station and on their cash thrones, while the me, I know took an emoones who depend on them week anger assistance, but never their tional beating to week, are breaking their backs stems from from my peers building the empire they don’t get the same isreceived it...” for just 65 cents any part of. While Bezos added sue of workmore an hour. The floor managers ing tirelessly without being $1 trillion to his wealth in 2020, that loved me as a “box pusher,” recognized or the appropriate in contrast, according to the Sonow resented me as a full-time amount of compensation. Unciety for Human Resource Mantrainer. less you are a tier five employee, agement, U.S. workers have lost For four months, I was paired or run a whole department, you more than $1.3 trillion in income. up with two others who shared are making chump change just As much as I hate Amazon, the same title as me. We all en- like the rest of us. I can’t leave and my managers dured the constant scoffs as we know it too. After five months of being
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