We’ve completed our first week at Amazon as stowers. The first week is a hardening week, which means you only work five hour shifts instead of ten. So, we worked 5:30 to 10:30 pm this week. I wish it would be like that the entire time we are here. However, then we’d only make half the money.
We are stowers this year, which means putting the products on the shelves. It’s not a hard job. You take a large cart full of stuff and put it on shelves in the area you are assigned to. It’s really amazing how much stuff you can fit onto those shelves. You can spend hours in one row just filling those bins with anything you can imagine.
Amazon uses random stowing, so there is all kinds of stuff in every area. Everything is scanned, so their amazing computer system always knows where everything is.
Stowing is an okay job. Since you can fit so much in an area, you aren’t really moving around that much. Just slowly working your way up an aisle. My back was hurting after five hours, so I’m sure the ibuprofen will be needed for ten hours.
There is a chance that as the Christmas season gets closer, we will be moved to pickers. I would prefer that, but time will tell.
Today we’re going to Tulsa to look at some RVs at Camperland RV of Oklahoma. You just never know what we might find. We’ve never been to Tulsa, and I hear they have some nice parks along the river in the midtown area. There is rain in the forecast, so we’ll see how it goes.
Don’t wish upon a star – Reach for one!
Glad to hear that its not such a bad job. I agree it would be nice if they were 5 hour days. I always needed the Ibuprofen because my feet hurt so much standing on cement floors for 10 hours a day. Have fun in Tulsa, maybe you'll find just the right one!
ReplyDeleteIs it time for a new rolling home?
ReplyDeleteI don't think that I will ever work at Amazon. Couldn't do 10 hours on my feet.
ReplyDeleteIt's always fun looking at new RVs.