Today was pretty eventful for me because it was my first time working at a warehouse and first time “quitting” a job on day one. Well, to be fair I just called and left a voicemail saying I’m no longer interested in working there, but let me explain some more.
Now, I want to say I regret it since it took a while to finally get into the door after not working for over a year, but the environment and people there gave off way too many red flags for me. First off, the hiring process was through a chat bot and I was emailed a time for an interview along with onboarding paperwork after answering only few simple questions such as my age and if I had proof that I can work in the U.S. No resume requested, work history, or any of that stuff you see in a regular hiring process. I came in last Wednesday and all they had me do was sit in the lobby for over 45 minutes then fill out my bank information so I could get to work starting Monday, March 15. No questions asked, they just said, “Can you start Monday” and that was it. Being a 19 year old college student with an opportunity to work full time from 7-3 seemed like a good deal, especially since I figured I’d still have a lot of time left in the day to do homework when I got home.
So, I come in today at 7am, do a drug test, get my badge, and then it’s off for a tour. It’s only me, the person who hired me, and one other lady who is maybe in her 30s. Literally not even 2 minutes into the tour, the lady straight up says “I don’t like this atmosphere” and walks out of the building as my employer chases after her to see what made her so distressed. At this point, I’m all alone in the locker room thinking how idiotic it is for someone to quit their job on the first day. Foreshadowing After my tour guide returns, she shows me the break room (which looked super depressing), bathroom, clock in station then takes me to the warehouse to be “trained”.
Here’s what made me question if I really wanted to work a 40 hour a week job for $10. Yes, you read that right. Training was so unbelievably stupid and unprofessional. The supervisor of the area is supposed to train me but instead she just put me with another girl who’s been there for under a year to shadow for 20 minutes. My duty as a “warehouse associate” was to refurbish these different types of cable boxes. Sounds easy, until you hear they’re looking to see you scan, clean, and move over 800 of these on your first day alone. Average was over 1,000 but they wanted me to be able to do more than that by the end of the week. Fortunately, my trainer let me stay with her all day but she was also extremely condescending saying I need to pick up the pace and clean better when I was literally giving it 110% of my effort. It just sucked knowing my best wasn’t enough. As well, she kept bragging how she is the fastest and how she talks crap to her supervisors since her production numbers were way above average so they would never get rid of her. Can’t even count how many forced chuckles I let out from all her chattering. To add on even more, I was actually hired as a temp worker so I was basically doing the same job as her for less pay, no benefits, and more stress. When I asked when and how often temps get hired to perms, she said it can take between 2 weeks and 2 years. Essentially, the temp position is a way to get full time workers for less pay.
Lastly, when I say it was like a sweatshop, I mean it. Everyone seriously had their own personal mini fans at their desks because of how humid it was inside the building. This was my first time in a warehouse job but I’m really hoping not all of them are like this. I know Amazon is $15 minimum so I want to at least give that a try since it’s got a lot more benefits before I draw any conclusions. As long as I’m not doing the same thing such as refurbishing for 8 hours straight I’m happy. My feet and back are killing me as I’m writing this 6 hours after getting home but I just want to post this to see how anyone else would react in this situation. I’m only 19 so maybe this is normal and I’m not ready for a “full-time” warehouse job or any full time position for that matter; however, this has really opened my eyes to how overworked some people are for such unfair pay.
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