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Had to ask my son to leave on Saturday
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<blockquote data-quote="healinginside" data-source="post: 762896" data-attributes="member: 29962"><p>Im not sure if this helps but my son did work at Amazon for a period of time last year and they have a very wacky scheduling system. They have some thing that’s called “volunteer time off” that they began offering my son very soon after he completed training. What Amazon would do with send my son a text message saying that they needed him to take volunteer time off now they do not get paid for volunteer time off, but they get brownie points from their supervisors because Amazon is overstaffed and when levels are low, they need people to volunteer to take time off. It was so frustrating for us as parents that wanted our son to be saving to get his own place. They started offering volunteer time off for almost every single shift and they keep texting him and offering it to him over and over. Hard for someone to resist especially on the weekend. I couldn’t help but think about the Amazon workers there that had families and children and mortgages etc. that could not afford to take the volunteer time off. Also, after working those 12 hour shifts, my son was more than happy to volunteer to take a day off. it was just one of those things about working at Amazon that many people don’t realize. even though it is a good job, they do not treat their employees well at all. I’m not saying that this is what happened with your son I’m just saying that this is what happened with my son and we immediately panicked and said “why aren’t you working !?!”…</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="healinginside, post: 762896, member: 29962"] Im not sure if this helps but my son did work at Amazon for a period of time last year and they have a very wacky scheduling system. They have some thing that’s called “volunteer time off” that they began offering my son very soon after he completed training. What Amazon would do with send my son a text message saying that they needed him to take volunteer time off now they do not get paid for volunteer time off, but they get brownie points from their supervisors because Amazon is overstaffed and when levels are low, they need people to volunteer to take time off. It was so frustrating for us as parents that wanted our son to be saving to get his own place. They started offering volunteer time off for almost every single shift and they keep texting him and offering it to him over and over. Hard for someone to resist especially on the weekend. I couldn’t help but think about the Amazon workers there that had families and children and mortgages etc. that could not afford to take the volunteer time off. Also, after working those 12 hour shifts, my son was more than happy to volunteer to take a day off. it was just one of those things about working at Amazon that many people don’t realize. even though it is a good job, they do not treat their employees well at all. I’m not saying that this is what happened with your son I’m just saying that this is what happened with my son and we immediately panicked and said “why aren’t you working !?!”… [/QUOTE]
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