I'm all about my kid having a tough job. And frankly, I can't believe they're paying that much to do what he does. The bizarre, and seemingly underhanded thing they're doing, is not giving scheduled workers the hours they should, but rather giving those hours to people who are on flex time. and that's a much longer, stranger story for another day.What were you doing at age 19?
Agreed, promising and not delivering hours is bad, and will drive workers away, just as customers will move elsewhere if they don't get their packages. I trust your kid didn't work 20-minute shifts regularly for three months before finding another option. I looked into the Flex app for deliveries. I thought I could bring my kid along and give him a look at the "last mile", after we toured the FC. There were stories of people who reserved a work block but only got a few packages to deliver, so they got full pay for a tiny amount of work. Other stories described getting a delivery assignment that was impossible to deliver in the expected amount of time. Predictability and regularity of work is a benefit that costs Amazon to provide, and that money has to come from somewhere. Everything is a tradeoff. Looking forward to seeing your autobiography, once the eleven kids have grown up!