A lot of jobs suck. I worked at a KFC for 3 years and a Gameworks, two full time jobs, for 3 years before I began my tech career. I got paid $6.50/hr at KFC and

A lot of jobs suck. I worked at a KFC for 3 years and a Gameworks, two full time jobs, for 3 years before I began my tech career. I got paid $6.50/hr at KFC and $9.00/hr at Gameworks. No health insurance, benefits, I had to use my own car often to do stuff for them both. It was hell and I hated it. It’s sad but these jobs always exist and probably will for at least the near future. That said, Amazon should be doing a better job to educate people on how to be successful in these jobs and should adapt the jobs depending on city. It makes no sense to have people driving around in their own cars in SF delivering packages. They could go a long way by hiring bike couriers and doing a better job at distribution. It sure doesn’t sound like last mile delivery when they are forcing people to drive down to south SF to get the stuff. If I was an engineer at Amazon working on this flex program I’d be embarrassed. If you filter out the entitled and emotional undertone of the author there are many matter of fact things that are just poorly designed and executed on the designers of this system. Sitting at home and refreshing an app? Really? That hour you keep people occupied with a pointless task because of your poor design is an hour you’ve burned of their time that could have been spent doing something productive for either themselves or Amazon. Not doing address validation, poor distribution logistics, poor use of labor. I guess there is no external pressure to fix anything until they have burned through the labor pool in SF and no one wants to work with the dysfunction? Wonder when that will be...