Re:Wal-Mart will pay employees to deliver packages on their ...
by Spooky23 on Friday June 02, 2017 @02:50PM
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They currently don't use retail employees to deliver stuff. So you can't compare these practices.
As someone who is probably a professional salaried employee somewhere, it's hard to think about why this is bad.
When you're stuck in one of these gigs, you need to be in good with the floor managers to get hours -- those folks control you because they have the power to starve you out with limited hours or "on call" shifts (i.e. you wait around and be ready to report to work within 15-20 minutes), or just fuck you over by assigning you impossible shifts and firing you for attendance issues.
So it's pretty much a given that if you are that guy who doesn't agree to deliver crap on the way home, you're not going to be around for long.
They are replacing UPS/Fedex/USPS for a reason -- cutting corners on things like insurance, depreciation, etc allows them to make an incredible inefficient operating model cheaper.
As someone who is probably a professional salaried employee somewhere, it's hard to think about why this is bad.
When you're stuck in one of these gigs, you need to be in good with the floor managers to get hours -- those folks control you because they have the power to starve you out with limited hours or "on call" shifts (i.e. you wait around and be ready to report to work within 15-20 minutes), or just fuck you over by assigning you impossible shifts and firing you for attendance issues.
So it's pretty much a given that if you are that guy who doesn't agree to deliver crap on the way home, you're not going to be around for long.
They are replacing UPS/Fedex/USPS for a reason -- cutting corners on things like insurance, depreciation, etc allows them to make an incredible inefficient operating model cheaper.