The Day of Orientation I was really nervous and I was also getting over some kind of flu/bug. So when I had to be at Amazon.com by 8:30am I prayed that I could handle it and not get sick. I awoke feeling a bit queasy, but as the morning went on-I got better.
Not knowing what doors I was to go into, I decided to drive the first day and get there early. So I found a parking spot and watched where everyone else was heading. I saw a couple that I recognize from the park and I decided to follow them in.
Upon arriving I thought I was going into Fort Knox! once you proceed through the door, your first greeted with security. Of course they were ready for us. We were handed a visitor badge and we had to sign in-matching the number on our badge. I was number 22.
We then had to wait at in the lobby to be escorted any farther. The first group was being led in while we waited. Then came out a gentleman that introduce himself as Paul Strum. He was nothing like I expected-although I’m not sure what I really expected…Anyways he made a point to greet each and everyone of us. The most that amazed me of him-is the fact he just about remembered all of our names!
There was to be approximately 80 of us workampers to come in for orientation so they had to split us up in half. The other half had orientation on Wednesday (glad that I didn’t get moved). First order of business was lining up against a wall and getting our mug shot.
the remainder of the day was spent on how amazon.com works and in the afternoon we had to go through Safety school. Then it was time to finally get our badge; now we won’t need an escort if we left the conference room. Oh, we were allowed to go to the bathroom unescorted-but that was it.
Our badges has to be on us at all times while inside Amazon. It’s stress strongly to us that when wearing it around our neck it has to be a break-away necklace for safety reason. If it should get caught in the conveyer it needs to break away from you.
We also at this time got our schedule and when I got mine I went; WHAT? They put me on nights and in outbound. I don’t mind outbound, but I really didn’t want nights. My shift was to be from 5:00pm-3:30am. Okay, the question I had is: Would Leah let me sleep in the mornings? probably not….
So I pulled Paul aside and asked him if there was any chance of changing to daytime. He told me to give him a week and then come back to talk to him. Okay now I’m accepting the idea of working nights and thinking maybe it won’t be so bad after all. Then Paul’s associate, Dana calls my name and of course we all joke that I am already in trouble before I even get started! (LOL)
She hands me a strip of paper that now has my username and password and informs me that I am now on days and I’m in Inbound/Stowe. My shift would now be 6:00am-4:30pm. We all get our own username and password. Even out on the floor we have to use computers. I guess everything is computerized now-a-day in our crazy world.
So now orientation is done with and the following day (Monday) I would report to the “D” section of Amazon.com to start working in stowing/receiving.
Not knowing what doors I was to go into, I decided to drive the first day and get there early. So I found a parking spot and watched where everyone else was heading. I saw a couple that I recognize from the park and I decided to follow them in.
Upon arriving I thought I was going into Fort Knox! once you proceed through the door, your first greeted with security. Of course they were ready for us. We were handed a visitor badge and we had to sign in-matching the number on our badge. I was number 22.
We then had to wait at in the lobby to be escorted any farther. The first group was being led in while we waited. Then came out a gentleman that introduce himself as Paul Strum. He was nothing like I expected-although I’m not sure what I really expected…Anyways he made a point to greet each and everyone of us. The most that amazed me of him-is the fact he just about remembered all of our names!
There was to be approximately 80 of us workampers to come in for orientation so they had to split us up in half. The other half had orientation on Wednesday (glad that I didn’t get moved). First order of business was lining up against a wall and getting our mug shot.
the remainder of the day was spent on how amazon.com works and in the afternoon we had to go through Safety school. Then it was time to finally get our badge; now we won’t need an escort if we left the conference room. Oh, we were allowed to go to the bathroom unescorted-but that was it.
Our badges has to be on us at all times while inside Amazon. It’s stress strongly to us that when wearing it around our neck it has to be a break-away necklace for safety reason. If it should get caught in the conveyer it needs to break away from you.
We also at this time got our schedule and when I got mine I went; WHAT? They put me on nights and in outbound. I don’t mind outbound, but I really didn’t want nights. My shift was to be from 5:00pm-3:30am. Okay, the question I had is: Would Leah let me sleep in the mornings? probably not….
So I pulled Paul aside and asked him if there was any chance of changing to daytime. He told me to give him a week and then come back to talk to him. Okay now I’m accepting the idea of working nights and thinking maybe it won’t be so bad after all. Then Paul’s associate, Dana calls my name and of course we all joke that I am already in trouble before I even get started! (LOL)
She hands me a strip of paper that now has my username and password and informs me that I am now on days and I’m in Inbound/Stowe. My shift would now be 6:00am-4:30pm. We all get our own username and password. Even out on the floor we have to use computers. I guess everything is computerized now-a-day in our crazy world.
So now orientation is done with and the following day (Monday) I would report to the “D” section of Amazon.com to start working in stowing/receiving.
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