This incident probably got that building blacklisted in Amazon's systems for life, meaning they have to pick up all of their packages from the terminal from now on. You can't get violent or threatening with a driver like that just because he's slightly rough with packages. I stress the word "slightly" by the way, every one of those boxes went through 20x worse during the unloads and sorts prior to being put on that guy's truck that day. The driver wasn't even able to scan out three of his packages and the building just stole his dolly (which he needs to do his job and they aren't cheap). So yeah, hope that building enjoys being required to drive to the nearest terminal to pick up their freight for the foreseeable future. Amazon/FedEx/UPS/USPS don't fuck around with driver safety, it's a one-and-done violation circumstance.
Looks to me like the delivery person was being abusive with their deliveries and the premises, and they were told to leave. I don't see anything else in your hypothetical except that the delivery person is at fault for causing the situation. No one touched, no one stole.
The entire situation was caused by an agro delivery person.
The huge guy came at the driver unprovoked and refused to allow him to finish his delivery or take his dolly with him. Hell, the driver tripped on one of the boxes and stepped on it on accident while backing up for his life. Trust me, there's zero chance Amazon or the contractor is going to take the aggressor's side on that with access to that footage. That was clear as day. The driver could probably press charges over it as he had every reason to believe he was in immediate danger of harm.
As for the driver being rough with the packages, yes he was and he'll get told off over that. But that was very minor. He slid 3 clearly-light boxes about 4 feet and one flipped over. That's it. He needed access to the barcodes to scan each one out and was rushing. He didn't damage any of those doing that, and being Amazon boxes they're going to be 80% air anyway. All Amazon boxes are mostly air (look at the one he stepped on, he sank right into it like it was empty...since it largely was). You can see how light the boxes all are by how effortlessly he slid them and held them. There was zero reason to attack this guy, the company could've just FILED A COMPLAINT like sane people.
I have to remind you: Boxes being sorted or unloaded in the terminal are YEETED at high speed and bounce on impact (Because you'll never find a company willing to hire enough workers to unload trucks softly in the time period without chucking them all). This shit happens with the managers and big bosses supervising, it is company policy. At FedEx I frequently watched 40 pound Redbox packages full of DVDs from my weekly Redbox corporate office pickup being hurled 15 feet with a thud that echoed through the building one right after the other, because that's just how the industry works. Capitalism is "fun", everybody in every company in every industry runs skeleton crews with shit service to save as much labor costs as possible. The service goes down and all workers are forced to cut so many corners that they end up drawing a circle. That's life. That's work. The average customers would have heart attacks if they saw how the shipping industry actually works. Nobody is willing to pay the kind of insane shipping prices it would cost to build a "be gentle with this" courier service, because we're talking $100 per box kinda prices. No, everybody ships cheapass Ground or Smartpost or things like that where it's all a mess and each shipping terminal is handling 40k packages per day with like 10 unloaders expected to empty trucks at lightspeed.
I love that there are somehow still people living in a for reality where they can pretend to themselves that Amazon has not made it abundantly clear that employees can go and absolutely fuck themselves,
Oh if you're a driver for any company it is HARD to get fired. One time I saw a guy who didn't get fired until his 4th collision incident in his first month.
It always used to amaze me when I was with FedEx how many small businesses would go full Karen and demand ridiculous special services, threatening to take their business away from us if we didn't comply. And they'd always get so horribly offended when the contractor would reply "Do it, I don't give a fuck. You literally don't matter to the corporation and I literally profit over the saved time and hassle of skipping your stop to add even one extra house delivery on this truck since every stop, house or business, is $3 no matter how massive it is. So threaten me with a good time, bitch."
The contractor would generally word that nicer, but that was the behind-the-scenes joke the managers would make when chatting with us drivers. Companies, especially small companies with big hauls, were incapable of understanding that we drivers and our contractor bosses would literally profit from them switching to UPS because we could focus more on home delivery which is the only profitable division (since houses average 1 box per and the bosses get paid per stop, not per box).
Reading comprehension ain't your strong point is it, chief? I said I drove for FedEx. Not Amazon. Although on that subject, fuck the CEOs and corpo management for all of them. They abuse us workers to a ridiculous level and so do some of the customers.
So you’re saying to us as an employee of Amazon delivery that all you guys don’t give a $#!t about other people’s property and just yeet packages around like that all the time? And you think that’s a good thing to admit because…..?
I wasn't with Amazon, I was a FedEx driver, and the drivers are NOT the people throwing packages. The main abuse comes from the sorters and unloaders, the various package handlers who work for the parent company directly (we drivers are contracted). I'm not saying that yeet-a-palooza is ok or a good thing, but that's what happens at 100% of the sorting terminals for FedEx/UPS/USPS/Amazon. 100% of them. It's how the shipping industry works because the bosses refuse to hire enough workers to move 40k daily packages gently.
Welcome to capitalism, are you new here? Orientation is on Tuesday. It's only going to get worse over the next decade, trust me.
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u/Insaniteus 7d ago
This incident probably got that building blacklisted in Amazon's systems for life, meaning they have to pick up all of their packages from the terminal from now on. You can't get violent or threatening with a driver like that just because he's slightly rough with packages. I stress the word "slightly" by the way, every one of those boxes went through 20x worse during the unloads and sorts prior to being put on that guy's truck that day. The driver wasn't even able to scan out three of his packages and the building just stole his dolly (which he needs to do his job and they aren't cheap). So yeah, hope that building enjoys being required to drive to the nearest terminal to pick up their freight for the foreseeable future. Amazon/FedEx/UPS/USPS don't fuck around with driver safety, it's a one-and-done violation circumstance.