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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (238)	9/12/2013 10:42:30 PM
From: Woody_Nickels	Respond to of 593

My problem with Amazon is that I was a full-time employee, who was let go a couple years ago for nonsense reasons. The Amazon in Delaware is very cliquish, like High School. If the 'in crowd'/locals didn't like you, or think you might be promoted before one of them, they would constantly trash you to management. (I'm a very conscientious worker with lots of Education and Military service) Several of my annual reviews contained outright lies, which I was able to disprove, but not until it was too late for me. The 'in crowd' gets away with murder. For example, they would tell the Area Mgr. that I was on my cell phone and not working, when in fact I didn't even own a cell phone at the time. But the manager believed the 'in crowd' and it showed up on my annual review. Same with internet surfing, while the 'in crowd' was doing their online Xmas shopping on company time. To get this removed from my annual review was like peeing into the wind. I saw a segment on '60 Minutes' several years ago about the CamperForce, and Amazon pays them more than the full-timers in Delaware. IIRC, it was about $2/hr. more. My pay was $14.50/hr. at the time. Maybe once I retire, the Amazon 'run-around' won't bother me anymore. Atm, I feel a bit ripped-off. Oh well. Not that good of a job, anyway, but I was happy to have any job during 2008-2009. Woody