Fear based control=toxic environment - Warehouse Worker Woot Employee Review

1.0
Oct 16, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent pay, it's easy to get hired, & the work is easy.

Cons

This is a "don't mess up" or your fired job. This mentality creates an air of fear between the employees & the staff to the point there is 0 trust. Trust & fear cannot co-exist. I'm not talking about irresponsible mess ups like coming from lunch 20 minutes late. I mean petty meaningless mess ups like accidentally bring your phone on the floor. Minor mistakes cause employees to become so fearful of job loss they turn on each other. They will lie or scapegoat you just to try & preserve their job. This does not create a healthy team mentality or a stable community. It creates a very hostile out for yourself view. It's an attack on your humanity to say the least. In my interview instead of a "welcome to the company", I got "if you don't respond to this email by 5pm don't bother coming". Which should have alerted me that passive aggression & fear was the tactic by which they maintain the illusion of control amoungst the employees. Then during training they mentioned being fired at LEAST 10 times & how if you quit you'd never work for Amazon again your entire life!! Again fear based control. The turn over rate is alarmingly high!! I'm gathering because it's a narcissistic environment and anyone with a backbone or practical sense would not tolerate this emotional abuse unless they had no other choice. I mean if you need some money go for it until you find something else but staying in toxic environments does serious damage to your physical health, your emotional health, & your spiritual health. It's a broken company. Practically thinking even the treat of NEVER working for one of the biggest companies in the world that's growing expenentially hasn't stopped hundreds of people from quitting. It makes you wonder "what's so bad an employee can't wait 2 weeks to quit properly with resignation?" Any job that makes you extremely anxious & fearful has demons. It's no way to live. Also there is no advancement which not I'm not sure why you'd want to stay long enough to move up.

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