Sept. 26 & 27 - Amazon!

Thursday - Gary here...well, we have started as Warehouse Associates at Amazon Fulfillment Center!  We have been blest with many jobs in our lives, and now a new one!!  Our orientation class met both days from 1:00 until almost 6 pm.  Typical first days, lots of paperwork to fill out, policies to review, and some introductions.  We have a great HR person, Michael.  He was the gentlemen that hired us back on March 30th following a 5 minute phone interview!
Being a natural curious person from my days in commercial lending, this should be a fascinating facility and operation to be a part of.  The amount of product moved is nothing short of phenomenal.

Deb again - Thursday morning we were up and excited for our starting day.   The morning passed slowly, but then it was 11:30, we had some lunch, got dressed and headed out to the plant.  We weren't the first ones there, but some of the first.  That was okay because security had to issue each of us visitor passes for the day.  Our HR guy, Michael, came and led us to the training room and then went back for more beginners.  A first impression of the security and entrance procedures.

Today consisted of getting our pictures taken for our ID badges, hearing about Amazon - the Corporation, talking about schedules and different jobs and areas we may work within the plant.


Friday - Decided we better walk again, since we sat most of yesterday in training.  Another beautiful day, we enjoyed the morning and then went to work - our second day.  More information to digest and final papers to sign.  We also received our assignment for the days and times we will work.
We have talked to many of the people in our group, there are three couples who have worked for Amazon before, one couple is starting their fifth year.  Another new couple we talked to have been full-timing for 20 years, this is their first time at Amazon.  We hope to visit more with them, they have done many workcamper jobs in their years on the road.
I talked to one of the veterans, getting more information and other advice from her about what to expect.  She and her husband have enjoyed Amazon and have two more couples joining them this year here, that worked with them in Kentucky the last couple years.

Gary - We will start our shifts, Wednesday thru Saturday, 6:30 am-5 pm on Oct. 2nd, so we will have a few days to get some more walking in.  At the peak season coming up in November and December, they anticipate 1,500 workers total, consisting of full-time associates and us Camperforce workers.  Should be fun!