Two weeks ago I spent three days working in
one of Amazon’s largest warehouses, or as we call them—fulfillment centers. I
learned how to do all steps of the fulfillment process—from receiving
products from vendors to packing orders onto the outbound trucks. See
photographic evidence below.
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The overall experience was amazing—they
do public tours there, so this writer from Wired magazine was able to capture
the experience in detail. Here are a few of the
trip highlights from my perspective:
1) A lot of people still buy DVDs.
And I mean a lot. I couldn’t believe how many copies of Friends Season 5 I came
across. All you have to do is turn on TBS and you can find it. Throw Hulu,
Netflix, and Amazon Instant Video in the mix and you have all of that on demand
as well. But I guess there is something to actually owning the DVD that has
still not lost its edge…
2) A desk job it is not. By 10:30
in the morning on my first day, I had already clocked over 13,000 steps on my
Fitbit. For comparison, it is now 1:00 in the afternoon, and after rushing from
meeting to meeting to picking up my Jimmy Johns from delivery downstairs, I
have clocked in a whopping 2,500 steps. Given the start time in the fulfillment
center was 7am and I didn’t get going until 9 today—but still. It is a
workout. I spoke to someone who lost 70 pounds in his first three months on the job
there.
3) Phoenix is flat. That’s where
the fulfillment center is. Even with the pretty desert nighttime sky and warm
temperature, I prefer Seattle. Give me rain and mountains any day.
2 comments:
Enjoying all these guests posts but wondering if you'll be back to your usual gig soon?
Just took s ton of DVDs to Goodwill. Never understood the allure of a DVD library
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