They offer drivers a number of different shifts. Sometimes my check will be like $550, maybe $600 a week, after taxes. My fear is that, God forbid, something happens to my wife or kid and I gotta get back and I gotta drive an hour and a half or two hours to get home. My work day lasts 10 hours, plus an hour on each end because of my drive to and from home. I've been home from work now for about two hours and I'm trying to catch up on all the things that I couldn’t do. This is what four work days in the life of an Amazon delivery driver look like. “When people think about Amazon, they just talk about the warehouse,” he said. The driver can’t help but feel like the people who hand Prime members their gifts get forgotten in stories about Amazon. That’s something he thinks about every now and then. He works in an area where it’s a bit easier to buy and own a gun. “There are times when I'm like, ‘I hope these folks see that I'm wearing this jacket.’” The driver hasn’t had any major issues yet-“thank God”-though some of his co-workers have. “I am intimidating looking, so I can assume people see me and they're like, ‘Oh my God,’” he said. The driver is black-something he is keenly aware of. Usually it’s just a plain white van, though sometimes he receives the clearly marked Prime vans, which have their benefits. In certain cases, we are willing to keep your identity anonymous.Īmazon provides the driver with a delivery car. Would you be willing to tell VICE about a week in your life? Fill out this form. “It’s like running around like a chicken without a head trying to get everything done.” The company also requested that “no packages come back, period,” which caused a lot of stress, he said. It was the holiday season, and Amazon had extended the maximum number of delivery hours some days to 12 and asked people to come in extra days to handle the rush of presents around the country. The day we spoke, the driver had “160-something stops” to make. I’m not going to lie to you,” the driver said.

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