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Amazon asks corporate workers to ‘volunteer’ help with grocery deliveries as Prime Day frenzy approaches
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I have a salaried job, and from time to time when there's a big order we are asked to help out the manufacturing team, which is paid hourly. It tends to be repetitive assembly-line stuff, but it can be a fun change from the office work.
It's not unusual during specific times to redeploy people temporarily where they are needed more. The alternative is to hire a bunch of seasonal staff. You have to train them anyway, but at least by redeploying existing people you at least know they are reliable.
That's a big nope from me. If it's not in the job description I was hired to do I'm not doing it unless we renegotiate my salary. This is how they take advantage of people.
Not op but I'll do stuff from time to time that is well below my pay grade. Mind management understands that the pay difference and that I'm not doing my normal responsibilities if I'm helping out...
I mean, that's why they called it volunteering, isn't it?
You would say no, but some others might want to do it.
Since you're doing work that pays less, I guess you could negotiate a lower salary for the period of time you are pitching in. That's only if you really want to stick to your principles.
No my time costs the same regardless of what I am doing. If I'm not making software for them I could be making it for someone else making the same or more. I don't have time to waste in a warehouse. Don't be a pushover
You are allowed to enjoy your job and take a little detour from what you do best to be a part of a team.
If you hate everybody and everything, sure, stick to your guns. But there is nothing wrong with being a team player
I'm already a part of a team doing my actual job
Nah, go there and then start organizing with the warehouse workers to get them paid as much as you're being paid to do their job.
Why would I even be in a warehouse when I could be subsistence farming on a commune with Boris and Sergei?