First Day At Amazon

We had our first day of orientation at Amazon today.  Orientation will last the rest of the week and then we start working full time on Sunday night. We asked for nights (higher pay, we are both better later than early in the morning and we think it will be better for the dog to be left alone at night than during the day). We will be "stowing". I'm not exactly sure what we'll be doing, but we'll be walking 2-4 miles per day.

Workampers have been starting at Amazon over the last few weeks. Our group this morning consisted of about 20 people. I think they were all couples though I think there was one woman who was alone. One couple looked to be in their late 40s and everyone else (other than Chris and I) was probably 60 (or 65) and above. A couple were over 70. About half or more had worked for Amazon before. Some where rather know-it-all-ish about it so you can imagine how I felt about that.

The warehouse is huge. Really huge. And rather noisy. I suppose that's what it's like working in a factory. I'll be sort of like Debra Winger in An Officer and a Gentleman. I'll need a cool hat like hers.

We were tortured by a couple hours of training videos about "bias" and sexual harassment. The videos were at least 20 years old, the acting was horrible and the hair was big.

We were given badges w/our pictures on them and cool Amazon Camperforce T-shirts (purple!).

Tomorrow we start at 7:30. I hope they don't make us watch any more videos.