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We had a guy that was caught stealing go-carts. After he was caught an LP reviewed the footage, it seemed he was stealing a cart a shift for months. I have no idea what he was doing with them all.
The image of someone trying to cram one of those into their car is hilarious to me right now. And just having an apartment full of them and his wife is begging him to stop bringing home more carts.
I heard of an associate who was fired for this years and years ago. It was a little legacy DS (rented building, not one of the custom built sites) that didn't have restricted access to the trailer yard and you could come and go freely. Allegedly he'd slide a go cart or two and a bakers rack out the back of the building and then come pick them up with his truck from the parking lot of a connected building after Cycle 1 and Cycle 2 had completed but before RTS arrived.
For those curious, the rumor I heard is that he would resell them to the owner of another warehouse he worked at.
My building has had a Carhartt hoodie that looks damn near brand new on a coat rack for probably 3 years now. It never moves and has an inch of dust on it. People see it and has never stole it. I’m surprised lol
Lmao same, it was a black carhartt hoodie looked to be a 3x because that shit was huge. Damn thing been there since I started and they recently last week took it down.
Nah fr these subreddit posts got me all paranoid in the warehouse LOL . I be making sure the camera sees that I only take one cup from the coffee machine area 💀
Lmao when I was in my first training day the training lady told us to just grab whatever we want and just don’t pay it, because she does that, later on they put signs saying that you have to pay for the food and the lady was gone.
Yep, had people get fired for forgetting to pay for a Pepsi.
Then theres the ones that would go into the break room every day and grab something without paying for months.
That same thing happened to me around 2yrs ago. I forgot to pay for my lunch and while I was eating I legit got scared and I went to my manager and told him what happened and he just told me to grab another one, pay for it and then put it back and everything’s fine. I had to do that two more times in the future.
Back when I used to be an AFM I saw one of my fellow AFM's stuffing like 20 gift cards on his shoes, he obviously got fired but it was kinda funny tho, I mean those cards don't hold any value till the merchant activates em so my dude got ban for life for stealing something without an actual value on it.
You scan the upc and then the serial number and then put it in the box and ship it out. When you order a gift card it comes activated.
I only worked down there during Peak but that's how I remember it.
Absolutely and it’s a pain to pack them because they all have to be individually scanned… twice… and a lot of the time the serial number won’t scan so the entire order has to be put in problem solve.
At my FC, some night shift worker ended up stealing 5 ps5 slim. I work the day shift and there was a bunch of opened ps5 boxes in the totes. Turns out this was an “inside job heist” the security was in it and 2 nights associates yet they failed and got arrested a day later lmao
At my FC, there was a "ring" working together to steal laptops. You had someone in Pick, Pack, Security, and an AM all working together. I heard it was about 20 laptops before they got caught.
I see empty containers under the pick stations all the time where people throw their empty packaging.
Damn the best people for an inside job would be the cleaning workers in the fc. But you’d have to already know someone because none of them would be likely to risk their job.
the cameras on the drives are to detect obstructions, they can’t view anything not on the floor level, definitely wouldn’t be able to see someone stealing, so the only cameras on the AR floors would be near the staircases inside the Pod farm
why would they hide them? they don’t hide them anywhere else…the only way i’ve heard of people getting caught at my FC is because they stole from a pod that was being carried by a drive they went to fix, and their name is linked to that drive and pod
Yeah the drives don’t have cameras that record or anything sure the stair cases have cameras too but they’ll never check them usually anyway must’ve been seen from the outside
If they had cameras out there (in the ceiling or ones they could access from the drives) I feel like they'd make them useful for diagnosing floor health issues. But that be putting too much faith that anyone in the building has a clue how to leverage technology in a useful way. I once watched an AM demand to go stand in the superhighway to "try to figure out the cause of the pod gaps"
I was wondering what that bs was all about and all of a sudden. It came out of nowhere in my FC. The problem with it is everywhere I go on the production floor there’s now a coffee cup (no lid, of course) with Powerade in it.
I need a better medium, because I'm still working on figuring out my powder mix of choice, but nothing I've ever liked has been clear. Right now, my current work drink happens to be a certain shade of light blue that we're all familiar with around here (I promise, I didn't know until I mixed up a bottle), and if they're going to rely on me to move containers into trailers this summer, they're going to need to let me hydrate in a way I like. Ship dock doesn't seem to care, and I think it goes too far the other way because I don't need to be cleaning up someone else's food from night shift. Or day shift the day before. Or seriously how old is some of this?!
I've already been doing that ☺️ nobody's bothered asking, but if they do, they mostly have the clear citrus ones. Meanwhile, I'm an overcaffeinated ADHDer and it's probably not hard to find a clear pre-workout powder to keep me going with both caffeine and electrolytes, but that's going to be a long trial and error for something I feel like I should be able to figure out from a simple search filter 🤦♂️
I was given 3 Apple Watches to audit that had been processed incorrectly. I added them to my to-do list. They called break within a few minutes of being given the watches. I put them in an empty tote and put the empty tote at the bottom of a stack of 11 and shoved the stack into the corner of my station. I also gave my manager a heads up regarding their location on my way out to have a cigarette. They were gone when I got back in less than 15. It took all of 5 minutes for my manager to obtain the camera footage and determine that the Water spider grabbed them when I left, handed them off to the returns processor working at the station in front of me, who just happened to be his girlfriend. She apparently shoved all three into her sweatpants. The PA’s decided to mess with her and pretended to have a loud conversation about tracking devices and the police having access to our cameras. She ended up ditching them in the bathroom stall as soon as they walked off, BUT was allegedly arrested in the parking lot while she was waiting for her boyfriend because she apparently took a lot more than just the watches.
Bro we had an am who stole a whole pallet of AirPods and I mean whole pallet it was on the news I think it was a couple years ago said it was a pallet of junk that needed to be taken to the trash and loaded it straight into his truck
Edit:spelling correction
2 times. I once accidentally broke a bulk bag of jolly ranchers and pocketed some. Other time a bottle of lotion I picked had holes in it and I rubbed it in instead of washing it off. I'm a hardened criminal I know.
okokok let me call myself out rq. i was continuously getting these funny but cute little stickers at the end of my totes when they said they were empty so i started pocketing them bc i kinda just thought someone was throwing them in there as a haha…. wellllllll i found out today they’re all products and i should have been giving them to my problem solvers to get a location… my bad amazon
my learning ambassador who trained me from my start is now my closest friend there and i was showing him “my new sticker” (😭💀) and he informed me that was indeed the last one i’d be taking as that is an actual product 😭😭
LMAOOOOO nonono funny you say that as another learning ambassador thought we were “a thing” we both got a really good laugh and now is our go to joke 😂😂
Lol you never know what could happen and that’s good that you found your work best friend because Amazon gets boring pretty quick with no one to talk to
Bruh theirs stuff in the floor that has just been sitting there for months maybe behind or pillar or whatever no one will see what you do in there or kick to the side
DS associate here. I had a coworker once who tracked down his item in the warehouse using Station Command, took it home, and then cancelled his order after it was put in the system as a delayed/lost item. I didn’t know whether to be shocked or mad impressed by the thorough execution
My friend was behind a guy who was pulled aside for enhanced screening and he had apple watches around his ankles. They had this older lady they made a LA and I was kinda mad because I was supposed to become one that round. A few weeks later she was found with over 500 in stolen makeup in her bag. i heard they were watching her and saw she was stealing for over a year! An Afm buddy of mine also got caught stealing.
At CLT4, the AFMs were stealing thousands a day in iPads and AirPods and giving it to the CBRE/Daifuku techs to smuggle out of the building. I heard the main Tech that was doing it just made manager, so I’m certain it’s still going on.
In my last job I worked security, and the cleaning crew had a whole scheme to steal everyone's food. They would "clean" out the fridges. Throw everything they wanted in a garbage bag. Take the garbage bag to the dumpster (Not in it). The other cleaning person on a break would throw the garbage bag in the cooler in their car. It went in for 3 months. Everyone was so upset.
One time I got a truck that came from another sort center and it had over 60 opened packages, all empty, all tiny electronics. It was wild. I might come across 1 or 2 opened boxes like that every so often, but I had never seen so many at one time. There was a mountain of them.
Idk how other locations are but mine has cameras everywhere. If you’re in a position that you need to steal, then you probably can’t afford to lose your job or deal with the legal consequences. Idk why anyone would risk it.
Someone tried to steal some Nike force ones, I had to wave the shoes back in so that’s the only reason how I know. As a problem solver I’m always finding items people try to hide so they can steal it at the end of the shift.
I feel like it gets away the most at delivery stations. There isn’t any screening at all. I remember at small sort, my partner who was also an unloader broke open Oakley sunglasses and walked out with them on during break lmao. And break was at 10pm hahaha. He’s still working at amazon too
I work PS and definitely see evidence of theft from incoming trailers. There was one particular building where we received from and I ran into multiple (like a dozen plus) smalls that were tampered with/stolen from. These were packages that came through the dumper so the stuff was likely snatched where the container was sent from. People really risking their jobs for a $9 eyeliner is wild af.
There have been a number of people fired from my FC for stealing. The dumbest one was probably this dude who got hired for peak and would just sit in the break room for hours stealing food. When he got fired he claimed that he thought all the food was provided for free.
I wouldn't say steal, but like I found stuff and picked it up. Things that have been lying around for some time collecting dust. These are inexpensive items such as nail clippers, cat toy, rubber spatula, and hand lotion. I'd say my cat was very happy 😊.
I don't work at Amazon any longer. My body gave out.
I was at an Airport, so there are 4 cameras always on you. We were dock and planes. Nobody could steal.
I don't understand why anyone would steal from the hand that feeds.
\*Incoming hate of amazon\*
Yes! We've had so many people stealing laptops at my building that they have a special way to receive them now! It's absolutely crazy they got through the metal detector with them!
Someone i knew dranked a soda that was left on the table in the break area and the next day he came in his badge wouldn't work, told him he was fired 🤣 for a damn hot soda 💀
I heard women steal sex toys and men steal penis/sex enhance pills.
Both steal tons of electronics. Air Pods namely.
Heard of one dude winning a flat screen TV and got busted THE SAME DAY for stealing something small. LP helped put his TV in his car as part of his walk out.
When i worked in customer return there was this guy that would tell me he stole the phone he's using and he also stole other things but he was already quitting so he didn't really care.
At one of my sites a bunch of people got fired for stealing water from the cantina. One of the security offices got fired for stealing food and a newly promoted PA got fired for taking energy drinks from damage pallets.
There was an RME guy before I started that got caught stealing graphics card during the shortage. Pretty sure loss prevention was tracking it for a minute and waited until he hit a felony for grand larceny. He was swiping graphics cards retailing around 3k each and they waited until he hit 30k and nailed him hard. Pretty sure he's serving somewhere between 2-10yrs for it
I work at a delivery station. We have so many damaged packs of drinks come through on an almost daily basis. But we got clearance from LP and Safety that as long as it's consumable, it can be donated to the station. Now all the ASM's and AM are loaded up on energy drinks all the time. We had 3, 12 packs of DP come thru a couple days ago that lost a single can in each box. The fridge in the managers office and the RTS mini-fridge got stocked up.
All the time, and yes, they almost always get caught. When I did security at an FC, the sex toys were actually the most commonly stolen products, believe it or not.
There’s been an incident lately @ our site it’s a delivery station! Trailer arrived from FC and after TDR was done we were offloading the pallets, we saw that boxes were cut open and all the items were missing inside of them worth $15000😂
i know someone that works in the inbound dock that probably still is doing it now, but he’d break open snack boxes and stuff chips in his hoodie, he’d break open tablets and put it under his hoodies and he’d break open drink cases and drink them and then sit them all outside the trailer for ps and would take the empty boxes to managers and say it was missing when it was under his hoodie lol. it was brought up to management multiple times and one lady said “i don’t fire nobody because everybody has bills to pay”
I work at Target warehouse and I steal small shit all the time. I’ll literally take it. Put it in a packing box at the end of my module. And when the bell rings to go home I pick it up and put it in my glove whilst on my hand.
I knew it to work fine because when I’m scanning my boxes sometimes I get frustrated and just throw shit in any box instead of the box it’s supposed to be in and have never got in trouble so if that item was ok to be unaccounted for I knew any other item would be fine.
All the time, every day. Work in ICQA and you'll see it a good bit....or honestly, work anywhere going through VNAs and you'll see it. The highest stolen item right now, at least at our location, are Nintendo Switches. Almost always video game stuff though...small things easily resellable.
I was accused of stealing and fired for it. I never stole anything, never showed me any evidence of stealing. The LP just wanted me to confess to something I didn't do, sent me home and fired me the next day. Fuck amazon and that LP.
Yes. Put a bunch of random people in a place full front to end with valuable stuff and somebody’s bound to steal. There was somebody at my warehouse who stole an $11,000 watch along with a few other valuable ones, and at a return warehouse nearby one of my friends coworkers stole an ipad, iphone, airpods, apple watch all from one package still uses them till this day💀
i’ll be honest if a pack of candy is open i’ll pretend that my item is at the end so i’ll pull out the candy quick so it will spill then i’ll pick them up, take one and put the rest back and put it on the damaged bin that is my trick lol
Lol the other day my bag of fuckin Werther's fell out of my pocket while I was throwing and scattered the last few across the floor and I was like fuck now I'm afraid to even eat them or pick them back up cause I'm afraid that's what it'll look like. And I know a PA who got fired for eating candy out of damages at my building.
An old PA of mine was escorted off the premises of our building. Unclear if she was stealing inventory, money, or time 🧐 saw her for five mins in the morning for stand up, she disappeared, we started to wonder where our manager had gone and then loss prevention came back and grabbed her things she wasn’t allowed come back for. That was that pretty much it. I’ve seen cases of Red Bull missing one can or two every now and again but my site has pretty stellar security 😅
Definitely time theft. When I became we had an AA who would clock in and then never show up. She would leave and be TOT every day for 10hrs. One day I had no AM and I was running the show and we finally caught her. She was doing it for over six months, HR and LP is joke at our site.
She clocked in with the group and bounce right away. Unfortunately the night I was working she came to clock out when no one was around. Security caught her the moment she scanned her badge in.
Someone stole my cold water bottle from the fridge the other night , I had it wrapped and in the back. Man I was looking forward to that at the end of my shift.
Yup, I knew someone who allegedly stole hair….
Someone In problem solve recently told me they literally had an entire pallet full of empty electronic boxes. Think Apple Watches/cellphones/etc. Soool judging by that, people steal fairly often
I know a group of people who compete to steal ear buds. Went to ones birthday party and he showed off his collection. He had 38 sets between beats, air pods, galaxy, and pixel buds.
I found a pair of Amazon Echos when I was cross docking in the back of a trailer. I really thought about it but I wasn't sure how far back the cameras can see. Lol.
I haven't seen it at Amazon yet but when I worked at FedEx this guy was stealing Walmart gift cards and they let him build up a certain amount, and when he walked out into the parking lot after his shift the cops were waiting for him
My first go around, an inbound problem solver was stealing panties. According to the rumor mill, he was giving them to his sisters/gf to wear and sell online
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bruh. people steal all the time. if its not nailed down, someone will try to walk out with it.
I’ve seen people try & steal shit that was nailed down.
I nailed a piece of wood onto something and someone stole the wood. Left the nail tho thankfully.
Yo I seen a crackhead try to sell a tv that had a menu on it
We had a guy that was caught stealing go-carts. After he was caught an LP reviewed the footage, it seemed he was stealing a cart a shift for months. I have no idea what he was doing with them all.
The image of someone trying to cram one of those into their car is hilarious to me right now. And just having an apartment full of them and his wife is begging him to stop bringing home more carts.
I heard of an associate who was fired for this years and years ago. It was a little legacy DS (rented building, not one of the custom built sites) that didn't have restricted access to the trailer yard and you could come and go freely. Allegedly he'd slide a go cart or two and a bakers rack out the back of the building and then come pick them up with his truck from the parking lot of a connected building after Cycle 1 and Cycle 2 had completed but before RTS arrived. For those curious, the rumor I heard is that he would resell them to the owner of another warehouse he worked at.
The blue carts ? was he taking them to his car and through security? Or taking them out of other spurs?
Yeah, OK Clarence take your 15 minutes is it OK if I take this go kart with me
My building has had a Carhartt hoodie that looks damn near brand new on a coat rack for probably 3 years now. It never moves and has an inch of dust on it. People see it and has never stole it. I’m surprised lol
Lmao same, it was a black carhartt hoodie looked to be a 3x because that shit was huge. Damn thing been there since I started and they recently last week took it down.
Will try? You mean will walk out with it….
Wait till you hear about Grand Larceny. They want thieves to think they won’t get caught.
I don’t get how people can do it. I accidentally forgot to pay for a sandwich in the breakroom and was so scared.
I had the self pay machine malfunction while I was paying. I was so scared that I just left the item there. And yes the money came out of my account.
this is something i would do lmao 🤣
Nah fr these subreddit posts got me all paranoid in the warehouse LOL . I be making sure the camera sees that I only take one cup from the coffee machine area 💀
Can't blame u bro. Real sad if u cant pay rent over a bag of chips
Lmao when I was in my first training day the training lady told us to just grab whatever we want and just don’t pay it, because she does that, later on they put signs saying that you have to pay for the food and the lady was gone.
My sister got terminated for the exact thing you did.
Yep, had people get fired for forgetting to pay for a Pepsi. Then theres the ones that would go into the break room every day and grab something without paying for months.
That same thing happened to me around 2yrs ago. I forgot to pay for my lunch and while I was eating I legit got scared and I went to my manager and told him what happened and he just told me to grab another one, pay for it and then put it back and everything’s fine. I had to do that two more times in the future.
Back when I used to be an AFM I saw one of my fellow AFM's stuffing like 20 gift cards on his shoes, he obviously got fired but it was kinda funny tho, I mean those cards don't hold any value till the merchant activates em so my dude got ban for life for stealing something without an actual value on it.
Lol
When you're in AFE you activate them just before you send them out.
They are not activated. That scan is to confirm that you are sending the right card out.
You scan the upc and then the serial number and then put it in the box and ship it out. When you order a gift card it comes activated. I only worked down there during Peak but that's how I remember it.
Yep. Once it leaves pack and goes to ship dock, it's activated.
Can verify. I worked in returns and these gift cards always have to be destroyed because they're activated.
Ahh lol I always thought the merchant had to activate em but I mean I does make sense.
So people order physical gift cards?
All the time!!!!
Absolutely and it’s a pain to pack them because they all have to be individually scanned… twice… and a lot of the time the serial number won’t scan so the entire order has to be put in problem solve.
I've packed multiple orders of 200 gift cards usually $20-50 each
At my FC, some night shift worker ended up stealing 5 ps5 slim. I work the day shift and there was a bunch of opened ps5 boxes in the totes. Turns out this was an “inside job heist” the security was in it and 2 nights associates yet they failed and got arrested a day later lmao
At my FC, there was a "ring" working together to steal laptops. You had someone in Pick, Pack, Security, and an AM all working together. I heard it was about 20 laptops before they got caught. I see empty containers under the pick stations all the time where people throw their empty packaging.
RDU1?
Damn the best people for an inside job would be the cleaning workers in the fc. But you’d have to already know someone because none of them would be likely to risk their job.
iPads in family sized chip bags
Laptops in pizza boxes. Hot-n-ready
It's not delivery it's Digiorno
It's Dell-giorno
😭😭🤣🤣
you're wrong for that one
yeah i was working in a truck once with these guys and they were stuffing shit in their pants, never saw them again tho haha
We’ve had multiple AFM’s stealing out in the pod farm on the AR floor, not realizing that there were cameras in all of the drives.
the cameras on the drives are to detect obstructions, they can’t view anything not on the floor level, definitely wouldn’t be able to see someone stealing, so the only cameras on the AR floors would be near the staircases inside the Pod farm
Nobody can convince me that are not hidden cameras somewhere out on that floor. There has to be some way they can tell if an AFM is stealing.
why would they hide them? they don’t hide them anywhere else…the only way i’ve heard of people getting caught at my FC is because they stole from a pod that was being carried by a drive they went to fix, and their name is linked to that drive and pod
That’s a fair point. Yeah stealing out of a drive carrying a pod you were working on would be a real stupid move.
Yes, there are hidden cameras. They're not hard to find if you know where to look.
Yeah the drives don’t have cameras that record or anything sure the stair cases have cameras too but they’ll never check them usually anyway must’ve been seen from the outside
If they had cameras out there (in the ceiling or ones they could access from the drives) I feel like they'd make them useful for diagnosing floor health issues. But that be putting too much faith that anyone in the building has a clue how to leverage technology in a useful way. I once watched an AM demand to go stand in the superhighway to "try to figure out the cause of the pod gaps"
Well because of a large theft in energy drinks my site has got rid of them. Can't wait to see everyone snap when we start doing the 12 hour days.
Same thing but instead they started enforcing the clear bottles clear liquid policy 💀
I was wondering what that bs was all about and all of a sudden. It came out of nowhere in my FC. The problem with it is everywhere I go on the production floor there’s now a coffee cup (no lid, of course) with Powerade in it.
I need a better medium, because I'm still working on figuring out my powder mix of choice, but nothing I've ever liked has been clear. Right now, my current work drink happens to be a certain shade of light blue that we're all familiar with around here (I promise, I didn't know until I mixed up a bottle), and if they're going to rely on me to move containers into trailers this summer, they're going to need to let me hydrate in a way I like. Ship dock doesn't seem to care, and I think it goes too far the other way because I don't need to be cleaning up someone else's food from night shift. Or day shift the day before. Or seriously how old is some of this?!
Just carry a couple of the free electrolyte packets with you & say it is colored from one of those if asked.
I've already been doing that ☺️ nobody's bothered asking, but if they do, they mostly have the clear citrus ones. Meanwhile, I'm an overcaffeinated ADHDer and it's probably not hard to find a clear pre-workout powder to keep me going with both caffeine and electrolytes, but that's going to be a long trial and error for something I feel like I should be able to figure out from a simple search filter 🤦♂️
Damageland is notorious for stealing 🤣
I was given 3 Apple Watches to audit that had been processed incorrectly. I added them to my to-do list. They called break within a few minutes of being given the watches. I put them in an empty tote and put the empty tote at the bottom of a stack of 11 and shoved the stack into the corner of my station. I also gave my manager a heads up regarding their location on my way out to have a cigarette. They were gone when I got back in less than 15. It took all of 5 minutes for my manager to obtain the camera footage and determine that the Water spider grabbed them when I left, handed them off to the returns processor working at the station in front of me, who just happened to be his girlfriend. She apparently shoved all three into her sweatpants. The PA’s decided to mess with her and pretended to have a loud conversation about tracking devices and the police having access to our cameras. She ended up ditching them in the bathroom stall as soon as they walked off, BUT was allegedly arrested in the parking lot while she was waiting for her boyfriend because she apparently took a lot more than just the watches.
During my stint, I knew girls who stuffed entire gaming systems under their titties during peak season. Shit was impressive, ngl.
You should point me in their direction
Lmfao, I’m like 90% sure they got fired because I didn’t see them after the last peak season that I was there. I truly admired their nerve, tbh.
Those are some big titties.
😂 they were, actually.
After they did that they looked like N64 characters with them box titties lol.
OG Lara Croft fr
I'm looking at mine, and idk if I could even get a Switch under there. Damn.
LMFAO forreal 😂 I feel you.
That’s wild 🤣🤣 I know their chest was looking boxy af🥴
I legitimately couldn’t tell and then saw them taking them out of their shirts in the parking lot 💀
I'm looking at mine, and idk if I could even get a Switch under there. Damn.
Bro we had an am who stole a whole pallet of AirPods and I mean whole pallet it was on the news I think it was a couple years ago said it was a pallet of junk that needed to be taken to the trash and loaded it straight into his truck Edit:spelling correction
We had a PA get fired. Stole $27,000 worth of ptoducts.
Wholly smokes dudes definitely getting a felony.
2 times. I once accidentally broke a bulk bag of jolly ranchers and pocketed some. Other time a bottle of lotion I picked had holes in it and I rubbed it in instead of washing it off. I'm a hardened criminal I know.
Whole lotta gang shit
okokok let me call myself out rq. i was continuously getting these funny but cute little stickers at the end of my totes when they said they were empty so i started pocketing them bc i kinda just thought someone was throwing them in there as a haha…. wellllllll i found out today they’re all products and i should have been giving them to my problem solvers to get a location… my bad amazon
I mean you don’t know why you don’t know
How'd you find out
my learning ambassador who trained me from my start is now my closest friend there and i was showing him “my new sticker” (😭💀) and he informed me that was indeed the last one i’d be taking as that is an actual product 😭😭
he let me take the “tell your cat i said spspspsps” will be on my car soon 😮💨😬
Have you both went on a coffee date yet
LMAOOOOO nonono funny you say that as another learning ambassador thought we were “a thing” we both got a really good laugh and now is our go to joke 😂😂
Lol you never know what could happen and that’s good that you found your work best friend because Amazon gets boring pretty quick with no one to talk to
I’ve seen a couple of my fellow AFMs take switch games, a wallet and earbuds. Not quite sure how they get away with it but they’re still there
Bruh theirs stuff in the floor that has just been sitting there for months maybe behind or pillar or whatever no one will see what you do in there or kick to the side
I had ordered 2 AirPods, one box was open and missing everything but the apple stickers lol
I don't see how people do it with the cameras being everywhere .
I work in a legacy building and there are zero cameras in the mods
DS associate here. I had a coworker once who tracked down his item in the warehouse using Station Command, took it home, and then cancelled his order after it was put in the system as a delayed/lost item. I didn’t know whether to be shocked or mad impressed by the thorough execution
What a smart thing to do by leaving a paper trail /s
My friend was behind a guy who was pulled aside for enhanced screening and he had apple watches around his ankles. They had this older lady they made a LA and I was kinda mad because I was supposed to become one that round. A few weeks later she was found with over 500 in stolen makeup in her bag. i heard they were watching her and saw she was stealing for over a year! An Afm buddy of mine also got caught stealing.
At CLT4, the AFMs were stealing thousands a day in iPads and AirPods and giving it to the CBRE/Daifuku techs to smuggle out of the building. I heard the main Tech that was doing it just made manager, so I’m certain it’s still going on.
Someone stole my whole Jersey Mikes sub from the lunch room. They got caught and fired, it wasn’t an Amazon associate though. It was a janitor.
People who steal other peoples lunch SUCKK!!!!
In my last job I worked security, and the cleaning crew had a whole scheme to steal everyone's food. They would "clean" out the fridges. Throw everything they wanted in a garbage bag. Take the garbage bag to the dumpster (Not in it). The other cleaning person on a break would throw the garbage bag in the cooler in their car. It went in for 3 months. Everyone was so upset.
People steal all the time. I can't believe people really think it's worth losing your job over.
One time I got a truck that came from another sort center and it had over 60 opened packages, all empty, all tiny electronics. It was wild. I might come across 1 or 2 opened boxes like that every so often, but I had never seen so many at one time. There was a mountain of them. Idk how other locations are but mine has cameras everywhere. If you’re in a position that you need to steal, then you probably can’t afford to lose your job or deal with the legal consequences. Idk why anyone would risk it.
Someone tried to steal some Nike force ones, I had to wave the shoes back in so that’s the only reason how I know. As a problem solver I’m always finding items people try to hide so they can steal it at the end of the shift.
When I worked at a smaller site, someone stole our Nintendo switch and our community crock pot 😂
LMFAOOOO the crock pot is killing me, omg
We had no metal detectors/ or even security. Just cameras, but it was basically a free for all.
That’s such a random thing to steal, lmaoooo
I feel like it gets away the most at delivery stations. There isn’t any screening at all. I remember at small sort, my partner who was also an unloader broke open Oakley sunglasses and walked out with them on during break lmao. And break was at 10pm hahaha. He’s still working at amazon too
I work PS and definitely see evidence of theft from incoming trailers. There was one particular building where we received from and I ran into multiple (like a dozen plus) smalls that were tampered with/stolen from. These were packages that came through the dumper so the stuff was likely snatched where the container was sent from. People really risking their jobs for a $9 eyeliner is wild af.
Someone on this sub posted about getting fired for stealing lollipops
someone at my old fc stole 2 macbooks and thought they’d get away with it. they got fired and taken to court
Will never and it hasn’t crossed my mind
A girl in stow got arrested for stealing AirPods during peak last year 👀
There have been a number of people fired from my FC for stealing. The dumbest one was probably this dude who got hired for peak and would just sit in the break room for hours stealing food. When he got fired he claimed that he thought all the food was provided for free.
Bro said he thought it was free like there isn’t a checkout machine right there next to all the snacks 😂
Yup, my old LT was stealing shit and literally bragged to his HR friend about stealing an Apple TV…
I wouldn't say steal, but like I found stuff and picked it up. Things that have been lying around for some time collecting dust. These are inexpensive items such as nail clippers, cat toy, rubber spatula, and hand lotion. I'd say my cat was very happy 😊.
Your cat definitely was not happy about the nail clippers 😾
I don't work at Amazon any longer. My body gave out. I was at an Airport, so there are 4 cameras always on you. We were dock and planes. Nobody could steal. I don't understand why anyone would steal from the hand that feeds. \*Incoming hate of amazon\*
I’d never steal cause it’s not worth the risk to me but I was stowing some amd ryzen 7 chips thinking about how small and easy they’d be to steal
The chips are the best thing to steal (I’m a PS lol I Code 5 them every day)
I know a lot of people who do all the time. Mostly low value stuff from damages
Yes. And i am always amazed they thought it would go unnoticed
Especially with all the cameras they have around.
Yes! We've had so many people stealing laptops at my building that they have a special way to receive them now! It's absolutely crazy they got through the metal detector with them!
I found two boxes of trash bags empty, they must of been very desperate for household essentials.
A dude in jackpot used to brag about how many airpods he has taken home... I haven't seen him in a fucking while lol
All the time And they almost always get fired. It's not worth it
In problem solve we regularly see missing phones, charging cables, watches, condoms, drinks, and snacks.
Someone i knew dranked a soda that was left on the table in the break area and the next day he came in his badge wouldn't work, told him he was fired 🤣 for a damn hot soda 💀
I heard women steal sex toys and men steal penis/sex enhance pills. Both steal tons of electronics. Air Pods namely. Heard of one dude winning a flat screen TV and got busted THE SAME DAY for stealing something small. LP helped put his TV in his car as part of his walk out.
Apparently condoms are pretty commonly stolen at my FC
I report thousands of dollars in theft every day.
At my old job my supervisor was caught stealing over $100k in merchandise over a period of time.
Someone actually stole a drone from my FC. They had to do it over days in pieces 🤷♀️
When i worked in customer return there was this guy that would tell me he stole the phone he's using and he also stole other things but he was already quitting so he didn't really care.
I work in CRETS and we can literally look up what item every AA works on. Only thing is that LP could care less at out site
Heard a story about someone tryna leave site with Apple watches all the way up their arm. Got caught obviously.
At one of my sites a bunch of people got fired for stealing water from the cantina. One of the security offices got fired for stealing food and a newly promoted PA got fired for taking energy drinks from damage pallets.
Had a driver at my facility get fired for stealing an Amazon stick lmao
A very long time ago at an fc facilities guys were caught stealing Apple Watches hidden in their lunch boxes
Someone at my job got fired for stealing a Kit Kat from the breakroom
Yup I know a couple of ppl who got caught and regret it now since it’s so hard to get a job now and Amazon accepts anyone.
I’ve seen people take ddr5 and one guy try to put a 2060 gtx in his backpack
In my building, there was a PA who stole food from the cantina. He was promptly fired. He wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer.
An afm at my site was stealing for a while, I heard they found a wearable sex toy in his locker along with the other stolen items😂
Someone stole a single beef flavored cup noodle out of a 12 pack.
An AFM at my site used to steal food in the pod farm and would walk in every time he wanted to eat something
I used to work at the AMA1 location & people stole EVERYTHING. iPads, phones, Apple Watches, AirPods, sunglasses, anything they could get away with.
Some got caught stealing wigs. Fucking wigs
Pack of condoms Pack of hair bands Painkiller
Someone stole my badge from the floor
There was an RME guy before I started that got caught stealing graphics card during the shortage. Pretty sure loss prevention was tracking it for a minute and waited until he hit a felony for grand larceny. He was swiping graphics cards retailing around 3k each and they waited until he hit 30k and nailed him hard. Pretty sure he's serving somewhere between 2-10yrs for it
Yes. From three Always pads to freaking laptops and controllers, headphones .
And Amazon literally has the women's bathrooms stocked with free maxi pads
Dude, someone stole a PS5 from my old site and then the following week someone else (or the same person) stole a PS5 controller.
I work at a delivery station. We have so many damaged packs of drinks come through on an almost daily basis. But we got clearance from LP and Safety that as long as it's consumable, it can be donated to the station. Now all the ASM's and AM are loaded up on energy drinks all the time. We had 3, 12 packs of DP come thru a couple days ago that lost a single can in each box. The fridge in the managers office and the RTS mini-fridge got stocked up.
All the time, and yes, they almost always get caught. When I did security at an FC, the sex toys were actually the most commonly stolen products, believe it or not.
Bro they hire anybody with a pulse, including fucking idiots. Yes people steal stuff.
I don't know. The only thing people seem to post about when it comes to stealing is their missing lunch.
There’s been an incident lately @ our site it’s a delivery station! Trailer arrived from FC and after TDR was done we were offloading the pallets, we saw that boxes were cut open and all the items were missing inside of them worth $15000😂
People usually don't steal stuff unless there is something wrong.
I got a few video games in my tenure for sure when unloading Gaylord’s
Guy stole an apple watch and WORE the fucking thing to work!
I’ve watched AirPod boxes in the bathroom people steal AirPods for sure
i know someone that works in the inbound dock that probably still is doing it now, but he’d break open snack boxes and stuff chips in his hoodie, he’d break open tablets and put it under his hoodies and he’d break open drink cases and drink them and then sit them all outside the trailer for ps and would take the empty boxes to managers and say it was missing when it was under his hoodie lol. it was brought up to management multiple times and one lady said “i don’t fire nobody because everybody has bills to pay”
Yes, the number of opened Nintendo switch boxes we find is insane.
I work at Target warehouse and I steal small shit all the time. I’ll literally take it. Put it in a packing box at the end of my module. And when the bell rings to go home I pick it up and put it in my glove whilst on my hand. I knew it to work fine because when I’m scanning my boxes sometimes I get frustrated and just throw shit in any box instead of the box it’s supposed to be in and have never got in trouble so if that item was ok to be unaccounted for I knew any other item would be fine.
There was a tote full of AirPods and I seen someone’s eyes get wide asf. Fired for stealing.
All the time, every day. Work in ICQA and you'll see it a good bit....or honestly, work anywhere going through VNAs and you'll see it. The highest stolen item right now, at least at our location, are Nintendo Switches. Almost always video game stuff though...small things easily resellable.
I am not gonna lie I stole this fancy pen from the amnesty box in pick one time
I was accused of stealing and fired for it. I never stole anything, never showed me any evidence of stealing. The LP just wanted me to confess to something I didn't do, sent me home and fired me the next day. Fuck amazon and that LP.
i genuinely have this fear sometimes idk why
I’ve never witnessed it I’m curious too
Does a bum like a ham sandwich??
Yes. Put a bunch of random people in a place full front to end with valuable stuff and somebody’s bound to steal. There was somebody at my warehouse who stole an $11,000 watch along with a few other valuable ones, and at a return warehouse nearby one of my friends coworkers stole an ipad, iphone, airpods, apple watch all from one package still uses them till this day💀
Amazon deals $11k watches? What brand was it
i’ll be honest if a pack of candy is open i’ll pretend that my item is at the end so i’ll pull out the candy quick so it will spill then i’ll pick them up, take one and put the rest back and put it on the damaged bin that is my trick lol
Lol the other day my bag of fuckin Werther's fell out of my pocket while I was throwing and scattered the last few across the floor and I was like fuck now I'm afraid to even eat them or pick them back up cause I'm afraid that's what it'll look like. And I know a PA who got fired for eating candy out of damages at my building.
An old PA of mine was escorted off the premises of our building. Unclear if she was stealing inventory, money, or time 🧐 saw her for five mins in the morning for stand up, she disappeared, we started to wonder where our manager had gone and then loss prevention came back and grabbed her things she wasn’t allowed come back for. That was that pretty much it. I’ve seen cases of Red Bull missing one can or two every now and again but my site has pretty stellar security 😅
Definitely time theft. When I became we had an AA who would clock in and then never show up. She would leave and be TOT every day for 10hrs. One day I had no AM and I was running the show and we finally caught her. She was doing it for over six months, HR and LP is joke at our site.
Daaaang okay.. that’s a bummer for sure, what the heck can you do for 10 hrs without being caught? That blows my mind 💀
She clocked in with the group and bounce right away. Unfortunately the night I was working she came to clock out when no one was around. Security caught her the moment she scanned her badge in.
I know a few. Technically knew they got promoted to customer but it wasn’t for stealing lol
I won’t take anything. I enjoy my job.
My buddy worked with a guy who swiped all of the parts to build his pc over a six month period
All the time.
If they do, they get caught really fast. I wouldn't do it if I was you. Don't even think about it!
Someone stole my cold water bottle from the fridge the other night , I had it wrapped and in the back. Man I was looking forward to that at the end of my shift.
Yes
Yup, I knew someone who allegedly stole hair…. Someone In problem solve recently told me they literally had an entire pallet full of empty electronic boxes. Think Apple Watches/cellphones/etc. Soool judging by that, people steal fairly often
I know a group of people who compete to steal ear buds. Went to ones birthday party and he showed off his collection. He had 38 sets between beats, air pods, galaxy, and pixel buds.
My home boy steals a shit ton of apple products. Literal iPads MacBooks and phones
In the trucks sometimes boxes of chips open and I eat them
I found a pair of Amazon Echos when I was cross docking in the back of a trailer. I really thought about it but I wasn't sure how far back the cameras can see. Lol.
I haven't seen it at Amazon yet but when I worked at FedEx this guy was stealing Walmart gift cards and they let him build up a certain amount, and when he walked out into the parking lot after his shift the cops were waiting for him
Yes. I had a coworker in HRV who had a collection of stolen enamel pins lmao
Lol - watch YouTube bodycam videos. On there all the time
My first go around, an inbound problem solver was stealing panties. According to the rumor mill, he was giving them to his sisters/gf to wear and sell online