Comments on: Recipe for Stew of Discontent http://www.liveworkdream.com/2009/12/01/recipe-for-stew-of-discontent/ Working to find the dream life. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:39:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: live. work. dream. | Full Time RVing Sabbatical Lifestyle Blog | Snowfall and Winter Delays Our Flight South for Winter http://www.liveworkdream.com/2009/12/01/recipe-for-stew-of-discontent/comment-page-1/#comment-8986 live. work. dream. | Full Time RVing Sabbatical Lifestyle Blog | Snowfall and Winter Delays Our Flight South for Winter Fri, 22 Oct 2010 05:22:37 +0000 http://www.liveworkdream.com/?p=2068#comment-8986 [...] year at this time, we were already in Nevada, working as Satan’s Minion and far from the treacherous winter snowstorms that blanket our little piece of the [...] [...] year at this time, we were already in Nevada, working as Satan’s Minion and far from the treacherous winter snowstorms that blanket our little piece of the [...]

]]> By: Rene http://www.liveworkdream.com/2009/12/01/recipe-for-stew-of-discontent/comment-page-1/#comment-7498 Rene Thu, 27 May 2010 21:53:48 +0000 http://www.liveworkdream.com/?p=2068#comment-7498 We're wishing on that star with ya Sista, and hope that the evildoer corporations in this world learn how to treat people better or ROT! ;) Glad you got out of that awful experience! We’re wishing on that star with ya Sista, and hope that the evildoer corporations in this world learn how to treat people better or ROT! ;) Glad you got out of that awful experience!

]]> By: AprilinColorado http://www.liveworkdream.com/2009/12/01/recipe-for-stew-of-discontent/comment-page-1/#comment-7492 AprilinColorado Thu, 27 May 2010 03:22:45 +0000 http://www.liveworkdream.com/?p=2068#comment-7492 Rene..........AMEN SISTA! Yes-you and I are ALOT alike, I swear. My "last job" was at *ahem, cough....Dillards (can I say that on here?) Store manager was like a drill sargent and if we all didn't follow their million rules, to the letter-we would get fired. god help us if we were Late 6 times in 6 months-it did not matter if it was 10 minutes or 2 SECONDS! ugghhhhhhh. I put up with it for almost 2 years and near the end, my oldest cat died and I was a wreck. I stayed for 2 months after her death , put my notice in and ya know what happened on my last day? As I was about to clock out, a POLICE officer (woman) was there with my dept. boss and I was asked to hand over my "large" purse!!! I was shocked but hid my true feelings (I wanted to beat up my male boss). I had a pouch full of watches I that had dead batteries. They were mine and the police officer did NOT find them!!!! I took my bag with a deep breath, looked at them both and well-told them where they could both "Rot". It was not heaven. I could talk about that job for a month and not cover the stress/hell I felt every second when I saw anyone I didn't care for. One on one with my customers-I LOVED it. I was kinda my own boss, set my own standard (above the store even) . I always proved my way was better and I trained alot of people. I am proud of that. I sure miss the paychecks but it's not worth the stress of working for...SATAN. My thing is I love to do "personal shopping/research" on the internet and I'd love to do that so I could "earn some money" to pay for vet bills, home needs,improvements. I want nothing for myself. no more clothes,watches-lol, cosmetics (well a few),no frivilous things anymore. All I want is peace, good health for everyone and not to worry about money anymore-oh and a few good friends. I can hope and pray and wish on a star............. Rene……….AMEN SISTA! Yes-you and I are ALOT alike, I swear. My “last job” was at *ahem, cough….Dillards (can I say that on here?) Store manager was like a drill sargent and if we all didn’t follow their million rules, to the letter-we would get fired. god help us if we were Late 6 times in 6 months-it did not matter if it was 10 minutes or 2 SECONDS! ugghhhhhhh. I put up with it for almost 2 years and near the end, my oldest cat died and I was a wreck. I stayed for 2 months after her death , put my notice in and ya know what happened on my last day? As I was about to clock out, a POLICE officer (woman) was there with my dept. boss and I was asked to hand over my “large” purse!!! I was shocked but hid my true feelings (I wanted to beat up my male boss). I had a pouch full of watches I that had dead batteries. They were mine and the police officer did NOT find them!!!! I took my bag with a deep breath, looked at them both and well-told them where they could both “Rot”. It was not heaven.
I could talk about that job for a month and not cover the stress/hell I felt every second when I saw anyone I didn’t care for. One on one with my customers-I LOVED it. I was kinda my own boss, set my own standard (above the store even) . I always proved my way was better and I trained alot of people. I am proud of that. I sure miss the paychecks but it’s not worth the stress of working for…SATAN.
My thing is I love to do “personal shopping/research” on the internet and I’d love to do that so I could “earn some money” to pay for vet bills, home needs,improvements. I want nothing for myself. no more clothes,watches-lol, cosmetics (well a few),no frivilous things anymore. All I want is peace, good health for everyone and not to worry about money anymore-oh and a few good friends. I can hope and pray and wish on a star………….

]]> By: Peak Season Workamping at Amazon.com - Was it Worth it? | Tales from Technomadia http://www.liveworkdream.com/2009/12/01/recipe-for-stew-of-discontent/comment-page-1/#comment-6799 Peak Season Workamping at Amazon.com - Was it Worth it? | Tales from Technomadia Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:48:50 +0000 http://www.liveworkdream.com/?p=2068#comment-6799 [...] out of their way to be ambassadors for us with the management at Amazon. The stories we heard from workampers in the Fernley, NV location – not run by Express Pro – were not nearly as cheery as our experience was. We credit a [...] [...] out of their way to be ambassadors for us with the management at Amazon. The stories we heard from workampers in the Fernley, NV location – not run by Express Pro – were not nearly as cheery as our experience was. We credit a [...]

]]> By: NorCal Dan http://www.liveworkdream.com/2009/12/01/recipe-for-stew-of-discontent/comment-page-1/#comment-6746 NorCal Dan Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:48:53 +0000 http://www.liveworkdream.com/?p=2068#comment-6746 Received this via email...thought I would share in case anyone finds this thread and decides they want to work at the Kansas facility: January 20, 2010 Dear Valued Workamper: It is with a heavy heart that I inform you that we received termination notice yesterday of our contract with Amazon to hire Workampers for the 2010 peak season by an e-mail from them. I was stunned, to say the least, that they didn’t handle this situation with a face-to-face meeting or even a phone call. To add insult to injury, we heard from some of you yesterday that Amazon is in Quartsite, AZ right now recruiting Workampers for themselves! We have worked with Amazon since opening our office in 2004. Through blood, sweat and tears, we found a solution to their staffing problem – YOU! The Workampers, although many of you were not treated with the respect and dignity you deserve, were actually a God-sent to Amazon, obviously, now that they are recruiting you themselves. Kym and I would like to personally thank you for all of your hard work and dedication to Express as you worked exceedingly long hours in an extremely difficult work environment at Amazon. As I am sure you noticed by your local co-workers, you made our life so much easier these past three years by having people we could count on to show up and do their jobs. We cherish every acquaintance and friendship we have made by knowing all of you. Please feel free to use us for a reference in any of your Workamping jobs and please give us a call or stop by to see us if you are ever in our part of Kansas. We would love to hear from you again! Meanwhile, we have another company in our franchise territory that may benefit from Workampers as well as another one in a territory nearby and hope to be able to offer you another Express job by next fall. We will keep you posted. Thanks again for your support, your kindness and the great job you did for us this past peak season. Kind regards, Mark and Kym Kays Received this via email…thought I would share in case anyone finds this thread and decides they want to work at the Kansas facility:

January 20, 2010

Dear Valued Workamper:

It is with a heavy heart that I inform you that we received termination notice yesterday of our contract with Amazon to hire Workampers for the 2010 peak season by an e-mail from them. I was stunned, to say the least, that they didn’t handle this situation with a face-to-face meeting or even a phone call. To add insult to injury, we heard from some of you yesterday that Amazon is in Quartsite, AZ right now recruiting Workampers for themselves!

We have worked with Amazon since opening our office in 2004. Through blood, sweat and tears, we found a solution to their staffing problem – YOU! The Workampers, although many of you were not treated with the respect and dignity you deserve, were actually a God-sent to Amazon, obviously, now that they are recruiting you themselves.

Kym and I would like to personally thank you for all of your hard work and dedication to Express as you worked exceedingly long hours in an extremely difficult work environment at Amazon. As I am sure you noticed by your local co-workers, you made our life so much easier these past three years by having people we could count on to show up and do their jobs. We cherish every acquaintance and friendship we have made by knowing all of you.

Please feel free to use us for a reference in any of your Workamping jobs and please give us a call or stop by to see us if you are ever in our part of Kansas. We would love to hear from you again!

Meanwhile, we have another company in our franchise territory that may benefit from Workampers as well as another one in a territory nearby and hope to be able to offer you another Express job by next fall. We will keep you posted.

Thanks again for your support, your kindness and the great job you did for us this past peak season.

Kind regards,

Mark and Kym Kays

]]> By: Rene http://www.liveworkdream.com/2009/12/01/recipe-for-stew-of-discontent/comment-page-1/#comment-6563 Rene Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:24:43 +0000 http://www.liveworkdream.com/?p=2068#comment-6563 Hey Ms./Mr. Anonymous commenter, thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for validating what I thought I was experiencing there. For a while I thought I was just crazy and it was my bad 'tude towards the Man. Then I wanted to assume that the behavior I saw was just because I was one of the lowest minions in hell, and had hoped that in their corporate office maybe things weren't so bad. Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your experience. As for eating shit, you're so right. If I do eat any, it'll belong to a client who pays me very well and doesn't tell me when I can go on breaks or vacations. Contact me through our form, I'd love to follow your travels (and promise not to expose your identity!). Take care. Hey Ms./Mr. Anonymous commenter, thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for validating what I thought I was experiencing there. For a while I thought I was just crazy and it was my bad ‘tude towards the Man. Then I wanted to assume that the behavior I saw was just because I was one of the lowest minions in hell, and had hoped that in their corporate office maybe things weren’t so bad. Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your experience.

As for eating shit, you’re so right. If I do eat any, it’ll belong to a client who pays me very well and doesn’t tell me when I can go on breaks or vacations.

Contact me through our form, I’d love to follow your travels (and promise not to expose your identity!). Take care.

]]> By: Amazon is the worst employer ever. http://www.liveworkdream.com/2009/12/01/recipe-for-stew-of-discontent/comment-page-1/#comment-6559 Amazon is the worst employer ever. Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:27:40 +0000 http://www.liveworkdream.com/?p=2068#comment-6559 I found this blog post because I was looking for blogs of full time travelers. My partner and I pushed off about 2 years ago and have been traveling full time since. But we're not doing it via an RV. We're also in software, and in the middle part of the last decade I worked for Amazon.com at their corporate headquarters in the old hospital building in Seattle. I've met Jeff Bezos, and was there for several years. Amazon is the worst employer ever. Your experience is typical- they make up rules, but the rules only apply to you, they are not expected to follow them. They are like the DMV. They have zero respect for employees. They over work or underpay everyone, and the management of the company is run by highly political people who get ahead by undercutting others. Thus they are also undercutting their employees. It is a totally political environment. In my 20 years as a software developer, most of the jobs I had were great. I never had the dislike for the corporate environment you expressed in your blog. Until Amazon. It was such a poor experience that when I finally quit, I vowed never to work for another person ever again. It hasn't been easy, being self employed, but I've never been forced to eat shit again. I found this blog post because I was looking for blogs of full time travelers. My partner and I pushed off about 2 years ago and have been traveling full time since. But we’re not doing it via an RV.

We’re also in software, and in the middle part of the last decade I worked for Amazon.com at their corporate headquarters in the old hospital building in Seattle. I’ve met Jeff Bezos, and was there for several years.

Amazon is the worst employer ever. Your experience is typical- they make up rules, but the rules only apply to you, they are not expected to follow them. They are like the DMV. They have zero respect for employees. They over work or underpay everyone, and the management of the company is run by highly political people who get ahead by undercutting others. Thus they are also undercutting their employees. It is a totally political environment.

In my 20 years as a software developer, most of the jobs I had were great. I never had the dislike for the corporate environment you expressed in your blog.

Until Amazon. It was such a poor experience that when I finally quit, I vowed never to work for another person ever again.

It hasn’t been easy, being self employed, but I’ve never been forced to eat shit again.

]]> By: live. work. dream. | Full Time RVing Sabbatical Lifestyle Blog | Solo Fulltime Female RVer Gives Tips for Women Traveling Alone http://www.liveworkdream.com/2009/12/01/recipe-for-stew-of-discontent/comment-page-1/#comment-6549 live. work. dream. | Full Time RVing Sabbatical Lifestyle Blog | Solo Fulltime Female RVer Gives Tips for Women Traveling Alone Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:15:03 +0000 http://www.liveworkdream.com/?p=2068#comment-6549 [...] I was Satan’s minion in Fernley Nevada, we were camped across from Julia, a 77-year old fulltimer who roams the country with her cat and [...] [...] I was Satan’s minion in Fernley Nevada, we were camped across from Julia, a 77-year old fulltimer who roams the country with her cat and [...]

]]> By: Jim http://www.liveworkdream.com/2009/12/01/recipe-for-stew-of-discontent/comment-page-1/#comment-6492 Jim Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:53:06 +0000 http://www.liveworkdream.com/?p=2068#comment-6492 We'll have to put that on the map for our trip back ... once things thaw out up there come Spring. Good to hear from you! We’ll have to put that on the map for our trip back … once things thaw out up there come Spring. Good to hear from you!

]]> By: shaun ("JD Headcase") http://www.liveworkdream.com/2009/12/01/recipe-for-stew-of-discontent/comment-page-1/#comment-6491 shaun ("JD Headcase") Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:14:17 +0000 http://www.liveworkdream.com/?p=2068#comment-6491 yeah. that's so much like the first job i ever had...and the last real job i had too. Numbers. What's funny is the guy that wanted to fire me for not making the numbers didn't make his (long after I quit) and ended up temping for the same company, his new boss one of the kids he used to kick around. Ha! Comeuppance - it happens! Happy New Year you guys...been to Marble, CO. yet? Lemme know when you go. yeah. that’s so much like the first job i ever had…and the last real job i had too. Numbers. What’s funny is the guy that wanted to fire me for not making the numbers didn’t make his (long after I quit) and ended up temping for the same company, his new boss one of the kids he used to kick around. Ha! Comeuppance – it happens!

Happy New Year you guys…been to Marble, CO. yet? Lemme know when you go.

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