[alexmlamb2]

Why do hourly employees care how long your lunch break is? At least in the US it's usually not counted as work time. Assuming people clock out for the lunch break, I don't see why they'd care if it's 30m or 2hr, since people could just make up the hours by working later. Although I suppose it depends on the type of work being done.

[krapp]

>Why do hourly employees care how long your lunch break is

Because you have a ten hour shift of difficult labor and twenty minutes of your thirty minute break is taken up with walking. And if you're in a FC with robots the time it takes for the Kivas to arrive at your station counts against you because you're expected to start working thirty minutes after your break starts, so on top of everything else you have to end your break early to make that time up.

>I don't see why they'd care if it's 30m or 2hr, since people could just make up the hours by working later.

I'm not aware of any business that allows its employees to take arbitrarily long breaks or to work arbitrary extra hours to "make it up." If such a company exists, Amazon is definitely not one of them.

[cultus]

I see you have never worked an hourly job where you have to be on your feet all day.

[cultus]

I see you have never worked an hourly job.

[jarfil]

Seems like they're being evaluated on their "items per time" rate, but that time also includes the lunch and bathroom breaks.

[krapp]

Many employees are evaluated by "scan to scan," which is a literal count of the rate at which they physically scan ASINs and bin codes in sequence, so any activity other than that (including bathroom breaks) counts as a penalty against their rate.

Of course they also have multiple quotas for items per hour, based on item size and expected daily volume, etc.