Automated Sorting/Layoffs On Topic

[Cyclops]

For those of you in hubs that have switched from manual sorting done by humans to high-speed, automated sorting, how did this job effect the employment of the workers that the automation replaced? Were there layoffs?

 

[scratch]

They just installed a new $7M system in my Hub, they are still working the bugs out. They still have to have people feed the belts and change the bags. I imagine that isn't a skilled sorter position and less people will be needed.

 

[eats packages]

I doubt they work as well as they look.
I think we have an automated small sort, but all it does is put 'no-read' stickers on more than half of the boxes. I enjoy using them as an excuse to load by address like a real human boy.

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[Over disciplined0123]

I doubt they work as well as they look.
I think we have an automated small sort, but all it does is put 'no-read' stickers on more than half of the boxes. I enjoy using them as an excuse to load by address like a real human boy.

We just got one and all it does is break down. Then they send all the smalls to the slides

 

[The Driver]

We just got one and all it does is break down. Then they send all the smalls to the slides

“B-b-b-but technology!”

 

[polyp]

They just built a second hub in the area. Needed it to match the new Amazon buildings, and as a bonus the new building would pick up some of the slack while they shut down and automate the old hub in phases. Can't get the new building working right (or staffed), but we're plowing ahead and shutting down the first area in the old building next month.

Should be fun.

 

[Big Package]

An amazon structure is being built near us. Hopefully I can grab a sort there. I need another job and I'm awesome at what I do.

 

[Staydryitsraining]

They just built a second hub in the area. Needed it to match the new Amazon buildings, and as a bonus the new building would pick up some of the slack while they shut down and automate the old hub in phases. Can't get the new building working right (or staffed), but we're plowing ahead and shutting down the first area in the old building next month.

Should be fun.

They are about to do the same where im at although i dont think amazon had anything to do with us.

 

[Heavy Package]

I think I'd still take the robot over some of the people at our hub...

 

[Over disciplined0123]

An amazon structure is being built near us. Hopefully I can grab a sort there. I need another job and I'm awesome at what I do.

10 bucks an hour

 

[Jackburton]

10 bucks an hour

Good luck finding people.

 

[Over disciplined0123]

Good luck finding people.

Oh they do and I know someone working there and it looks and smells just like a ups. A lot of chutes and belts and a sort aisle . With a lot of supervisors