A large segment of employees are hyper sensitive snowflakes who will cry if you tell them they did something wrong or fail to smile at them while they're in their safe spaces. Think of it as a warehouse job for [another word for cat]. It's the culmination of the "everyone gets a trophy" generation now being old enough to join the adult workforce. If you're accustomed to a place like UPS, you will not like it here (other than the fact that this is MUCH easier than UPS, but some of us prefer that level of intensity!).
Another large segment of employees are just plain lazy. Since nobody holds employees accountable for mistakes (probably to avoid the tears), the lazy people can skate by, barely doing anything, spending more time at the water cooler and the restroom than actually working. Back when I actually cared about this thing, I would see one particular girl stroll around with an envelope in her hand, try to start conversations with anyone within ten feet of her, eventually scan the envelope, stroll to the water cooler, sip water for a couple minutes, and then repeat the process, occasionally asking someone if they want to go to the restroom with her. This same girl also started crying when a manager told her not to take a pallet jack from a water spider because it was the only jack on the lane. Her response was, "but [sniff] I was told [sob] that I have permission!" Needless to say, she isn't going anywhere.
The above situation causes people with actual work ethic to stop caring. I used to care about pallet build quality, and would try to help people choose better places for packages, and even fix pallets to make them safer and able to hold more packages. Now I leave them as is, just like everyone else. I still do my job well, but nothing extra. Some of the other employees I talk to who actually try are starting to go the same route. I've had some of them rant to me about some of the things that they do to try to make the lane run better, and instead of commiserating, I now just tell them not to worry about it. It's futile.
Selfishness is the way to survive. If you need equipment (tape, boxes, pallets, etc), go to the next lane and steal it. Again, no accountability, and no support.
Management has somehow tricked these people into believing that "three and out" is a good thing. People actually start cheering when we leave after three hours. Seriously, if four hours of work is too much for you, then quit so the rest of us can keep to our weekly budgets and get the hours we signed up for.
No health insurance, other than the bare minimum "healthy savings account" that I can't even seem to access.
