Amazon coming to Teesside

The £9.70/hour is that for working unsocial hours? I suspect the warehouses work 24-7 so you will have to do night shifts, weekend work, some bank holiday work. Otherwise the warehouse could not operate so quickly.

For a young person/student who is fit it could be a good job - its when you want to buy a house (or even rent a nice property) and raise a family. You need a family income of £40k a year nowadays to get a mortgage of say £100k and have a 15% deposit say £15k gets you a £115k house.
 
Redwurzel said:
The £9.70/hour is that for working unsocial hours? I suspect the warehouses work 24-7 so you will have to do night shifts, weekend work, some bank holiday work. Otherwise the warehouse could not operate so quickly.

For a young person/student who is fit it could be a good job - its when you want to buy a house (or even rent a nice property) and raise a family. You need a family income of £40k a year nowadays to get a mortgage of say £100k and have a 15% deposit say £15k gets you a £115k house.
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It goes to show we, the aged, had an easy time. We had a £100k mortgage when our joint salaries were about £30k, our first house was brand new at less than £13k I earned £2.5k at 19.
 
Same

I am pleased you bought a new house for £13k but the question is what is the pay rate for hours outside 9-5 on a weekday?

Also do brand new staff get £9.70/hour?

Also how long are the normal shifts?

How many parcels do you pack in a shift?

Do you need a car to get to the warehouse?
 
I will ask one of the lads I know. I think the shift patterns are roughly 7 till 3, 3 till 11 and then nights. Nights are on a better rate. No idea about how many parcels but they are not moaning about that.
You might of noticed that the steel works are shut, as are the mines and ship building , even Wilton employs far fewer people. Yesterday has gone. I would work for Amazon.
 
Badonde said:
Would love it if they'd dredge the water in Teesport and make it fit for deep water container ships.
Felixstowe is having really big issues with congestion at the moment and they handle 40% of all UK inbound containers.
Lets see if we can get some of that traffic up here!
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I was talking to the Prof who did study on the Tees & she said it couldn't be dredged any more because all the chemicals that were once emptied into the Tees & now settled would be disturbed & cause huge pollution & poison problem.... it's already one of the deepest ports.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teesport
 
Working 3pm to 11pm is unsocial hours for most people OK if you work in a pub its also the busy times, but it limits what you can do in the evening and late evening when most other people are not working.

I am not against the new Amazon Warehouse, its good work for some, say a healthy 20 year old living at home, but just highlighting its limited for a long term career for many and councils have to be careful with their very limited resources.
 
deep sea container plans 2018
Thanks for link Bob but it seems the really big ships still need more room.
Sure I read previously that lots of bridges would need to be heightened if a rail link was to handle bigger containers.
Given that the attached article mentions a '10 year extension' and this was pre-Covid it looks to be a project set in treacle.
Maybe this Amazon news will help give it a shove.
If Boris wants to keep his new northern seats perhaps he'll throw us a bone???
 
red_harrington said:
Amazon only makes several BILLION pounds in profit every year

So no, they don't need it and it will **** me right off if they they get it
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If it creates thousands of jobs in their area, the money is 100% worth it regardless of if amazon need it or not.
 
JM14 said:
If it creates thousands of jobs in their area, the money is 100% worth it regardless of if amazon need it or not.
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No.

No company should accept a bribe from the taxpayer just so that they can set up shop especially when they can easily afford it, as Amazon can.

If the area is good enough then so be it.

Same should go for ALL councils in the UK.
 
Redwurzel said:
Same

I am pleased you bought a new house for £13k but the question is what is the pay rate for hours outside 9-5 on a weekday?

Also do brand new staff get £9.70/hour?

Also how long are the normal shifts?

How many parcels do you pack in a shift?

Do you need a car to get to the warehouse?
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I think it’s about 24k a year on nights shifts
 
So its around £480/week divided by 40 hours = £12/hour for the 11pm to 7am shift? which is probably money wise attractive to quite a few people. But working those hours permanently can be unhealthy over the medium to long term.

The best jobs for Amazon of course will be at its HQ.
 
Redwurzel said:
The £9.70/hour is that for working unsocial hours? I suspect the warehouses work 24-7 so you will have to do night shifts, weekend work, some bank holiday work. Otherwise the warehouse could not operate so quickly.

For a young person/student who is fit it could be a good job - its when you want to buy a house (or even rent a nice property) and raise a family. You need a family income of £40k a year nowadays to get a mortgage of say £100k and have a 15% deposit say £15k gets you a £115k house.
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A joint income of £40k would allow you to borrow £180k.

No idea where you got £100k from.
 
I think the one at Darlington is a logistical hub, which is why we can’t take advantage of Amazon Prime Now despite it being so close - in Leeds you can get same day delivery and even within an hour for a fee

believe this new one is a fulfilment centre warehouse which will enable that.

I use amazon extensively do about 130 orders a year and usually multi item. Their returns process is first class, I’ve had out of warranty refunds for all sorts. Coronavirus and Christmas returns were basically 3 months!

you can’t always find them at the best price but factoring in prime free delivery over the volume I buy at no way anyone could compete, I still do price check though but it’s rare that anyone beats them for the things that I buy, and factoring in speedy delivery and easy returns it’s a no brainer for me.

Commerce will change with technology, it’s a fact. Clinging on to the old ways won’t do any good in the long run, that progress will happen anyway.
 
TommyPlus said:
Physical Demands:
The role involves the following physical demands on a daily basis:

• Standing and/or walking for long periods of between 8 and 12 hours per shift (standard full-time shifts are 10 hours excluding overtime, flex and part-time shifts may vary)
• Lifting and moving products up to 23kg in weight
• Lifting, bending, reaching above the head, kneeling, crouching, and/or stretching for 8 to 12 hours per shift (standard full-time shifts are 10 hours excluding overtime, flex and part-time shifts may vary)
• Pushing and pulling product up to 23kg in weight for 8 to 12 hours per shift (standard full-time shifts are 10 hours excluding overtime, flex and part-time shifts may vary)
• Manual dexterity of both hands and wrists
• Working on a secure mezzanine at a height of between 9 to 12 meters (equivalent to a 3 or 4 storey building)
• Regularly climbing and descending four flights of stairs safely

£9.70 an hour and you’re defending this mob of parasites
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On a busy day I can be on my feet for 12 hours, 13 of you include the walk to and from work.
And by on my feet I mean on my feet, all day, literally only sitting down if I need a ****.
I shift 200kg of potatoes, prepped and un-prepped every day, along with probably around 50-100kg of veg from outside stores into the kitchen every week. Add on 100kg of meat every weekend for Sunday lunch.
I'll move fridges, ovens and workbenches around the kitchen after closing every night to clean the kitchen down. Kneeling, stretching, crouching, balancing, reaching, lifting, bending done multiple times a day.
All that usually in a room with minimal air circulation where the temperature usually hangs around 20°c in the winter months and a stifling 30-40°c in the summer months.

But it's fine. You know why? Because I knew a lot and picked up the rest fairly quickly once I started my path in this career as a chef.

Warehouse work is warehouse work. It's obvious that people will be lugging stuff about all day. In the next 10 to 20 years all those jobs will disappear due to automation.
 
A decent job is something that you could conceivably raise a family on and buy a house with.......not something that keeps you out of a soup kitchen!
 
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