Ask the Amazon.com employee
 

This ought to spice up the GF a bit. So, I don't remember doing ask me threads before. If this is the first one, I hope it spawns more. If not, I hope it continues a fun tradition.

So, I work for Amazon.com. Right at the moment, I've been picking orders, which means I go up and down isles of shelving all day grabbing your orders and putting them on a cart for shipping.

What do you want to know? Ask away.

Do you get a commission if you pack a certain number of orders without mistakes? Cause I've been using amazon for a good 6 years now, and I swear I've never had a wrong order :p

Also...do you laugh when you see the items for certain orders? ;) Like do you nudge the person next to you and say "Look at what this clown ordered" and CHUCKLE? ;)

Well, kind of. Everyone gets a small bonus depending on several factors evey month. Mistakes are part of that, but with the scanner technology, it's pretty hard to screw it up.

As a matter of fact, that's some of the best entertainment we have. Although sometimes it's hard to single out orders because we pick several at a time to be packed, it gets pretty suspicious when I pick 9 childrens books & 3 dildos in the same order. Some of it transcends bad taste. On the upside, you also give a silent nod to people you don't know when they have good taste. The other day, I sent out and order to one person who chose City of Lost Children, Amelie, Preacher & Bone comics & The Zombie Survival Guide. I was thinking to myself the entire time, "Yeah, I could be best friends with this person."

LOL, yeah that's pretty poor taste. But I guess you have to do what you have to do to save on shipping ;) Yikes.

If I place an order for 1 dvd, can I PM you a list of 30 more and have you put them in my package at no additional charge?

What do you think will be the top music seller of 2007?Year Zero is at number 1 last i saw.

Do you get to oogle at any hot girls doing their own shopping, or at the desk maybe?;)

On a more serious note...do customers usually find what they are looking for? I mean most of them must be checking from the Net and placing their orders. But what if some stuff is out of stock?

Do you refer them to some other place or just put their order on wait, while you supply the rest?

And what about damaged goods?

Do you have a secret"Den"high up in the racking like they do in Employee of the Month?
When I worked in a warehouse on the night shift there was a particular guy that liked to be hoisted up into the racking where he would make a bed for the night:eek: any sleepy heads where you work?

I thought Amazon.com was a large group of individual sellers who shipped from multiple locations. Sounds like there's some huge warehouse that a lot of the stuff comes from. Is it both? A big warehouse AND additional sellers?

And can you hand out gift certificates, like, credit coupons, to your friends, for free merchandise? You get what I'm sayin'?

What's the weirdest thing you've had to get for someone?