ezydriver:
graemem106:
The worst I’ve had was an amazon rdc near Birmingham 26 pallets to come off stuck in a scabby drivers room with a broken vending machine for 7 hours no food only some luke warm water and a TV with jerremy kyle on and of course I had decided to lock my cab before handing my keys in its an absolute joke of a place I couldn’t believe a company could treat workers as badly as that if I ever and up doing another amazon again the can will be staying unlocked and I will be hoping for a site ban for waiting in my cab! !
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I do a lot of Amazon sites, and I can confirm 3 hours is often the norm if tipping and reloading. Those waiting rooms stink of toilets, and unwashed Johhny flip flop trampers, and the chairs are cheap uncomfortable plastic ones, and there is an increase of drivers thinking it’s ok to watch films and tv loudly on their phones without earphones. Soul destroying to say the least. Luckily, a few sites don’t notice if you slope off back to your cab. One or two of them know, but don’t care. The site at Hemel (which is now fulfilled by a new one at Dunstable) had (and still has) a portakabin with 4 broken chairs, and 2 stinking toilet cubicles inside it. I used to wait outside, even in -5 degrees. The waiting room round the back at Weybridge is a collection of cheap plastic chairs in the warehouse (signed “driver holding area”), next to a speaker stolen from a nightclub being played at full volume by the kids that run the place.
I often ask if I can tip myself at their sites, or help tip, and always get told “my supervisor’s in, and won’t allow it, he’s a bit funny”. So I’m often sitting for an hour waiting for 3 pallets to come off.
To get an idea of how soul destroying Amazon waiting rooms are, if I’m on Tesco RDC work for a night, I feel a sense of relief, as if I’ve won a perverse jackpot,because their waiting rooms are a tad comfier and nicer than Amazon’s. How sad is that?
As far as I remember I have done an Amazon only once, about 10 yrs ago, …Burton on Trent area? or it could have been around Oxford,.can’t remember, who knows…who cares 
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Anyway I remember some ■■■■ cage effect waiting room, I thought sod this and sneaked back to my cab for a kip.
Woke up an hour or so later just as this officious little ■■■■ with a hi viz was walking past.
I got the ‘’ Company rules’’ routine off him, and I replied with my usual disinterested ‘‘Yeh, just whatever mate’’
On return to waiting room you would have thought a major crime had been committed , and they were having some kind of public enquiry based inquest with each other, chaired by this hi viz ■■■■■■ 
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After being tipped (eventually) I was told that my firm was being informed, (as if that was supposed to phase me 
) I just said ‘‘Do whatever makes you happy mate, but just give me my keys so I can get to ■■■■ out of this ■■■■ hole’’
As far as I know my co was not contacted, nor would they have been bothered anyway tbh.
Goes to show how far these pricks are up their own arses with their illusions of importance, blisfully unaware that no one really gives a ■■■■.
As for unhospitable waiting rooms, why do bodies such as the RHA or whoever not step in and complain, or driver’s unions.
Maybe some display of displeasure with these arse hole types might trigger some minimal improvements off? Or maybe not.
good job you’ve not got a flat, fly sheets and sheets then rope it up! WOULD they give you a hand? 
self tips aka Lidl and Aldi take the pish! Morrisons, come in drive and split the load. Nope 
