It is Christmas Eve and we are happily unemployed again and living in a campground in the Tennessee hills. It’s 60 degrees and we are in our trailer tucked under our tin-roofed carport listening to the rain. We are drinking coffee and about to watch an episode of “Black Mirror” on Netflix. We are in bed and we are not walking. It’s a wonderful life.
We have spent the last two months working at an Amazon Fulfillment Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The last three weeks, we have worked six days a week for ten hours a day. With the commute and the state mandated breaks, we would usually be away from camp about twelve hours a day. Annie was always so relieved when we got home.
In those ten hour days, Angelica and I worked as “pickers.” Our job was to walk, averaging around fifteen miles a day, on the concrete, “picking” whatever the scanner told us to “pick.” We’d throw the item into our cart, then scurry off to the next pick location, often about a quarter mile away. Doing this for twenty of the last twenty four days, ten hours a day, we gained a pretty clear picture of the Chinese-made products that Americans are buying other Americans for Christmas.
A quick glance:
We have spent the last two months working at an Amazon Fulfillment Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The last three weeks, we have worked six days a week for ten hours a day. With the commute and the state mandated breaks, we would usually be away from camp about twelve hours a day. Annie was always so relieved when we got home.
In those ten hour days, Angelica and I worked as “pickers.” Our job was to walk, averaging around fifteen miles a day, on the concrete, “picking” whatever the scanner told us to “pick.” We’d throw the item into our cart, then scurry off to the next pick location, often about a quarter mile away. Doing this for twenty of the last twenty four days, ten hours a day, we gained a pretty clear picture of the Chinese-made products that Americans are buying other Americans for Christmas.
A quick glance:
1. Socks
The easy go-to gift item, in every hilarious or fuzzy description. Also, a LOT of Star Wars themed socks.