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: