Introduction To Amazon.com

We all arrived on time - 11 AM - for our first meeting with the Amazon.com staff that is responsible for the Workamper program. It was a great introduction and they made everyone feel like he was an important part of the team. Each of us received a bag full of goodies - local discount coupons, merchant information, telephone directory, local maps, etc - and they had a wonderful luncheon prepared with sandwiches, fruit, salad, beverages and even a huge welcome cake.

We heard from the General Manager, HR staff, Team representatives and then the Mayor of Campbellsville - who also reminded us that he was re-elected to another term in the recent election last week. They reviewed all the jobs that were being filled in Receiving, Stowing, Picking and Packaging and told each of us where we would be working and what our schedules were. Josie and I are assigned in the Stowing area of the operation and will be working the shift we were originally scheduled to work - 5 PM till 3:30 AM on Fri thru Mon. It should be interesting. The meeting broke up at 1 PM:

(That's Josie talking to Hank and Brenda)

and we were told to report today at 8 AM for an 8 hour day of training and orientation. They took pictures for our badges that we pick up this morning and we will meet in the lunchroom to kickoff our work assignments.

There are a total of 270 workampers in town to help out this holiday season. There are at least 6 different campgrounds housing this temporary staff that Amazon.com is picking up the tab for - it is really a very big deal to them. We are looking forward to the experience and hope that it goes well for us. It would be nice if it worked out so we could come back again to work for them - maybe at the Nevada facility next year. We'll see.

Karen, George, Hank and Brenda are satisfied with their assignments - so far - and we all look forward to getting started.

That's about it as we prepare our lunches to take today and get ready to kick-off our first "real day at the office"...