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Tuesday, October 05, 2021

California 1st To Set Quota Limits For Retailers

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California on Wednesday became the first state to bar mega-retailers from firing warehouse workers for missing quotas that interfere with bathroom and rest breaks under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that grew from Amazon’s drive to speed goods to consumers more quickly. 

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All warehouses have time standards. If they didn't, you'd have workers standing around in the aisles all day bullshitting with each other instead of working.
The standards at Safeway when I worked there were measured in hundredths of a minute and it wasn't easy. When I first started out there, I couldn't 'make my minutes' for the first 4 months I worked there to save my life - I'd run my orders at 91, 92%  all day long but I just couldn't hit that 100% mark. I came t-h-a-t close to getting fired because of it, then one day, it just clicked and I was making my time.
It was a rough standard. There's no way in hell I could make it now if I had such a hard time in my 30s.