The catch is you have to actually wait until there is an Amazon Flex jobs opening (unlike Uber where you can apply at any time). The sign-up to become an Amazon Driver was easy, just fill out a simple app and Amazon runs a background on you. It's just pure exploitation, just like anything that Amazon does. I tried out being an Amazon Flex driver, which surprisingly a lot of people don’t know about. Apart from having actually flexible working hours (but even that depends on the blocks you get and sometimes you can't get what fits you or can't get a block at all), there's absolutely nothing else going for it. You can get your account deactivated for literally anything and you have no way to prove that amazon or the app are wrong (happened to so many people who I know, you can't appeal anything they just ignore you), so it's essentially 0/10 job security. Management is atrocious as again most things are done through the app (and believe me when I say that the app f*cks up ALL the time) and the only way for you to sort out anything is to email them and they can take ages to reply and sometimes just outright ignore you and do not reply. Salary might seem like not too bad at first glance, but you have to consider that not only you have to pay tax off of it but also cover your petrol, all car expenses, insurance etc, which then boils down to you earning £4-5 an hour and even that is not always guaranteed as your delivery blocks can vary massively and sometimes require you to drive huge distances resulting in 1 hour return journeys, which cuts into your salary even more. Everything depends on the app, nothing depends on you.
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