This made me sad.

For anyone interested, I work for Amazon.com as a warehouse associate, and I worked at this FC. I say "worked" because, sadly, RNO1 is in the process of decommission.

For as much as us Amazonians talk crap about our jobs (believe me, if they started a board on 4chan called /amzn/, we would make up about 80-90% of the posters ), for as much as we like to take Bezos' name in vain (good ol' Clock-in-the-Mountains, goofy-laugh Bezos), and complain about the department kiss-ass who hasn't done real work in months or engage in inter-department and inter-shift rivalries (Night Shift is lazy!!1! FTW >:3 ) ... as much as we all fall into that "I hate my job" mentality, I can honestly say — I loved working here.

Now, there were a few times when I would look forward to the function I was put into (<3 Waterspidering and IB Dock Sort), but for about 99% of the time, we don't look forward to showing up, walking around mezzanines for 10 hours (totalling about 20+ miles). We don't.

And to be quite frank, the workers in this video are going too slow (probably because they were told to while being filmed, I don't know )

No, I loved RNO1 for the people. There were all types working there: from party rockers to authors; former CEOs to couch-dwellers to military members to highschool graduates (and dropouts ).

And, I guess it took this (moving to a new FC), to really get a twinge of feel out of me (and the catalyst, this video, I stumbled upon by chance ).

So, in honor of RNO1, I've decided that I'll post a bit about the culture that emerged in RNO1. Just the people (nothing about corporate, no stock tips, etc.).

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Fun Fact: When the camera starts panning right to left, looking down on the floor:

The ground level to the right (obscured) is the Inbound Standup Area

The 3-story structure is Pick Mod Gray

And the final ground level mezzanine is Pick Mod Aqua

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They take the extension cord and candles out of Aqua