Reporter recounts the day she spent delivering packages as an Amazon Flex driver in San Francisco, says she made less than minimum wage after expenses
Alana Semuels / The Atlantic : Tweets: @grahamdavida , @alanasemuels , @crapfutures , and @carlazanoni Tweets: David A. Graham / @grahamdavida : .@AlanaSemuels went to work as an Amazon Flex contractor for a day and all she got was less than minimum wage, several headaches, and this fantastic story: http://www.theatlantic.com/... @alanasemuels : All those packages you're ordering from Amazon? Someone has to deliver them. For one day, I was that person. It was kind of awful. http://www.theatlantic.com/... Crap Futures / @crapfutures : ‘Battling a growing rage I lugged parcels to offices of tech companies that offered free food and impressive salaries to their employees, who seemed to spend their days ordering stuff online’ http://www.theatlantic.com/... Carla Zanoni / @carlazanoni : “By some measures, delivering packages is one of the few “good” jobs left in America for people without college degrees” - “and they can get much worse really fast...” http://www.theatlantic.com/...