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AP007

dandelionclock30 wrote: »

Where does the NHS say that? They dont say that anywhere at all.

Unless 10,000 steps is 10 miles?

http://www.thewalkingsite.com/10000steps.html

they say its more 5 and since most people do about 3-4k I doubt many if any could do 10 miles a day.

Money_maker

I used to work in a warehouse walking more or less constantly for 4 hours at a time. Picking and packing too. I was the lowest weight I have ever been as an adult.

dandelionclock30

They used to bang on about that 10,000 steps a few years ago and everyone was wearing those pedometers.
Even 5 miles is a lot for a person to do everyday I think.
10 miles to walk would take over 3 hours as the average person walks about 3 miles per hour. People wouldnt have time for all that.

satan666wayne

No different in the Tesco warehouse I used to work in. But it was in a fridge.

bluenoseam

GalaxyStar wrote: »

Finding items in that amount of time is crazy, I work for a toy shop doing the click and collect, if you click something I go get it and reserve it for you, I have 20 minutes to find something and it's not always as easy as it would seem to get it done in 20 mins! (I don't get a scanner lol) They must lose a load of weight doing that amount of walking, I only do it in the store and what warehouse we have, running around it for 19 hours a week and i have lost a bit from that in the short amount of time I've been working there. I couldn't do that for that amount of time, big up to those who can and do though!

Now I'll admit I don't know what size of toy shop you're working at, but there's a difference between that & the operation which Amazon will be running. Every item to be picked will have a 100% set location, they don't need to "find" them, they're told where to go & it'll be there.

I also don't think it's outwith the realms of possibility to cover the 8 miles over the course of an 8-10hr shift, they're walking from one item to the next & depositing it in a trolley. At an average pace they'll cover around about 2 miles an hour doing picking - so 8 miles is perfectly acceptable.

I said it in another thread on this topic, you know what you're letting yourself in for when you sign up to work in an Amazon warehouse. It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that you walk a fair distance & are expected to work at a reasonable pace - after all, how many of us have never ordered anything from Amazon! We always expect it within 3-5 days so you're not expecting an average picker to take 5 minutes to find your item unless you're living in some dream world!

If you don't want to do that sort of job there are other options, but I'd suggest you look outside warehousing - which also rules out certain retail jobs as well.

John1993_2

AP007 wrote: »

8 miles is not short is it?

Over a shift? That's one mile per hour, which is hardly crazy.

vincewurt

If you want cheap products, slave labour is the price to be paid.

paulineb_2

11 miles is what it said in the independent newspaper I believe. Cheap labour is about right I think (not saying its right, saying that amazon don't treat their workers very well by all accounts)


Seriously, no one is ever allowed to be sent home sick? 3 times and you are sacked? How lovely.

Denning.

Yeah some reason years ago 10k = 10 miles to me.

Even so, the NHS dumbs stuff down to make it swallowable.

Of course most people don't walk 8 miles a day. That is why we are so fat. That doesn't mean walking 8 miles a day is slavery or whatever you want to paste it as.

I'm genuinely shocked that people think walking 8 miles is a serious chore, it is walking for gods sake.

AP007

Denning. wrote: »

Yeah some reason years ago 10k = 10 miles to me.

Even so, the NHS dumbs stuff down to make it swallowable.

Of course most people don't walk 8 miles a day. That is why we are so fat. That doesn't mean walking 8 miles a day is slavery or whatever you want to paste it as.

I'm genuinely shocked that people think walking 8 miles is a serious chore, it is walking for gods sake.

So all people who don't walk 8 miles a day are fat? LOL

10k I am sure is 10 thousand steps not 10 k as in 6 miles.