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MEETING THE MOMENT
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A new series takes viewers behind the scenes to meet the people of Amazon.
Hundreds of thousands of people bring their passion and determination to Amazon
every day. In the weeks and months ahead, you’ll meet some of them through these
personal stories.
HENRY O. TRANSPORTATION INNOVATOR. CLIMATE CHANGE FIGHTER.
Meet Henry
“You ever try to work in a hundred-degree heat?”
Henry is a senior manager leading a sustainability team within Amazon
Transportation Services.
“Imagine having that all year long.”
Henry grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, where he experienced the effects of climate
change firsthand.
“There were days where it could get extremely hot. You have times when places
get flooded and the times where you see the effects of erosion.”
“I’ve seen people who can’t fish in certain areas anymore because of
environmental damage, and crops not growing as well because of environmental
damage,” Henry said. “When I was asked to help build a sustainability team at
Amazon it was pretty exciting to have a chance to actually take a shot at
solving this.”
“It’s inspiring and invigorating to actually be in the room debating and trying
to solve a very difficult problem that nobody else has solved,” he said. “Amazon
trucks have to cover very long distances, and that in itself is a very difficult
sustainability problem to solve. When you have a truck covering over 300 miles
or you have flights going hundreds of miles it’s a bit more challenging.”
“What my team does is to come up with smart solutions to help decarbonize,” said
Henry. “The best part is in many cases we are discovering solutions that not
only lower carbon but they also align with lowering cost and providing a solid
customer experience.”
Henry is also working in sustainability to help create a better future for his
son.
“Every parent wants to be a hero to their kid and I want my son to say I was
working on something important and to feel proud of me,” he said. “I’m looking
at this with the lens of what are we going to do for our kids in the future.”
“We are day one of a very long journey,” Henry said. “What we are doing at
Amazon is laying the foundations that will probably bear fruit in ten, twenty,
thirty years.”
“Somebody has to start and it’s been an honor and a privilege to do that here at
Amazon.”
Hundreds of thousands of people bring their passion and determination to Amazon
every day. In the weeks and months ahead, you’ll meet some of them through these
personal stories.
CHRISTINE P. PROTECTS THE HEALTH OF HUNDREDS. NURSING STUDENT.
Meet Christine
“I have to take care of my co-workers.”
Christine is a seasonal sortation associate at Amazon. When the pandemic hit and
temperature checks became part of workplace safety, she volunteered right away
to take on new the responsibility.
“This is very important for me, the fact that I am looking after people's
health,” she said. “I love what I've been doing, it’s because I have a medical
background.”
Christine’s pursuing a career in healthcare, continuing her family’s legacy of
caring for others.
“My entire family is in the medical field,” she said. “It's just in our blood
helping people.”
“My aunt owns a care home business, I take care of the elderly,” said Christine.
“I'm still pursuing my nursing degree, doing online schooling at the moment.”
“Part of my family is in my heart when working with other people,” she said. “I
hope someday I can be a licensed, registered nurse and work in one of those
top-notch hospitals—this has always been my dream.”
Christine’s passion for the health and wellbeing of others hasn’t gone unnoticed
by her kids.
“I’m a single mom for 20 years. I have a son who's 10 years old, my daughter is
20 years old,” she said. “Right now, I let my son stay with his father.”
“I FaceTime him every day, nonstop,” said Christine. “I share what I've been
doing for work. I told him I'm checking people's temp on thermometers and how
they're feeling, and he says ‘Wow, one day I'm going to be like you too. I'm
going to be a doctor.’"
In spite of the challenges, Christine says her “positive attitude” and seeing
others persevere gives her hope.
“The more you keep going, the more you get inspired seeing everyone trying hard
to cope with this pandemic,” she said. “It's tough for everyone, not just me as
a human being. Everyone out there in this world is affected.”
“I wish I could hug everybody,” said Christine. “If I could have my own place to
take care of everyone who is sick out there, I would do it. In a heartbeat.”
JANELLE H. KEEPS THOUSANDS SAFE. MOTHER OF TWO.
Meet Janelle
“When the pandemic started, my role within this facility completely changed. My
department was turned upside down.”
For Janelle, an Amazon area manager and mother of two, upside down and
completely different didn’t just describe her role at work, her home life was
also in flux.
“My husband was one of the ones that unfortunately lost his job during the
shutdown. He wasn't put on hold; he was actually laid off.”
Janelle’s family depended on her more than ever, and suddenly, so did her
extended family of co-workers across the US; her team pivoted quickly to become
a critical link in the PPE supply chain.
“We started shipping out the COVID-19 allocations. Hand sanitizers, masks, latex
gloves, cleaning supplies—all the stuff needed to keep Amazon associates safe,”
she said. “As far as the gloves and face masks that we’ve shipped to the other
Amazons in the United States, I would say it’s in the tens of millions, if not
20 million.”
Keeping associates across the country supplied with the PPE they need to stay
safe is no small task, but Janelle sees it as more than a challenge.
“It's exciting,” she said. “If we’re shipping out 1,000 cases, we have to make
sure that every FC that needs them, gets them the next day. There are certain
times the delivery trucks leave, so it’s exciting to get it done on time.”
It hasn’t been easy, but that’s what makes Janelle so passionate about her work.
“It's an amazing feeling,” she said. “It feels incredible that we’re not only
doing something to help our building during the pandemic, but all other
associates, that we're able to make sure they go home to their families safe as
well.”
OSCAR F. DELIVERS WITH CARE. FIRST-TIME DAD.
Meet Oscar
“It's funny to say I'm essential. At the end of the day, I just want to help out
anyone that needs it.”
Oscar is an Amazon delivery associate, and since the pandemic hit, his
deliveries are more important than ever.
“I have a lot of energy, so I love doing this.”
Which is good. Because he’s also a new dad.
“In the middle of this pandemic, having a kid, it was something different. I
thought, my first day was just going to be normal and I was going to have my
parents in the waiting room, tell them that now they have a grandson. But
instead, it was just me and my girlfriend,” said Oscar. “It felt pretty lonely.
But at the same time, we kept it really personal. It was just us two. So, I'm
grateful for that.”
“My favorite thing about being a new dad is, I think, the challenges,” he said.
“I really enjoy coming home, getting clean, and the first thing I do is I just
hold him, I could hold him all day.”
Oscar’s balancing a lot; it’s not only life at home with a newborn that’s
different.
“When I came back from my break, Amazon completely changed. The process of
recovering the van was different. The process of coming into the station and
loading also was different,” said Oscar. “They went over a hundred percent, they
went beyond. Every single day I see sanitation stations, I see everyone with a
mask. Everyone is covered up, everywhere you see a sticker saying ‘six feet
apart.’”
“If anything, they take it overboard on the safety and that's what I love,” said
Oscar. “Safety is really important to me as a father, mainly because I'm not
just coming home to the baby, I'm coming home to a family. So that means my
girlfriend and my baby. I really want him to grow healthy, strong. And I can't
imagine going back to the hospital right now.”
Looking out for families and others in his community is also important to Oscar.
“Everyone needs help. And man, it's a good thing to be out here and helping,” he
said. “I know I am helping people and that makes me really happy.”
HECTOR R. ZERO EMISSIONS CHASER. ULTRA-MARATHONER.
Meet Hector
“The longest run I've done is 100 miles in under 20 hours on a treadmill in my
garage. I did the challenge not knowing if I could do it, or if the treadmill
would hold up.”
Hector, an Amazon delivery operations manager, doesn’t just like to run. He
lives for it.
“You have to dig in deep in a lot of places mentally and physically to push
through to get to that 100-mile mark,” said Hector. “Once you start seeing that
you can do these phenomenal things and what you’re capable of, you take that to
being a father, to being a husband, to being an Amazonian.”
“If I'm not running on a treadmill, I'm on a mountain doing my best to get up
and down it as fast as possible,” he said. “I love seeing the trees, the
flowers, the wildlife—I soak it all up. It does something great for my brain.”
“I have two daughters. I want them to grow up and be able to have the same
experiences and see the same beauty in nature. I want to do everything I can on
my part to make sure they have the same opportunities,” he said. “Some of my
best experiences in life have been in nature. I absolutely think it needs to be
protected.”
Hector uses his determination and love for the outdoors to drive environmental
change at Amazon.
“Something I have in common with Amazon’s culture is always pushing and striving
to be better than the day before,” he said. “I’m always pushing myself through
trail running the same way Amazon is always pushing for the highest delivery
performance.”
“We were one of the first stations that that got the opportunity to pilot a
fleet of electric vehicles. I was excited to have the team participate so we
could continue to iterate and call out what we need to make this something that
will scale across the country,” said Hector. “We have hundreds of vehicles on
the road every day just out of this building. I feel really proud that we were
able to meet the challenge.”
“The electric vans in our fleet have a decal that says ‘Shipment Zero,’ and what
that means is that we’re striving to be able to deliver a package end-to-end
with zero emissions,” he said. “It’s a big, lofty goal, but I have no doubt that
we will achieve it.”
JOE B. CARBON FOOTPRINT REDUCER. AVID BIRDER.
Meet Joe
“I’ve always wanted to have an impact. I’ve always wanted to leave the Earth a
better place. And I think climate change is the fight of our generation.”
Joe’s a sustainability science researcher at Amazon, working to reduce Amazon’s
carbon footprint to net zero by 2040.
“Right now, we’re up against time. That’s our biggest enemy.”
Joe is no stranger to solving the seemingly impossible. When he started at
Amazon three and a half years ago, he took on an important task that Amazon had
yet to tackle. “I had a very clear mission: we need to know our carbon
footprint. We need to understand our carbon, not just from our facilities, or
the tailpipes of our vehicles and our logistics fleet, but everything. I was
super excited about that challenge.”
A love of both nature and complex problems is what led Joe to a career in
sustainability. “When I went to college, I studied physics. Probably a lot of
that was, you know, just wanting to do something hard,” he said. “I came out of
that focusing more on how physics and physical science applies to the
environment and the earth as a system.”
“The reason I was excited about getting a job with Amazon was that they're
investing in and thinking deeply about the science of sustainability. It’s an
opportunity to have a big impact,” said Joe. “I want my son to know I tried my
hardest to make things better for his generation and for all the people who are
alive 50 years from now.”
“We're going to reduce our carbon footprint as much as possible through
technologies, business changes, and innovations. We're going to offset emissions
with real, quantifiable offsets, like taking carbon out of the atmosphere by
planting trees,” he said. “We're going to be dependent on technologies that
might not exist yet, or that are still in the development stage.”
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“One way or another, we're going to reduce our carbon footprint to net zero,”
said Joe. “Amazon’s not used to thinking that something can’t be done.”
HOW AMAZON IS KEEPING ITS EMPLOYEES SAFE
Amazon will invest $4 billion through June on COVID-related initiatives to keep
employees safe and deliver products safely to customers. That includes
everything from providing more than 100 million face masks and 34 million pairs
of gloves to Amazon employees worldwide, to adding thousands of handwashing
stations and more than 93 million sanitizing wipes, daily temperature checks,
and more.
Learn here about Amazon’s focus on safety, pay, benefits, and job creation and
find out more about our response to the COVID-19 pandemic through daily updates.
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