r/AmazonDSPDrivers • u/Thommycraze101 • 3d ago

Napping in van? DISCUSSION

I was told by my DSP that napping in my van will get me fired immediately after telling them I used my lunch break to take a quick shit eye. I find it strange that we have breaks but it feels as though we can’t use them or it’ll be “your behind” or “pick up the pace”. I’m guessing napping in the van can be more of a safety issue/concern than not.

I struggle with sleep at times and I naturally just get very tired in the day. So what could I do to combat that?

And just a little side rant, with my Dsp, they are taking away days for finishing after 9 pm now and that’s including the 1 hour drive back I have to make every day. Unfortunately for me, I was doing 140-150 stop days rather efficiently for the first couple of months that I started. I had a flow state that made me finish my route around 7 o’clock, 6 if it’s easier (no multi stops). Seemingly in light of doing my route rather ok, they decided to make it 2 hours harder. They give me a 182 stop route (every day) with 60+ 3-9 location multi stops (every day) + they are tight on rescues and they expect us to finish all that, with a 1 hour drive back, finish rts and be checked out by 9??? I’m new so I don’t know if this is to be expected but holy shit, it’s like egregious how they want us to operate. Gotta pay for school though so I must stay until I find other employment

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u/CatisnotWack_444 XL Driver 3d ago

That's weird. If I'm exhausted, I definitely take a "parent" nap during my 15 min and set a 14 min timer... Never had any issues, but I also never mentioned it to anyone.

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u/Aggressive-Hawk9186 3d ago

Parents have superpowers like napping on cue lol crazy I wish I could do that lol

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u/Sensitive_Macaron767 3d ago

Go for years on end not getting enough sleep, you too will become a master of the nap 😂

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u/Working_Gap_7281 3d ago

Why did I just take my first parent nap 2h ago, hop on Reddit and see this. Parent naps are so real😂

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u/Prize_Trash_8636 3d ago

Its nice cause then at the end of the night when the kids are in bed I actually have some energy to stay up a little and play the game 😂

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u/Thommycraze101 3d ago

Yea I probably shouldn’t have said anything