Rate

The expected stow rate at our building is significantly increasing to the point where I used to be an average stower (in the 50 percentile at worst) and now I’m struggling to avoid the bottom 5%. I’ve been at Amazon for almost 3 years now and I received my first write up (productivity) about a month and a half ago and have had three other close calls since then. My numbers haven’t changed, but the expectations have. I don’t want to lose my job, so I find myself avoiding drinking much water so I don’t have to go to the bathroom only to just barely stay about the bottom 5%. I’m even being “forced” to leave early, using time I don’t want to, in order to preserve a good rate because one more bad pallet could be the difference between a write up or just making it. If anybody else’s is building is upping their expectations as well and they are struggling to or have found a way to meet the expectations, any advice would be greatly appreciated.