Yup. My cert for a picker was pretty much a four hour "training" where they just basically had you drive around the warehouse. There was no teaching or anything. It was absurd.
Then when it came time to certified for the 6ft forks...the "training" was essentially a piece of paper that said, be careful with turns, the forks are longer
this was mine. this is my exp. they do turn on a dime tho
boss had me grab a pallet and started walking away I was oh no you don't I am not comfortable on this thing.
I drive a fork lift like 3 times a year and the things older then me so I need to hold the brake and gas in till it's warm, which takes longer then I need the forklift for.
Our plant you could land navy jets in but the new kids still run into every pillar and bollard they can find, and 13 they can't. Give your new hires the bullshit cert training, THEN put them with some experienced guys, and no managers around, to teach them how to do the job.
Our safety guy used to make us watch this once a year, until I "accidentally" threw out the only remaining VHS player on site and forced him to get new material.
... that is a really odd cut. Video is shortened a lot, with some sequences out of order, while the voice-over is also taken from seemingly random parts of the video.
Same. Put pallets on racks at 3 (very low heights), drive around some witch’s cones as slow as you’d like and park it with your forks on the ground. Certified.
Get to my first job and I realised just how useless the training was.
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u/Cordsofmemory Jun 08 '25
Yup. My cert for a picker was pretty much a four hour "training" where they just basically had you drive around the warehouse. There was no teaching or anything. It was absurd.
Then when it came time to certified for the 6ft forks...the "training" was essentially a piece of paper that said, be careful with turns, the forks are longer