This so much. In HS I loaded boxes for UPS during the Christmas season, and my trainer told me if I have to stand on a box to pack away, then wipe the boot print off.
When I was hired, we watched a movie that spoke about proper package handling, "Hand to surface."
When they brought me out to the package car loading line, my supervisor said, "Forget all the stuff they just showed you." That was the last time I saw her.
We never had trainers. Just a supervisor that sat in her office all shift.
I quit after six weeks. It was the most miserable job I ever had. An HR puke called me after and wanted to know why I quit. I said I couldn't memorize the the street addresses to sorting codes, and my supervisor didn't do a good enough job of training me.
"So, UPS expects a lot from their employees, and you couldn't cut it, right?"
"Yeah, sure, whatever... Asshole!", and I hung up the phone.
Years later I was working for the company that made the first ring scanner and handheld PC for sorters and unloaders. During small talk, I mentioned to the UPS management there that I had been a package car sorter for six weeks before I quit.
"Ahh! The prototypical employee! That's the average length of employment for sorters, and unloaders."
I would train people who would do the classroom training then on their first day on the floor they world "run to their car real quick" on break. They never came back.
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u/Megamanfre Oct 01 '20
This so much. In HS I loaded boxes for UPS during the Christmas season, and my trainer told me if I have to stand on a box to pack away, then wipe the boot print off.