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The story
A poster who had been working as a temp staffer at a logistics site got poached due to the labor shortage and joined in October as a full-time, mid-career hire. But colleagues were stunned that he was placed on the floor without a forklift operator’s license, and when he admitted he couldn’t keep up with office chit-chat and safety training — confessing “I guess I’m just immature” — the thread lit up over whether he should’ve gotten licensed first, and the gap between being good on the floor and cutting it as a salaried employee. The poster himself seems confident in his reach-forklift skills, but doesn’t feel cut out for the social side of being full-time staff.
What people said
I was a temp worker there for about a year and got poached.
Re: #4
Yeah.
Right now they've got me sitting through like 3 annoying safety training sessions.
Re: #8
Yeah, fair, but you don't actually need one just to drive a forklift (on the job).
Honestly, on this one, the people around you deserve more sympathy than you do.
Yeah, fair, but a job where I can just quietly grind alone is way easier and better.
Re: #12
Ugh.
I don't think they meant to mock you. They were just genuinely surprised, that's all.
But it's a company where literally everyone, even the young kids, drives one as a matter of course — isn't that kind of wild?
Well, when it comes to hauling cargo on a forklift, I am superman level. It's a reach forklift, and there's hardly anyone faster or more accurate than me.
Re: #16
I was actually planning to quit already… but it's a lean, elite crew, so the company didn't want to lose my labor, which is really why they held onto me with the full-time offer. I went back and forth on it, but it came through a referral and given my age I figured I'd take it.
If you don't go through that, your pay's never going up for the rest of your life.
With the labor shortage, the company genuinely wants to develop people — stick it out for 3 years at least.
Background and key points of this discussion
In the logistics and trucking industry, a completion certificate for forklift operation training is treated as practically mandatory in most workplaces, so a mid-career hire assigned to floor duty without one is unusual. The thread split between posters defending him with “he can just get the license later” and others who felt it was only natural to be surprised someone his age didn’t have one yet — but almost no one actually attacked his competence. The other sticking point was the gap between his aptitude for floor work and the office socializing, safety training, and compliance duties expected of full-time staff, which the poster himself diagnosed as him being “probably just immature.” One easy misread for readers: this poster isn’t being frozen out because he’s incompetent — both he and the people around him rate his actual floor skills highly. Note that the original thread also had repeated, context-free monologue-style posts mixed in; this article excludes those and only pulls the exchanges relevant to the main thread of conversation.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (News VIP) thread “I joined as a mid-career hire in October but I already want to quit lololololol.”
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