Pros
- Co-workers make the experience better a lot better. - It's really not that bad. Just takes a bit to get adjusted to for the time schedule. - I got intimidated at first when I saw the forklift drivers picking up the frieight but still went through it as someone with a bit anxiety to new things and it's so easy. Just take it slow. - They're pretty flexible with your schedule. And I mean FLEXIBLE for the AM shift with good reason. Not sure about the PM shift. - Pay is good and get a raise every 3 months for a year till you cap out - Work is not difficult - Always been allowed to leave early when requested - After a year of working you also gain sick days. - Not as fast paced as I expected. I was going hella fast when I first started. I was going faster than most people working there for a few years. Even the Operation manager had to talk with the whole dock crew to tell them that only 5 people were meeting expectations and that the brand new employee with no prior forklift experience was doing more work than all of them. - Just continuous work. There always something to do and feels more independent.
Cons
- A few higher ups could a bit more friendly character but I understand there are reasons to each to their own. - Some supervisors I feel like should approach conversations differently for correcting incorrect actions. Everyone can speak at a normal level. Theres no reason to raise voices or throw a fit. - Only had 3 days to learn everything on the dock. For the first 2 days I had one person train me and he barely explained things. Good guy just some people aren't the best explainers or aren't just bred to teach and they know that. I honestly had a difficult time to figure out the whole procedure. 3rd day supervisor told me this was my last training day and I was kind of panicking a bit because I didn't know what was going on. Told me I had a new mentor though. He explained everything so well it was probably like my top 1 for best teaching. I knew how to do most of everything he showed me the next day. Thank you Mike you saved my ***.