No safety. My first three weeks and saw six injuries, 2 very severe. No training on the forklift at all. People just lie and say they can drive one and they just take your word for it and tell you to hop on the lift. Many operators drive literally drunk or stoned. Workers freely smoke weed on breaks in the parking lot on nights with no fear of being caught or punished, including the supervisor (not kidding). Watched one guy have his forks too high and going too fast around a corner and speared his fork into a pedestrian's knee. They had to amputate the limb. The hurt guy was let go because he couldn't do the work any more and the guy that did it got written up, suspended for 3 days, which he was allowed to use PTO to get paid for, and still works there. Because he cuts corners on safety to get a lot of trucks done, they insist it was an accident and was the worker walking's fault for not wearing a bright enough high visibility vest (not kidding, this is laterally how they wrote this incident up). Another guy tried to carry 4 pallets high of cans on his forks at once, only supposed to do 2, and stopped too hard and they all fell on a worker that was walking and crushed him against the wall. He badly fractured several bones and had a concussion and head injury so bad it took him 2 weeks to remember who he was. There is no safety at all. Manager literally tells you "tricks" to get more trucks done, which all violate common sense safety, and then writes you up and eventually fire you for low production numbers if you don't do them to hit their absurdly high quotas, which only managers can see or know exactly what the metric they use is. Workers arent allowed to see their numbers or the method or metric used to measure that. They literally set the quotas at a rate that can only be hit by cutting those corners on safety, such as carrying pallets four high on the forks rather than the two its supposed to be, insist drivers line up 10 or 12 pallets, each stacked two or three high, up in an aisle or on the dock, and use the forklift to shove them all down to the destination at once even though the driver cant see what or who is in front of them. The instant you mention anything about unsafe stuff they make up a reason to fire you. The instant you report an injury, a manager tells you you have sign a paper stating it isn't work related or they will revoke your medical insurance and deny your medical leave (whether they can do this or not or whether it's legal or not they want to trick or strong arm you into signing a document that states the injury didn't happen at work). They promise you as long as you sign the paper they will give you additional paid medical leave to recover but once you leave they fire you for low productivity. If you get hurt to the point you can't work they fire you. If you ask questions about if doing things a certain way is safe or not you get reported to a manager by coworkers and they fire you. If you turn in "trouble tickets" (reports that a forklift needs repaired for safety reasons or is damaged) they fire you. If you turn in safety suggestions they pull you into the office thank you for the submission but then try to convince you your concerns are unfounded because they have policies that magically somehow make that thing not dangerous, watch you for a few days, and if you don't look like you'll let the concerns go they fire you. If they find out you have back or neck pain for any reason, even if it's not work related, they sometimes (seen it go both ways) will say you have low numbers and fire you. You cant tell ever what your production numbers are as they don't post them or tell you what metric they use to measure your productivity but consistently use that to write you up or fire you. If you ask to see some proof of your low numbers or how much you are low by or what the metric is so you can measure yourself they say they can't because it's proprietary. The process of the job doesn't seem like there is any real way they can measure your production numbers yet they somehow say they can but you aren't allowed to know how they do it or what the quotas are. Because people can't tell if they are getting enough done or not because only management knows that somehow everyone speeds around at unsafe levels because they don't want written up or fired. Working here is nothing but fear and anxiety and worry you'll eventually be the next injury and will be fired and have them fight you on getting any benefits after you leave.
