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Started Monday as a forklift operator quit this morning as a general labor employee

Work slowed down with my company and I decided to get a temp job. I went to the temp office on Friday (8/12) and they found me a good looking job as a forklift operator. Pay was 26$+ an hour, in a refrigerated environment and guaranteed extra hours if requested. COOL! I show up on Monday and go through orientation. Job is pretty simple. Pull orders from racks in a blast freezer and occasionally pull skids from the production area to main freezer. It was a breeze and I even stayed a couple hours after shift just to help load the last trailer. Tuesday comes and I get to work pulling orders. Around 12pm the supervisor comes around and asks if I can help stack skids because they had a call out. I go to the production area and get to work. The whole time I’m chatting with a coworker…


Work slowed down with my company and I decided to get a temp job. I went to the temp office on Friday (8/12) and they found me a good looking job as a forklift operator. Pay was 26$+ an hour, in a refrigerated environment and guaranteed extra hours if requested. COOL! I show up on Monday and go through orientation. Job is pretty simple. Pull orders from racks in a blast freezer and occasionally pull skids from the production area to main freezer. It was a breeze and I even stayed a couple hours after shift just to help load the last trailer. Tuesday comes and I get to work pulling orders. Around 12pm the supervisor comes around and asks if I can help stack skids because they had a call out. I go to the production area and get to work. The whole time I’m chatting with a coworker who has been with the company sometime. He asks me what was I supposed to be doing as my job. I explain that I was driving forklifts. He laughs and tells me if they have me working with him that it’s most likely they will leave me there and the whole forklift operator position is to get people to come in. Also, working general labor they lower your pay to 12$/hr. He even calls over another coworker and he tells me that’s how they got him to work but, he’s too old to work anywhere else so he agreed and stayed, he even showed me his forklift certification license the company gave him and it was given to him a few weeks ago when he started. I end the day stacking pallets and go home. This morning I get to work and hop on a forklift and before I can start working the supervisor comes over with a big grin on his face. “Hey, you looked pretty good stacking skids yesterday. Would you mind finishing the week stacking?” I am pissed and just hand him the keys to the forklift leave my PPE on the floor in front of him and leave. Has anyone experienced something like that?

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