As of today I used to work for a certain smiley face box delivery company. During my employment of almost 2 years I was treated as an outsider and generally disregarded as “hard labor use only” despite my willingness to volunteer for any learning opportunities in order to drive forklifts and other labor saving pieces of equipment. Fast forward a few months and I am told that I need to learn the reach truck. “No problem” I say. I learn the equipment and set to taking down empty pallets. I realize quickly that I can't stand to crane my neck all day operating the equipment so I beg my manager to let me do anything else with equipment or on the clerical side. No dice. So I continue on with the hope I will be off this dreaded thing soon. After 4 months of solid neck pain and begging the management tells me I have to learn a different job with the reach truck so that they can keep me on there. Here is the kicker. I said I didn't want to recieve the training, thinking they will just ask someone else. I am carted straight to HR and told that I can either get the training “due to buisness needs” or I can use my personal time to leave. “I'm a healthy guy but I am not comfortable operating the equipment!” I protest “surely there must be some way I can just go back to my normal job and you can offer this opportunity to someone else?” The answer was the same do it or leave. So… I quit. I don't understand how we are at the point of forcing people to do jobs that they are uncomfortable with while there are 100 more jobs in that one department and multiple people who want to do the job I turned down.