Job seeking has been kind of rough lately. About me, I'm an almost 37 unambitious Male and most of my working experience has been in warehouse and manufacturing. I've done a fair amount of driving work too but I hate traffic and people in cars. I don't have a degree and these type of jobs usually provide decent benefits, decent enough pay above 20-25 an hour for a shrub such as myself (I don't need much, I am pretty minimalist and tend to be a homebody and rarely leave home except for concerts or foreign country vacations by myself once in a while) but it seems like a majority of warehouse/manufacturing workers are miserable people to deal with.
I just started a job as an order picker in a freezer warehouse. $22 an hour, health/dental/vision/life insurance benefits package, employee assistance program, 4 weeks PTO on the first year. They provide $500 worth of gear for staying warm in a -5 degree warehouse, it's not bad and I was looking forward to staying cool in the summer because I do not like heat you can't escape from.
But…
My supervisor is an asshole and I want to quit after the third day!
This guy doesn't train me on anything, but expects me to work at the same speed as him already. He tells me to do tasks that I haven't been shown the procedure for yet, then when I tell him I don't know how to do something he gets mad and then does it himself. At end of shift he told me to get on a sitdown forklift to take out dumpsters which would be fine, I've driven sitdown forklifts before but again nobody has shown me the routine for this yet. I notice this forklift has more levers on it than I've seen before though and I told him that and asked what the 4th lever was for. My supervisor then told me I shouldn't lie about my work experience with driving forklifts. This was right at the end of a shift so he told me to head home for the night.
I started to write my resignation email for HR that explains I want to leave. I haven't sent it yet because I'm still trying to decide if this is even worth trying to get past because the rest of the job setup is decent and I need to pay rent. Do I need thicker skin here? I'm dealing with someone who can fire me and they've demonstrated measurable instability as far as I can see. How do people like this become supervisors? Not only this supervisor but another guy openly badmouthed me to another coworker that I'm “slow as shit” right in front of me. No shit genius, I just started and don't know the tricks to this job yet!
I realize a job isn't where you go to make friends but this seems ridiculous. A new job shouldn't have you pissed off at being there by the 3rd day. I'd rather go back to indeed purgatory over this.
Anyway regardless of my bullshit story about my current life situation, I thought I'd ask the reddit hivemind for insight. What are your standards for deciding to quit a job immediately upon hire? Do I need to toughen up and assert strategize how to assert my dominance or just find another job? Do you have a good story related to mine?