Nothing crazy compared to the other post here but I still can not stop thinking about this at my employment.
A year ago I was doing my job at work when suddenly I was told sternly to get off my forklift by a full time employee (who was not my direct supervisor) and follow him to the office. Okay…
“OP, you are getting your forklift certification revoked. You were horseplaying by driving into another forklift”
I'm very confused until I realized what he was talking about. I bumped into VERY LIGHTLY another forklift because a coworker thought it was funny to park behind me in a row. I got my forklift out but by touching this other forklift. Sure, I could have yelled, waited, etc but I decided to go with it. For context, this is pretty normal stuff everyday at my work and have to do something dangerous to get a talking to.
To my surprise, the company actually had a policy to remove forklift privileges and shocked all of my older coworkers because they been there 20 years and never heard of anyone getting their forklift license taken away!
You know what? Good for him for taking my license away! There needs to be more safety at this place…….. Except that was a just an isolated incident and fork lift safety is not enforced.
Since then, there have been plenty of incidents where forklift license taken away would be very much warranted. Several close calls of one guy driving angry and nearly hitting other employees. Another who was on his phone and drove full speed through a intersection, hitting another forklift with driver and several thousand dollars in damaged product.
I lost it when I saw two of my full time supervisors playing soccer with a cart while they were on their forklifts. Seriously, someone will have to be killed for forklift safety to be enforced.
Also, the full time supervisors are having a lot of drama about having me on a forklift again or not. Even the guy who took it away wants me back on! (He never saw it, just overheard a conversation joking about it 4 hours later and probably just did it to be taken seriously by higher ups) I don't care about driving anymore, but I'm confused as to why other OBVIOUS incidents are being ignored?