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MrX
It's nice to be liked.

Are you generally happier now or when you weren't working?
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Well I definitely wouldn't say I actually enjoy my job. No one is happier to get out of here on a Friday than me.

For the period of months when I wasn't working before I got this job, I was happier day-to-day. As long as I didn't think about the future and how I was sinking financially, I was just dandy. I am very happy farting around with music and checking gamelive and hanging out with Jenny and following my various TV shows/movies and going for bike rides and doing volunteer stuff - without a damn job to cramp my style.

But there is always the issue of reality. I am not completely delusional and it is always there. Relative peace of mind must be considered.

I don't know how to answer. I would love to get back to being self-employed someday. No doubt about that.
 
He is still our regular guy for that company. He is in once or twice a week.

I basically changed the culture to my way of thinking and people stopped helping him when he had his helper. Like the one time he asked for help, instead of just doing it like they always had, the boss instead offered to show his helper what to do. (We already knew that his helper could do it anyway since he did it when I refused. It was all very retarded. Like what? Why are our people supposed to be more qualified to do it than that other lummox? Made no sense.) But anyway that was the boss's obtuse approach.

The guy got the message and stopped asking for help.

But then lately he has just been coming without a helper so we help him by directing traffic while he backs his truck out. That's fine.

No idea what the deal is in the big picture. Why did he ever have a helper? Why didn't he want his helper to help?

No idea.

For my part, if I ever see him there with a helper, I will let them look after themselves. My position is consistent. The one other licensed forklift guy, I'm not sure he would have the guts to make that stand and might just wimp out. The boss, I don't know.
 
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Mudcat
He is still our regular guy for that company. He is in once or twice a week.

I basically changed the culture to my way of thinking and people stopped helping him when he had his helper. Like the one time he asked for help, instead of just doing it like they always had, the boss instead offered to show his helper what to do. (We already knew that his helper could do it anyway since he did it when I refused. It was all very retarded. Like what? Why are our people supposed to be more qualified to do it than that other lummox? Made no sense.) But anyway that was the boss's obtuse approach.

The guy got the message and stopped asking for help.

But then lately he has just been coming without a helper so we help him by directing traffic while he backs his truck out. That's fine.

No idea what the deal is in the big picture. Why did he ever have a helper? Why didn't he want his helper to help?

No idea.

For my part, if I ever see him there with a helper, I will let them look after themselves. My position is consistent. The one other licensed forklift guy, I'm not sure he would have the guts to make that stand and might just wimp out. The boss, I don't know.
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It feels like he was trying to take advantage of you being the new guy to me. Now you're not the new guy, and he took the hint.

Dude got learned.
 
bacon
It feels like he was trying to take advantage of you being the new guy to me. Now you're not the new guy, and he took the hint.

Dude got learned.
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I wouldn't put it that way. He already had this thing going on before I showed up. I mean, I'm sure he assumed I would fall in line with the suckers he already had trained.

Anyway ---> surprise!

I have no idea why he wanted what he wanted. It is truly baffling to me. I just don't see his angle. I want to chalk it up to laziness but it is not as simple as that.

Some weird lameness/laziness hybrid??

:dunno:
 
RogueJuror
You got to be licensed for forklift?
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It's up to the workplace. A lot of places insist on it these days. It is probably better insurance-wise or whatever??

Where I work they are kind of transitional. I always keep my certification up so I had it when I was hired, but the one guy only got certified a few months ago but he had been driving the forklift there for a couple years.

I'm not sure where it stands in terms of being an actual law. I have seen lots of places over the decades that don't worry about it at all but I get the feeling based on my last few job searches that there is less of that these days.
 
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