What should be done about the global forklift operator shortages?

Why can't western countries train their own workforce anymore?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Forklift Chads, we won!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      How do we get more zoomers and women to become one?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        How’s the pay ? And do I have to talk to anyone?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Pay is so-so bordering on shit. Most it could make you is like $20. But for a job where you don’t need a degree and just have to be sober to do that shit it’s not so bad.

          Would suck if you have to use the standing forklift all day though.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I used to forklift, pay was $19, I quit because I was almost killed twice by one of the owners who didn’t follow safety protocol and drank on the job

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I'm bringing home 60k
          I only talk to people when they need something which is rare, or for like 5 seconds when drivers come in and I tell them where to put their trailer.
          I mostly listen to music audiobooks and podcasts all day

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I've Tickets for counter-balance, Reach, Bendi & PPT
      Hooray!!

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    welp, time to get FLC (fork lift certified)

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They all died suddenly

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Turns out boomers having less children than their parents and gen X having even less children than boomers had long term consequences.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Don’t worry the fricking Mexicans will definitely feel a connection with Europe and help you when Russia invades.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I'm skeptical about this. Claims about labor shortages can just be companies wanting more workers just to drive down wages.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's what tech industry did to offer H1-B visas to Indians in USA. Lobbied politicians with whatever made up studies and reports, giving politicians plausible acceptability. Everything any industry does is cold-blooded. People get shit on. Money centralizes. Power centralizes. Every goddamn time.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yeah it’s tough being so desirable. Once you get about a year of forklifting under your belt you can pretty much do whatever you want. Nobody is going to question shit except how much OT do you want.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/z3vOTbX.png

      keep em comin

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        last one

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous
  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    increased wages, maybe? never met a forklift driver who had lots of spare cash.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Forklift drivers win again

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I've got a little card from my job in Commiefornia that says I have been trained and they let me drive the forklifts at work. Am I set for life?

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >forklift operator
    >come in boys!!! Visas for everyone!!!

    No smart Kiwi works here unless you're paid at minimum $120,000 pa. Our country is experiencing staff shortages in hospitality and construction due to shit pay and a ridiculously high cost of living.

    You take that job it's $20-30an hour.. weekly take home $1000 bucks give or take. Your rent for a 2 bedroom apartment is $500-700 a week unless you cohabitat with randoms for $300-400 a week.

    Why anyone would want to come here to work is beyond me. Go to Australia where the money is.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Forklift operators are paid pennys in the US. 1000 a week? Try 500 and that's decent pay.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    surprised that ad's not *only* in arabic.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because they are all cheap buttholes.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >atlas shrugged
    >except its about a forklift operator quitting his job and the warehouse can't find anyone to replace him

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    There's just not enough millennials tough enough to operate forklifts.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What I love most about these shirts is the fact that they use a different font or at least font size for each sentence.
      My inner hobbyists graphic designer cringes like a mofo

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Are these real or humor?

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because to drive a forklift here you have to do at least 2 courses. If the company is not willing to pay for you to do them, no one here is going to pay for them.

    That's how it was over 10 years ago when i first did it, you probably need a university degree to drive one these days.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I took a two day course for like 350 dollars started working a few months ago, going to move on to something else anyway since the pay isn't great

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        What is the pay rate if you don't mind me asking?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          First got 28 aus an hour because i didn't have my forklift license yet, 32 once i got it, casual rate so no paid leaves sick days and shit, first ever job in Australia too.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Stop talking shit idiot.

      >Guy comes to work to do the course
      >talks about irrelevant shit for half an hour then gives us a test and just outright tells us every answer
      >practical test is lifting an empty pallet and putting it down again
      >he didn't even watch, just said that's fine you passed

      I've done a more professional one too and it was barely any harder, open book test to get the answers from and the practical was putting a pallet on a small rack, took an hour for him to talk shit then 2 minutes for the practical test.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        To elaborate a little further on my previous posts...

        To get a forklift license in NZ you have to go to a private company, or have one come to your workplace, and do a course which is in theory half a day but never actually takes that long. It goes as I described here .

        You CAN NOT FAIL this course. Because they are private companies and there seems to be no government oversight whatsoever, if these courses ever failed even a single individual then the employer would just start going to someone else. If you pay, you pass. It costs like $170 or something like that, but typically the job pays for them, or people on an unemployment benefit will have it paid by gibs. They go out of their way to get unemployed people to get simple qualifications like this, they would pay for someone to do it even if no specific job was available. Some workplaces a boss will even be qualified to give out the licenses, and I'm sure you can imagine how rigid they are about that.

        There is also a thing called an F endorsement which is equally as difficult to get, it's required for driving on public roads or when you are in a loading zone or anywhere that trucks go. I have required one at every job I had and have never had one and no one ever cared. I have even driven miles up public roads on a forklift and it was no issue to my boss or me or anyone.

        The point I am trying to make is that the rules are very lax and it is one of the easiest occupations to get people into. Forklift driving jobs are usually filled within a day or two because everyone likes it more than typical blue collar work, since you just get to sit and drive all day instead of proper slaving. Every interview I went to they had stacks of people applying.

        I am sick to shit of this gay country doing shit like the OP, NZ is corrupted by corporate bullshit more than any other country outside the US. It's a scam, like everything in life.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Interesting. Strange situation to be in where you are told to prepare for working life as an adult, but getting a job is at the mercy of whatever companies to hire you. Some people go their own way and are self-employed. That's possible.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah I have leaned on this as a basic qualification to get me easily into jobs for a bit more than I could otherwise make. I always get the job over everyone else because I am polite and well spoken while most blue collar workers are moronic.

            Now they are going to get a million shitskins over to do this work for minimum wage. I'm sure I'll still find work if I'm willing to take a pay cut, but why should I? I don't make a lot as it is. And what of all the other industries? Fruit picking used to pay fairly well but now they get armies of Pacific Islanders and backpackers over every year to work for cheap. Fishing boats the same, they are all immigrant labour now. You'd get these odd opportunities like this if you know where to look, so you don't have to be carrying bricks or flipping burgers for minimum wage. But everything is getting closed off gradually. And the cost of housing is out of control because we don't have enough accommodation for this replacement labour force to live.

            Things are looking bleak.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Promote more forklift operator hypno vids.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    There's no shortage. They want to replace you with cheap Third World labor.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    train more of them

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      the video that is from is hilarious

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      are those shelves made of fricking glass what the frick

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Imagine being called to respond to that, in any capacity, and then walking in the first time to see the devastation.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        He lived. No fatalities. Always best to stay in your machine if possible.

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Say hello to those skilled, experienced immigrants who are amazing for your economy despite the fact all their native economies are flaming dogshit

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >New Zeeland
    >Tiny island nation in the middle of the Pacific ocean
    >Shortage of truck drivers

    Yeah i dont think this is indicative of a skill shortage in western nations

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It is, though. All western countries are struggling to replace their aging blue collar workforce. Wagie median age is 40 with many in the 45-55 range, once these people retire in a dozen years, there will be nobody to keep things running.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Oy vey! I just rescued a ship of doctors and engineers from the Mediterranean. You have room for them, right Gaston?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        No, theyre struggling to find people who will take the absurd legal responsibilities that come with the license when they're lucky to make a dollar more than a walmart sheft jockey.

        Even the refugees and gimmiegrants don't want those jobs because they make more on welfare.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      This is the solution, German education at its finest. Watch it.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I clicked this thread just because I knew this meme would be here thank you anon.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >when he says he's forklift certified

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >you will never have a woman look at you like this

        are those shelves made of fricking glass what the frick

        No, they're designed to be REALLY strong when standing up with weight on them. IIRC when we saw that video during the training class part of the problem is they didn't have guards at the feet of the racks, so the machine knocked the leg loose from where it was mounted and it made the whole shelf buckle.

        IIRC the driver died, but multiple people were at fault (driver for trying to pass another machine in a warehouse, the driver of the other mahcine stopped blocking a laneway to chat with someone, the guy hanging around chatting because you're not supposed to be distracting people using equipment.)

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    A gross financial elitism inculcated in the population from birth, incentivizing most people to only pursue high paying jobs.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The problem is shit pay for hard work, not people wanting to be paid well. 50 years ago most manual labor jobs paid enough to buy a house, have a stay at home wife, raise kids, take vacations and live pretty well plus many of them they offered a pension and a strong union. Zoomers and millennials have seen zero of that in blue collar jobs unless you own the business thanks to boomers destroying wages with infinite immigration and outsourcing and constantly telling kids they'll flip burgers for a living if they don't go to college so it's no wonder younger generations don't think blue collar work is viable if you want to prosper.

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It’s wild to see “entry level” jobs that require five years experience.

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I drive a forklift. Easy enough to find work but there's a bit of competition, certainly no shortage. This shit is just c**ts rigging the immigration rules, they offer minimum wage or have unreasonable hiring criteria, basically don't even consider any applicants. Then cry to the government to let in more brown people because they can pay them less, and they'll be dependent on their employer to stay in the country.

    There effectively isn't even a test to get a license in NZ, in theory there is but they tell you all the answers and you can just keep doing it again if you frick up. It's a formality really, anyone who pays gets the license.

    In short, this is nonsense.

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >german
      >owns a car
      ?

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Happy fun forklift is not a toy.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
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        Anonymous
        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          So you have such a heavy load that you need to have someone riding on the back just to keep it balanced, why in the frick raise it above head hight when you could just have it riding along the floor

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I've seen some pretty dumb chink videos but this has to be the dumbest shit I've ever seen

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        oh man, i thought he was gonna drop it but he got it in the truck. good work chang.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Any room temp IQ guy can learn to drive a forklift in under 5 minutes.

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I drove a forklift at work occasionally to fill in for call-offs (they all got vaxxed, all of em love Trump too), it's very boring and all the drivers talk about is their long careers driving different forklifts at other businesses.

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The problem is shit pay for hard work, not people wanting to be paid well. 50 years ago most manual labor jobs paid enough to buy a house, have a stay at home wife, raise kids, take vacations and live pretty well plus many of them they offered a pension and a strong union. Zoomers and millennials have seen zero of that in blue collar jobs unless you own the business thanks to boomers destroying wages with infinite immigration and outsourcing and constantly telling kids they'll flip burgers for a living if they don't go to college so it's no wonder younger generations don't think blue collar work is viable if you want to prosper.

      these cases are literally what you learn on safety lessons/accident prevention (idk how it will be correct in english) when you study for a forklift license here

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >these cases are literally what you learn on safety lessons/accident prevention (idk how it will be correct in english) when you study for a forklift license here
        yeah we have to watch these vids here as well when doing refresher courses to keep our machine tickets

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        People often forget just how heavy forklifts are. A standard smaller 5,000lb capacity forky will weigh around 9,000lbs. And they just get heavier from there. The counter-balance alone weighs thousands of pounds.

        >t. used to deliver all types of material handling equipment to all types of customers.

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You ever tried to get a new american to avoid an engine?

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >What should be done about the global forklift operator shortages?
    Import more.

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Declining birth rates and young people being told to go to college at all costs.

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I have experience.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I know how to drive a standup forklift but I have never driven a sit-down forklift. Am I going to make it, /misc/?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Easier than driving a car.

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Kek forklift guy here.they won't let me in before i prove 1,5 million kiwidollars of fortune to bring with me.if i were brown and unskilled tho

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I was always confused about this, maybe it's different elsewhere because the commie groups here use the labor unions to try to control politics so everything's closed as employment opportunities go unless you are related to or otherwise have connections with them.

    >Can't get the job unless you are certified.
    >Can't get certified unless you have the job.

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    why can't forklifts be automated?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It could be, to some extent but it's not there just yet.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Because I know some programming for game dev I am always thinking of ways that my job could be automated. I could easily do it in a game engine, it would take me a day or two vs making a whole game which takes a year or two. This is in the digital realm of course but the real world issues would be largely inconsequential for the systems I've come up with.

        I can not believe that it hasn't been done on a wide scale yet, it should be coming very soon.

        As a side note, the topic of automation came up at my work one time since they'd just got some new machines to automate certain unrelated jobs. The other forklift drivers were all saying thing's like 'They'll never be able to automate this job, it's too complex', stuff like that. Embarrassing. I mean there would be a few things that still needed to be done manually I'm sure, but 80% of it is super repetitive and linear. Find rack location, get down from location, move to new location. Find empty rack, place in rack, record position. It's a prime target for automation actually and will go very soon.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        What do we do in the future when forklifts will be automated?
        Even here in Russia they are slowly becoming automated.

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just hook them up with low latency internet and control it via stream so the zoomies can work from home

  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I can drive a fork truck, reach truck, order picker, bridge crane, rail crane, telehandler, and tracmobile. Guess what my options are?
    >Shitty warehouse or factory that pays a hefty $15 an hour where average rent is around 1000 a month
    >Shitty warehouse or factory that says they have a stable 40 hour workweek, but that's only when they are fully staffed (you'll be working 60-80 hours a week because they've been understaffed for years now)
    >Shitty warehouse or factory that is top down and hyper-corporate where you will be b***hed at by multiple team leads and supervisors every 15 minutes for the stupidest reasons

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Why don't you get a union job?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        No union jobs around here except an aluminum factory and steel rolling place nearby, but good luck getting one of those. The steel rolling place has been in the financial downturns due to cheap Chinese steel flooding the market routinely; and the aluminum place hires through their union. The union is "never hiring" if you know what I mean. The aluminum factory has just lost their bauxite mine due to union frickery and the aluminum factory looks like it may shut down or get bought out again.
        All the other non union places are warehouses and shitty plastic factories.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah man I hear you, I can't say too much without doxing myself but I just booked a handy gig that will allow me to do evening degree in HR.
      Sick of frickin' roasties that went to college straight from school & never worked a real job but yet hire & manage us.
      I'm going into the belly of the beast to fight for people like me & you

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Best of luck familia. Hopefully you don't loose your soul or your marbles along the way.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >I'm going into the belly of the beast to fight for people like me & you
        Good luck. Usually they don't hire white men. Every HR department I've seen was 100% roasties and gays.

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Getting yourself forklift certified is kind of a joke since a company will want you to get certified under their company name anyway. This was from a guy who’s company supplies forklifts and does training

  45. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because a lot of these jobs pay absolute dogshit despite the legal responsibility you have to take on.

    T. refused 3 forklift jobs in a row because I make more at fricking walmart than they were willing to pay.

  46. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    average forklift driver makes 16 dollars an hour in my large metro state, you might as well work fast food. theres entry level starting pay jobs that offer multiple more dollars than that now, why would anyone even wanna waste their time

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >average forklift driver makes 16 dollars an hour
      This. Any time you hear about a worker shortage in any position or industry, it is solely due to the pay being too low. Nothing more to it. Market demands higher pay, and israelites refuse so they cry MUH WORKER SHORTAGE in hopes the government or some shit will fix it.

  47. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Lol that's nothing.

    “Currently there are 2,630 registered Professional Surveyors and Mappers in Florida.
    - 117 of these are female
    - 174 are 40 or younger
    - 1,111 are 60 and older (this is a large number that will retire around the same time)
    - Each year 45-50 new licenses are issued in Florida.”

  48. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Hourly rate and safety conditions are to hazardous.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Every time I see this smug homosexual and his crippled body, a strange feeling wells inside me that pushes me to beat the shit out of him. There is some instinct that upon viewing the unnatural state of his body compels me to the thought of throwing him around and crushing his ribcage.
      It's like when you see a dieing animal struggle and you want to put it out of it's misery, but not in a sad sence. My mind sees him as human and inhuman at the same time and would like to resolve the confusion with a primal violence.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Your lizard brain is correctly identifying him as a threat to the tribe because he consumes resources and people's time that he can never repay or earn back, he is a net negative, and even keeping one of them in the tribal age would be enough to cripple an entire tribe and threatens the potential kids of the tribe by taking up resources and time that would be better served going to them.

  49. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Post Chinese forklift accidents

  50. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because we need more people who don't speak English and can operate a forklift

  51. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Pay them more. Nobody becomes a fork lift driver to impress women and advance their social status.

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