I’m officially one of the chosen elite that has been entrusted by the powers that be to operate a very expensive and very dangerous fork truck at work.
I was actually bothing by supervisors about it for a while. I work the night shift at a very high tech CNC shop and no one else is certified on this shift. We dont need it often but sometimes heavy shit has got to move and we either do it by hand cart (boring), bother someone else on the other side of the shop (they dont like that very much) or leave it for the day guys. I’m one of the newer guys so not everyone is thrilled I got the bump and they didn’t but I made it happen. Nobody asked me to do it, I went after it. Anyways, yeah. Me + fork truck = frendz4eva
I really miss driving forklift.
My old supervisor used to make fun of me because I loved driving it, he said it was stupid and any idiot could do it. I came into work one morning and he had tried forking a pallet off a shelf, he ended up knocking the shelf behind him over. I used the forklift to right everything again. Owner of the company put me in charge of the forklift after that.