Well sort of! As many know I started my job at the start of this year and in the next 2 days I will have been at my present job six months! A hell of a lot longer than some on here thought I would have lasted and in a way myself with some of the things that have happened. So in the words saying ‘I’m off’ hopefully within the next week or two I will no longer picking and I shall be where I am best at in the warehouse on goods in!
Now the reason I’ve been put onto picking for this and next week, as in a meeting I had last week with the apprenticeship people & HR I had a few rather bizzare comments thrown about my way to how I ‘look’ when picking as I seem to drag my feet and not seem arsed about the job with my response being ‘If you’ve been picking for 10+ hours a day 4 days a week for 5-6 months you’d be dragging your feet and fed up too!’ and mentioning that I don’t look ‘approachable’ when doing my job which ■■■■■■ me right off to the point I stopped my line manager and asked him 'If I’m unapproachable as you rudely put it, can you explain to me why when if anyone needs help or has a job that needs doing like looking after the belt they ask me to help out? Does that make me seem like an ‘unapproachable’ person ’ Needless to say he had to eat his words and then went back to say ‘Well yes he does help out etc’ saying in other terms people can RELY on ME to get the job done when some other people would ■■■■ up the job non the less…And when asked about what jobs I like to do in the warehouse I told them about the pallet yard at how I took charge of it and that it got the seal of approval from the H&S man with him saying it looks a hell of a lot tidier than it did so not bad for an apprentice to say I did that and they’ve come to the conclusion I’m the sort of person that needs to have job satisfaction…and that I like a job to have a start and a finish to it as I like to say that I’ve managed to make a bit of a difference to something. But to add I did say my strongest point was on Goods in, and that you can’t say that the ‘easiest’ job is picking when to some other jobs are easier than others and goods in is where I’m best at!
So fast forward from my review meetingy thing last week, I was put on store returns the first day this week 
But was approached by my line manager to be told that over the next 2 weeks, my pick rate has to be constantly consistent and constantly improving and then after the 2 weeks I can do whatever I like within the warehouse as agreed by the manager who had ago at me about clocking in at the start of the year Meaning that even if I wanted to learn his job I could do so I may use that to my advantage but I was told that it’s the same with me having to constantly improve etc so I’m going to keep them to their word and this week well I have worked rather hard to say the least! Tuesday they had me training one of the agency lads up to pick so that was my day ■■■■■■■■’d for a good day picking 
Although to be fair the agency lad picked quite a lot through the time I trained him up and within the 4 hours I had to pick I averaged 80 units an hour and although the line manager moaned of how I should have done more than 4 hours of pick I said he shouldn’t have had me training someone up then if he wanted me to just pick…he agreed with that and said he wanted me to average 70p/h the next day and well all targets were met including yesterday after my feet were about dead and ready to fall off
But I must have done something good as I was allowed to go onto Putaways right before my last break and to finish the day off with so just to add a little spanner into the works, I’d love someone to explain to me how when I struggle to meet targets on pick and I’m still being kept on there. Yet yesterday having only 3 hours 15 minutes of putaways I put away well over 3000 units meaning I doubled the targets they expected per hour for people putting away per hour and with pick I struggle to even hit the targets set and when I do I end up in more pain trying to do so so if someone could kindly explain to me where the ■■■■■■■ benefit is in putting me in a job that I’m ■■■■ at against a job I’m great at Anyway the goods in manager was impressed with how much I put away and had no complaints so I can’t of done all bad 
I haven’t asked yet about my hgv training as I don’t want to jump too well ahead of myself with only going through my standard license at the moment but when the time comes nearer it shall be asked/mentioned as if they want to ‘invest’ in the future well there’s always going to be a need for truck drivers Although I’m not too fussed if they don’t put me through as I’ll be able to afford to put myself through the rigid part of my hgv stuff at least anyway so this year ain’t all bad.
And no doubt for the commenters about my ‘■■■■’ wage. May I remind people that I was at college before I even had a job where I had no money, next to sod all that I could call my own and nothing I could say I properly ‘earned’. Where as now I’ve been able to buy things to call my own, having enough money to pay rent/bills etc and still have money left over. And currently being able to put £200 this morning towards my driving lessons where as at college I couldn’t even afford to put a fiver towards it! And as much as I currently ■■■■ and moan at times about my job it’s still enjoyable with the people I work with and when I get to my house and think of everything this job has benefited me with and in the next few months I should have my first car So even more something to work for 
And my wage rise is due in next month to NMW for 18 - 20 year olds so all is well
Now it’s a case of waiting until my driving lesson this morning so reaking the benefits again of my hard work
Cheers
Jonny 
And you’ll find I’ve not posted so much on here alately as I’ve been busy…although like many others have found the reason why we don’t anymore.