This Monday I started my first post job graduating. I finished with a bachelor's degree in marketing as well as management.
I got an offer to work at a Japanese facility that produced, shipped, and sold nuts and bolts for Toyota cars/trucks made in America. My title was given as a Sales specialist where I would learn the company and start selling for them.
First day on the job, read books, look at blueprints of all nuts, and get a tour.
2nd and 3rd days, they tell me to go work on the factory floor as part of my training, they even planned out where on the line I would go from spot to spot for the next 5 weeks.
Back breaking work and the whole time I thought to myself, this is what I went to college for 4 years for? I thought my reason for going to college was that I didn't have to work on a factory floor for the rest of my life! This didn't make sense, especially how I could just observe and ask questions instead of doing the PHYSICAL labor. Lifting 30-40 lbs of nuts on plastic totes oh about 2000-2500 times a day wasn't fun. Whine whine, yeah yeah.
****Cliffs:
Start job as a sales specialist
Second day they have me working factory floor doing demanding physical labor
Third day, repeat of second day and I come to find out I have another 5 weeks left of doing this before I start actual sales training.
Tell employer my complaints, lets me go because I was not willing to do the training for sales.
I find all of this crazy, because they never told me this was going to be my training in the interview. I started asking around other employees in the office how it was when they first started and NONE of them ever had to go on the factory line. I don't know how the Japanese people "train" their employees, but after this experience I'm through with this. I guess this is good experience for me and what to look out for on my next job. Who knows....
BTW: Pay was ONLY 14.75 an hour, good money for factory work, but for sales ehhh
NEW EDITS/COMMENTS
I also was on temp to hire basis through a temp employment agency located within the town. When I voiced concerns about this position to not only HR within the Japanese company, but also to the temp agency. The temp agency apologized to me and they all said the same thing I was saying and that was to quit. The factory workers on the line were making $10 an hour, and with the lack of supervision or guidance of what I should take as an experience for the job, I really had no clue what I was actually going to be doing post those 5 weeks. Here is the actual job description for this position:
Receive and enter customer orders. Maintain customer records by updating account information. Resolve product or service problems by clarifying the customer's complaint; determine the ause of the problem; select and explain the best solution to solve the problem; expedite correction or adjustment; follow-up to ensure resolution. Manage customer backlog. Manage customer inventory levels. Identify opportunities for improvement with respect to: the internal departmental operations, overall business operations, and customer operations.
REQUIREMENTS:
2 or 4 year college degree in business management. 2 to 5 years of related experience. Corrugated packaging knowledge. Computer skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook. Strong communication skills. Organizational and phone skills. CAD knowledge.
I got an offer to work at a Japanese facility that produced, shipped, and sold nuts and bolts for Toyota cars/trucks made in America. My title was given as a Sales specialist where I would learn the company and start selling for them.
First day on the job, read books, look at blueprints of all nuts, and get a tour.
2nd and 3rd days, they tell me to go work on the factory floor as part of my training, they even planned out where on the line I would go from spot to spot for the next 5 weeks.
Back breaking work and the whole time I thought to myself, this is what I went to college for 4 years for? I thought my reason for going to college was that I didn't have to work on a factory floor for the rest of my life! This didn't make sense, especially how I could just observe and ask questions instead of doing the PHYSICAL labor. Lifting 30-40 lbs of nuts on plastic totes oh about 2000-2500 times a day wasn't fun. Whine whine, yeah yeah.
****Cliffs:
Start job as a sales specialist
Second day they have me working factory floor doing demanding physical labor
Third day, repeat of second day and I come to find out I have another 5 weeks left of doing this before I start actual sales training.
Tell employer my complaints, lets me go because I was not willing to do the training for sales.
I find all of this crazy, because they never told me this was going to be my training in the interview. I started asking around other employees in the office how it was when they first started and NONE of them ever had to go on the factory line. I don't know how the Japanese people "train" their employees, but after this experience I'm through with this. I guess this is good experience for me and what to look out for on my next job. Who knows....
BTW: Pay was ONLY 14.75 an hour, good money for factory work, but for sales ehhh
NEW EDITS/COMMENTS
I also was on temp to hire basis through a temp employment agency located within the town. When I voiced concerns about this position to not only HR within the Japanese company, but also to the temp agency. The temp agency apologized to me and they all said the same thing I was saying and that was to quit. The factory workers on the line were making $10 an hour, and with the lack of supervision or guidance of what I should take as an experience for the job, I really had no clue what I was actually going to be doing post those 5 weeks. Here is the actual job description for this position:
Receive and enter customer orders. Maintain customer records by updating account information. Resolve product or service problems by clarifying the customer's complaint; determine the ause of the problem; select and explain the best solution to solve the problem; expedite correction or adjustment; follow-up to ensure resolution. Manage customer backlog. Manage customer inventory levels. Identify opportunities for improvement with respect to: the internal departmental operations, overall business operations, and customer operations.
REQUIREMENTS:
2 or 4 year college degree in business management. 2 to 5 years of related experience. Corrugated packaging knowledge. Computer skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook. Strong communication skills. Organizational and phone skills. CAD knowledge.
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