Knight Refrigerated Orientation--Phoenix, AZ

Well, it's come to this. I'm signing on with Knight Refrigerated to get that 1 year experience, and will be going to orientation soon.

Please share your experiences with this process, and please give some information about the orientation, the road test, and the Squire training program.

What do you guys recommend I bring to orientation?

 

haha oh man

 

Let me give you all my experience so far on this orientation process. I'm going to write it like Victor's story from Bret Easton Ellis' "The Rules of Attraction."

Took a Greyhound bus shortly after midnight, stayed on the greyhound until sunrise when we got to LA, laid over in downtown LA for 5 hours. Avoided some crackheads, walked to the McDonalds to gorge myself on breakfast burritos on the dollar menu. Came back to the Greyhound station and slept on the floor, passed in and out of consciousness and tried to call my girlfriend but the pay phones were screwing up. got on the greyhound and the driver asked where I was going. he told me to apply for a driving position with greyhound. sat on the greyhound, left Los Angeles at noon, sat in the back of a fully packed greyhound next to the toilet. fell asleep, leaned up against the toilet door to rest my weary head. woke up, got harassed by some weird fat guy with tattoos who looked like that one guy from Orange County choppers. he was carrying a stack of pillows and blankets and was going to conway orientation in Tolleston. he wanted my seat. i finally traded him and sat next to some dude who smelled like whiskey and was passed out in his seat. we drove, drove, drove some more. anxiety is killing me, sleep deprivation is getting intense, we're making our way thru the desert. i've been awake over 24 hours now , been on the greyhound like 20 hours.

got to the best western in tolleston arizona. didn't have my cell phone on me because i forgot it at home. checked into my room, begged the circle k clerk for 5 dollars in quarters. got said quarters, tried to call my girlfriend from a payphone but it didn't work. i'm irate. i walk down the street for 1 mile to use another set of payphone at the circle k. again, the payphones don't work. they only eat my money and i have 5 dollars in my pocket. i beat the crap out of the payphone with the reciever and shout all sorts of profanities and obscenities , and i'm approached by a nice guy offering to let me use his i phone. call home. girlfriend answers, she sends money. went to burger king and ate some spicy chicken sandwiches. shat them out the next morning because my body isn't used to eating that fodder.

woke up at 5 30 am, waited in the hotel lobby for 6 30 am. spicy chicken sandwiches are giving me the runs and i step out for ten seconds into the restroom. when i come out, the shuttle had taken all the knight refrigerated trainees to the terminal, leaving me in the dust. i am irritated. ask the little blonde man at the front desk wearing a tie to please help me, but he only talks down to me because i'm with knight refrigerated and he says, 'we have problems with you guys all the time.' frantically e-mail the recruiter and apologize for missing the shuttle. at this point i'm looking at greyhound tickets back home because i'm sure i screwed up and won't get the job. wait around in the lobby for a half hour. the dude at the desk is still talking mad crap to me. then the driver shows up and says, sorry man, we didn't have enough room for you and had to come back. i don't really care because it wasn't my fault, and i have my own room at the best western which is the size of a large studio apartment with two beds, a flat screen television, and some computers to use the internet on.

start day 1 of orientation. i'm an hour and a half late. awkwardly walk into the terminal, and meet my recruiter. he was indifferent to my e-mail, which was good because i was embarrassed. he seems like a nice guy. he treated me like a professional, probably because i don't look like some homeless ###### they pulled off the street and i'm kind of well-spoken. first thing he asks me, is to piss in a cup. we do the deed and i sit down and flip through paper work. it's a blur, we sign some forms, six hours pass us by and i go back to the hotel to lay down and pass out and talk to family on the pre paid cell phone. watched 'family guy' and some other stupid tv show about murder reenactments until i passed out and woke up to do it again.


i'll post day 2 tomorrow.

 

so over all, i have a positive impression of the company and i think i could stick it out with them for 6 months to a year. we will see once i get to a truck, but i love the idea that they put us in one of the nicest hotels and we have our own rooms... not to mention you can totally rape the continental breakfast to the T and not pay for any food whatsoever.

 

no it's malcom mcdowell , alex from 'a clockwork orange' ... today was rather hectic... i dont have enough energy to post all of it