My first time with a virgin

The boss assigned who he thought was a capable driver. The boss knows drivers. The boss even hears about the campfire gossip.

The boss calls him out to train a driver with a chip on his shoulder. A difficult task, right? It's an opportunity to show the boss and the campfire club and the rookie what an A Game driver is.

 

I feel sorry for the new guy. You sound like a real winner yourself.

 

Laugh loudly when he askes about raises just kidding .. If he's not dangerous just have patience but if he's dangerous and with a attitude let boss know ASAP

 

You don't really have to teach/train him anything. You can just have him sit there and ignore him if you want.

 

My advice:

Keep a mental note what was said around the water cooler and file it away. Make that call yourself when you meet him. You never know if that guy was read wrong or the water cooler leader is a little beaoch.

When you meet the new guy, be a professional.

If you can establish rapport great, just don't become his bud until after training. If things go bad for him he may (as in will) throw you under the bus.

Have a training plan and objective. Tell him up front. Day one have him watch and learn. Day 2 crawl phase, Day 3 walk, Day 4 slow jog, Day 5 run phase.

If it were me I'd document. Write a paragraph what were the training objectives one what he did well and one what he needs to work on. Nothing complicated.

Drop the drill sgt route, if you did that with me being a infantry combat vet AND other I'd look at you and laugh. The first time someone yell at me if I were a student I would slam on the brakes and ask them when and where did they attend Ranger Instructor Course and their class number. And if they can't answer that question then I would tell (that person) next time I was yelled like that I will think you were about to assault me and I might go PTSD on them. That would keep my instructor awake in the pax seat for the rest of the training.

Treat him as if you'd wanted to be treated. Park your attitude and report verbally about his bad or good attitude to your boss. Let them make that call. Your job is to get him from class B to a class A and his success and failure is, at some level, in your hands.

 

I was training a guy at my last job who knew it all. I told him we were rollin at 0700. At 0700 I was rolling out the gate as he was pulling in and I just kept going. Boss calls me and says I forgot dummy. I said nope he was late. He wasn't there to pretrip and load the equipment and the jobs more important then his dumb ###. Boss says ok. See ya later.