I am a new CCA and finished my "training" last Monday. I was told to come back Tuesday. Tuesday morning I was called and told not to come in until Thursday. I went in on Thursday and was told to go home and come in the next day. The next day I was called and told they would call me for the next day. I am told there are no vehicles available to use.

I put training in quotations because I was really not given any real training. I was assigned to what they called a "utility" person to train me for 3 days. I was not even spoken to for the first 3 hours on day one. I watched him intently and tried to glean what I could from observation. I figured maybe this was his style for the first day. I tried to keep my questions to a minimum as this guy was really too busy to provide any training along with delivering his mail. At the end of day one I kind of had an idea as to what would be expected of me on the route and was looking forward to the next day and hopeful that this guy would be able to give me some proper training.

No such luck. This guy was a nightmare. Frantically driving, yelling, slamming mail in the boxes, slamming the door shut and slamming on the brakes with me in the jump seat. AND, he brought a radio which was turned on way too loud. I guessed it was to drown out my questions. Again on day two, I was not given any instruction. I was not told a thing. My questions were met with snide, incomprehensible double-talk. This guy had no interest in my success as a carrier. Further, I am convinced the guy was trying to make me quit! Now I am in trouble. I was told by the supervisor that on day 3 I would be delivering the mail and he would be watching me. Day three and I am nervous. I think I have delivering the mail down but still don't know where to pick up the various trays of mail or how to load the truck or where to look for anything or who to ask for anything. But when I get there the truck is almost loaded and I guessed I didn't have to worry about that other stuff. I deliver the mail with this guy sitting behind me and am ignored most of the day. I ask what questions I think I can without getting yelled at, but am never given any straight answers and mostly just snide retorts and sighs of boredom from the guy. At one point he throws mail at me then slams it into my hand and am told to hold the mail this way. Well, at least he taught me that, I thought. We finish the delivery and I think I did pretty well. We finished early and are given another assignment while out on the road. When I get back to the station I looked through my paperwork to find a check list of what CCA training was supposed to be. What a joke. This guy did nothing on that list and how much was he making to do that?

I haven't worked a day since then. I think maybe the trainer gave me a bad report and they're not going to use me and there's nothing I can do about it. He certainly didn't seem to like me much. I hope I can go to work soon. Do you think they will work me eventually?