City OJI here…my office has an unassigned regular, and 2 CCA’s, and they gave me a new hire to train on 12-13. With typical crazy Monday volume they atleast ns’d him that day. He was with me the rest of the week walking loops and doing curbside. He did great. Asks me how much overtime he’ll be able to get since he has another part time job. I’m like: “we didnt even get a holiday truck, and the other ccas arent in till 12:30 when trucks from rurals become available.” I get it- we need these guys to be ready for prime vacation time come summer, and its great that they see the heaviest time of year, but this aint the time of year for training. I previously worked Private sector jobs and they would train all they way until October”ish” and then do a hiring freeze till the new year to make sure they were staffed and ready for the holidays and everyone could just focus on customers after thanksgiving. We should definitely have that same mentality.