Im presuming your in the US? wouldn't surprise me they even care to say you hold responsibility for the failure of doing a safe job with the forklift if your driving it. In Denmark our work ethics and various safety organisations put requirements on how to safely train workers in various operation for tools that your work place can have one of which can be forklifts etc. You actually get explained weight tolerances and what kinda uses some forklifts has and what you are not allowed to do during transport with something on your forks. Example a smaller container the square ones. You cannot see ahead so basic safety says drive backwards as optimally as possible and lift for example when your the closest to the place its supposed to go at if your stacking. And other various safety rules same with ramp driving rules and the yes and no's of that. So here you get all the required basics you need to understand for doing safe work with in this case a forklift. I can tell you if any safety organisations here got a wind of bad forklift usage at a workplace and unsafe stacking or what have you now. You get fined very fast here. They really push the idea of absolutely avoiding injury of workers or death.

Meh - I've done campus recruiting for computer science majors. Happens all the time - we get two resumes. One guy has a 3.4 GPA and seems smart. Another guy has a 3.4 GPA and seems smart.

Only, the second guy did a summer internship after senior year of high school, then worked part-time assembling PCs after school, then worked in the computer lab freshman year of college, then did an internship at some HR company writing SQL scripts, then moved from the computer lab to the universities help desk his sophomore year, then did some pretty cool opensource project that never got finished or made any money but seemed interesting, then did another internship his junior year.

The first guy is like, 'What the hell man, all these jobs want experience! I have a good GPA and a degree - why won't anyone hire me.'

The second guy is like, 'I went to the job fair and dropped my resume off with 8 companies. I got 8 interviews'.

High school/college kids are only in school like 32 weeks per year. And college kids have a huge amount of free time. A lot of them really do have a lot of experience.

From what i hear internship in america is very iffy. And sometimes companies don't make much afford to allow interns and its really hit and miss. Like for visual communication i kinda wouldn't think theres many that would allow a intern to do stuff like that. Also i can tell you now about free time its still pretty hard to get time to work some kinda internship at a place while at school. Many places want you almost all days minus holidays and weekends and internship is had to budge in. Its not a easy thing you can say what you say now but consider what options people have that are just getting degree's now. Some get lucky some don't sadly