Which is not to say you didn't have to be accurate. You would often have to be accurate. Sometimes, you would straighten out a bundle by turning the forklift around and pushing the bundle into a wall with the flat back of the forklift, so you could then squeeze the bundle into a tight spot. With most forklift jobs, you're like a bull in a china shop, but at a box factory, it's more like a bull in a padded cell. A bull balancing big brown bundles of boxes.
Fork lifts are cool machines.
They have incredibly accurate hydraulic controls so that you can move the tips of the forks small fractions of an inch. The forks at box factories are filed down so that they are actually sharp, so you can scoop under the bundle. Each bundle is wrapped in two nylon straps, and you have to scoop in the direction of the straps, or you'll catch one and break it. The forks are so sharp, you have to always lower them to the ground when you leave the machine. If anyone walks into them they can be seriously hurt.