I had a weird experience with the seasonal hires. Last year, our seasonal hires were actually really good, we trained a bunch of them to pull, push, and backstock electronics, trained at least three of them to assist the backroom on shifts where they were categorized as flow. They could all unload the truck as well, and quickly. We only kept 2 of them on, and it was a great seasonal team.
This year, our seasonal team never unloaded the truck on time. not even once. we had a 1900 piece truck take 2 hours to unload one time, and it took the flow team 7 hours after that to finish pushing it. We didn't train any of them in specialty areas, unless you count regularly pushing toys as a "specialty" area. We didn't fire a single member of our seasonal team, we only had three of them quit. One of the ones they wanted to fire they couldn't, because she was covering somebody's shift who quit on the day they were going to fire her (very lucky for her).
It seems like spot keeps getting worse and worse. People I didn't even think were employable are getting jobs left and right. And I just found out new hires come in at only 11 cents less than I do, and I have almost 2 years with the company!