Warehouse and Operations as a Career

What is the most utilized and can be the most dangerous tool used in our Light Industrial Industry? Care to make a guess? I’m Marty with you here today at Warehouse and Operations as a Career. Today lets talk a little bit about Pallets. Pallets are everywhere, we’re around them all day every day yet how often do we really think about them. There almost just an after thought right? Yet we have mill...

Thanks for checking back with us here at WAOC this week, I’m Marty T Hawkins, I hope everyone’s having a great one! I’m not sure what all we’re going to end up talking about today, I want to talk about the Slip-sheet and Clamp trucks for sure and I’ve got a few more bullet points in front of me but I wanted to share a quick story I got this week. So here’s the scenario, An Order Selector sharing “...

Anhydrous Ammonia, anyone know what that is? I’m Marty T Hawkins with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and we appreciate you checking in with us! My apologies, I’m a bit horse today but let’s have some fun anyway! I brought up the words Anhydrous Ammonia a few weeks ago and had gotten a few questions about it so lets look it up today! Merriam Webster tells us that Anhydrous means free from wat...

Marty T Hawkins with Warehouse and Operations as a Career, it’s great to have you back with us this week! Wow, we’re already ending week 3 of the new year, I have really been enjoying all the Goals and Plans that’s been sent in over the last few weeks, keep them coming, 2019 is going to be our best year yet! I wanted to mention a couple of podcast that I’m excited about, I feel they’ve helped kick...

Hello all, I brought a bad cold back with me from Atlanta, Georgia last week, I hope my voice isn’t too bad on the ears, I just didn’t want to miss the show this week! I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career, lets dig into today’s topics. I want to talk about a little equipment in a minute but like I mentioned I was out of town last week for a large hiring event, so let’s start there....

Welcome to our first Episode of 2019, Marty with you here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career! Last year, it sounds so funny saying that, Last year in Q3 & Q4 we talked a lot about the importance of Planning and setting Goals for ourselves and how, using those incremental goals we can obtain the level of success, achievement and earnings that we want. With episodes 117 & 118, or the last two w...

2018 is a wrap Ladies and Gentlemen, where’d all the time go? Here we are in Week 52, next week will be 2019 and we’ll have 365 days to reach all of our new Goals! I’m Marty with you at Warehouse and Operations as a Career. I’d like to invite you to share our Podcast with your friends and co-workers, maybe show them how to find and listen to all the free educational, instructional and entertainmen...

Welcome to Week 51 of 2018, Marty here with you at Warehouse and Operations as a Career! By now ya’ll know how excited I get about this time of year, not just with the holidays and the festive times with family, friends and co-workers but it’s time to reflect on the year for me. In our professional lives or work lives we get to reflect on what we want to do in the coming year. A lot of people make...

Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I hope everyone’s had a prosperous, safe and productive week so far? You may be noticing quite a bit of activity out in your warehouses over the next 2 weeks, inventory control may be finishing up with those yearly cycle counts, oh and several industries will be experiencing those last minute audits on sanitation programs and customer reviews o...

Hello all, from Warehouse and Operations as a Career, the Podcast where we talk about Warehousing and Transportation and the many different positions, equipment and opportunities to be found with a Career in Operations. I’m Marty T Hawkins and I love Op’s, I’ve had the privilege of working with and beside some of the best individuals and teams in the business for over 40 years. Each week we here a...

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So it’s week 47 of 2018, and I appreciate you taking the time to listen in to us here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career! I’m Marty T Hawkins and I we try and bring you some useful and interesting information each week, at least maybe provoking a thought or two that’ll help you with your careers and career planning. We try and share our experiences and love hearing about yours as well. Please...

It’s been another great week here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I hope everyone’s had a safe and prosperous one as well? I’m Marty, I’ve been out on the road the last two weeks so I’m grooving on getting caught up and settled in myself. It’s cold here in Texas, it seems a little early for us to be seeing these temperatures here. All week I’ve been getting comments about the snow showing...

Welcome back and thanks for checking in with us, I’m Marty and you’ve chosen to listen in to Warehouse and Operations as a Career today and we very much appreciate your time! I’m in Las Vegas, Nevada this week, doing a pre site Safety walk at a new facility. I really enjoy having the opportunity to meet with new customers and all their associates. It’s a quite large facility, about 500k sq ft buil...

Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty and WAOC is back on the road this week! I’m in San Antonio, Tx at the International Foodservice Distributors Association conference. I’m actually here to Introduce The Distribution Training Center. It’s always great to see all the vendors and old colleagues in the industry. There’s some exciting news and innovations in our worlds of d...

Hello again! Your back with Marty and Warehouse and Operations as a Career and I thank you for listening in with us today! I hope the audio’s alright for you, it’s been raining here for like a week and it’s really coming down right now but hey, the show must go on, right? We’ve received a couple of emails about how can I get noticed at our start-up meetings, what can I say? Along those same lines,...

Welcome back, and thank you for checking in with us today! I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and today I’d like to talk a little about choices. This week I’ve witnessed a lot of incidents where people made some great one’s and where individuals went a different direction than I would have. I guess when we think about it we’re making choices every day, really every hour that is go...

Marty T Hawkins with you here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career. I hope everyone’s enjoying the changing of the weather. I’m in Texas, we don’t really see all 4 seasons every year but I’ve got to say I’m enjoying the cooler evenings right now! So, I’ve had a couple of questions about what I mean about self-education and how we should be learning something all the time. Carl wrote I drive a l...

Thanks for checking in with us today, I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career! How’s the 4th quarter treating you? I know it’s only just kicking off but I’m excited for it! I try and take advantage of every opportunity for a fresh start, I usually need a fresh start! So last week we spoke about Staffing, and I want to thank you for all the comments and questions, and we’ve really enjoy...

Thanks for joining us today here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I hope you’re having an outstanding week so far! So where are we at week wise, let’s see, so we’re in week 39, next week starts the 4th quarter of the year, can you believe the year is wrapping up in only 13 more weeks? I always try and review my goals for the year about now, kind of check on how I’ve done, what I’ve accompl...

Welcome to episode number 104 of Warehouse and Operations as a Career, the Podcast where we talk about the many Career opportunities within Operations. This week we hit our two year mark, our 2nd anniversary if you will. If you’re a long time listener you’ll know we enjoy talking about our experiences and don’t mind sharing them along with our thoughts and yes, probably a few to many opinions abou...

I can’t believe we’re wrapping up the 3rd quarter of the year already can ya’ll? Well Thanks for checking in with us today here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career. I’m Marty, and I’m super excited about all the things we’re working on, we have some great guest coming up over the next few weeks to share and visit with us. It’s really a lot of fun putting these shows together, I hope you’re enj...

Marty T Hawkins back with you and another episode of Warehouse and Operations as a Career. Is everyone having a fabulous week so far? Today let’s talk about a few of the things that we as employees sometimes have to deal with, many times things we possibly bring on ourselves. Throughout my travels each week I hear about lost jobs, NCNS, layoffs, and a lot of reasons why individuals have loss those...

Hello and welcome to the Warehouse and Operations as a Career Podcast, I’m Marty and I’d like to thank you for clicking in with us today! Let’s see, I’ve gotten behind on a few questions that’s been sent in, let me see if I can get a few of them answered really quick! I liked this one here, a gentleman asked, “how would you recommend I get into warehousing”. I’m not sure what his work experiences...

Well Welcome to, what I’m feeling is a very exciting episode of Warehouse and Operations as a Career! I’m Marty T Hawkins and this is the 100th weekly episode of our WAOC Podcast. We’ve had a blast putting something together each week to discuss and to share some experiences on topics that you, our listeners, have sent to us in many instances or thoughts we’ve hoped that you’d find interesting. We...