Warehouse and Operations as a Career

Hey hey everyone.  Marty T Hawkins with Warehouse and Operations as a Career back with you.  I hope everyone has had a prosperous, productive, safe, and awesome first half of the year.  Tomorrow, July 2 nd  is our halfway point for 2021, the first day of the rest of the year! I know all my planning and goal talk is a lot of blah blah blah to some of you, and that’s cool.  But some are reaping the...

Hello all, how is week 25 treating you?  Can you believe we are almost halfway thru 2021.  I’m reassessing where I am at with my goals so I can start planning and making those adjustments, and I’m realizing that I have some serious adjustments to make! And you know what, that’s ok, there is absolutely nothing wrong with our goals changing.  That’s called growing in my book.  Seriously though, it i...

Anyone ever felt like they’ve missed an opportunity?  Anyone ever realized they did miss an opportunity?  I think more often than not we only feel like that or notice it after the fact!  Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty, lets talk about opportunities for a minute today.  Not necessarily missed opportunities, what’d you call it, let’s say recognizing an opportunity, I...

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...

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 tho...

Welcome again to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty and we’re grateful you stopped in for a visit!  I have gotten way behind on a couple of questions and I thought we’d try and catch up this week.  First off, I’d like to talk about the Receiving Position today.  In the distribution world our freight comes in on trailers or containers, usually, if merchandising has their days on hand f...

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 experien...

Today I thought we’d talk about another Op’s position; it can be a great avenue to the transportation departments and even a reboot to our careers in a way!  I’m Marty T Hawkins with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and I appreciate you checking in with us again this week!  With the seasons changing I wanted to talk a little on Heat Stress too, I think we’ve covered it a couple of times alread...

Warehouse and Operations as a Career swung by the Belmar Integrated Logistics Garland office this morning for a quick visit and I caught Sharon and Ivan with a few minutes to sit down with me, so of course I grabbed the mic’s and took advantage of the situation for a bit.  I’m Marty and today we’ll do a little follow-up on a few of the questions you’ve sent in over the last several weeks!  I’ve go...

Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career!  I hope you enjoy our show each week and we’re offering up something you can take away from it and it helps you in your career some how or way.  We have a lot of fun sharing our experiences and really enjoy getting to throw in an opinion or two every once and a while!  Don’t forget about our Facebook & Twitter page’s where you can find us @...

Ever operated a sweeper or scrubber?  You know, one of those big machines with the big round sweeper brushes on it, there is usually a little round one sticking out on the right-hand side.  On a combination unit it’ll have a long squeegee bowed around the back of it.  Hi all, I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and that is just one subject that amazed me this week.    So,  I’m  goi...

Have you ever heard that you only get one chance to make a first impression?  I’m Marty T Hawkins and I’d like to thank you for checking in with us here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career!  Whither you are a Supervisor or a lead, an Employee, Recruiter or an HR Generalist, maybe you’re in Benefits, we’re all some of the first people our new and existing associates see.  We greet them, walk th...

It’s been another great week hasn’t it! I’m Marty and I’d like to thank you for joining us again here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career.  This week let’s spend a few minutes on controlling expenses.  I had a conversation last week with a V.P. of Op’s about a facility that had had over 1000 short on truck cases the previous week.  That’s a huge error ratio and creates a very real expense to t...

Hello all, what a busy week!  I hope everything is going your way for you.  I just finished up a training session in the Atlanta Georgia area. I mean literally like 15 minutes ago.  It’s late but I wanted to talk for just a few minutes about the Supply Chain.  I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career.  Last year I learned that our nations supply chain was a bit more vulnerable than I ev...

And here we are, week 12 of 2021.  Some of my peers are in awe that the year is moving this fast while others think it’s creeping along.  I’m feeling like time is moving at an incredible pace.  Maybe it’s just that I’m trying to get so much done in a week!     Well, enough of all that, I guess.  So, I had a question, more of a comment really, a comment that, well, maybe many of us would have spout...

Hi all.  Have you ever had an opportunity with procrastination? Or the action of delaying or postponing something?  What causes it?  I don’t think  it’s  because were lazy, and I don’t necessarily believe were avoiding a particular task either.  I believe, and this may sound strange, but I think it’s our frame of mind at the time.  If that decision had been presented to us 2 hours earl...

Welcome to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty, everyone having a prosperous and productive week?  We’ve been discussing how there’s so many ways to break into the operations fields, all the different get our foot in the door positions and how we can target our employers or the companies we’d like to work with, capitalizing on our career goals. Something that came up this week was thos...

Hi everyone, Marty T Hawkins with you here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career!  Where are we at this week?  Looks like Week 9, the first week of March, which is the last month of the first quarter! Everyone keeping to their  plan?   We each have a plan right!  I won’t jump off on one of my planning and goals rants today, but I did want to talk about a few things that came up this week out in...

So, during every PIT or powered industrial truck training class your instructor will mention, and I hope he or she will review, the Operators Manual with us.  This week, I had an individual ask why this was important, he stated that nobody reads those manuals. I understand the statement.  Did you know that when we purchase a new vehicle or car, we, as a new owner are supposed to read the owner&#82...

Good cold day from Texas everyone, Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career.  I hope everyone’s warm and safe.  I was asked this afternoon why forklift drivers thought they were all that.  I replied because they are!  At least in their own mind.  Have you ever noticed how Jeep drivers nod or discretely wave to each other when meeting in opposite directions?  Or may be how motorcycle dr...

It’s that time of the week already?  I think Thursdays are my favorite day of the week.  Not because we get to drop another episode of WAOC, well, partially because of that, but mainly because it’s the day before Friday.  I know a lot of people can’t wait until Friday comes along.  Myself, I look forward to Thursday, it’s my day to wrap up the week, finish up any planning I need to do for Fr...

So, we’re wrapping up week 5!  Is it still feeling like the beginning of the year to you?  To me, it feels like it’s moving much faster than that!  I don’t want to rush it, but dang, I don’t want to get left behind either!  I’m Marty and you’ve found Warehouse and Operations as a Career again.     Earlier this week, we had some technical opportunities with our website, and I couldn’t p...

A job is a job is a job, nope it’s not.  I don’t buy into that train of thought.  Oh, I guess if were 16 and talking about the fast-food industry or maybe a retail or restaurant position, I’d let someone say it’s just a job.  I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and I’m of the opinion that even our first job should be planned.  We should enjoy it.  It should serve us with a purpose....

Marty T Hawkins here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career.  I’m back in Texas, it’s cold and wet, but I’m glad to be back home.  Let’s see, what am I going to talk about today.  I had some bullet points laid out, can’t seem to find them now, oh, here we are.  So, while I was out traveling the last couple of weeks, I got to thinking about the narrow aisles we’re seeing more and more frequently...

Welcome back and welcome to week two of the new year.  I’ve been mentioning goals and planning for the last 4 or 5 weeks.  I hope all of y’all are doing better with yours than I’ve been.  I wrote everything down and I have the best of intentions!  Like I’ve said though.  Sometimes life and business gets in our way, and that is perfectly fine.  We have to stay fluid, duck and dodge as needed!  Last...