Warehouse and Operations as a Career

You made it back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career.  I’m Marty and I’d like to thank you for listening in to us again today!  I’ve been in Nevada all week, just got back home this evening.  I had plans to record this week’s episode from there and have a special guest sit in but, well, best laid  plans,  right?  Things got busy and to be honest we just never had time to connect.     Whe...

Looks like we made it, 2020 is behind us and 2021 is going to be the better year!  I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career.  I, like everyone else was blindsided last March.  I had, shoot I think our industry had, gotten a bit comfortable in our lives.  We had access to everything we wanted.  If we didn’t like our boss, even if we just got mad at the company for a day, not a prob...

Today’s Christmas Eve here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career.  I’m Marty, and I love this time of year.  It’s different, the weathers different, our outlooks are different.  Everyone’s open to change.  I feel like our spirits are up and we’re ready to plan out our next year!  Have you all written out your goals for 2021, at least the first quarter?  I was just reviewing my 2020 a...

Hi all, I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and I am excited to be here with you today.  I always say today, it’s nighttime when I have a moment to record the show each week, I’m kind of a today soul, I guess.  I say the word tomorrow a lot, and today last 24 hours for me but I don’t use the word yesterday much at all.  I mean, of course I  have to  refer to past events, last week,...

It’s week 50, is anyone freaking out yet?  Maybe because we haven’t achieved a piece of our goals for the year or maybe even that now we need to be planning out our 2021!  I’m not sure I’m concerned with either really, I’m just ready for 2020 to go away.  I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career Podcast here with you, and I’m really  really  ready to close the door on 2020.  If yo...

Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty, and today I’ll have a few opinions, as well as a couple of answers to questions we’ve received over the last three weeks to share with you!     Can you believe we’re at 4 weeks to wrapping up 2020?  I think we, as humans, kind of reflect on our accomplishments and hurdles each year about this time.  I generally see more people going...

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the states, and well happy next holiday to everyone everywhere.  We all love holidays I think and  it’s  nice to take the opportunity to be around family and friends every chance we get.  Well, I guess this year is quite a bit different, I do wish everyone well though and please keep and stay safe out there.  Shoot, I forgot to introduce myself today, I’m Ma...

Hello everyone, so next week is Thanksgiving!  Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career.  I’m Marty and I appreciate you stopping by again this week!  Quick question, are you already seeing or maybe even experiencing those holiday frustrations?  Every year about this time I notice how the mood changes out on the docks.  And this year I’m  senescing  new or added worries regarding famil...

Unloading, Loading, Sanitation positions and the recoup, salvage areas, oh, and the returns or valet clerks.  All these positions are sometimes listed and advertised as G/L or general labor positions and I’m not sure why?  I was speaking with a few people on-line, they seemed to be shying away from a loader job that was listed on one of the larger boards.  It wasn’t one of  mine,  but I join...

Hey everyone, Warehouse and Operations as a Career here, I’m Marty, everyone having a great  week,  I hope?  I thought we talk  a little bit about  t he Electric Rider jack today.      I was in a class last week where the subject of  operating platform rider pallet jacks came up and I have to say I was a little shocked at a few of the comments I was hearing.  The conversation was  more between rec...

So, have you ever called an employee in to give them a corrective action, counseling or maybe even to end their employment and received a genuinely blank stare, like they did not understand what was happening?  Or have you ever been that employee before?  It happens all too often and it’s our own fault. Yes, whither we’re the employer or the employee,  it’s  our fault.  Confused yet?  I’m Ma...

Hello all, Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career .   Thanks for joining us this week, and I appreciate you sharing our podcast with all your peers .   We continue to grow each week, which is  pretty cool .   I know  I’m  learning something new every show and I hope  we’re  bringing you something that interest and helps you with your careers!   Last week we touched again on Leadershi...

Where are we at,  let’s  see, wow, week 42.  So, we only have 11 more weeks before we can put 2020 behind us!  Remember, this year we have 53 weeks, of all  years,  right?     Anyway, so as we start to wind down the year and use this 4 th  quarter to gather our thoughts and get everything checked off our goal list for the year, it seems that several of us are thinking more about leadership r...

Warehouse and Operations as a Career here and I’m Marty, everyone having a fantastic week, I hope?  I had a good Q & A show planned for today, I’m getting so far behind answering some questions, and I’ve researched quite a few answers forthem too!     Anyway, just before I sat down to  record,  I received a phone call about a gentleman that had been counseled about a disturbance  he’d  caused...

Hey  Hey , Marty and Warehouse and Operations as a Career here.  And welcome to the 4 th  Quarter of 2020.  I’m thinking we’d all be perfectly fine with this year coming to an end, right?  I think, if we learned nothing else, we’ve learned a lot about employment, careers, what is an essential position and what industries may be a little more stable or secure than others this year.  Now all industr...

Welcome to all, Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career,  everyone  having a productive and prosperous  week,  I hope!  This week I was giving a class on Forklifts and Material Handling to a group of ladies and gentlemen that had never been in the warehouse before.  That sounded strange, the class was about career possibilities and the forklift was just the first position and where we...

Hello again, and welcome to warehouse and operations as a career.  I’m Marty and I’m excited to be hosting this week’s episode. This week we’re presenting our 208 th  weekly podcast, four years to the week.  I had planned on producing 50 shows, I just wanted to share how exciting the industry can be and talk about all the opportunities Operations, Warehousing and Transportation could bring t...

Golf Carts and what they’re calling Personnel Carriers are loose in the warehouse.  Are you seeing them in your facility?  As facilities are growing bigger, I mean a million square feet is becoming the norm as for your large or jumbo D/C’s are concerned, people  gotta  get around somehow.  My old facility was just over 500 sq ft and we had one, a  6 seater  golf cart!  Kind of a  6 seater ,...

Hello all, Marty here with Warehouse and operations as a career.  I’m out on the East Coast of the U. S. this week.  I’m enjoying the cooler weather, well, it’s a little cooler anyway.  It’s been a hot summer across the nation this year. So, I wanted to start off talking about Production today.  Wikipedia tells us that production is a process of combining various material inputs and immateri...

Warehouse and operations as a career, I’m Marty and We all here at WAOC appreciate you stopping in with us again.  If you haven’t subscribed just yet or maybe left a kind review of the show, we’d appreciate that as well.  And I’m sure your friends would love to know where your getting all these thoughts and opinions from, feel free to send them over our way.   I’d like to start off today tal...

I just looked and we’re in week 34 of 2020 already!  That puts WAOC at episode 204, almost 4 years of podcasting, what is that, like just 4 weeks shy of 4 years!  I hope you’re enjoying our few minutes together each week as much as we do!  I had planned on doing a quick flashback Thursday today, I had to have a bit more dental work last weekend but I ran across something I felt like we should get...

This week the theme seemed to be Sanitation.  What was and what was not my job was the battle cry.  Oddly, I noticed the supervisors either appeared indifferent to the situation or did not know how to handle it.  I think I can clear this up with just a few comments.  I’m Marty with you here at warehouse and operations as a career.  If we are paid hourly, sanitation is a part of our task.  Usually,...

Everyone doing  well?   I certainly hope so!  And I appreciate you checking in with us here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career.  I’m Marty and I’m happy to report I’m well as well!  I want to dive right in today with a quick story.  2 weeks ago, I sat in on a PIT class or powered industrial truck class.  A gentleman was in attendance, very knowledgeable, turned out to be very experienced with...

As young Leads and Supervisors, do you look at yourself as a Teacher or a Trainer?  Do we know the difference?  That’s one of the questions I’d like to explore here today.  I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and I’m wondering if we don’t confuse the two way too often!     One of the things I loved about elementary school was lunch.  Those squares of pizza and the squares of Fish w...

Warehouse and operations as a career here and I’m Marty, we appreciate you listening in with us again today.  Today is our 200 th  weekly episode, almost 4 years now.  I’ve enjoyed every show, and I hope you’ve liked one or two!  Keep asking those  questions and   listening  to our thoughts and opinions and we’ll keep talking and sharing our experiences!   SO today I wanted to talk about training....