Warehouse and Operations as a Career

Oh  my good gracious, another week’s gone by.  I’m back in Texas and it’s hot! Has your management team mentioned anything about heat stress or hear stroke?  If not bring it up and your start up meeting, help everyone remember to stay hydrated.  That  doesn’t  mean adult beverages and energy drinks, even too much  Gatorade   isent  as good for us as good  old-fashioned  water.  Drink it, we...

Welcome to episode 198 of Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty and WAOC is back on the road this week.  It’s been a while, with everything going on, lets see, theirs been very little traveling since late February, at our company, we’ll really I think for most companies.  Kind of necessity only.  I’m glad to see it getting a little easier, people here, or those I’m around, or well, peopl...

And it’s another week, a very productive week, and I hope a Safe week for all of us!  Marty here again with warehouse and operations as a career, and today I’d like to talk about a piece of equipment, well, in my experience, us warehouse folks will either love or grow to despise.  I may have been a little overly dramatic there, but I’ve known some people that, well, just couldn’t or wouldn&#...

Welcome one and all, it’s my birthday week!  Where are we at this week, it’s the 26 th  week of 2020.  It has been a wild year for all of us to say the least.  How many of you get the day off for your birthday?  It used to be a paid holiday for us at my old company.  I know they don’t do it there anymore, I’m not sure I’d take off for my birthday anymore anyway.  It seems  every day  we’re off wor...

Warehouse and Operations as a Career and I’m Marty back with  ya .  I hope I can pronounce my words here today, I’m healing up pretty good, I guess we’ll see how it goes.     I wanted to thank  ya’ll  for all the kind words regarding my little oral surgeries, there almost through and everything’s healing up well!     So,  with the little down time I’ve had recently I’ve been working on a few...

Hey all, Marty here.  I sure thought I’d have the voice to be with you today but we’re going to do one more flashback Thursday I guess, and it’s a good one.  2 years ago to the week we visited with Phillip and Lavoil out in Illinois on many of the subjects we’ve recently discussed! Hey all, Warehouse and Operations as a Career is in Bolingbrook Illinois today, I’m Marty and I’ve looked up Phillip...

Hello all, Last week seemed like a long week right, I hope all was prosperous and productive for you!  Welcome to Warehouse and Operations as a Career where we discuss the Positions and Opportunities within the Warehouse, Transportation & Operations Worlds.  I’m Marty and our sole objective is to help today’s young men & women maybe break into the field, even if it’s through a general labo...

I hope everyone had a Fantastic week, a productive week and a prosperous week so far!  Today I’d like to talk about Longevity, loyalty, settling in, I’m not sure what to call it but basically discuss the, what appears to be the trend of hopping from job to job.  We’ll have Rodrigo here with us today as well, if you remember he is a Regional Facilities Manager for a large sourcing company and has s...

Forklift and  Palletjack  batteries.  Has your facility experienced any issues this week?  Our supplier called us this week to schedule our quarterly P.M. on our equipment and almost immediately I started hearing about batteries.  A  palletjack  battery in one state started smoking and another  actually produced  flames.  At one facility an unloader forgot to replace a guard plate, well, he said i...

Well, things are  opening up  a bit, at least here in Texas.  Right or wrong, returning to some form of normal is good.  For me, I’m able to get into the dentist as of this week and will get to have my procedure next week!  We’re over a quarter into the year, 20 weeks in, and from a business  perspective  it seems like we’re just gearing up.  I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career!  I...

Hello all, Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career.  We’ve all gone through another great week!  I’m sure we’ve dealt with or fought and won, or I hope we won, those negative human nature urges that creep up in us,  and struggled through the long hours, productivity needs and maybe those error reports we dread each shift.  There all normal in our industry,  gonna  happen every week. ...

Welcome back!  Marty here with warehouse and operations as a career!  I hope everyone is having a great week!  Let’s see, we’re in week 18 now, I know I’m not where I thought I’d be in 18 weeks, but, hey, the last 6 weeks, I wouldn’t call normal so, I’m more than pleased with my accomplishments.  It’s the new norm I guess we can say.  Seriously though, we’re always having to  make adjustment...

Hello everyone, I hope all is well with  ya!   It’s been a  wild few weeks  for us  hasn’t  it?  It appears to be getting better, a little better anyway, I’m hearing quite a few companies have called back staff and increased some of the  30 hour  positions back to 40 this week!  I’m still waiting on the dentist to start seeing patients again, I  have to  get in for a little oral surgery that...

We all work to pay our bills and provide a better living for our families.  Some of us, I hope most of us, are fortunate enough to enjoy our jobs so much that it isn’t work at all.  I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and today I’d like to start off with a question from a gentleman here locally. You know, we’re often taught and trained how to do our jobs, we’re given all the standa...

Welcome to the second quarter of 2020 Ladies and Gentlemen and to another episode of warehouse and operations as a career!  I’m Marty and I for one am excited to be here, not just for bring you another episode of WAOC but I was ready for the first quarter to be over with.  It was a rough quarter for a lot of us with all the layoffs, reduced hours, staying in place orders and learning about social...

Here we are, it’s that time again.  I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career!  I’ve gotten behind on questions that’s been sent in again so let’s see if we can get a few of those answered or brought up for discussion today. A gentleman named Kevin has been looking into or thinking about becoming a driver and maybe launching a career in transportation.  He asked what was mean...

Hello all and thanks for checking in again with warehouse and operations as a career, I’m Marty, and here at WAOC we can get a little passionate, maybe overly passionate, about all of the warehouse and transportation positions out there.  All that being said, as employees we’re kind of in uncharted waters.  Not just locally or nationally but globally, some of our lives have been turned upside down...

I was looking this morning, doesn’t seem like we’ve done 182 episodes now does it?  Well, we hope to have 182 more.  When we started WAOC 3.5 years ago, I just wanted to talk a little bit about operations, something I’d always done myself, working in the warehouse and transportation fields and how with just a little effort on my end, I was able to advance from within, and into more challenging rol...

Everyone having a productive and prosperous week?  I know I’ve been busy & I feel like I’ve been being productive.  I’ve been working with a new safety manager this week, getting him all settled in and showing him what all we have going on, getting him introduced to all the leads and supervisors spread out across the nation.  We’ve been talking about the trainer’s job lately, I guess you could...

Well, we’re 10 weeks into the new year already!  I’m Marty with you here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career.  By now we’re usually settling into our groove.  Budgets are done, everything’s signed off on and our management teams are looking at their long-term objectives and making those personnel decisions, ad’s deletes, promotions and yes, maybe even demotions.  Their goal is to be productive...

Another month is wrapping up folks!  We appreciate you stopping in with us again today!  I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career.  We’ve had several questions lately about the front line management positions so I thought we’d talk about what those positions are and maybe I can share a few of the pros and cons of them with you.  At least maybe answer a few of those questions! So last we...

Hey all, Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a career again!  We appreciate you checking in with us again, where are we at now, the 8 th week of the year.  By now we should all be settled in with our goals, are you sticking to your play?  We only have 5 more weeks in this 1 st quarter!  This week I was scrolling through some Job Board groups on Facebook and ran across several questions abo...

Warehouse and Operations as a Career the Podcast. Welcome back, I’m Marty, and I find myself over in Nevada this week. Just a regular quarterly visit really. I completed a couple of safety walks, checking some files and I had the opportunity to visit with a few recruiters and watch’em in action! I always enjoy getting to answer a few questions from applicants, especially about equipment usage and...

Hey everyone, I’m Marty T Hawkins with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. I’m really excited about all the opportunities I’ve already seen in 2020. Our Industry is rocking it! A few weeks ago we learned about all the square footage being built and the different technologies that are being introduced, I think efficiencies is going to be the word of the year! Along with all that growth we’re seei...

Hey Hey, and welcome to week 5 of 2020! I’m Marty and you’re here with Warehouse and Operations as a career! How’s everyone coming along with their 2020 plans & goals? I’m off to a pretty good start, I think. Everything's written down and I’ve put dates alongside what I consider my stepping stones or those little objectives I’ll need to get to the bigger goals. I’ve already had to kick one of thos...