Warehouse And Operations As A Career

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...

Warehouse and operations as a career here and I’m Marty, we appreciate you listening in with us again today.  Today is our 200th 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...

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...

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...

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...

Welcome one and all, it’s my birthday week!  Where are we at this week, it’s the 26th 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...

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...

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!...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...