Hello all, Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. I want to thank you for checking in with us today, and I think I\u2019d like to talk a little about Ethics, maybe a little on Workplace Violence and our Reporting. Earlier this week I was talking with a gentleman that had just came out of his Companies yearly meeting on Business Ethics. Several of the larger facilities I deal with have these little gatherings once or twice a year. I think we as warehousemen kind of feel meetings like these don\u2019t really have anything to do with what we\u2019re trying to accomplish each shift, but I\u2019d like to look a bit deeper and take a quick look at what we can take from them, maybe see them in a little better light. The companies meeting is going to talk along the lines of something like:
\nBusiness ethics (also known as corporate ethics) is a form of applied ethics or professional ethics that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that arise in a business environment. It applies to all aspects of business conduct and is relevant to the conduct of individuals and entire organizations.[1] These ethics originate from individuals, organizational statements or from the legal system. These norms, values, ethical, and unethical practices are what is used to guide business. They help those businesses maintain a better connection with their stakeholders.[2] I found that at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_ethics
\nYou know, as warehousemen I feel we do play just as big a part regarding ethics as the Salesforce, Finance people and Merchandisers, Ethics and doing what\u2019s right is everyone\u2019s job. I\u2019ve been out on delivery routes before and had the customer or even just people on the street as I was unloading offer me xx number of dollars for that box of product there. We all know that would have just been wrong to do. I heard about a restaurant owner that asked a driver once to mark the item short on truck, leave it with him and mark it off his COD amount. And even things like overages on the truck, that\u2019s when the warehouse accidently selects an extra case of something and its loaded on the truck, it\u2019d be wrong for the driver to sell it off the truck to a customer and pocket the money. We\u2019d probably call that stealing and I think that\u2019s what the definition above was referring to when stating \u201cconduct of individuals and entire organizations\u201d. There\u2019s no way around the word stealing here, what we just described is theft and we all know its wrong and we\u2019ll probably get caught. I\u2019ve known people that\u2019s lost their jobs over taking a donut from their company. Wither we\u2019re talking a dollar or a thousand dollars we need to think about giving up our yearly salary for that one bad decision, that math just doesn\u2019t add up too me! I guess we ventured off on bad decisions for a second, I\u2019ll get back to ethics, but I hope everyone agrees with my math there. Another example on ethics could be As a order selector we all understand it\u2019s our job to correctly select the right product in the right quantity for the customers order. But, we\u2019ve all gone to that slot, had an order for 4 cases and only 3 cases were on the pallet. There we are faced with an ethical dilemma. Do we pull the 3 and ignore the 4th one and toss the label or do what\u2019s right and grab a replenishment guy to drop another pallet so we can grab that 4th one? Hopefully we follow what\u2019s right, have strong values and chose to use our ethical practices and not unethical practices, right? You hear me talk pretty often about Unloading or Lumping here at WAOC. I think the Unloading position is a great position to break into the Operations world, we can learn so much about freight performing those tasks. It\u2019s also, or use to be, a bit questionable regarding good ethics. Back before technology helped us keep up with schedules, metrics, Cs/Hr, Trailer times etc it was really easy to cheat your company, vendors, truck drivers and your company.