Happy New Year! Marty here, Welcome to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, to a New Quarter & a New Year and all the new Opportunities I know there will brought with them! I thought we\u2019d do a quick recap of last quarter\u2019s shows and talk about a subject that\u2019s came up two or three times recently which is Human Nature in the workplace. I hope you had a great 2016 & I\u2019m sure you\u2019re ready to tackle 2017, I know I am and my plans are to change the things I can and knock down any other barriers in the way! We had a lot of Fun last quarter & we\u2019ve covered a lot of ground and information. I thought as we work our way on through the warehouse and its many positions we should discuss or review where we\u2019ve been and where we\u2019re going. We spoke with Mike in episode 11, he\u2019d spent about 26 years with the same company, performing 4 different tasks or positions within 3 different departments, even venturing into Supervision for a while and landing, followed by his passion for maintenance back to the job or task that he loved in Facility Maintenance, we had Joe visit with us on Safety, he\u2019s held several positions across 3 facilities, coming from the military into production, then to distribution, into management and now pursuing his Safety certifications and instructor qualifications. We\u2019ve spoken with Rodrigo, coming from a totally unrelated career, coming up through G/L in the produce world to receiving, heading up several departments and now a Regional Manager with something like 8 Facilities, around 13 Supervisors and 150 employees that he oversees. The common denominator being all these men started their careers as Warehouse General Labor.
\nWe\u2019ve discussed some of the Whse procedures like GOP\u2019s, SOP\u2019s and Preferred Work Methods, John was nice enough to walk us through the Recruiting process and we learned the many different types of Resumes, their purpose and how to put them together and control our Interview and feel much more comfortable with the process I hope. We\u2019ve learned a bit about Sanitation & Unloading, two great G/L positions we can use to get our feet firmly on the ground in a warehouse, I hope we all enjoyed the Interview with Abraham as he shared his story with us and how he became a Unloading Manager running his team at large Distribution Facility. We recently was introduced to Order Selecting, discussed the basics & will be speaking with a few Selectors in an upcoming episode, I\u2019m really looking forward to hearing their ideas and comments about the position! Although we\u2019ve only touched on the Production warehouse I believe we looked deeply enough to understand the different opportunities it can bring us, Oh Yeah, we discussed the Facility Orientation, and I hope learned its importance and possibly how to coach our supervisor to share all our interest with us.
\nI hope the recurring theme here at WAOC has been picked up on, that being, that what separates a Job & a Career is each of us, I believe with all my heart that a Job, if we love what we\u2019re doing, is great, if it can take care of our families & we\u2019re good at it it\u2019s perfectly fine to settle in and be the best at it. But if we want more, to stay challenged, to accept more responsibility & make more money then we are responsible to educate ourselves, push ourselves & continuously strive for more opportunities from our peers and managers. Thinking that way & feeling that way turns the Job into a Career right, we\u2019re in it for the long haul!
\nI\u2019ve heard people say that the workplace has changed over the years or that companies no longer strive for long lasting employment and In my opinion that\u2019s just pure bunk. I\u2019m not sure why anyone would say that, think about it, training is expensive, burning through employees is not efficient, I can give you 50 examples right now of employees I know that have been with companies for over 20 years and are planning on retiring from them. Yes, without getting into economic reasoning,