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b"Hi Everyone! Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I\\u2019m Marty, is everyone wrapping up their year? Was it as prosperous as you\\u2019d hoped? Not just monetary wise but did we achieve the growth professionally that we aimed for? If not you\\u2019re ready for 2020\\u2019 though right? Well I\\u2019m getting ahead of myself, let\\u2019s put all that on hold for a bit. Earlier this week I noticed several articles along the lines of How to Leave a Job. That got me to thinking about one of the opportunities I hear from Recruiters almost every week! In our chosen fields of Operations, Warehousing, and Transportation not only do we, as employees have the ability to move around a lot, but so can members of management. Every week I hear about someone I\\u2019ve worked with that\\u2019s left company X and started with so and so company. As we\\u2019ve learned this year, advancement, new positions and reaching out for opportunities are how we can climb that corporate ladder. Of course, if we love our jobs or our task, and it provides us the income and environment we\\u2019re looking for I think that\\u2019s a perfect fit too! Where things can get sticky for us, with either scenario, is if we\\u2019re unhappy with our employer, or maybe a supervisor or maybe the drive is just longer than we want for now. For whatever reason, there really are right ways and wrong ways to leave our jobs. I want to go a little deeper than just saying we should always give a 1- or 2-week notice, so let\\u2019s talk about that for a few minutes today.
\\nWither we\\u2019re seeking employment through direct hire with a company or utilizing a staffing agency, the job market is tough. We always hear about low unemployment or high unemployment rates meaning jobs are hard to find or easy to find blah blah blah . When we\\u2019re the one looking for a job it\\u2019s always a task for us. I mean first we have to decide what we want to do, then we\\u2019ll spruce up our resumes or clean up our work histories and get out there and put in applications. We\\u2019ll probably have several phone interviews and hopefully we\\u2019ll get the opportunity to go out to facilities and have a sit-down or that face to face interview. And when we get the job it may not be what we thought we wanted! Or let's say we\\u2019ve moved, now we\\u2019re living 10 miles farther from our workplace we\\u2019ve been employed with for 5 years and it taking us 30 more minutes to get home every day. Maybe our old supervisor\\u2019s been promoted and the new one, well let's just say we\\u2019re no longer happy where we\\u2019re at. Back to what I was saying about recruiters earlier. One of their biggest struggles is with hiring people that really want or need a position and then the new associate doesn't show up on the first scheduled day or maybe quits showing up after the 3rd day. No phone calls, no contact, no information shared of any kind. I\\u2019ve heard that less than 10% of exit interviews are ever responded too. I know of a couple of companies that utilize programs for texting or emailing out exit surveys even. We wouldn\\u2019t even have to speak to anyone from the company. And I\\u2019m told those responses are even less than 10%. Isn\\u2019t that the opportunity for us to explain how the hiring agent may have missed the high points of the position, or our chance to explain why we felt the job description did not match the expectations explained to me during the interview. Or maybe that we just changed our minds and went another direction. A short apology from us may go a long way with the recruiter! Anyway, so why is it important to quit a job the right way? Well, I have quite a few opinions on that subject, most of them from experiences and I\\u2019ve gathered a few facts on the subject as well!
\\nOk, so let\\u2019s look at a few of the don\\u2019ts or things that can really come back around to haunt us on down the road. Ok, what\\u2019d I do with my bullet points, here I got\\u2019em.
\\nOk, there is never a good reason for walking off the job at lunch. Just disappearing. This seems to be a big one nationally,"