Well Welcome to Episode 52 of Warehouse and Operations as a Career! I can\u2019t believe it\u2019s been a year now, and that we\u2019ve dropped an episode every Thursday. I\u2019d like to thank you if you\u2019ve been with us from the beginning and welcome you if you\u2019ve just recently joined us. We\u2019ve had way too much fun these past 52 weeks and are really looking forward to the next 52. All the email\u2019s, questions, suggestions and topics sent in have been interesting and it\u2019s so much fun to maybe help out where and if we can or have and at least share our thoughts with you. And we\u2019re appreciative of who\u2019s listening in as well! We\u2019ve had down loads and streaming in 20 - 25 Countries across the globe, here in the states California and Texas show up at the top list. Several Safety organizations, Staffing agencies, Recruiters and Employers as well as those actually performing the many different tasks try and make it each week! If you\u2019d like your Country or County, maybe the Parish or City and Town mentioned shoot us an email and we\u2019d be happy to give you a shout out, maybe we can start doing that each week! When we started the Podcast it was for fun just to talk about a topic we loved and share our thoughts and experiences about the Operations industry. As I\u2019ve said I wouldn\u2019t consider us experts on anything but we don\u2019t mind sharing our opinions and maybe too much about our experiences in the worlds of warehousing and transportation. This year we didn\u2019t get into the transportation departments to deeply, we\u2019ve just kind of taken the paths sent into us and tried to explain them a little along the way. And what about our guest, I\u2019d like to thank all of them for their time and participation, we\u2019ve had some very knowledgeable people visiting with us and we\u2019ve enjoyed their contribution to the group as well. If you\u2019ve listened to our first few episodes I hope we\u2019ve improved a little since then, at least audio wise. Remember, we\u2019re just Op\u2019s people and what we know about audio things we\u2019ve picked up this year and we hope we get a little better every episode. Well that\u2019s enough about our anniversary let\u2019s get to this week\u2019s thoughts I guess.
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\nThe words Deployment Team came up this week concerning an ad placed on some job board or social media group, looking for workers that could do some traveling and the pay looked very attractive. I was asked if I knew anything about such and did I think it was a good idea to apply.
\nI\u2019ve heard of Deployment Teams, Rollout Teams, Contingency Teams, and each company probably has other names for their individual purposes as each reason or need for such a group of workers can be quite different. I think it\u2019s safe to kind of broadly discuss their purposes at least I can share my experiences with them and what I\u2019ve heard. I\u2019d suggest that you really discuss all the expectations, rules and pay structure with the person that\u2019s offering the job though as your making a commitment here and there could even be penalties of some sort if we don\u2019t hold up to our part of the bargain.
\nThe first thing I think of are like move teams. Our employer may be opening a new facility in another state and may need order selectors, forklift drivers, unloaders, loaders, sanitation associates etc. to go out and spend a week or so to train the new hires their procedures, processes and how to actually perform their new jobs. It\u2019s fun to get out of town and show others what we know and teach them about our company. Our company would put us up in a hotel and of course our regular meals are usually taken care of, either catered or purchased for us. All our transportation is taken care of, pretty much all our daily needs are provided for with the exception of snacks and extra beverages, I\u2019m sure you understand what I mean! We\u2019ll typically be paid a set amount over and above our regular hourly wages or our hourly wage could be increased by anywhere from 3 to 5 dollars an hour to compensate us for being away from...