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b'So Week 1 of the New Year has arrived! I hope everyone enjoyed the Holidays and is ready for 2018! I look forward to the change, the new challenges and all the Opportunities that a new year can bring with it. I use the word can here because we as Employees or Associates have to capitalize on those opportunities, maybe I can say we have the responsibility, to ourselves, to make things happen for us. Have you sat down and figured out what you\\u2019d like to change at your work place this year, written down 5 Goals for the year, have you said out loud how much more money you\\u2019re going to make this year?
\\nI was having a conversation with a great group of Op\\u2019s guys last week and we ended up talking about efficiencies, employees and how them as leaders can excel at their jobs, reduce expenses and aid us employees in their success. Every Supervisor and Manager I\\u2019ve met needs his or her associates to succeed and make more money. Realistically Management teams needs their employees to be the best, the most productive in the industry at their jobs. They need to have associates willing, trained and capable of taking their place or he or she will find themselves stuck in their positions. You may have heard to always train someone to do your job, so your boss can pull you from it when the time comes right, I\\u2019ve always tried to have a #2 ready willing and able to take my place. I always wanted to be available for that promotion and make that money! I hadn\\u2019t planned on speaking to all this today, I tell you what, I\\u2019ll reach out to a couple of new supervisors and managers in the next few weeks and we\\u2019ll explore some of their thoughts on advancement. It\\u2019ll be fun and interesting to hear their New Year goals & how they plan on their future success!
\\nSo what I wanted to talk about today was our equipment, our pre and post trips and equipment maintenance in particular. I was asked how\\u2019s the best way to handle a situation where you\\u2019ve reported an issue with your equipment and it\\u2019s not addressed. Well, my first thought was just don\\u2019t get back on it, but we all know that may not be the best way to handle it and we\\u2019d probably just end up turning our maintenance department or maybe even our manager against us. A more proper way to address would be to use knowledge to get it fixed, throw out the financial cost that\\u2019ll be involved, loss in productivity and the accident potential, if one exist, to our managers and I\\u2019m certain he or she will see that it\\u2019s addressed and probably immediately. Remember we\\u2019re working on our careers, or I hope we are. Although our first thought could be to get loud, feel like we\\u2019re being singled out and our concerns aren\\u2019t being taken care of but that\\u2019s not going to get us noticed in the light we\\u2019re wanting, we\\u2019d be reacting like a person working at a job or towards a paycheck. If we\\u2019re doing our job and have our eye on that next position that\\u2019s going to pay us more, probably with more responsibilities, we need to be reacting to every situation from the mind set of expenses and productivity. We\\u2019re going to get noticed presenting that type of personality and attitude much better and quicker than being negative or being a problem. Both techniques will get our equipment fixed, one will just earn us more money in the long run. Remember it\\u2019s our responsibility to do our jobs to the letter and our pre and post trips reporting is the first step and the last step to those jobs, we won\\u2019t get in trouble by performing in our jobs! But I can assure you by not performing at them we won\\u2019t have them very long.
\\nA quick true story, many years ago I had a buddy who\\u2019s sitdown or counterbalance forklift had a leaky hydraulic hose, it didn\\u2019t leak unless the second stage of the mask was raised really fast or at full speed. We saw it dripping, talked about how he shouldn\\u2019t use it but he didn\\u2019t want to be told to go select on a pallet jack, so he went ahead and jumped on his lift.'