Well, the 2nd quarter is closed and behind us! We\u2019re halfway through the year! I don\u2019t know about ya\u2019ll but I\u2019m looking forward to this 3rd quarter. Q2 was a busy 13 weeks and I\u2019ve gotta get back on track. I think I\u2019m caught up on traveling, I\u2019ve hit Pennsylvania, Georgia, Illinois and Nevada the last couple of months, I\u2019ll need to make it up to Denver in the coming weeks but hey, I\u2019m going to enjoy getting caught up while I can. We need to reach out and get a few guest\u2019s back on the show too, I\u2019ll see what I can do about that! If you\u2019d like to be a guest on the show and share some of your true work life experiences with us all you need to do is send me an email to host@warehouseandoperationsasacareer.com along with a topic that you\u2019d like to share and I\u2019ll get it set up!
\nThrough my recent travels I\u2019ve ran across, what\u2019d you call them, I guess we could say discrepancies, no not really discrepancies, misunderstanding\u2019s regarding our job descriptions. I heard about 1 facility, they\u2019d had a little water leak, nothing catastrophic, but enough water on the floor that selection had to stop over in that area and it needed to get mopped up and squeegeed out of the way before the shift could gear back up. Most everyone jumped in, an all hands-on deck mode, with the exception of two of the selectors. They\u2019d gone over to the break room, sit down, and kind of kicked back for a bit. The team got everything cleaned up in about 30 minutes, they\u2019d really done a great job and the safety manager gave the go ahead to start selection again. The Supervisor went over to the break room and asked why the 2 gentlemen hadn\u2019t helped? He didn\u2019t really receive an answer; said he got a couple of shoulder shrugged. He thanked them, explained there were only a few hours\u2019 worth of work left, they could go on home for the day and he\u2019d see them tomorrow. We\u2019ll, that didn\u2019t set well with the 2, I\u2019m not sure why, well, I\u2019m sure it was because they were being released early but after all they had been setting for 30 minutes while everyone else was working. Everyone else was making their same hourly wage, during their shift, just mopping a little instead of selecting. The next day one of the guys was feeling a little bad about not lending a hand, he\u2019d said he just didn\u2019t think about it and that he should have helped out and got back to selecting. The other young man came in but he was sticking to his I\u2019m a selector mindset, he honestly did not understand what he\u2019d done that others felt was wrong.
\nI think I\u2019ve mentioned the time I was selecting back in our hi-rise department and a front dock supervisor came back there and ask me to stop what I was doing and go pick up the restrooms that they needed to look great and then darted on down the aisles. I grudgingly went ahead and swept the floor and carried out the two trash cans, probably took me about 10 minutes, I guess. I\u2019d walked out and turned the corner almost bumping into our Vice President of Operations walking with an Inspector or auditor from one of our customers as it turned out. Later that evening the V.P came back and thanked me for straightening things up, he said we passed the inspection and received a great score. I could have said no, spent 10 minutes selecting, probably have gotten in trouble and recognized by the V.P. in a much different way!
\nHere\u2019s another good one, so 2 gentlemen we\u2019re starting to unload a container staged at the dock, the back pallets we\u2019re pinwheeled or placed sideways and their pallet jack couldn\u2019t get under them to pull them out. A forklift driver was driving by and they asked him to grab the first two for them so they could get started. The driver laughed a bit and told them they\u2019d have to restack them; it wasn\u2019t his responsibility to do it for them. Well as it turned out that was a pretty hot load and needed to be turned around in 2 hours, the dock supervisor grabbed two more men,