O/T
b"Welcome to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I\\u2019m Marty and we appreciate you visiting with us again today! Its State Fair time here in Texas, where we don\\u2019t take this particular fair lightly. Our State Fair runs for 4 weeks and is a big deal around here. Last years attendance was a little over 2.2 million people and it rained 11 of those 24 days. Fair Park, where the State Fair is held sits on 277 acres, there\\u2019s more to see than you can take in in 1 day I assure you. Anyway, this week overtime came up so many times that I thought we\\u2019d talk a little about it today. Overtime is great, at times, and Overtime is bad at other times. This week I\\u2019ve heard about 8 individuals that walked off their jobs because their shifts were working longer hours than normal. These individuals were in different industries and were all involved in getting vendors ready and stocked up for the State Fair. On the flip side of those stories I heard from 12 others that loved this time of year because they knew they could count of a lot of o/t during the next 4 weeks. One lady told me this is when she makes all her holiday money each year!
\\nIn the distribution fields, you\\u2019ll find many positions marketed as 6 a.m. to finish or 5 p.m. to finish, especially with our productivity driven positions, or where we\\u2019re selecting product for local shipment\\u2019s to be delivered. Those case counts are driven by how many customers have ordered and how much product those orders contain. If we have our own delivery fleets their going to be delivering to a customer\\u2019s delivery window, or an optimal time, chosen by our customer that they can receive our orders. So, our warehouse can't shut down at a specific time, it\\u2019ll be when everything is loaded out. But let's say everything is shipped out with a parcel service or an LTL carrier, or as less than truckload freight we may be able to have a shift of say 6 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. because the delivery has not been guaranteed to arrive on any specific day or time. Take an internet storefront, we could get our order anywhere from 2 days to 2 weeks depending on the method of shipping the vendor uses. We\\u2019ll usually find the same in the production or manufacturing fields. Most operations can have a set shift time as it may not have an immediate need for X number of units to be produced each day. If they do though, you\\u2019ll typically find that we need to stay until that production number of units are produced. In our chosen field, overtime is going to come up from time to time or maybe even daily. I had a young man refer to his old position, the one he left to make more money, and he explained that he was used to a set schedule and didn\\u2019t understand why he was having to stay 2 or 3 hours late every day. I asked him if his hiring agent had informed him about the overtime and he said yes, but I thought it would be like if you wanted to stay.
\\nYou're going to find that overtime is a part of our business. Either occasionally or daily. We\\u2019re going to get paid for it, it's going to be expected and it is a part of our jobs. I don\\u2019t think, or I hope at least, that it's not going to be a surprise to us. Entering the fields of distribution or production will require that we\\u2019re their on-time, for every shift and that we stay until the workload is complete.
\\nAnother thing we should probably mention is the shifts, I guess. Take the distribution arena. If our company delivers it's own product with its fleet of trucks locally or even with some stretch miles we will probably be working on Sundays. I know of several distribution centers that Sundays and Thursdays are the biggest shipping day for the facility. We could be off every week on Saturday but our second day off could be any other day of the week. Just this week I heard about an individual that started a new job, was doing great. His employer really liked him, his immediate supervisor thought he was going to make a great selector."