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b'Hello everyone, Marty with you here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career. Today I\\u2019d like to get caught up on a few questions we\\u2019ve received over the last couple of weeks, I love all the interest in our episodes and the thoughts generated here the last couple of months. I know I\\u2019m learning a lot from each of you and like the opportunity to look at things from several different perspectives. Before we get started today I\\u2019d like to welcome a few new listeners into our group, last week we had Texas, California, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Utah round out our top 5 here in the states and I\\u2019d like to thank our new listeners in Germany, Philippines, the United Kingdom and Israel for joining in on the episode and all ya\\u2019ll check our feeds on Facebook and Twitter, like our page if you have a moment and follow us on twitter, you can find us at @whseandops.
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\\nSo, our first question today let\\u2019s start with a hard one at least for me. \\u201cWhy do you feel it\\u2019s important I get noticed and want to be a manager\\u201d?
\\nEvery job in the warehouse and transportation or operations world is an important one. I feel each of us, as we\\u2019ll probably be needing to work the rest of our lives, should love what we\\u2019re doing, really enjoy getting up before our shifts each day and look forward to going in and accomplishing our goals and duties. If our motivation is and our pride comes from keeping the most organized and clean warehouse there is for our inbound and outbound associates, make sure any and all our industry\\u2019s regulatory and standards are met and we learn to be the best at Sanitation then I feel that\\u2019s the most important position in the building for us. As I\\u2019ve mentioned before some of my closest friends are order selectors and fork lift drivers, been doing it for all their working lives and love what they do. If you like what you do, live for doing it then you have a Great Career and that\\u2019s what us here at WAOC are all about. Any position can be your career! I personally think it\\u2019s great if you\\u2019ve found the perfect position and job that gives you that passion to work towards. We here at WAOC enjoy talking about every job in our Industry and just kind of discuss to the topics and thoughts we run into or are asked about! I hope that answers the question and I hope none of us feels we have to take on or do anything Career wise that we don\\u2019t enjoy or love to do.
\\nQuestion 2 \\u2013 I\\u2019ve been driving a counterbalance forklift for over 15 years and my company is redoing the warehouse, changing the aisles up and I\\u2019m being told we\\u2019ll be using something called a narrow aisle standup reach lift. Are they hard to learn or that much different than what I\\u2019ve done all my life?
\\nTheir different, they drive differently and placing product feel\\u2019s differently but there\\u2019s no reason to stress about it. I feel 90% of being a forklift operator is Safety practices, you\\u2019ve been doing it for 15 years, you know the walkway areas, what and where all the employees will be working and I assume you\\u2019ve had no serious accidents or incidences as you\\u2019re an operator today. I had the exact same experience 1992, we went from sit-downs to reach forks. One thing, I think the biggest thing is Shoes, get a comfortable and supportive pair of steel toe boots or shoes, you\\u2019ll be standing on your fork platform, probably on some sort of deadman break and I found standing all day a lot different than sitting most of the day in my equipment department. When placing a pallet you should learn to use the outriggers, or the toes on your lift. That\\u2019s the two arms that extend from either side of your lift with the load wheels. In a standard bay you can set them up with the bay or slot on the ground, it\\u2019ll give you a good indication of where your forks are when raised. Also I found the feeling of the load will feel differently, we get use to looking up from our seat and that feeling feels different when we\\u2019re standing and looking up.'