Hello all, I brought a bad cold back with me from Atlanta, Georgia last week, I hope my voice isn\u2019t too bad on the ears, I just didn\u2019t want to miss the show this week! I\u2019m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career, lets dig into today\u2019s topics. I want to talk about a little equipment in a minute but like I mentioned I was out of town last week for a large hiring event, so let\u2019s start there. I don\u2019t get to put on my Recruiting cap very often, a part of my job that I really enjoy. Anyway, I want to again voice how, I feel anyway, we should prepare for our interviews. This event was really driven by Facebook, meaning there we\u2019re no telephone interviews. That\u2019s one of the big advantages of a job fair for us as applicants. As I mentioned this event was really driven on Facebook. So, ads were sent out to all the job boards. Each one included the location, the dates and times, what the positions were, and they all listed the pay for each one. Phone numbers were included in case someone wanted a little more information before driving to the job fair. Most of the social media post suggested filling out an on-line app too before your actual interview. Now, I get it. Some people like using messenger or commenting on social media. It\u2019s important to realize though that the recruiters are hearing from hundreds of people. People are calling the phone line for more info, a ton of applicants applied online, there\u2019s honestly no time to type out and answer questions through Facebook. I even saw a couple of post where people were upset that no one had gotten back with them in like 2 hours. Like we\u2019ve said before, looking for work is work itself. If we have all the information to make an informed decision on a position, it\u2019s us, that has to go sell ourselves to the prospective employer. I assure you there are 50 others that are going to do everything within their control to get in front of that hiring agent. I also saw a lot of replies that just said info. I understand what they were asking, but everything the recruiter could have supplied was already in the advertisements. Quick story, all the ads mentioned that the job fair started at 8 a.m., I actually showed up about a quarter to 7 to get some things set up and there was a lady and a gentleman already at the door. I asked them if they were there for the Job Fair, the lady said you bet, I wanted to be the first in line. The guy was laughing, he said she was in the parking lot when he pulled up and she got out of the car and beat him through the door. One of them was a little light on the experiences needed but you know what, the recruiter hire\u2019em based solely on their initiative. I guess what I\u2019m trying to say is, yes, finding a job is difficult sometimes, lets be sure we recognize it and put the work into it. It\u2019s not the recruiter\u2019s responsibility to run us down. It is there responsibility to give us a chance, but we\u2019ll need to get in front of them for them to be able to do that! And I guess that\u2019s all I wanted to point out about our job searches!
\nSo, this week I was getting caught up on some end of the year safety reporting and I ran across an old supervisors investigation article. A gentleman, I assume, had a warehouse utility position. His job did not require using any kind of electric powered equipment at all, but he did have to use a manual pallet jack daily, not often, but a few times a day just to move pallets with trash bins on them. His supervisor had noted that over the last two months the employee had came to him and stated that he wanted to learn and be certified to operate an electric rider jack. The supervisor wrote that he explained he\u2019d be happy to work with him when things slowed down but right now there just wasn\u2019t any extra equipment that he could use during his shift anyway but that he\u2019d train him when he could. Well, the gentleman needed to move a pallet and there was an electric jack in his way.