Hey everyone! Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. I hope we\u2019re all having a prosperous and productive week! I made a quick trip out to Lubbock Texas this week to visit with a young Supervisor. He\u2019s doing a great job and is really interested in all his new duties, it\u2019s so exciting to see that kind of enthusiasm and all his questions bubble to the surface. His facility is about 180,00 sq ft and he\u2019s overseeing a shift of about 15 associates. He actually was promoted from the floor about a year ago and has been handling things like Interviewing candidates that his companies recruiting team sends over to him, scheduling the individual\u2019s hours, reporting time to payroll and handling any day to day concerns and reporting them to his management team, kind of a strong Lead role. As I said he\u2019s doing a really good job, he\u2019s been noticed by his manager who has asked that the reins be loosened a bit, he\u2019s ready to give him a little more training and share a good deal more responsibilities with him. I\u2019ve been working with this young prospect for a while, he\u2019s attended several different leadership classes and his company has invested the time and energy for him to recognize his potential and he\u2019s ready to accept more, more information and more responsibilities, hence his promotion to a salaried Supervisor position. I reviewed and presented some regulatory information to him and we reviewed the facilities different files, things like attendance rosters, it\u2019s documentation regarding Safety Meetings, the Associates PIT certifications or the files on its Powered Industrial Training any equipment operators as well as the files on any Near Misses and Accident or Injury reporting. It\u2019s been a rewarding visit for me, I love helping the young and upcoming men and women within our industry, their excitement and enthusiasm is contagious and just filters through everyone on the shift. We had another topic prepared to discuss this week but since we have recently been talking about getting noticed and had a few questions about the Supervisor role an opportunity presented itself today that we just shouldn\u2019t pass up! Rodrigo was actually here today performing a Site Visit, you all will remember Rodrigo from a couple of different episodes he\u2019s been nice enough to share some of his thoughts with us on and he\u2019s participated in both our 1st & 2nd quarter Roundtable discussions as well.
\nRodrigo, what brought you to Lubbock Texas today?
\nRODRIGO \u2013
\nSo WAOC\u2019s been talking about getting noticed by our management teams if we have any aspirations with a career in Management and in particular the warehouse lead and supervisor positions. Can you share your thoughts on those jobs with us Sir?
\nRODRIGO \u2013
\nAs I speak with potential candidates one thing that comes up really often is the interview process. Some feel it\u2019s too long and they\u2019ve wasted their time and others are surprised by how in-depth the hiring agent is. We here at WAOC believe, another one of my opinions I guess, that when we\u2019re thorough with our work history and our equipment experience, we\u2019re enthusiast and show our interest in the position with them we can cut a lot of the stress associated with an interview and cut the time spent on the interview in half. Kind of try and lead the interview ourselves in a way. What\u2019s your thoughts on the interview process and how should us as young Supervisors be conducting an interview, what do you teach your new supervisors?
\nRODRIGO \u2013
\nAnother thing we\u2019ve talked about recently regarding the Supervisor position is Organization and Time Management. I personally feel these are two skills needed to be successful as a member of the management team. Would you agree, and if so, how do you express that to new Leads and Supervisors coming from the floor? How do you teach it?
\nRODRIGO \u2013
\nYou know, one of the hardest things to realize,