Welcome back, Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career! Everyone has had a Productive, Prosperous and Safe week, I hope? It\u2019s been a busy one here but busy is a good thing, means there\u2019s plenty to do and get done right? This week I\u2019ve had a couple of companies preparing for or wrapping up a move recently, one has already relocated to their new building and another one is in the planning stage, I\u2019m anticipating them to gear up sometime over the over the next 60 days or so. There\u2019s a whole lot of work, a lot of planning that goes into such a project. Besides all the logistics required to move all the inventory without affecting your customers and your receiving and shipping departments, you\u2019ll need to write or rewrite almost all of the procedures and processes. The evacuation routes, paperwork flow, points of contact, Safety procedures, all the hazard analysis sheets, job descriptions, SOP\u2019s or the standard operating procedures for each position. Oh, and we may need to look at our GMP\u2019s or general maintenance practices and our Sanitation policies. I pulled out an old move chart I used once, there were 214 lines to it and after we started the move we probably identified another 214 things we should have thought of. Also this week, I worked a little on an upcoming class for front line supervisors. We\u2019ve talked about almost of the responsibilities we\u2019ll run across as a supervisor before, we\u2019ve at least hit on the high points I guess. I was thinking about the move list both of these companies we\u2019re building and how many of those tasks landed in our laps as supervisors and even associates or employees. Here at WAOC we\u2019re all about getting noticed by our management teams, that\u2019s really the only short cut to our learning and planning out our careers that I\u2019ve came across. They need to know what our plans are. Their I go, that\u2019s a whole other show, anyway I\u2019m asked about every other week how do I get promoted or how do I change departments and Marty why are you always talking about getting promoted? With my focus this week being on facility moves and front-line supervision I thought why not get a few of those questions out of the way. I mean with all the open positions a move or building recalibration can open up and the possibility of a few more Lead and Supervision jobs created, I think it\u2019d be worth looking into those thoughts!
\nOK, lets look at that last question first, it\u2019s the easiest one to answer. It generally comes across something like, Marty, why are you always saying we need to chase and/or prepare ourselves for a promotion? Let me share my feelings about that. I feel that if you love your job and it provides you the income you need to enjoy life and take care of your families you\u2019re doing exactly what you should be doing. And when your happy with your work you\u2019re probably going to be the best in the building at it. There\u2019s absolutely nothing wrong with doing what we\u2019re doing, and we should keep doing it. But, if your goal is something else, being an equipment operator or a machine operator, maybe having a title, which I hope isn\u2019t anyone\u2019s dream, or to make more money and we\u2019re just using our present position as a stepping stone to somewhere else then we\u2019re going to have to use promotions or changing departments to get there.
\nPromotions, when someone comes to me asking about a promotion, I always ask them why. Many times, there\u2019s no answer, or the answer is something like well doesn\u2019t it pay more? If we can\u2019t answer the question of why do we want it, we may not be ready for it. We may not know what the job entails and the responsibility that is going to come along with it! Another thing we\u2019ll need to understand it where can it take us? Sometimes jumping into a new situation, especially if we don\u2019t understand it can cost us dearly. We could get stuck in a dead end position or we could end up losing our job because we had no idea what skills we\u2019d need and we hadn\u2019t p...