Have you ever heard that you only get one chance to make a first impression? I’m Marty T Hawkins and I’d like to thank you for checking in with us here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career! Whither you are a Supervisor or a lead, an Employee, Recruiter or an HR Generalist, maybe you’re in Benefits, we’re all some of the first people our new and …

Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career. How has your week been? Productive, Challenging, Informative, Positive, and Safe is my answer! I hope each of you feel the same way. However, I’ve read about, and spoken with a few people that, well, I’m going to say haven’t had such a positive experience this week. I’ve heard from or read about…

I’ve had several questions about order selecting lately, I’ve been meaning to get to them, and a young job seeker wrote, I’ve pulled orders at 3 companies before so I have a lot of experience, but I’ve applied at this place offering XX dollars an hour and they say I don’t have the experience. It’s a lot of money and I want that job. So today let’s …

Hey hey, Marty here, and I’d like to thank you for checking in with us here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career again this week. A topic that came up two or three times this week was direct deposit. More and more companies, even small facilities, have switched to direct deposit over paper checks. It’s how we get paid, so I too believe it’s a bi…

Hello everyone, Marty T Hawkins with you, and welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career! I was looking through the job boards and Facebook groups this week and noticed an unusual amount of advertisements for EPJ operators, and several comments about what does EPJ mean, and do they train, a few asked what kind EPJ. In the business EPJ is …

Welcome back to another episode of Warehouse and Operations as a Career. Today, I want to take a look at a topic that’s crucial to the success of any business. And it’s a tricky subject, because it comes with so many different angles and things to consider. Hang on, don’t roll your eyes when I say it. Ready, ok, here I go, today I want to expand on…

Thanks for stopping in again, I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career, as you know, where we talk about warehouse, transportation, and our light industrial careers. Anything and everything to do with the manufacturing, production, and distribution worlds as they relate to us as warehouse men and women. I was thinking about stalled caree…

Imagine this: You’re at work, it’s been a long day, and suddenly, a colleague makes a snide comment that hits you in just the wrong way. You’ve been holding in frustration for weeks, and this one comment feels like the last straw. You lash out, words are exchanged, and before you know it, the situation has escalated beyond control. What started as …

Welcome back to another episode of Warehouse and Operations as a Career! I’m Marty, and today, we’re diving into two, of the many many, responsibilities that every warehouse and operations associate must understand and accept. Whether you’re a seasoned worker or just starting out, understanding and owning these responsibilities can make a world of …

Welcome to another episode of Warehouse and Operations as a Career, where we explore the unsung heroes who keep our industries running smoothly. I’m Marty, and today we’re diving into the world of general labor tasks in the warehouse and light industrial industry. Warehouses and light industrial facilities are really the backbone of countless indus…

It seems, to me anyway, that people are just talking to hear themselves talk sometimes. And I know that’s not the case. I’ve heard so many reasons why people didn’t get hired for a position, and why so and so received a new promotion, why a job pays so little or why a job pays so much. Even opinions on what a job should pay. And a lot of people com…

Hello all, Marty T Hawkins with Warehouse and Operations as a Career the Podcast! Thanks for clicking into another episode, this just happens to be our 300th time to visit and talk about the industry I love, and am quite passionate about! We’ve entertained many guests over the years, order selectors, driver helpers, forklift operators, pallet runne…

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Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career. I’m Marty T Hawkins and I thought we’d talk a bit about forklifts today. And I’d like to get a few questions answered regarding forklifts as well. I’ll tell you what, in a few minutes I’ll share how you can land one of those higher paying forklift positions! As we all know, forklifts are an esse…

Hello all, Marty back with you at Warehouse and Operations as a Career. Its been busy, but busy is good. The first quarter of 2023 is gone. How’d you do, achieve all you’d planned for? Lets see, oh, I wanted to say something about the 2nd quarter real quick. Today we’ll be thinking about how hard a little change is and how accepting a little change…

WAOC is mobile today and at one of my favorite festivals! We’re hanging out at the Taste of Oak Cliff. It’s a great community event, everyone comes together, store fronts, restaurateur’s and yes, a couple of sourcing and staffing agencies and one training center. So I wanted to take this opportunity while out and about to discuss jobs and careers a…

So, during every PIT or powered industrial truck training class your instructor will mention, and I hope he or she will review, the Operators Manual with us. This week, I had an individual ask why this was important, he stated that nobody reads those manuals. I understand the statement. Did you know that when we purchase a new vehicle or car, we, a…

Forklift and Palletjack batteries. Has your facility experienced any issues this week? Our supplier called us this week to schedule our quarterly P.M. on our equipment and almost immediately I started hearing about batteries. A palletjack battery in one state started smoking and another actually produced flames. At one facility an unloader forgot t…

Hey Team WAOC, everyone wrapping up the summer, getting the little ones back to school and trying to settle back into our routines? July was a whipping for me professionally. Nothing really got out of hand, I just got overloaded. I had a few 10 day classes come up, which was great, I really enjoy instructing those Logistics classes. I filled in or …

Here we are, it’s that time again. I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career! I’ve gotten behind on questions that’s been sent in again so let’s see if we can get a few of those answered or brought up for discussion today. A gentleman named Kevin has been looking into or thinking about becoming a driver and maybe launching a career in tra…

Hi all. I was speaking with a V.P. last week and he brought up micro goals. I got to thinking, I talk a lot about goals and planning, but isn’t our normal progression within the industry just that, a bunch of micro goals. From a unloader or G/L position, to being trained on the electric rider pallet jack as a runner, and on to maybe a receiver, or …

Hey everyone, Marty T Hawkins here, and I want to thank you for checking in with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. We all, or most of the time, we know what our job is. We know the task, the function, and we may even think we know what expectations our boss has for us. Or do we know any of that? And who’s responsibility is it to know that we kn…

Another month is wrapping up folks! We appreciate you stopping in with us again today! I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. We’ve had several questions lately about the front line management positions so I thought we’d talk about what those positions are and maybe I can share a few of the pros and cons of them with you. At least may…

There are so many career opportunities in our industry, I learn about new task and positions within the logistics field every week! Could you imagine planning and controlling the routes of container ships as an example? Today’s container ships may be something like 1200 ft long, with a draft of something like 50 foot and carrying as many as 14000 T…

Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career! We had an email question about Hand Trucks, a listener was wondering if there was a training course offered by anyone for its use? I gather there’s a position she’d like to apply for that had listed its use in the Job Description. She stated with 2 years of warehouse experience she had not had a…

Marty here, and thanks for listening in to Warehouse and Operations as a Career again this week. Let’s see, I’ve only taken a few notes for today’s show but I’m sure we can put something together. I just noticed that this will be episode 286. We’re getting close to that 300 mark! I originally planned on doing 50 episodes! OK, where’s my notes. Oh, …

Hello all and welcome to week 15 of 2022. You’ve found Warehouse and Operations as a Career and I’m Marty T Hawkins. How is everyone doing? I have been super busy for the last several weeks, but the ends in sight. Speaking about the end of something, the first quarter of 2022 is here. How did you do with your goals and how is your 2nd quarter plann…

And it’s another week, a very productive week, and I hope a Safe week for all of us! Marty here again with warehouse and operations as a career, and today I’d like to talk about a piece of equipment, well, in my experience, us warehouse folks will either love or grow to despise. I may have been a little overly dramatic there, but I’ve known some pe…

Hello all, Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. I want to thank you for checking in with us today, and I think I’d like to talk a little about Ethics, maybe a little on Workplace Violence and our Reporting. Earlier this week I was talking with a gentleman that had just came out of his Companies yearly meeting on Business Ethics. Se…

Anhydrous Ammonia, anyone know what that is? I’m Marty T Hawkins with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and we appreciate you checking in with us! My apologies, I’m a bit horse today but let’s have some fun anyway! I brought up the words Anhydrous Ammonia a few weeks ago and had gotten a few questions about it so lets look it up today! Merriam W…

Everyone having a great week out there. I certainly hope so! I’m Marty and welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career. I have an old friend that always said work is work, that’s why they don’t call it fun. I always disagreed with him. Work is work but it has to be fun, to a point I mean. If you know me at all you know that I believe we ha…

What is the most utilized and can be the most dangerous tool used in our Light Industrial Industry? Care to make a guess? I’m Marty with you here today at Warehouse and Operations as a Career. Today lets talk a little bit about Pallets. Pallets are everywhere, we’re around them all day every day yet how often do we really think about them. There al…

Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career everybody, I’m Marty and I’m cold. I find myself in Denver, Co this week but you know what, It’s not much better, weather wise, back home in Dallas, Tx right now! I placed several ad’s this week, for a few positions in several states, and I received a few responses complaining about the hourly pa…

Week 5 of the year is almost over! I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. How is your year going so far? I have mine planned out pretty much through the 2nd quarter, and I’ve got to say, I’m right on track. One of my bigger goals was to get this one particular certification so I could help those interested in the food service fields, …

Hello again, Marty T Hawkins with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. I was asked again this week if becoming or accepting a promotion to Supervisor was or would be a good move. It seems I’m asked that pretty regularly, so I thought we’d talk about Supervision for a few minutes today. My answer is always unequivocally yes! I’m probably wrong to s…

Hey all, Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career back at you. It’s been a busy week. I’ve been giving some leadership classes, developed a few incentive programs for different things like productivity, attendance and position accomplishments. I’ll be doing a little traveling over the next couple of weeks, I’m in Nevada today and I’m ai…

Are you ready to kick off 2022, put your plan in action and meet this year’s goals? I’m Marty T Hawkins with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and over the next 52 weeks that is what I’m going to be doing. I was super excited to hear from so many of you that had accomplished your goals for last year. Those advancements and promotions kept coming…

OK, team WAOC, this is a wrap for 2021. I hope you’ve reached all the goals you had set, but if you haven’t, well, that’s fine as well. We’re on to 2022 next. I’m going to make it my best year yet! I’m going to plan, have my goals documented, know what I want, and go achieve it! I had planned on reviewing 2021 today but realized that all that is in…

What do you think of the word Termination? Ever said I quit? And how’d that work out for ya? I’m Marty with you here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career. Everyone had a great week? Mines been busy, I’ve strayed a bit from my normal operations tasks and have been helping develop a couple of training classes, what else took up some time this week…

As young Leads and Supervisors, do you look at yourself as a Teacher or a Trainer? Do we know the difference? That’s one of the questions I’d like to explore here today. I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and I’m wondering if we don’t confuse the two way too often! One of the things I loved about elementary school was lunch. Those …

Hi all, 2022 is 30 days from today. Are you ready? Have your plans and goals on paper? Did you accomplish everything in 2021 that you wanted too? Its been a wild ride for me. It was a great year, much better than 2020 and it has been a busy one. I feel like I accomplished everything I wanted to personally, and professionally, well, I wanted to get …

It is our Thanksgiving holiday here in the States. Some of us are working today and others are off. But I hope we all get to spend some time with friends and family. I was speaking with a few unloaders and order selectors this week and the conversation drifted to the upcoming Holiday, and I have to say I was quite impressed with their thoughts on t…

Have you ever been accused or caught horse playing at work? I’ve seen so many meme’s on social media this week I’d like to talk about that for a minute. Welcome back everyone. I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career! My first trip to HR was over a bit of horseplay. Me and 2 others grabbed an inventory control guy and shrink wrapped him …

Last week we talked a lot about ethics and our work ethics. Late in the week I heard about a facility where the rest room had been vandalized and graffitied by people or someone writing on the stalls with paint and markers. I’m Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and today I wanted to get caught up on a few questions, and we’re goi…

How is everyone getting a long this week? By the way, and I’m not going to launch into a goal and planning soap box talk today, but it is week 44, and there’s only 8 more weeks until the first quarter of 2022. I’ve already assessed this year’s goals, moved what I had too and have started on my 2022 goals. Actually, and I just realized, I’m talking …

I was walking a facility earlier last month and saw one of the new model scissor lifts. The plant manager asked me if I knew anything about one of these, and, well, I had to say no. It may have had the most futuristic control console I’ve ever seen. I’m Marty with you here today with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. Now I’ve operated several s…

Hello all, Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. Thanks for joining us this week, and I appreciate you sharing our podcast with all your peers. We continue to grow each week, which is pretty cool. I know I’m learning something new every show and I hope we’re bringing you something that interest and helps you with your careers! Last …

So today we are 14 days into the 4th quarter! Have you reviewed your plan, are you going to reach your 2021 goals. I’m doing pretty good with mine, much better than I thought. I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. We only have 11 more weeks to make everything work out for us. We are that close to 2022! As we kick off this quarter we …

Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, the Podcast about Operations, by Operations men and women. We try and bring you a little information each week about warehousing and transportation, 2 fields within our industry that you won’t find a more passionate group of people to connect with than our WAOC group! I’m Marty and I appreciate …

I made a mistake today. As a leader I probably make at least 25 plus mistakes each day. As a member of management, with those minute-to-minute operations decisions we have to make, well, we learn from them, and we will make a better decision next time. But things like putting a trailer in the wrong door or slotting an item in a slot that makes abso…