He only listed one other employer, he’d been there for 4 years as a pallet runner and had references for both jobs. He’d taken several lift courses and safety courses that’d been offered through the company and he’d done some volunteer work as well as a couple of community college courses. He’d started as an unloader on the inbound side, moved to running pallets and the to the reach lift. He had a great resume, it listed everything he’d done with this company. Anyway, I felt like he missed an opportunity there, but he almost missed a second one when he was interviewing. And that’s perfectly fine, for a little longer, until every warehouse is connected and directed. Even after I explained that in my experience a good WMS has always increased our productivity and shared how I’ve always found them to be a positive thing, he had no interest in listening. I asked him why did he think they were a bad thing then, where’d you hear all the negative things about them? The answer was that everything worked fine like it was, it was only going to slow him down, all that scanning and stuff, and I’m paid an incentive by the pallet, I have to keep moving! So, I told them I wasn’t going to do it. I asked him where had he worked before that used a system and what kind was it, directed, inventory, RF driven, how computer driven was it? He replied he’d never worked with one. When I’d heard about his experience, and he was really an experienced lift driver, I asked him why he’d left his old position? He replied that the company was installing a WMS system and we all know how they mess everything up! Now, he’d been with his present company for 6 years. The gentleman was working for a company like 10 miles from his house, but all the traffic was going the other way. The recruiter felt like, because of the traffic, that might be a little far for him to drive for a job. I set in on an interview this week, the applicant had applied for a reach lift position with a company about 13 miles from where he stayed. Wither we’re an order selector, fork driver, sanitation or General Labor or Utility person, shoot, any position in the warehouse, a WMS system is going to change something about our job! The old way of doing something was set up by someone else, I guess it worked great because we’ve always done it that way! But now, with other things changing all around us, we can have the opportunity to do it differently or do something else entirely!
Seeking employment, isn’t that what we’re doing, making a choice, taking a chance to change right? So, before I stray to far off subject, lets talk about the opportunities a WMS can bring us. With me working with so many job seekers this week it got me to thinking about it. gif from a news organization that said You must make a Choice to take a Chance or your life will never Change. So, I was checking Flipboard on the phone, just checking out a few articles and noticed a daily.
This morning when I woke up, I’m one of those really early risers, I got to learn something before I get my day started. I realized, and I think it just hit me today, that anytime we’re learning something new, something we’ve never done before or performing a task differently than we did in the past, we’re being led right into a new opportunity! What we do with it will depend on how we react to it. Anyway, I wanted to talk about WMS or our warehouse management systems today and while I was putting those thoughts together, I realized a good WMS, or really any management system will provide us with so many opportunities and we’re probably going to miss them. I really enjoy the whole recruiting process, and I so enjoy getting to visit with all the applicants, hearing about their work experiences, their goals and how their planning on reaching them, or, in some cases helping them realize they need that plan. Maybe I’ve been thinking about opportunities all day because I’ve been with Recruiters and candidates all week. Not necessarily missed opportunities, what’d you call it, let’s say recognizing an opportunity, I think. Anyone ever felt like they’ve missed an opportunity? Anyone ever realized they did miss an opportunity? I think more often than not we only feel like that or notice it after the fact! Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty, lets talk about opportunities for a minute today.
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