What are the best employee engagement activities or food events your building has done? Since it's so hot right now, I'd especially love ideas for summer treats, cooling stations, or anything that boosts morale. What actually gets people excited?
How would you fix a situation like this? You can see in the photo that the second pallet is damaged in the back area and you can't normally remove the IBC out of the racks.
How to fix it and how to avoid situations like this?
Ladies, what type of pants are you wearing to your warehouse jobs? Bonus points if they’re relatively cheap ($~40 or under?)
I just started as an order selector and I was initially planning on getting some hiking pants but I think they are too close to workout gear to be allowed. I got some men’s Wranglers that are comfy, but they don’t really provide stretch when bending and it freaks me out. I tried some of my tougher jeans and ripped a hole in them within like two hours because I got caught on something lol.
This list is based entirely on how I feel when I hear them being played on the speaker at work.
For example, I rarely willingly listen to Motley Crue, Creed or limp bizkit outside of work but gosh damn do they make me wanna chug caffeine and get shit done when I’m moving on the forklift. Other bands make me wanna leave early when they’re played repetitively at full blast.
This will sound weird, but is there a buy/sell/trade page for boots?
I have a pair of redwings Electrum that I wore for less than a week. I don’t see myself wearing them again.
They’re composite toed. Side zipper, for easy enter and exit.
Hi, I recently got a email from Uline saying I had applied couple months ago but did not attend the hiring event and if I was still interested they would set up an interview with me again. I was being honest and stated I’m interested but I was afraid I’m under qualified for the job since I had heard many stories of people not being hired there despite being over qualified. They emailed me back and said they’re interested in interviewing me based on my experience I listed. Could any insiders who work at Uline help me on what kind of worker they’re looking for. I’ve heard a lot of mixed reviews on who gets hired vs who does not. Thank you !
Owner/operator contracted delivery driver here in Oklahoma City. This company gives a base pay per day that is:
Flat Rate - $614 + $.46/mile > 170 miles.
Now you may have 1-5 white gloves in this route but you get no additional pay for any white glove deliveries. A white glove must be unpackaged, put together and remove all trash from customers home. Kind of odd if you ask me. Wayfair is their biggest customer and they charge customers for white glove delivery services but the delivery team gets no additional pay. Who’s getting that money? Updike? I’d guess so.
The other biggest issue is my drivers get to the warehouse at 5am and don’t get home sometimes until 8 or 9 at night. Updike is trying to shove as many deliveries it can on a route because it’s a base pay without any care in the world about the worker having to work long days, after awhile that takes a toll on anyone. Oh and you load your own truck in the morning and if something is missing the manager Daniel wants the driver to wait until it’s found! He is rarely there in the mornings and reeks of alcohol most days. You also get rated based on customer surveys. Some customers are mad at wayfair because of the product, some customers think they have white glove but they don’t, some customers are mad at Updike for rescheduling their delivery multiple times. Other customers you just can’t make happy no matter what. And the funniest part is all the employees have felonies so they cannot deliver on any base but Updike for some reason takes the delivery jobs? You’d think they would have changed that by now.
Do not get involved with this company if you own box trucks and run your own business. We have moved on and are making way better money hauling no touch freight.
Curious what’s everyone else’s experience with this company as a customer getting a delivery, Updike worker or contractor?
Who remembers Ed, Edd & Eddy?
I'm in northern NJ and a new business owner. I just leased a 5000 SF small bay warehouse and need to install pallet racking. I'm going the used route to save money. The same vendors that are selling the racking are quoting between $5K-10K to handle the permitting process. Is it worth it? Can I save money by getting the permits myself? Is the permit application so involved/confusing that I can't fill out the forms myself? I think the most prohibitive part is getting signed and sealed drawings, since I'm not a licensed engineer. Are there any racking engineers who will work with a business owner directly (vs going through a racking vendor) to provide these drawings? If so, how do I find them, and what do they charge? Thanks all for the input.
Question, i currently work for an airline but i keep hearing great things about AVERITT. They are massive in the state I live in and the starting pay could be up to $31
Anyone here knows about Averitt
Thank you so much in advance
Just got this used-but-new-to-us hi-lo to replace the old fossil that finally bit the dust. Love how it controls in comparison, but damn it feels like it frosts up even more than the others we have. How have your freezer experiences been, equipment related or otherwise?
Got this job at a warehouse. We're keeping 200lb (minimum) bins high up as a few feet from the ceiling. Coworkers say I'll be expected to go up there to retrieve stuff and do inventory so I asked what sort of safety procedures there are... They say none really and that I'll have to do it alone as well. Climb up by myself with a 20 foot rolling step ladder and then CLIMB OVER the edge of the top racks (basically hoist myself up and roundhouse my leg over) and walk around up there on top of the wire decks without any ppe or support
I've received zero safety training on anything. Is this normal? Am I overreacting? Most of everything until that point with the high stuff and zero safety precautions felt fine but now I'm kinda concerned. Im young and this is my first time in this environment. Its a small company too
I'll start. You open up the truck and there are like 20 load locks in the trailer. Half of them are broken. Some are nearly rusted in place. And you of course don't have room next to your door for twenty load locks.
Live in Canada, got a job offer as an order selector in 4 degrees celsius warehouse using electric pallet jack. I see tons of ppl talking bad abt this, is this really like THAT bad? pay is $22/hr
Im just curious because I feel like my warehouse cranks the speed up to where its just barely possible to keep up with it. They had me running two lines last night, one line at 108 cases per hour, and another at 44 cases per hour. Each box requiring at least 3 foot of tape to close the bottom.
Curious, I know POS handles offline, but what about everything else: inventory, deliveries, work orders? Trying to figure out where the real pain is to make a mobile app.