Getting into warehouse work?

[Dontay Flaco]

Going from office to warehouse...sounds like you hustling backwards breh

 

[SPACE IS FAKE]

You not built for this life office boy

You got a degree stop being stupid

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

Always wear a dust mask & goggles. If they don’t provide them, get your own. Warehouse jobs will have you inhaling all types of fumes. Also invest in Carharts for winter so you can stay warm. In the summer have Gatorade frozen so by the time you drink it a it will be like a slushie, & will keep you hydrated.

Use proper lifting techniques, if forklifts are involved honk your horn every 2-3 seconds when coming out of blind spots. Make sure you are seen, use your lights to ensure that you are seen as well.

They will train him when he starts working there brehette

 

[Blessings]

I'm an Oracle ERP Supply Chain Consultant and often travel to warehouses/offices for work.....if you have a degree you can go that route

 

[Suge Knight]

I was a cca then ptf now a regular. I know what you’re saying but if you can stick with it it’s a great career choice.

Fun fact, when I left that's when they made a-lot of CCA'S regular. I was like if I just stayed lol

But my health, personal life improved once I left that place. Can't put a dollar amount on that

 

[Smokin Rider]

Do janitorial. It's easy, no manager and make 20+/hr. I walk 12 miles a day

 

[Francis White]

Always wear a dust mask & goggles. If they don’t provide them, get your own. Warehouse jobs will have you inhaling all types of fumes. Also invest in Carharts for winter so you can stay warm. In the summer have Gatorade frozen so by the time you drink it a it will be like a slushie, & will keep you hydrated.

Use proper lifting techniques, if forklifts are involved honk your horn every 2-3 seconds when coming out of blind spots. Make sure you are seen, use your lights to ensure that you are seen as well.

This is good but awful advice. To do this job long term is terrible advice and he is going to around losers who would love to see him stuck there for years on end. The guy says he live in Atlanta so there must be something wrong for him to be doing call center work with a college degree.

 

[The_Sheff]

You have a degree? I'm an engineer responsible for a couple warehouses. If you learn the job and show initiative you will make supervisor in a snap and keep the ball rolling. Just keep at it becasue they building warehouses everywhere and they are filled with people unqualified to lead.

 

[fkthisgaysite]

Been working them for years via temp services.
When anything I dont like happens I quit and work somewhere else tha next day.

Burnt out on em tho. Its just like everyone says: either you doin some hard ass work for shytty pay or some dumby easy shyt for 12-15.

You are always a number, never a person. "Mandatory" over time can eat a dikk.

Aside from that shyt its ight. I look at it as a way of getting paid to exercise if tha job is physically demanding.

I dont have anything on my record nor did I drop out. I'm actually pretty tech savvy but I was (and still am) too afraid to get into debt (school).

Trying to use my mind to for my clothing brand I dont want anyone but me wearing...nice way to make money right? /sarcasm

Anyway...they really not as bad as some on here claim. Its worse than being homeless...? Really? Dude fried lol

I'd much rather be in a warehouse than fast food or even tha service industry in general...i aint no damn maid. I aint no damn machine/number/warehouse anomaly either...which is why i dip when I feel like it.

I really need to figure out sum tho. Sometimes i be surrounded by ppl who are felons and HAVE to work this shyt..they will straight up ask me wtf Im doin there.

 

[Francis White]

You have a degree? I'm an engineer responsible for a couple warehouses. If you learn the job and show initiative you will make supervisor in a snap and keep the ball rolling. Just keep at it becasue they building warehouses everywhere and they are filled with people unqualified to lead.

Again awful advice. Make supervisor? The people above him just going to give up their position? Why would they advance him in the first instead of hiring an already qualified person for the position? Listen if you in a rural area I can see this but in a major city why ? Warehouse work isn’t a career. Making minimum wage for years especially for a college grad to advance in warehouses is utterly stupid. Give this advice to a felon trying to turn his life around or the high school dropouts.

 

[The_Sheff]

Again awful advice. Make supervisor? The people above him just going to give up their position? Why would they advance him in the first instead of hiring an already qualified person for the position? Listen if you in a rural area I can see this but in a major city why ? Warehouse work isn’t a career. Making minimum wage for years especially for a college grad to advance in warehouses is utterly stupid. Give this advice to a felon trying to turn his life around or the high school dropouts.

I been in warehousing damn near 20 years. Supervisor jobs come up regularly. At the 5 warehouses I frequent we looking for 7. For one they would advance him because if he works there he would already know the WMS and LMS and that cuts down on a lot of the technical training he would need. Second if he has a degree there is a good chance he at least knows how to open Excel and PowerPoint, which again is a huge plus in warehousing once you off the lift. Third most decent companies track hire from within metrics and look to push from within whenever possible. The talent pool at warehouses is pretty much bottom of the barrel so when you get someone who trying to learn and has technical savvy they get pushed quickly.

And what warehouse is paying minimum wage in a competitive market? Rural market warehouses pay much less than ones in the burbs of a major city due to price competitiveness. It's clear you aren't in this field if you didn't know that. Fresh in the door our LTOs make 17 and once they are trained and hit production it jumps. And that's in the southern markets.

 

[ABlackMan]

I worked in shipping for Eaton. It was cool, at least 500 every week on check, BUT each day you never knew if you were working 8-10-12 until you got to work and had the briefing. Backbreaking work, long slow hours, 5 days off between two and three months smh not to mention wearing heavy ass steel toes smh I always tell myself never again but the money calls man it does. It’s so sad man that we do subject ourselves to modern day slave work... my Gma did that shyt for YEARS, retired from plant. My mom on her way to doing the same even though she has the desire to get back in school and do better but it’s hard to just bail on the guaranteed when you have a child and bills. Whatever you do, don’t subject self to bs. It is literally not good for the soul. I work in kitchen now. Love cooking. Hate the folks I work with because I’m too smart and intellectually advanced for the environment. Really gotta pick and choose what’s worth dealing with and what ain’t because unless you doing ya own shot you gonna come across something that you might not like.

 

[UpAndComing]

Been working office jobs my whole life and became


Got my degree but all the jobs still pay shyt...


I have a few good side hustles and been thinking about warehouse work for the first time as a day job


Any advice? Whats good company/role to start?

Get your CDL breh

 

[Noriega]

If it ain’t apart of a union don’t mess with it!

Just had a interview with a school textbook distribution center, they represented by the Teamsters

Don’t mess with amazon or any of these big ass corporate warehouses. Hear nothing but horror stories(non-union so the company can do whatever they want)

 

[Noriega]

Try to get a job at your local college or university breh. You'll be a state employee so better benefits and odds are you can find an office position better than just call center work.

Every office has the same bullshyt politics so once you get over that it can be alright

This, nikkas sleep on state,county,city jobs. Been applying to universities and government jobs like crazy. Them cushy benefits

Go back to school

Go back to school to accrue more debt? Most backwards ass advice you can give someone