WarehouseFlow Advisors

Your stove is very much like a Diva. When it’s on, it needs lots of attention to keep it happy but if you allow your attention to become distracted it may burn with jealousy. That may be why Thanksgiving Day has the highest amount of cooking fires than any other day! As you work with your Diva more often during the holiday season, keeping your venting hood, filters, and stove clean and free of…

I hope this journey down the Green Brick Road of Safety has been as much a pleasure for you as it has been for me and I thank you for allowing me to show you the sights.  We are all most at the end of this trip as there is only one last leg to go.  Along this road, we have met and come to know what is Hazard Analysis, how to pick appropriate PPE, the need for good HouseKeeping, and the importance…

As your career unfolds and you gain increased responsibilities such as supervisor, manager, and plant manager, each new facility will benefit from your skills and abilities as you put them into practice but you will also grow as a leader as you learn from the staff and challenges of your newly assigned facility. I can guarantee this since during my entire career in warehousing and manufacturing…

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I love taking walks around my community. The flora is green and full of beautiful blooms making the air sweet with fragrances while watching the wild turkeys strutting with and showing off their new family members, deers feeding on vegetation, and hummingbirds buzzing feeder to feeder interchanging with the occasional smiling face of a neighbor. But I am still amazed when in this day and age I…

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Managing a multigenerational staff is really not a new experience, as my staff in the mail services department at a large California public university in the 1980s was comprised of the greatest generation, baby boomers, and generation Xers. Our mail services were as large an operation as the main post office in any small city receiving and processing on a daily basis, tons of letters, invoices,…

Work There Not Here!

Not since the ‘Great Depression’ of 1929 when 15 million people lost their jobs have we seen this many people leave their jobs during the ‘Great Resignation’ of 2021. An estimated 35-40 million quit last year and that could mean some of you may be looking into alternative career paths. As you look around and do your research for your new career I would like to suggest a more rewarding type of…

I came into this world on a clear beautiful sunny Bronx day during the waning gibbous phase of the moon the same year as the American actor, screenwriter, producer, and playwright, Chazz Palminteri however for the record I am 5 months younger than he is. As we all know thanks to his movie and play, he grew up in the Belmont section of the Bronx, (Little Italy) while I was raised in the Concourse…

Adventures in Delivery – Time For Tea?

Many years ago I was the distribution manager for a company that delivered healthcare Durable Medical Equipment and related services to clients at home who were ill, recently released from the hospital, or needed oxygen refills. It was an extremely interesting job complete with many blindside hits and dropped balls thanks to poor information from the hospitals exasperated by our customer…

You can have all the Federal and State safety regulations you want in place, spend thousands of dollars on training, safety meetings, conducting drills, holding demonstrations, certifications, and more training along with spelling out all the consequences for violations but if you allow complacency to creep into your daily manufacturing practices you will wind up costing yourself valuable…

Stuff Your Boss Probably Hasn’t Bothered To Tell You Cause No One Told Them-9

Did anyone ever bother to tell you that the funny-looking plastic tank mounted on the wall in your facility is not an emergency supply of water but your Emergency Eye Wash station! That’s why I continue to do this series to help you become more knowledgeable and successful at your job because information your boss should have passed on to you never got there and maybe because no one told…

Compliance is for others and not meant for me

As the government continues to trample on the civil rights of people by insisting we wear masks or other PPE and to get vaccinated so we don’t inadvertently kill ourselves or others by accident, the push back by some in our society on wearing masks has been mind boggling but nothing new or surprising. We have a history of fighting compliance and all you have to do is look back to 1966, a time…

Stuff Your Boss Probably Hasn’t Bothered To Tell You Cause No One Told Them-8

We’ve all heard the expression, cleanliness is next to godliness and in any plant or warehouse, that wants to be taken seriously, cleanliness is next to safety. That’s why I started and continue this series, to help you become a better leader because no one may have bothered to point out that good housekeeping and sanitation practices will not only improve safety by preventing accidents but can…

An Alternative Way to Volunteer in Your Community

As many of you know, what’s great about volunteering is it’s not only the act of kindness donating your time to help benefit others in your community but it gives you an incredible rush of feel good! I find the hardest aspect of volunteering for most is what to volunteer for and how to get started and totally understand that so I say the best thing to do is Google it, find something you do the…

Stuff Your Boss Probably Hasn’t Bothered To Tell You Cause No One Told Them-7

Another Super Bowl is in the books and it didn’t turn out to be quite the close game many thought it would be. It was entertaining to watch the seasoned veteran out play the young determined student. Never under estimate an old master, we always have a trick or two up our sleeves. It also demonstrated what fantastic leadership can accomplish as Tom Brady has now taken two different teams to Super…

Stuff Your Boss Probably Hasn’t Bothered To Tell You Cause No One Told Them-6

Here we are, another month in another new year. As we all know many things can happen over the course of a year and with about 260 work days it may be tough to remember what occurred on a Tuesday, ten months ago. Why is that important? That’s why I continue this series, because through no fault of your own you may have not received the information or training needed to be successful at your job.…

The relationship between a company and a contractor consultant needs be one of trust, transparency and all about the customer to be successful.  In addition the ability of the consultant to listen should be extremely refined to hear what the company braintrust wants the new system to accomplish but also and maybe even more important listen to how the employees will operate the system to obtain…