Ok hello furrys. so ive been looking for work for a wile now!
and 2 different warehouses have asked me to come in for an interview and let me try out the work place to see if it will suit me
Im asking you! What is working in a warehouse like? What goes on?
PLEASE HELP! Monday and Tuesday are the days I'm heading out to try out!
i imagine its just stacking box's and pallets. forklift driving may be involved. shipping and receiving packages etc
On the shop floor you will be likely be called on to do the following
Lift, stack and wrap packages onto palets
Drive lifting equipment (if you're licensed to do so)
Load and unload trucks
In the warehouse office:
Inventory checks
Delivery tracking
Receipt filing of goods received/shipped
Customer service
If you have to do a lot of lifting/loading/unloading and you're not used to it, it can be very tiring. They will also stress to you over and over to use proper lifting procedure as back injuries are a common occurance in the job. The office can be busy when it's rush time, but the work is a lot less physical.
I enjoyed the work on the shop floor more than the office. It's good exercise and the people I worked with were all good humoured.
I can basically confirm everything Dallas has said. If you're put on "the floor," (the actual storage-area of the warehouse) you'll likely be driving some sort of forklift, moving pallets from racks to trucks and vise versa. You could be stacking product onto pallets and wrapping them to be shipped, or pulling product off the pallets to be moved to a sales depot. If you're put on office/inventory duties, you'll likely be walking around with a clipboard and/or barcode scanner or working on a computer.
Safety is a HUGE deal in a warehouse. You'll have more safety instruction pumped through you than water down a river, but that's okay.
Sometimes a warehouse can be a very fast working environment. You'll have to be keeping up with orders and the like, trying to stay on top of the game. If you've got a good situational awareness about you, it'll be no problem.
I work in a factory with an attached warehouse, so my work environment might be slightly different from what you're getting into. We're more focused in getting product out of the automated machinery and onto trucks/into racks than anything. Very rarely is there ever any hand-stacking of pallets; everything is done with forklifts and production machines.
Hope this helps. Good luck with the interview!
I work as a grocery associate during night hours for Superstore. I hate the job, I swear.
The people there are terrible to me. I met a few nice employees, but the managers just degrade the employees. Its a high pressure job; even if the work gets done, you still get the crap kicked into you. There has been countless times where I have been told shit on a day where I worked twice as hard and did twice as much work as the managers.
Warehouses, its a good job if you have good employees with you. I don't mind using highstackers or unstocking pallets. Then again, I work night shifts - everyone is an asshole there. I'm far from being an asshole.
But yes, safety, be safe.