Hello everyone i am in my 3rd week of business college traing for an etl logistics. This has been a good guide to follow up on some gaps in training. THanks everyone for the intel and in advance for your help!
One quick question.........what do the flow tm's want in an etl logistics? A etl coming in at 3:30 helping to unload the truck with them or a etl who comes in at 6:00?
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My logistics ETL logistics is the manager you DON'T want. He avoids work at every turn, in the 3 years hes been log ETL hes thrown the truck for maybe a total of an hour. If he takes a line job, he takes the job as the spare push, and usually does NOTHING to speed up the process besides cram boxes on to the line and keep us from getting them off. He will lie to your face, I come in one morning and he tells me he had to come in early, at 1:30 (we start 4:00 am) he tells me "all the pulls in the main are done." I go, grab my PDA, check the pull list, hes pulled softlines, that's it.
If you are running behind on your section (yes, we used to work individual sections, rather than waving, we got told we have to wave by corporate), he would walk up and tell you to hurry up, and walk away. He would also do this little thing where he would open a case, put it up, not break down the box and walk off. Then he would tell people he "helped" you in that section.
And that is a good day for him, some days you see him once, to let you in the door. Those are actually the days that we appreciate more. Mostly because it can become a challenge holding back laughter, and the anger he can create just by trying to bark orders with his little numbers sheet just slows down productivity. The team is literally better off on the days he sits in his office all day long.
In comparison, our old ETL threw the truck every day, and would put up his section faster than anybody else. Everything moved smoothly, and even the biggest trucks were done by 11:00.
