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Don’t go “above and beyond”. It’s not worth it.

Before transferring to a new location I ran the delivery warehouse for this company for 2 years. It was the furthest location from their central office. When shit happened, there was no back up. No one local to provide assistance. Everyone was hours away. All their other locations could be reached within or around an hour. There were several incidents that happened after hours that I got called to go take care of at various hours of the night. I had to deal with my location's area supervisor who would occasionally come out and nitpick about what wasn't done around the place. I was constantly on the road covering routes and dealing with an overburdening workload due to being short-staffed and poor logistics planning by the main facility. I told him it's not possible to keep up on everything around our facility since I'm on the road all the time…


Before transferring to a new location I ran the delivery warehouse for this company for 2 years. It was the furthest location from their central office. When shit happened, there was no back up. No one local to provide assistance. Everyone was hours away. All their other locations could be reached within or around an hour. There were several incidents that happened after hours that I got called to go take care of at various hours of the night.

I had to deal with my location's area supervisor who would occasionally come out and nitpick about what wasn't done around the place. I was constantly on the road covering routes and dealing with an overburdening workload due to being short-staffed and poor logistics planning by the main facility. I told him it's not possible to keep up on everything around our facility since I'm on the road all the time AND he kept pushing me to leave as close to 40 hours as possible. If I'm not physically in the building and can't work OT, how does he expect things to get done? Side note: All the other satellite locations had their managers & supervisors getting double-digit OT hours. They also had more than 1 person overseeing their locations.

I insisted many times that the facility needed more than one person running it. It was always brushed off because it only had X amount of people. It didn't matter how many times I stated all the variables we had to deal with. Since it wasn't one of the bigger locations they didn't think it was necessary and wouldn't consider it.

I've been gone from there a year now. Three people have since taken on my position and left. Now, they're hiring an extra supervisor position for the location to help run it.

Moral of the story: Do enough, don't do it all.

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