To preface this, I am a warehouse lead for a multi-billion dollar corporation that sells 100% recycled corrugated boxes. I am required to wear around 5 hats for one job and only compensated for 18/hour.
The requirements are: inventory control, ordering, cutting bills, and I have a cdl so I can be a backup driver and am forklift certified. I have 1 forklift driver, 1 driver and 4 warehouse workers.
Most of my days work can be accumulated to two to three hours. I must spend the other six to eight basically making up work to do. I don't have anyone breathing down my neck the whole shift as its just two people in the office and we are in different departments so there's no correlation between our jobs. But I do constantly get phone calls from our main office about nonsense 9 times out of ten.
My warehouse is located 55 miles from our main manufacturing plant. We receive no help; I have a skeleton crew and am constantly told to “figure it out” whenever: a machine breaks; we are overloaded by orders because our new general manager “needs the numbers to be good.”
We're in a recession, how are numbers going to be good at all? No one is ordering or is ordering less.
The warehouse is only 28,000 sq. feet; it's absolutely dwarfed by the main 100,000 sq. foot warehouse. They constantly send a truck down everyday jamming this place up. I won't lie, it's a shitshow. There's boxes
falling over, trash pilling up. But we can't stop and clean because we must meet production numbers.
How is any of this supposed to make sense? Currently on the prowl for a new job, the stress and lack of
communication are just insane. Also, as usual, the pay is crap for the workload.