The New Guy Part 11

I do love the number 11 as it's one of my special numbers. 

I'm slowly feeling more comfortable running pick and stage as I'm filling in the gaps far as admin, time management, people management and finally inner office politics. I'm ensuring I work well with my counterparts and are setting clear expectations for whomever deals with me and seeing what I want. 

I'm getting a supervisor soon (process assistant) which means so much in my role far as delegation and my flexibility. 

I'm in charge of affinity groups now at my site which I'm happy about as the powers in the executive office attempt to strip away DEI. I'm also working on improving area readiness and career development for those that wish to move up in the company. I see these as site gaps (aside from the affinity groups which I was assigned). 

I got a good review from my manager and will continue to work to be great. 

The New Guy Part 10

Welp it's always Day 1 at Amazon. 

I found out post Cycle 0 that I'll be going to Pick and Stage. It's a later shift that focused on staging the routes for dispatch. I'm also over same day, the early waves. 

I have a solid team around me and have been trained well. It's bridging knowledge gaps, developing a cadence and getting ready to run it alone this upcoming week (talk about a stress test!). I've did parts of it on Cycle 0 but it was slightly different. 

I look forward to yet another challenge and narrowing down my L5 promo doc project.  Currently I'm looking at area readiness, inactive time mitigation and employee engagement. I'll fill it on Safety stuff where applicable also. It's time to get it!

The New Guy Part 9

We're in 2025 now of course. Cycle 0 is wrapping up soon with myself set to go to Cycle 1 as a sort AM. 

I felt like I gained a lot of experience, growth and development the past couple of months. Deion and Shirley were great, knowledgeable mentors. They never allowed me to fail but wanted to ensure I could stand on my own two feet. I had awesome Interim Process Assistants and critical role associates that really helped me and I'll rely on them throughout my year in this role. 

My site lead send out an email for 2025 outlining our cost goals. That's definitely on the list of opportunities for my continued growth. I also want to help create a more safe culture, reduce inferred time, fully utilize Engage and ADAPT to set the proper tone for those associates that need improvement and guidance. Additionally, I want to know more of the ins and outs of the sort floor, continue my growth on the dock and with Pick and Stage. Finally I want to be more adept with running DCAP, routing, the end of shift wash, bridging PerfectMile, writing good, detailed ADAPTS and Thrives, keeping my connection scores favorable.and executing shift plans. 

I obviously have aspirations of getting promoted to an L5 and doing these smaller tasks can help me when it's time to form my promo doc. 

I'm going to start yet another new series and I may return to this one and others from time to time.