Meet The Team

Thomas Militello

Shipping Specialist out of the Baton Rouge warehouse. Four years on the floor, a Case 580L on his first day, and a bass guitar at church on Sundays.

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Thomas Militello • Shipping Specialist — Baton Rouge Warehouse • Walker, LA

Thomas describes himself in three words: probably travel-sized. That’s the kind of self-description that tells you a lot about somebody before you even read the next sentence — and what comes through across the rest of his answers is the same thing. Funny without trying. Specific. Pays attention to small things most people don’t bother noticing.

Four years on the Baton Rouge warehouse floor. Loves the crew. Drinks coffee and energy drinks both, depending on what the day looks like. The first piece of heavy equipment he ever ran was a Case 580L. He’d pick a giant mining dump truck if you handed him the keys for a day.

The pick ticket he still remembers

“I remember one order whose pick ticket was three pages, front and back.”

Six pages of part numbers for a single order. That’s a small mountain of components going to one customer, on one truck, on one day — and the kind of project that turns a typical pick-and-pack shift into something closer to assembling a puzzle. Thomas remembers it specifically. Most warehouse guys would have forgotten it the next morning.

The heaviest single pallet he’s ever loaded out came in around 2,600 pounds — an assorted-parts pallet that took the dock’s undivided attention.

What customers don’t see

Thomas’s answer to what customers miss about the warehouse is short and honest. He doesn’t talk about how hard the job is. He talks about how the team works:

“I wish they could see the organization involved in shipping. The team works well around each other to maintain inventory as well as doing our best to ship orders quickly and accurately.”

That’s the part of warehouse work that doesn’t make the highlight reel: choreography. Multiple people on the floor at once, each handling their own orders, each staying out of each other’s way without being told to, all of it pointed at the same goal — right part, right box, right truck, right day. When it works, it looks like nothing. That’s the work.

Off the clock

Thomas’s weekends have a clean rhythm. Saturdays are a mixed bag — spending time with his wife, fishing if the day allows. Sundays he plays bass guitar at his church. After four years of pulling, packing, and loading parts during the week, it’s a fair trade.

What he likes most about it

“The team is enjoyable to work with.”

Same answer he gave to favorite-part-of-the-job: the crew — the people I work with. Twice he was given options. Twice he picked the team. That’s the line.