Before Thanksgiving, I was sent to the Overstock warehouse to take photos of 400 new employees, in addition to it’s 1100 employees, that have been hired for this holiday season. It was not difficult to shoot photos of new employees, but it was hard to show that they were recently hired. Anyway, I ended up taking photos of a woman who was hired two weeks ago and an overview photo of the warehouse as I was on a scissor lift (first time I got to ride on one of the those lifts, exciting and scary).
What impressed me the most was the size of the warehouse. It’s huge! I’ve never imagined a warehouse so big. I talked to one of the long-time workers there and he told me that the warehouse is almost 4,000 square feet and Overstock has another warehouse close by, and it is bigger than the one I was at. Overstock only have warehouses in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Christine Vigil, foreground, one of the 400 additional people who were hired for the holidays, cleans the shipping labels off the packing boxes at the Overstock's warehouse in Salt Lake City, Utah, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009.
Overstock has hired 400 additional employees to work for the holidays making a total of 1,500 employees at its warehouse in Salt Lake City, Utah, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009.
