She wanted us to find a reason and if we didn’t she would take it out on the Supervisors. She would walk the departments and if she didn’t like someone she would make the Supervisors write them up by the end of the day. During this time Karen also became more vindictive, she would openly tell people she would never be fired and could do what she wanted. This caused the company to have egg on their face and Karen to look bad. The process had to be reinstated and the parts that were never checked had to have warranty extensions. Except the engineers never signed off on this and it caused massive damage control. Turns out one of the reasons Karen got promoted was because she was running her dept so efficiently, then it came to light that she made the decision to skip this quality process saving that 20% of time. This was a 4-hour operation on a 20 hour part that we were skipping entirely. I emailed the info to the quality Engineers and they lost their minds. We were holding our own and employees all did what they could to help as the satiation was not ideal for everyone.Ī few weeks in I was reviewing some quality documents and I noticed that one of the quality gates was not being followed. When I would ask Karen for guidance or assistance she would scoff like it was beneath her and tell me “if I have to do your job then I don’t need you.” So I gritted my teeth and worked my tail off, my wife got me a smart watch and I was averaging 25,000 steps a day trying to keep everything running. I was barely treading water but I was doing my best. Chris went on paternity leave for 6 weeks and I was tossed into the deep end in charge of the whole area solo – with 60 employees. During the second week Chris’s wife went into labor and she had a hard time. During the first week everything was going well, I was learning all the employees, getting to know the process, and getting my feeling for the area. Chris was young, had 1 small child and his wife was pregnant and a stay at home mom. Once I was promoted I worked in tandem with another supervisor, Chris. I had to interview with Karen and got to meet some of her supervisors, they were very quiet and reserved. She was also a freshly minted Manager and Joe was not confident in her abilities, but me being the plucky go-getter with a can-do attitude decided to take the position. She was the poster child on the company website of the inclusiveness in the workplace- literally her face was the one they used. Karen was female, a minority, and a member of the LGBTQ community. We talked in length because the only Supervisor spot open was working for Karen. As before he wanted to promote me with him, this time to a Supervisor spot. I made a good reputation and got a lot of respect from workers and from managementĮventually Joe’s areas were doing so well he was promoted to Plant Manager. The Supervisors loved it because they never had to leave the office and I liked it because it was a good learning experience. While I wasn’t a Supervisor yet I was the Supervisor in all but name. After a few years Joe was promoted a manger and he transferred me with him to his departments.
Joe would put me in troubled groups in his department and I would work on general improvements and figuring out the issues- this was a union shop and the mentality was to just put in your hours, “Don’t work harder or smarter just do your time and don’t kill the job” was the unspoken motto. This came with a raise and increased responsibility that most other workers didn’t want.
After about 6 months Joe noticed I was picking up on the work pretty fast and promoted me to a group leader position. I was young and didn’t mind, it helped my wife and I save up for a house. The work was hard, working 12 hour days for 13 days in a row and then a Sunday off then back for another 13 days. I lucked out and got a great supervisor for a boss (Joe). Some years ago I started working for a heavy industrial manufacturing company.
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