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Post by bibboid on Aug 26, 2017 0:02:11 GMT -5
It has been an odd week at my job. In the best possible way.
Eight days ago, I got called into the Manufacturing Manager's office along with my boss. This is the same man who tore into me a few weeks ago for falling behind on a project because I had neither time, manpower nor resources to complete it and basically implied that I was incompetent. This time he told me that a job had opened up in another department and he thought I would be perfect for it. Told me to think about it and talk to the head of Planning if I want it.
Talked to Planning manager the next morning. He sounded interested and told me to put an application online. Mfg Mgr caught me on the way out and gave me a fist bump.
Put my app in over the weekend. Got called in for an interview on Tuesday. Went well. Cycle count director said I was perfect for the job. Wednesday, Mfg Mgr told me he heard it went well. Thursday, company grapevine is buzzing with the news that I am moving to planning.
Today, the cycle count director stopped by my desk and said that he had told Planning Mgr to cancel all his remaining interviews because he wanted them to hire me. Half an hour later, I got a meeting request for next week with HR to discuss the job.
I can't wait to see how this turns out.
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Post by bibboid on Aug 26, 2017 11:30:15 GMT -5
What's weird is that Mfg Mgr has been a total hard ass for the whole four years I have been with the company. Any process improvements I try to implement that reach his desk immediately get choked out with bureaucratic red tape (process flows and time studies and meetings and capacity charts). Every time he walks through my department he finds something to complain about. Too many orders in the queue or too much stock to be put away or the desks are too messy or the aisle marking tape is scuffed and needs to be replaced. Meanwhile, he loves the two guys in my department who have more seniority than me and constantly compliments them and jokes with them. And yet, now he suddenly acts all friendly and points me towards a cushy job in another department (which is still under his management).
And then there is my boss. An anal retentive, micro managing lunatic who knows nothing about running a warehouse but has been doing it for ten years. He treats us all like idiots. He demands we hold twenty minute meetings every morning to discuss "our plan" for the day and tell each person EXACTLY what they will do all day long (even though daily fluctuations in workflow regularly shatter those plans within an hour). I have problems with some of my employees that he will not authorize me to deal with and he chooses not to deal with them himself. He sets strict rules for our department to follow "at all times" but when other departments ask for concessions, he just rolls over and let's them have whatever. Any issue that negatively affects our performance but is caused by another department he ire fuses to act on and forces me to forward them to the Mfg Mgr (see process improvements above). Annual reviews (raises) are always late. Mine was due in February and I am still chasing him for it in August. Morale in our department is crap and he refuses to admit it. Absenteeism and tardiness are a constant issue and everyone's efficiency and accuracy levels are dropping lower and lower. Boss was silent in the meeting when Mfg Mgr told me about the new job and has not said a word about it to me since.
Somehow this feels too good to be true.
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Post by SmashTV on Aug 27, 2017 1:20:39 GMT -5
First of all, best of luck.
Secondly, did he really give you a fist bump? That sounds like your mfg manager is trying to be down with the kids!
It all sounds very promising, though, so I think you'll be alright. Good luck!
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Post by bibboid on Aug 29, 2017 10:11:43 GMT -5
Yesterday my boss attended (took over) our Monday status meeting. He kept coming up with new tasks and then looking at me to volunteer to lead them. I assigned every single one to a member of my staff. When the meeting ended, my guys all asked " Doesn't he know you're leaving?"
There are three possibilities as I see it: 1) my boss does not know I applied for the position (although he was in the room when I was told to do so). 2) my boss thinks I love my job so much I would never leave (delusional but a possibility). 3) he knows I am leaving but is pretending I'm not because it would validate the morale problem that he doesn't want to admit exists (most likely).
I have a meeting tomorrow morning with HR. All I really need is a reasonable rate increase ( to cover my annual review I haven't gotten yet) and I am gone.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Aug 29, 2017 10:19:33 GMT -5
Well, it's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon
I don't know why that popped into my head reading the title.
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Post by bibboid on Aug 31, 2017 1:44:01 GMT -5
HR meeting went well. They have modified the position to be "lead" level rather than "clerk" level. I am currently Inventory Lead, so it is now a lateral move for me. Once Finance approves the new pay scale, they will accept applications for 72 hours...but mine is the only application they have. Then I meet with my current boss and my future boss to discuss my transition timetable.
HR asked why I was changing departments. I gave the nice answer first. New challenges, increasing my knowledge of the company, desire to share my skills with other departments. She saw through it all and kept digging. I told her about the lousy morale, disfunctional management and major stress in my current department. She said, "I'm not surprised you want to transfer."
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Post by bibboid on Sept 23, 2017 2:05:42 GMT -5
Well, they modified the job from "clerk" level to "specialist" level. I submitted an application for the new job and heard nothing for two weeks. This morning at an 8 o'clock meeting, the Mfg Mgr announced to several department heads that I was taking the new position. Two hours later, my boss calls a staff meeting to announce that I was taking the new position. The funny thing is....technically they hadn't offered me the job yet. It wasn't until almost noon when my future boss came by with an official offer. New title. Five percent raise. Start date October 9th. Signed the form and took the job. Now I have two weeks to teach my staff everything I do.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2017 7:25:39 GMT -5
Congrats!
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Post by Chainsaw on Sept 24, 2017 1:34:18 GMT -5
Congrats, man. As strange as this whole thing has been, I'm glad it's to the best.
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Post by bibboid on Oct 7, 2017 11:00:16 GMT -5
Yesterday was my last day in Distribution. Monday morning I start the new job. I don't know what my new hours are supposed to be. I have only gotten a vague outline of what my duties will be. I don't even know if I have a desk. The guy I will be working with says not to worry. He will walk me through it all.
I will be a major player (if not running) cycle counts and physical inventory. Stuff I've done for years, just not on the creation side. My training starts first thing Monday morning. At 2pm, I am supposed to run a SKYPE meeting with several other locations to get them started cycle counting. I've never Skyped before. This could be fun.
I sat down with my old boss two weeks ago and gave him a list of my daily/weekly/monthly duties and who I thought should take them over until he finds a permanent replacement for me. That way I could spend two weeks training people to allow a smooth transition. He agreed with two of my suggestions and said he would "look into" the other two dozen tasks. As of yesterday, he still has not approached anyone about them. No training = chaos. He actually implied that I would come across the street and continue to do my old tasks. I'm gonna have to say.......no.
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Oct 7, 2017 15:33:29 GMT -5
Sounds like someone became a big wheel at the cracker factory. Can you get Krusty to do my birthday?
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Post by bibboid on Dec 18, 2017 16:51:21 GMT -5
A little update for those who are still interested.
Started the new job and got two weeks of training. First task was teaching another warehouse to do cycle counts from scratch. Wrote notes on the whole process just in case.
We had a physical inventory scheduled for mid November. Two weeks before it hit, the guy who was training me gave his notice. After inventory he was gone. He sent me copies of everything he had written down about how to do his job. I have been wading through them all and rewriting them to make more sense. Just for a laugh, I may apply for his job.
Then our Australia and New Zealand warehouses decided they wanted to do an inventory too. I had to write up instructions for EVERYTHING involved and train them in less than two weeks. It was tough, but I did it. Their accuracy was crap but that was their own fault.
Last week, the Manufacturing Manager pulled me in his office and asked about one of our processes that has major problems. I explained how it was supposed to work and how and why it kept ‘breaking’. Next thing you know, I am tasked with getting rid of the process. This means coordinating a massive overhaul involving Planning, Purchasing, Distribution, Finance, and Manufacturing. In two years nobody has been able to accomplish this. And now it is my turn to try. While already doing the work of two people.
And then this morning my boss, the Planning Manager, announces that Friday is his last day because he found another job.
On the bright side, now nobody can stop me from taking over one of the boys get desks with a better computer with double monitors and stuff.
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