the supervisor jig
After having assumed many different scenarios to be the truth, a decision has finally been made on my lateral move. At first my plan was to stay with the cafe and run it for a while longer, now that we're a Seattle's Best. Next, I thought I was going to move over to the inventory department and be the inventory supervisor. For a while that was the plan, until Mary told me it'd probably be better to promote someone else into that position and then I'd take the open training supervisor position. Alas, none of those turned out to be the truth. I got fired!
Just kidding. Out of nowhere, Grant (my general manager) basically pleaded for me to be the operations supervisor. I never considered this, but when he explained to me how critical of a position it is and that he's putting me there because he needs someone he can trust, I felt pretty good about it. As the ops supervisor, I'll be in charge of scheduling for the whole store (40+ employees). I'm also in charge of payroll and all of the human resources taskwork. My reporting staff will be the cashiers, but I'll definitely have more of a whole store focus.
I'll miss the cafe, but the more I think about it the more I realize that it's my old cafe I'll miss. After doing this three week Seattle's Best conversion I'm just plain burned out, and need to move on. I'll tell you, though--those eight or so months of running the cafe was one of the best times of my life. I turned the cafe staff into a tightly nit family, but I'm more the group's founder than I am part of it.
Just kidding. Out of nowhere, Grant (my general manager) basically pleaded for me to be the operations supervisor. I never considered this, but when he explained to me how critical of a position it is and that he's putting me there because he needs someone he can trust, I felt pretty good about it. As the ops supervisor, I'll be in charge of scheduling for the whole store (40+ employees). I'm also in charge of payroll and all of the human resources taskwork. My reporting staff will be the cashiers, but I'll definitely have more of a whole store focus.
I'll miss the cafe, but the more I think about it the more I realize that it's my old cafe I'll miss. After doing this three week Seattle's Best conversion I'm just plain burned out, and need to move on. I'll tell you, though--those eight or so months of running the cafe was one of the best times of my life. I turned the cafe staff into a tightly nit family, but I'm more the group's founder than I am part of it.