Work drama
My bosses are hell-bent and determined to drive away the few remaining loyal employees we have left.
We have another supervisor position open. Now my bosses decide the best way to fill this position is to give the two main candidates just enough power and see which of them steps up to the task. These two guys happen to be on the same team (multimedia, where I used to work) and so, given power, they begin to issue orders to try to get things done. The problem with this is that they try to issue orders to one another, they bump heads, friction ensues, and in the end very little work gets done.
Can you see the problem here? Also, because they were both given a taste of power, whoever doesn’t get the job is going to be incredibly pissed.
I thought all of this would have been solved when one of the candidates turned in his two-week notice. Apparently he had gotten a better job and decided it was time to head off to greener pastures. With him gone I assumed it was just a few days until the other guy was offered the position.
Wrong.
I was talking to my boss about it and he basically said point-blank “The General Manager isn’t going to give him the job.”
What? Then why build him up as a candidate in the first place? Why not just give the job to the other guy (you know, BEFORE he got sick of things and quit).
More importantly, who is going to get the promotion? Because until we get another supervisor, there’s more work on me.
The answer, apparently, is that my boss’s best friend is getting the job.
My boss’s friend just moved here a few weeks ago and began working for us part time. Can you see the problem in this guy getting the promotion? I’m sure I don’t have to spell out how insulting that would be.
Hell, *I’ve* already been promoted and I’m kind of insulted.
I really don’t see any way that this situation is going to turn out well for our store.
We have another supervisor position open. Now my bosses decide the best way to fill this position is to give the two main candidates just enough power and see which of them steps up to the task. These two guys happen to be on the same team (multimedia, where I used to work) and so, given power, they begin to issue orders to try to get things done. The problem with this is that they try to issue orders to one another, they bump heads, friction ensues, and in the end very little work gets done.
Can you see the problem here? Also, because they were both given a taste of power, whoever doesn’t get the job is going to be incredibly pissed.
I thought all of this would have been solved when one of the candidates turned in his two-week notice. Apparently he had gotten a better job and decided it was time to head off to greener pastures. With him gone I assumed it was just a few days until the other guy was offered the position.
Wrong.
I was talking to my boss about it and he basically said point-blank “The General Manager isn’t going to give him the job.”
What? Then why build him up as a candidate in the first place? Why not just give the job to the other guy (you know, BEFORE he got sick of things and quit).
More importantly, who is going to get the promotion? Because until we get another supervisor, there’s more work on me.
The answer, apparently, is that my boss’s best friend is getting the job.
My boss’s friend just moved here a few weeks ago and began working for us part time. Can you see the problem in this guy getting the promotion? I’m sure I don’t have to spell out how insulting that would be.
Hell, *I’ve* already been promoted and I’m kind of insulted.
I really don’t see any way that this situation is going to turn out well for our store.