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Supervisor told me “The company needs to learn to stop hiring idiots”

Have been increasingly unhappy with my job. Stepped down from a full time shift lead position to just part time work. I'm still playing defacto shift lead because the company is short people, and we have a high turn around rate. We're getting new hires, and the Supervisor scheduled them in a way that I believe is counter productive and makes everyone's lives more difficult. I brought these concerns and what I believed to be a good solution forward to the supervisor and their response was “No, we need to challenge the new hires, the company needs to learn to stop hiring idiots”. So basically the Supervisor is justifying making my job more difficult, as well as the new trainees, because my supervisor has a personal vendetta, or is unhappy with upper management. The position is already paying an unlivable wage, and we can't keep people because it's a hard…


Have been increasingly unhappy with my job. Stepped down from a full time shift lead position to just part time work. I'm still playing defacto shift lead because the company is short people, and we have a high turn around rate. We're getting new hires, and the Supervisor scheduled them in a way that I believe is counter productive and makes everyone's lives more difficult. I brought these concerns and what I believed to be a good solution forward to the supervisor and their response was “No, we need to challenge the new hires, the company needs to learn to stop hiring idiots”.

So basically the Supervisor is justifying making my job more difficult, as well as the new trainees, because my supervisor has a personal vendetta, or is unhappy with upper management. The position is already paying an unlivable wage, and we can't keep people because it's a hard job that people honestly could be going to a trade school for. So their solution is to make the work needlessly more difficult… Peter Principle on full display.

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