Hey all,
I love this sub and spend time reading here.
Here is my little vent. I'm a middle manager at a big company.
I have 4 supervisors under me and more than 50 employee in the department. I do the planning while they do the execution. I'm very close to them and I always make sure to let them know their value.
Anyhow, it is difficult to give 2 of them days off at the same time, so we talked about this and decided to train some backups from the employees so if the supervisor is absent for any reason, the back up can handle the work for that day “with my support and any other supervisor who is present.” This worked greatly, until one of the back-ups “let's call her A” turned out to be amazing at the job. The supervisor “Let's call her B” then asked me if she can spend sometime learning about other functions to get exposure for her personal growth.
Everything was so great, until my company screwed my employee. B got a promotion and moved on, but the company decided to eliminate the supervisor role “not really, but once they learned the employee can do it, they couldn't resist”
They somehow convinced “A” that being a supervisor sucks because it is too stressful and whatever.
Honestly, I have no idea what they told her but she came to me telling me how terrible it is and that she is too worried about the stress that comes with the role.
Now they are exploiting her. She is doing the same job, the exact same duties, but the same pay as the regular employees. I only have 3 supervisor now and I'm really scared of training back-ups anymore.
Sorry for the long post, I'm just frustrated because I thought I was doing the right thing but may be I was not