For context, the company is medium sized and expanding. They have three locations in state. It’s big enough to have a district manager, then one general and one assistant general manager per store, and multiple shift leads per shift.
So is it reasonable for the higher ups to expect that I train new coworkers for their first few weeks? Like all the new hires think I’m a shift lead based on how much I know/ confident I am.
The GM did say that he was trying to get the higher up positions than him to create a new position that’s not a shift lead but does train, so I could get paid for it. He would make me a shift lead but I’m only available three days a week for 30 hours due to outside of work responsibilities.
Our front of store lead has been on vacation for over three weeks straight, back some time next month if she still has her job. She sometimes does the training. But it’s usually pawned off on me for multiple stations around the business.
Other employees refuse to train others because they say it’s not in their job description/ only paid barely enough to rent an apartment with a roommate or two in my area but not nearly if you have a kid. But the shift lead at another store of the same chain says that a regular employee training another employee is reasonable and normal. like shadowing… but I’m literally training and mentoring folks.
What do you think? Are there laws? Sources/ evidence?