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Well it's been 15 months since my last post on this thread, so here's an update. If you've seen some of my other posts, you know that the B.S. bucket overflowed. I made it past mid-year and I figure I can stick to the plan, so no cutting off my nose to spite my face yet. Although I did bump up retirement by two weeks.
Since the beginning of the year, three people retired, but I don't know if it was on schedule or pushed up because of new management. One person he hired lasted 7 months, but she apparently had problems before they hired her. Now, two people from one section have resigned, as they got no support, leaving that section totally vacant. One person is retiring this month, but I think she was planning to anyway. Another co-worker is looking to transfer to an open position in another division, hopefully sometime next month and I'll be out by the end of the year. So in a year's time, they'll have lost over 150 years of company experience.
I think the new guy came into the position, thinking it was a figurehead position, only needing to bless everyone's work. I've had several tasks passed on to me that my previous supervisor did and they're planning on passing more down. They actually had a staff meeting to justify what they're doing and said our previous supervisor did too much work. Which is funny, since they've contracted her to do his work recently, like they did last year.
From a short-timers perspective, I find the whole situation comical. They're passing on work that they'll have to pass on again. There are aspects of our jobs (those leaving), that our supervisor has no idea about because he wasn't interested in them. He also expected the person in the vacant section to train her supervisor, but they haven't hired anyone and she'll be gone shortly. He thinks anyone can do a job as long as there is documentation, but I haven't figured out how to document fixing unknown problems yet.
My wife hates what's happening and wishes I'd just quit, which is a possibility, but there is the face/nose thing. One good thing to know was it wasn't just me and sour grapes as others think the same. Of comfort to those who resigned, it's going to get a lot worse before there is even a chance of things getting better. They got out at a good time.
Well it's been 15 months since my last post on this thread, so here's an update. If you've seen some of my other posts, you know that the B.S. bucket overflowed. I made it past mid-year and I figure I can stick to the plan, so no cutting off my nose to spite my face yet. Although I did bump up retirement by two weeks.
Since the beginning of the year, three people retired, but I don't know if it was on schedule or pushed up because of new management. One person he hired lasted 7 months, but she apparently had problems before they hired her. Now, two people from one section have resigned, as they got no support, leaving that section totally vacant. One person is retiring this month, but I think she was planning to anyway. Another co-worker is looking to transfer to an open position in another division, hopefully sometime next month and I'll be out by the end of the year. So in a year's time, they'll have lost over 150 years of company experience.
I think the new guy came into the position, thinking it was a figurehead position, only needing to bless everyone's work. I've had several tasks passed on to me that my previous supervisor did and they're planning on passing more down. They actually had a staff meeting to justify what they're doing and said our previous supervisor did too much work. Which is funny, since they've contracted her to do his work recently, like they did last year.
From a short-timers perspective, I find the whole situation comical. They're passing on work that they'll have to pass on again. There are aspects of our jobs (those leaving), that our supervisor has no idea about because he wasn't interested in them. He also expected the person in the vacant section to train her supervisor, but they haven't hired anyone and she'll be gone shortly. He thinks anyone can do a job as long as there is documentation, but I haven't figured out how to document fixing unknown problems yet.
My wife hates what's happening and wishes I'd just quit, which is a possibility, but there is the face/nose thing. One good thing to know was it wasn't just me and sour grapes as others think the same. Of comfort to those who resigned, it's going to get a lot worse before there is even a chance of things getting better. They got out at a good time.