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Psycho Babble.....
Welcome Back my fellow Entropians.
My week has been a week of adjustment as far as RL is concerned. It's all work related really. So, while I'm here working another lame Saturday shift, I'll tell you all about it.
Earlier this week (Tuesday) my manager was given his "pink slip". I won't go into too much depth behind the reason(s) why... All I'll say is that I don't agree 100% with how things went down. Then again I'm a mere pawn in all of this and my thoughts, ideas and opinions don't account for much.
To give you all a little history, to help better understand my mindset on all this, The dealership I work for bought out the previous owner in October 2006.
Before I was transfered here in December 2006, the 3 employees in this department were here 20 years together. The lady that took care of all the warranty claims and returns was given her "pink slip" 3 days after I was transferred. In July 2007 The parts manager was laid off and the other employee was promoted to the parts manager and 2 months later he quit, and I was here everyday for 6 weeks open to close....
not fun being thrown into the wolves like that. Stu was hired as the new parts manager and now we are up to date.
While Stu had previous management experience at other dealerships, apparently he was not doing things "their way" and was never shown how things were expected to be done, so that didn't help. So in a sense he never really had a fair chance in my opinion, but again what I think doesn't matter.
So now Al is the new parts manager. Now, it's only fair that I give you some history about him
Al worked as the parts manager in our sister store for 9 years. So he's well aware of the "right" way to do things. Seems about 6 weeks ago Al thought he could handle being a Service Manager at his store and got the position and a new parts manager was hired to replace him. Well Al's career as a Service Manager was short lived and last week he just decided not to show up for work, couldn't handle his new position and seems he had a bit of a tantrum (from where I sit).
After making a phone call to his manager, seems Al couldn't get his former position, that wouldn't be fair to the new guy... so....we'll have to let another parts manager go and make room for you.
But who should we let go... Looks like Stu's track record isn't so hot... We'll let him go and You can go there
problem solved!
Well, Al has been here 3 days and has already stepped on a few toes.
I expect a few changes to be made, after all it comes with the territory. For the most part I'm easy going and willing to try new things especially if it makes my job easier.
But so far all I've heard for the last 3 days is.. "Why do you do things this way?" "This is the "right" way to do it!" Yeah, that really lowers the morale, being told that practically everything you've been doing is WRONG! I have a hard time believing that since I've been here since December 2006 and I have had no complaints from the other managers.
The fact that things were done differently at his former store doesn't make it "right". I'm not saying that my department doesn't have it's flaws, or runs like a well oiled machine...but at least keep an open mind about doing things in a different way before you go bashing my methods that have been working for me... I'm sure you can imagine my frustrastion.
Seems he's not so perfect after all, questioning why I take the extra step to look up the correct fluids when the tech needs to change the differential fluids, when they have the means of looking it up. Most of these guys are flat rate, and if I can save them some time and get them the correct fluid, everyone is happy...I caught him handing out the wrong weight fluid and handing out 2 bottles of limited slip additive last night. He didn't even look it up, just went off of the fact that it was a 1997 Grand Cherokee.
On a positive note, I will NOT be working next Saturday
Since Friday is the 4th of July, we are close Friday and Saturday.. Sunday and Monday are my normal days off!! That's something to look forward too... not that I have any plans, but at least I don't have to be here.
*sigh* Wow, the time sure does fly bye when you're blogging at work hehehe. It's almost 1pm and I suppose I should finish checking in the stock order and receiving it. Which btw I was shown the "new" way to do it, but I forgot
So I'm doing it my way. I'm sure I'll here about it on Tuesday. Oh Well.... I'm not gonna sweat it... no skills gained.
HA!!! Now that I have checked in the order and received it, another thing comes to mind... I was questioned as to why we used the customer's name as a bin location when we have to special order a part... I said that it makes it faster to check in and match up to the special order card. Seems he doesn't do that nor sees the point, and when I looked at the shipper this afternoon, I had no idea which parts was for who.... I had to check the history of each part and see who it was sold to, then check it in and match it up. What a pain in the ass.... Same thing goes for a car waiting for a part, the Service Advisor comes up and asks if the part for Mr. Smith came in, I can check the shipper and see Smith and answer YES! I see that Mr.Smith's part came in this morning.... not let me find the card and look through a list of 70 part numbers on the shipper to see if it's here....
Come back Monday, I'll have your EU Horoscope for June 30- July 6
My week has been a week of adjustment as far as RL is concerned. It's all work related really. So, while I'm here working another lame Saturday shift, I'll tell you all about it.
Earlier this week (Tuesday) my manager was given his "pink slip". I won't go into too much depth behind the reason(s) why... All I'll say is that I don't agree 100% with how things went down. Then again I'm a mere pawn in all of this and my thoughts, ideas and opinions don't account for much.
To give you all a little history, to help better understand my mindset on all this, The dealership I work for bought out the previous owner in October 2006.
Before I was transfered here in December 2006, the 3 employees in this department were here 20 years together. The lady that took care of all the warranty claims and returns was given her "pink slip" 3 days after I was transferred. In July 2007 The parts manager was laid off and the other employee was promoted to the parts manager and 2 months later he quit, and I was here everyday for 6 weeks open to close....
not fun being thrown into the wolves like that. Stu was hired as the new parts manager and now we are up to date.While Stu had previous management experience at other dealerships, apparently he was not doing things "their way" and was never shown how things were expected to be done, so that didn't help. So in a sense he never really had a fair chance in my opinion, but again what I think doesn't matter.
So now Al is the new parts manager. Now, it's only fair that I give you some history about him
Al worked as the parts manager in our sister store for 9 years. So he's well aware of the "right" way to do things. Seems about 6 weeks ago Al thought he could handle being a Service Manager at his store and got the position and a new parts manager was hired to replace him. Well Al's career as a Service Manager was short lived and last week he just decided not to show up for work, couldn't handle his new position and seems he had a bit of a tantrum (from where I sit).
After making a phone call to his manager, seems Al couldn't get his former position, that wouldn't be fair to the new guy... so....we'll have to let another parts manager go and make room for you.
But who should we let go... Looks like Stu's track record isn't so hot... We'll let him go and You can go there problem solved!Well, Al has been here 3 days and has already stepped on a few toes.
I expect a few changes to be made, after all it comes with the territory. For the most part I'm easy going and willing to try new things especially if it makes my job easier.
But so far all I've heard for the last 3 days is.. "Why do you do things this way?" "This is the "right" way to do it!" Yeah, that really lowers the morale, being told that practically everything you've been doing is WRONG!
I have a hard time believing that since I've been here since December 2006 and I have had no complaints from the other managers. The fact that things were done differently at his former store doesn't make it "right". I'm not saying that my department doesn't have it's flaws, or runs like a well oiled machine...but at least keep an open mind about doing things in a different way before you go bashing my methods that have been working for me... I'm sure you can imagine my frustrastion.
Seems he's not so perfect after all, questioning why I take the extra step to look up the correct fluids when the tech needs to change the differential fluids, when they have the means of looking it up. Most of these guys are flat rate, and if I can save them some time and get them the correct fluid, everyone is happy...I caught him handing out the wrong weight fluid and handing out 2 bottles of limited slip additive last night. He didn't even look it up, just went off of the fact that it was a 1997 Grand Cherokee.
On a positive note, I will NOT be working next Saturday
Since Friday is the 4th of July, we are close Friday and Saturday.. Sunday and Monday are my normal days off!! That's something to look forward too... not that I have any plans, but at least I don't have to be here.*sigh* Wow, the time sure does fly bye when you're blogging at work hehehe. It's almost 1pm and I suppose I should finish checking in the stock order and receiving it. Which btw I was shown the "new" way to do it, but I forgot
So I'm doing it my way. I'm sure I'll here about it on Tuesday. Oh Well.... I'm not gonna sweat it... no skills gained. HA!!! Now that I have checked in the order and received it, another thing comes to mind... I was questioned as to why we used the customer's name as a bin location when we have to special order a part... I said that it makes it faster to check in and match up to the special order card. Seems he doesn't do that nor sees the point, and when I looked at the shipper this afternoon, I had no idea which parts was for who.... I had to check the history of each part and see who it was sold to, then check it in and match it up. What a pain in the ass.... Same thing goes for a car waiting for a part, the Service Advisor comes up and asks if the part for Mr. Smith came in, I can check the shipper and see Smith and answer YES! I see that Mr.Smith's part came in this morning.... not let me find the card and look through a list of 70 part numbers on the shipper to see if it's here....
Come back Monday, I'll have your EU Horoscope for June 30- July 6
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