Another move, promotion included.

[prjkt]

As of Monday I take over management of the closest store to home with the chain I work for, after the former manager did a stupid.

No more dealing with the sh*t from my current SM, or dealing with the staff that follow his lead. Yay.

Almost didn't get the spot as H/O were worried what would happen if they took me out of my current store, luckily they've decided to risk it

[wolfie]

Almost didn't get the spot as H/O were worried what would happen if they took me out of my current store, luckily they've decided to risk it

That's something I don't understand about corporate mentality. Employee X is holding things together (i.e. doing the manager's job) at store 1 because the manager is a screw-up. Corporate doesn't want to promote employee X to manager at store 2 because if they do, things will fall apart at store 1.

The situation is as follows:
- Incompetent manager at store 1 (i.e. needs replacement)
- No manager at store 2 (i.e. needs replacement)
- Employee X on staff, who has shown themselves to be competent at handling a manager's job.

If they promote employee X to manage store 2, they need to find 2 people: a competent manager for store 1, and a peon to take over employee X's old job.

If they don't promote employee X, they risk employee X finding out about it ("WTF? I didn't get the promotion because I'm TOO good?"), and "jumping ship". If this happens, corporate needs to find 3 people: competent managers for store 1 AND store 2, and a peon to take over employee X's old job.

Clearly, corporate is better off promoting employee X than not promoting them - so why don't they do it?

[prjkt]

Luckily for me in this case, that's what they did. I've pretty much come full circle now, the store I'm taking over was the one I started at as a lab casual, since then I've worked across 11 stores in the city in pretty much ever position there is. It's nice to get some recognition.