Hello again, Marty T Hawkins with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. I was asked again this week if becoming or accepting a promotion to Supervisor was or would be a good move. It seems I\u2019m asked that pretty regularly, so I thought we\u2019d talk about Supervision for a few minutes today. My answer is always unequivocally yes! I\u2019m probably wrong to say that but seriously, if that\u2019s a part of our plan and goals then we need to accept the position and enter into our new role with an open mind and be willing to accept some corrective criticism and the all the experiences of others. You\u2019ll need to understand that yes we understand the job and task we\u2019ve been doing, probably can perform it better than our previous boss but our new job may have very little to do with that task and we\u2019re going to be exposed to responsibilities and concerns that we\u2019ve never even imagined before. Now management isn\u2019t for everyone. Just do to our life styles and our family responsibilities or maybe even our present friendships with our peers. I always suggest that we speak with our spouses and family before we accept a role in management, their lives will be affected in some way as well, maybe in small ways but I assure you they are going to feel that things have changed. My experiences are in Operations, Warehousing and Transportation, the distribution and production environments. I\u2019m not just talking about the odd hours, or the many many emails and phone calls we may experience in our new position either. We\u2019re going to be introduced to the logistics, planning and reason\u2019s that things are done the way they are. And we\u2019ll now be responsible for those outcomes. Be it expenses, productivity, profit and loss, the safety of others and the growth of our company and our employees. It sounds a little overwhelming when I say it like that but honestly things are going to change. And change for the good! If you\u2019re a long time WAOC listener, you already know that we\u2019re all about advancement and our long term careers, right? The front-line management positions like Leads and supervisors are those first steps and they are, or I feel that they are, the proper steps to advancing our careers. I hear from so many that are considering taking those steps with questions like can you believe theirs a pay cut to get a promotion, or something like I\u2019ve been offered a promotion but they can\u2019t tell me exactly what the hours will be, or something like they expect me to be basically on-call all the time. If you feel this way I\u2019d ask that you step back for a minute and think things through, think about what your wanting down the road. Remember, all those things are just what we\u2019re use to, they\u2019ve been a part of our working lives since we\u2019ve started working and that\u2019s how we\u2019ve learned to think. Remember earlier I spoke about entering our new role with an open mind? Rather think of it as what it is. Were accepting a new job, literally a new job. Oh, it\u2019s with the same company and on the same floor, the same environment we go to everyday and around all the same people we\u2019re use to seeing but our job is different, and it comes with a new pay program, new tasks and all new responsibilities. It\u2019s as simple as that, we\u2019re changing jobs ladies and gentlemen. We\u2019re very fortunate though, it\u2019s not like we have lost our old position and having to seek employment though so we can keep doing what we\u2019re doing and being very successful at it. Or we can change jobs and look at it as what it is, advancement and opportunity in a new field. We\u2019ll be using the experiences we\u2019ve learned and applying them to our new Career.
\nOf course, pay is something we need to consider, that\u2019s how we pay our bills and take care of our families. A salaried position is something we can\u2019t break down into an hourly pay rate, don\u2019t try to do it. I can almost assure you that your W2 at the end of the year will reflect our promotion and additional earnings.