This place hired me last week as a production manager. I was taking the place of the current manager, but he was the person training me. My boss told me I would be trained for two weeks and then afterwards I'd be on my own. Day three my boss came in my office telling me to tell the trainer to give me the pin of the company laptop issued to the trainer. I told the trainer what the boss said at which point I was told that it wasn't a good idea. I took it as he felt. I wasn't ready for that step as he had me sorting drawings and making tags for parts that needed painting. The following day my boss came in the office and told me to print every drawing for that week and arrange them in order for the week, I said OK not knowing that the trainer never had any intentions of letting me anywhere near the system to begin with. During that process the owner stops in to see me. He tells me the next time he sees me he wants to see me in the seat that I was hired to sit in meaning the seat in front of the manager's computer. I said OK as I'm sure I would be trained up by then. The assumption was that since I did secretary duties for the trainer the whole week and then the second week surely would be training me on the computer Monday of this week came, and I was still off to the side, making paint tags and sorting drawings. By Tuesday after lunch my boss pulled me into the office and told me that my trainer would be staying in the manager position because a Shop foreman would be hired to take over the production floor. He offered me an estimators job which really I had to go to another department down the road to apply for meaning I stood the chance of not getting the job or I could take an in-house Jr production manager position and a pay cut of 30,500 down from the 82,500. I was a carpenter of many years. I didn't want to become an estimator reading blueprints and placing bids so I took the Jr production manager position. I spent all of Wednesday with no company computer so therefore, I sat in a bigger office with four other junior managers with desk and computers, and I read a whole manual on welding techniques and the rules the entire shift. I came back this morning and sat in the same seat as yesterday and after 20 minutes I left for good. Bottom line I wasn't trained to do anything, and all I knew was the notes that I took and the only computer insight came from me hopping in the seat when the trainer was out of the office which was often. In hindsight, I knew the trainer was never going to train me to take his job and he and the operations manager are tight with each other anyway. I had intentions to do what I was hired for; improve processes, discipline insubordinate employees while implementing the 5S process among writing SOP's and other things. I was baited, blackballed demoted, and now unemployed in less than two weeks They lie to their clients about deadlines. The welders are trash and smoke in the building and do what they want because the production manager lets them. He actually told me he lets them do what they want because there is no time to discipline them so as long as they don't get termed for missing days,.The owner and operations manager, sincerely wants to turn the company around for the better, but I can promise you it won't happen with the production manager training others to take his position. Production manager said he really didn't want the position because he would rather be on the floor, but I guess he was told he'd be taking a cut to his salary and that was the end of that. However I took a cut but now I'm out and I know my God will see me through because he knows my heart. I'd come in in the mornings and greet the office staff and they'd look at me like I had the plague and murmur. Good morning. The moment I was demoted they all was happy and spoke to me. The metrics are off. The people are off the production Staff has a high turnover rate welders are treated like peasants and talked about because if they pass the weld test, they have the job, but don't know how to do much else beside a few hot passes and shabby fillet and 1f welds. The basics. I am a MIG welder with limited years in the field, yet enough to take the reins and point out the problems in the welds but more over I am a lean thinking leader ready to trim the fat from processes. I lost a nice salary, but they lost a great leader. Congrats to the production manager Garrett Rylan this is his position and if God sees fit, I will be here to see him drive that company in the ground. read more