AA’s transferring out a department to get away from a bad area manager
Question for any area managers in here. What do you do or how do you react when you see associates from another department transferring out of that department to either your department or another department because they can’t stand their area manager in their home path?
Just for context, I currently work in pack singles at my site and am back half days. However, my schedule is Thursday through Sunday. There are many people within the department who do not like the area manager on front half days for a plethora of reasons. I too have grown to not like them and do everything I can to not be in pack singles on Sunday’s. I will sign up to tote run in pick on Sunday’s and avoid being in singles. My manager and pa on back half are awesome and I almost always have really good days on Thursday through Saturday. As a top performer and recently got my learning ambassadors vest, they pretty much let me choose what role I want to be in since I excel at everything in singles. They also give me help if I really need it (most of the time I am good on my own but every so often the headcount is just a little high for me to keep up with if I’m tote running or water spider). But when it comes to Sunday however, I dread being in singles.
Since peak season, there have been at least five people that I know of that have transferred out of singles because they couldn’t stand the area manager on front half. There have been several people that have quit. There is one guy there that is Thursday through Sunday like me and he either swaps his Sunday shift to a different day or he doesn’t come in at all and uses his upt or PTO or posts his shift for cover.
I should also mention that this particular manager has one of the worst performing departments in the whole building.
For any area manager’s that have seen a situation like this at their site, have you ever seen a situation where someone higher up than you guys steps in and tells that area manager to kick rocks and they are fired?