I've been *girding* my loins for a *come to jesus* talk with my trainer..
For TWO days I've been practicing what I'm going to say and how to say it
I need to be PC and delicate..
I am a bull in a china shop
What I want to do
Skip the chain of command and go to my departments head
Tell her what is wrong and how to fix it
Finish up this training in the most effective and least time consuming way
Get certified and start working my shift and get life back on track for me and two other employees that are now covering the shift that will be mine..
Nice, neat, and political suicide..
What I will do...
Talk to my trainer and let him know how I am feeling and why
Ask him to come up with a solution so I am not waiting around four to five hours until he has time to train me.
Suggest the possibility of scheduled training time with scheduled tasks so I might take some of the *waiting time* and review the actual proceedures that are going to be performed (instead of just randomly picking out documents to reread!)
Suggest the possibility of working the same shift as the two other trainers who arn't supervisers and spend their entire shift on the floor.
I may be growing up
I want to work for this company, I want to work for this department, and I want to work the shift I was hired for... But I know me... I am work ID'd and production minded. Too many years in food... If you don't have any work to do, then go home... Don't sit around not doing anything and waste labor dollars... (yes, I was always under on labor, and inventory costs, and spoilage... but strangly enough I've always had the lowest turnover of employees..Go figure)
The sad thing is... My trainer is a good teacher, he is also a very good supervisor... He really just doesn't have time to be both...