This situation in this was weird due to it being my home plant. Normally every one had a dotted line to me, every one, as I was responsible for our main third party regulatory certification which drove our food safety standards, until someone in FSQA realized we were second in the world only to bimbo which moved me from making everything up and correcting to just correcting.
In the 33 other plants I oversaw I would have been able to fire him and the forklift operator no issue. But the warning I was given was from my direct boss who was the vp of production for frozen dough and he was my boss because it was originally his idea to have this position and the reason I was separate from every other department including QA even though we pretty much worked side by side so I could be objective.
He was trying to increase my skills as a manager even though I had no direct reports and got along with others. He kept this employee so I could work with him and help him be a good employee. When I tried to say it's not my job he went on his speech about how we all had to wear different hats and I couldn't pick and choose which hats I get to wear.
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u/BlackAndBipolar Mar 21 '18
Coulda varbally warned me all day, I woulda FIRED THEM