Promotion

11-01-2014

    Luke got a promotion! First thing this morning the owner walked up to us and told him. He was swept right into it, and I barely had time to say, "congratulations!" before he was off and learning his new responsibilities. 

    Luke is now higher up than all the line managers, and is right hand man to the shift manager. The order is now: the owners, the head manager, the shift manager, then Luke (2nd in charge), then the line managers. It makes a lot of sense to me because Luke can do a lot more than the line managers know how to do, like drive a forklift, but he's not as experienced as the head manager, or even the shift manager, so even though he has awesome mechanical intuition, I think the shift manager may know more. At least when it comes to these machines. If the topic was about cars, well then I'd put my money on Luke. 

   If the shift manager ever needs a day off, Luke will be able to fill in no problem, and I think he's already looking forward to that day off. Today our line manager was off, because it's his dad's birthday, so Luke was our line manager. It was a lot different with Luke overseeing things, like we were short handed, because Luke couldn't do the normal jobs he used to do since he had new tasks at hand. Therefore, I loaded most of the day, and started to do a lot of the things that Luke used to do. I've even helped unload a truck or two, which entails weighing the fruit brought in by other farmers and keeping track of how many kilograms or fruit were brought in per trip, and overall per year. I'm still not driving a forklift, but it doesn't seem like such an impossibility to learn anymore since there was talk today of teaching one of the other line workers - someone else like me - to do it.