I recently was promoted to a supervisor for a job that’s temporary until I get a career more aligned with what I studied, and I am being trained by the two supervisors that have been there in the past year.
Supervisor A, one I am friendly with and even trust on a personal level (I know, it’s work, but I usually consider myself good at identifying ‘fake’ or relatively ‘authentic’ people), was frustrated because they had been doing the work of multiple supervisors since some have left, and supervisor B doesn’t pick up their slack yet never gets in trouble for it. Though I don’t dislike the other supervisor, I feel sympathetic for supervisor A, assuring him that when I get promoted from my current position, I’ll help out. Part of the agreement upon me becoming supervisor is I will start doing late night shifts while supervisors with more seniority get the day.
On top of everything, though, when I get promoted they make me close for most days but two of the days, I’m mid-shift. Supervisor A is already pushed to their limit, not sure if it was a mistake in scheduling and why I wasn’t closing every day like they agreed, so I offered to come in an hour later to close instead if they figured I’d always be a closer anyway and that was the right thing to do. I should not have offered.
Supervisor B made a big deal about it, not liking that we didn’t go through the manager who makes the schedule to approve the change. Keep in mind that Supervisor b also asked me to come in later on my training shift the week before, but apparently he had manager clearance… the only problem with that is instead of the manager or even the supervisor himself asking me to come in later, they asked a customer service representative who had my number to text me and ask me, instead of looking at my phone number on file or asking the rep to give them my phone number. The whole chain of command with schedule was weird to begin with, so I assumed it was okay to listen to my training supervisor about which time to come in on.
Well, I explain this when Supervisor b and the manager are upset about not giving me clearance (in hindsight, I had a gut feeling I should contact the higher manager about the schedule so that’s my fault), and guess what supervisor A does? I figure we’d work with each other to explain the situation, how the schedule didn’t make sense given the agreement, but instead Supervisor A says they didn’t tell me to come in an hour later! They entirely deny it and say I am misremembering events. I thought I was going crazy for a minute.
It’s tough, because I’m applying for another job right now that’s more in line with my career goals despite the recent promotion I got at my current job. It was always meant to be a temporary job. A part of me wants to say that despite how betrayed I feel, I should suck it up because I used Supervisor A as my reference for this other job more in line with my career.
Now I’m walking on eggshells here. Need to protect myself, but also have to work with these people.