Resurrecting my old thread!
*Warning long post!*
So in the few months weve had good points and bad points at work
I'll start with the bad points
As of next year our break patterns are changing because they are trying to cover as many of the empty positions within our factory and they seem to believe they can do this by changing our break patterns therefore we will get less breaks now. We aren't happy but we shall see how it goes! This means that people are having to move department and even shift.
An entire department is leaving Slough due to sales - being dead in the water! Mars have invested millions (literally) and they have lost money! Even though the States couldn't get the product off the shelves they believed us Brits could take it and sort out their huge issues...We couldn't!
And I didn't get a box of Teasers the other day from the shop due to them all being handed out within the day. So today I got told they had M&Ms being handed out as our free weekly choc and when I went upstairs (5 mins after being told) they were all gone!!
Now the good
In the last month I have been nominated and won Superstar award for being hard working on the line which means I was awarded £25 Gift voucher (in a whole bunch of stores or resturants)
Today was our last day at work for breakup over Christmas
Approx 20 mins before the end of our shift I was running around sorting out my last bits and pieves for my work and I was pulled aside and handed another £25 M&S gift vouchers for doing 150+ days of taste panels (basically tasting chocolate to make sure it tastes OK) yes this is a job and yes you do have to go through training to see if you can taste if somethings wrong!
As I was leaving today (showered and changed back into civvies) I was walking past the offices and noticed my Team Leader (manager) still there working. I shouted out the obligatory 'you know its Christmas now' 'go home' etc etc!! He laughed! But then went serious, he said could I have a few minutes of your time?!
Yes, I said. Sounds serious? What's going on? Stumbled out of my mouth. Do I have to sit down?
He mentioned that it would be better to sit down!
*I sat*
I'm not moving shift or from bars (department) - blurted out from my mouth
Team Leader laughed
I'm not joking - i said
Team Leader realised I wasn't messing around and smiled
He said - you have been with us since 2017, your name has been mentioned a lot since you started, by not only your old Team Leader but also by myself, other Team Leaders, different shifts, even by value stream leaders (big bods).
Ok - I said in a confused manned
You have shown everything that we think a new Associate should be. Always keeping yourself busy, never letting people struggle, always lending a hand whenever you can and he mentioned my energy levels are great, he said he doesn't know where i get it from!!
Ok - confused still I said
You know we talk about people and we have nominations for associate of the month etc, well your name has been mentioned and we think you deserve
Associate of the Year for Bars
I couldn't believe it
I was thrilled had a huge smile on my face. I mentioned how I do take a look at the board and how I will prob never get up there (when you look at who gets up there they are all involved in big project etc. And me and a friend even joke about it as we started the same time (same induction) and we say how it will prob take us 10 years to get up there!
Me and the Team Leader chatted some more and about it all and he carried on and said
With this you will get £250!!
So in the last month I have got an extra £300
Goes to show hard work pays off.
So much happier than my old place.
Loving life!
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