I'm going to get nailed for this but so be it. How is the diversity issue in promotions improving anything more than their public image? Why aren't promotions based on ability rather than ethnicity? How are some of these high up management folks going to feel when their own supervisors are chosen from the quota ranks, some of whom don't have the sense of a blowfly?
Example, our newest pt supervisor is a good guy, likable and so forth but a maroon. He has finally stopped staring into space and sucking on his fingers while his area is going to hell in a handbasket. I had to tell him several times to knock it off before he quit that one.
He puts blank SPA labels on a rotating piece of a conveyor just to watch them whirl around. Yesterday he got creative and drew a red spiral on one, which seemed to amuse him for quite some time. Sort aisle falling apart.
Later that day he was using a pile of stacked small bags as a punching bag. Again, sort aisle needing some supervision. Belts stopped, nowhere to send the pkgs, egress up to our butts but here he is playing boxer man. He knocked a bag of smalls down onto the aisle, then meandered over to turn one of the belts back on. Came back, stepped over the bag and went on down to chat and was probablly sucking his fingers again.
End of the same day, last 10 mintues of sort, drivers are chomping at the bit and I several pkgs that needed to be looked up for SPA labels. He comes up with his clipboard to inform me that I had missed one day last week and had been one minute late the week prior. I asked if he had to do it right NOW? "yes" Can this wait a few minutes until I get these pkgs SPAd and to the belts? "nope, have to do it right now". OK fine, to heck with it. Stood there for five minutes while he blabbered on, refused to sign and finally got the pkgs out.
OK, we have sups of all races who are no smarter than this but boxerman is an obvious example of diversity promotion in our center. Everyone knows it except him, he's bad for moral, bad for the company and, sadly enough, my boss.
I feel that most individuals, regardless of race, have the ability to grow and learn how to supervise in some positive way but in a few cases it's a game that no one will benefit from. So--- how are some of these full time sups going to feel when this bozo gets pushed up higher than them in the ranks and is still sucking his fingers?