Serious question, why does every person who is given a title of ‘Team Leader’ immediately think that they are above their fellow workers!!! Do they not realise they are the managers little b##ches? I know this is not just the UK I am talking about
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There was a time when all new leaders/supervisors received training and coaching so they wouldn’t be a bunch of meat heads. In addition HR took an active role in that positive coaching….. now none of that and it hurts everyone.
In the US Industrial Tapes plant where I worked, all shift supervisors were renamed "Team Leaders" many years ago. Apparently the word "supervisor" fell out of favor...
The people to whom Team Leaders reported (formerly known as General Supervisors) became "Team Advisors".
This applied to people who were supervising hourly production, maintenance, or warehouse employees.
Team leader means they will pay you similar or maybe slightly more, but you have to take on the stress of managing a team who were once your peers and are likely bitter that you were selected as team leader over them. It's a lose-lose situation.
Here they call those type of jobs a demotion and not a promotion. The raises are pretty petty for the responsibility. Definitely wouldn't want it. Most jobs at 3m are like that because of their lame linear pay scale charts. Better to stay at the bottom in my eyes.
Global supply chain leader is JG 15 or 16? What about global supply chain director?
What would king chuck and queen cams think of such language…
TUPE transfer looming for UK plants - watch this space