The export guy got let go last Monday. They said his position was eliminated due to not enough business.
GM's last day was Friday.
Due to export guy being gone, I've been told I WILL learn export. Mind you, the last time I did anything with export was the early 2000s. That was ocean. I never did air. And export air freight is so different these days due to security issues. I was handed an export account already. It's something we do for another office, that involves inspection by a Fed agency before export. Always flies out of our city, so it's done in our warehouse. It's simple enough and I'm already used to dealing with that Fed agency. It's just one more thing on top of everything else I'm expected to do.
I discovered when I came in today that the manager and supervisor had gone through my file cart where active stuff lives and went through everything. I got pounded today for the number of new shipments that we don't have specific sailing information for. I handle a customer that has a lot of hazardous cargo. It can take 4-6 weeks to get the required approval from the ocean carrier, vessel captain, etc. I'm checking in weekly with my counterparts at origin to get updates. That's not good enough for manager and supervisor. I'm supposed to be emailing DAILY. What a waste of time. When I responded to their email about it, telling them I'd go through the files tomorrow and send emails as needed, manager blasted me, "UNACCEPTABLE." Supervisor said "we could be making money off those shipments." Like I'm purposely not letting these shipments get on a ship?
I'm taking nearly all of my 3+ weeks of vacation time this year. Several longer weekends and 2 week long vacations.
Just more of "making do with less" and we're supposed to have NO OT at all. I ran from 8-noon, and both manager/supervisor were peppering me with questions on and off during lunch. Then it was head long again from 1-5.