For some days, it seemed like Baker J’s was being a bit quiet. He has been working alone at night in recent days, so it seemed difficult for us to expect him to make another mistake about reporting. And, of course, he was able to punish our optimism in another creative way.
Monday and Thursday are J’s recurring day-off. Therefore, he was supposed not to do the delivery shift at night this Monday. That day, the management decided to train our new teammate for the delivery shift at Wicked Cafe at Fairview (1399 W 7th Avenue, Vancouver). It would be a role that’s too dangerous for J to handle alone. Not surprising. What if the trainee does not report as well (haha)?
But the problem arose when the delivery person for Monday suddenly had a fever. The day before, she reached out to J to ask him to take her shift on Monday. I am not sure what he was thinking back then, but it seems that he agreed to take her schedule over. So the delivery person contacted the manager at the Fairview Location to reach out to J.
The night was still young, so J and the manager discussed the next day’s schedule. There were two issues: the first was a new trainee. The manager asked J if it was okay to do the training instead of the scheduled worker. J said yes (obviously without thinking much). The second was the working hour, an issue because the original shift was until 10 PM, but J said he would like to work as usual until 4 AM. The manager told him to double-check with the boss, to which J agreed. Then, unlike before, J immediately contacted the boss to clarify this (do you see his progress?). But the issue was that he only talked about the working time, and nothing about the trainee.
The boss told J last time to report his daily plan to all the managers as soon as he wakes up every day. Accordingly, he texted that he would be working at our Fairview Location a bit later than the original and would train the new worker. What was funny about this report was that he missed the two most important people on this subject: me, his supervisor for delivery, and the boss, who had no idea about the training.
The boss found the story about the training out much later when I reported to him. Obviously… things did not turn out too happy for him. Later, I heard that the boss asked the manager what she thought about J’s new reporting style: skipping the boss instead of her. The manager told the boss that she wanted neither of them (of course).
Was it progress for J’s reporting, or is it just another added to his menu of mistakes? We will find out shortly.