So earlier in the month, Hubs requested we buy some things for his work... (we still own them, if he were to quit, he'd take them back home) but he wanted to make his work space a bit more efficient since their store has been running under staffed for some time as employees choose to leave and retire.
If you remember way way way back, we have two spare monitors. We sent one to Utah so when we go out to hang for the holidays, he can still game with his brothers... but we have been storing another one in our house that doesn't have a mount. Hubs really wanted a dual monitor set up at work and it isn't a high priority for their store since they have a staffing issue... so we bought a "mount" for it and hubs brought it into work. His boss didn't say anything as he set it up, but it has helped him a lot with his new duties at work as the pseudo ordering manager.
The other day when he was working, his boss was stressing because they had to order a complicated line of products and he thought he would need to do it himself... but Hubs had already started it and surprised his boss 45 minutes later when he walked into the office and ask what special order items he wanted to add to the order... his response was "your already done with it???" -- a task like that took the old project manager 5 hours... he did it in an hour and a half.
So, we set him up with a dual monitor at work since he's now doing a bulk of the store ordering and it makes him happier at work...
He also wanted a new keyboard. We have a new one at home that lights up when you press buttons, but it's also one of those "old school" ones where the keys make a taping sound when you press one (he got one with a sound dampener so he's not annoying at work), because he wanted to type on one type of system at both work and home... and it makes him happier at work...
Needless to say, work hasn't been all that happy as their store has been under staffed for a while, but hubs is picking up the slack in a HUGE way... but his boss is starting to look at him like his 2nd in command and that's an amazing thing.
Next week is profit share where they normally sit down and do annual performance updates, etc... his boss told him yesterday that he put in for him to get another raise now that his co-worker retired and isn't on the books anymore... but we will see what happens. He didn't mention how much of a raise he put in for hubs, but Hubs isn't even getting paid what he should be getting as lead inside sales... let alone purchase manager....
Hubs has a figure in mind that his boss needs to pay him... so we will see what happens there.... but profit share is coming. Apparently, it will be very similar to last year since they still have to pay the guy who retired his share (and as the old purchase manager he would receive a larger chunk of the profit share check.) But someone just quit yesterday, and they just hired a warehouse guy so those employees won't be receiving checks because they weren't at the store a whole year.
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