Second Floor Supervisor

Today was one of the best days ever! About a month ago I applied and was offered the position to be an interim supervisor. Its been really great. Being a supervisor has been so fun. At first I was worried because my go to answer for the past year at work has been "Ask your supervisor." And now I am the supervisor so I have to come up with the answers... hopefully they are right ones too! Today was great though because I was offered the permanent position. I am officially a supervisor for MemorialCare at Sutter Physician Services. My start date is March 16th, exactly 355 days after my start date with Sutter Physician Services as a Quality Coordinator. Thats kinda neat. At this pace I will be a manager on March 15th of next year, and a director on March 14th of 2017! Woot Woot!!!

But today I want to talk about why being a second floor supervisor has been so great. There are activity rooms on each floor, and ours has a ping pong table in it. One of my first jobs as a supervisor was to come up with a gift to give the agents for meeting their goals last month. I got them all ping pong paddles with a note that said "Way to Smash that Service Level!" It was pretty clever if I do say so myself. Well one of my favorite co-workers in another department also happens to be working on the 2nd floor now. And when he found out we had ping pong paddles... lets just say things got real.

We managed to meet together three different times, during lunch, on a break around 3, and after work today to play a bunch of games. We are keeping score too, and the first one to win 20 games has to buy the other one lunch! I'm about to get the easiest free meal from Cafe Rio Ever!!!

In all honesty, this job is hard. I got there at 8 this morning, didn't take a lunch, and worked straight  until 5.  Supervisor Tara is WAY busier than Cordner the Coordinator. I don't even realize that I worked through lunch until its about 2:00 and I'm starving but have meetings and things that have to get done. Luckily though the ping pong is pulling me through.

So here's to my newest adventure. One year home from my mission and I've got a nice new promotion to celebrate! I'm thinking I'm going to enjoy 2015! Its possible it will be the BEST YEAR EVER!!!