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I'm currently an operations supervisor in a regional distribution center. I started out on the floor, promoted up through the training program available, and now work in the shipping department. I honestly enjoy most parts of my job, particularly helping to problem solve in time critical situations. I did work in a more support related function before promoting, and I honestly preferred the workflow there. Operations can be kind of intense, and requires me to focus a lot more on the "accountability" piece of things than I would rather do sometimes. We recently got a new general manager whose focus is most definitely more on securing profits than managing retention and employee engagement, so you can guess what the main pressure on me generally is from my direct supervisors. Production, production, and more production. On top of that we have a slew of admin tasks stacked up weekly. We're required to complete coaching sessions, audits, performance reviews, checks for missing product to reduce shrink, etc. All in all, I had a pretty good idea of what I was signing up for before I did it, but I really don't feel like we get paid enough for what we do. I also genuinely feel like the associates don't get paid enough for what we're asking of them, but that isn't necessarily something I can truly fight for being new in my role. On the plus side I only work three days a week, though they're roughly 14 hour days. Then I have the whole rest of the week off!