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f tlfi Page 2 .r? From The President How To Get Along With Your Supervisor By ana; VSW! igs ^ Spring is my favorite season. As I am writing this article, the landscape is exploding with color and new life. Spring recharges our enthusiasm and pumps new energy into our spirit. It is also metaphorically Spring at Adams-Mil- lis/Silver Knit. New life is appearing in the form of our new “state of the art” plant in Mount Airy and our new dye facility at Silver Knit. The batteries of all of us are being recharged through our MRPII training process and new company attitudes toward the importance of qual ity service to our customers, the quality of the products we knit and the total input of our individ ual talents in bringing success to Adams-Millis/ Silver Knit. This is also a good time to remind everyone that we need to hear from you as to how we can all do a better job going forward. No one knows your in dividual job better than you do. But, how can it be done more efficiently and safer? How can we truly become the leading low cost producer in the sock industry? Tell your supervisor, or better still, tell me how we can improve. The success of our collective ef forts are required for us to reach our goals. As a positive motivated team working together toward the same goals, we can make it happen. EDITOR’S NOTE: Following is an essay written by Cynthia Mabe of Silver Knit’s Drexel Plant providing a plant employee’s perspective of “How To Get Along With Your Supers’isor. ’’ She wrote the essay in conjunction with a class she took. Incidentally, she earned an "A" on the essay. By CYNTHIA MABE Have you every felt like quit ting your job, even though you like it, just because you can’t get along with your supervisor? If you quit your job every time you don’t like someone or some thing about the job you are doing, you will not have a good work record, and you will never gain the respect and skills necessary to achieve a promotion. However, you can learn to get along with your supervisor. It will take respect, discipline, patience and perhaps a change in your attitude. Here are some tips on how it can be done. These tips can also help you get along with others as well. First, you have to respect your supervisor. Realize that he/she has the authority to tell you what to do. If the supervisor is wise, he/she will ask you if you will do the job instead of telling you to. Arguing with your supervisor will not get you anywhere ex cept in trouble and definitely will not help your disposition. Always remember your su pervisor has a superior to an swer to. Your supervisor may not always agree with what he/ she has to ask you to do, but by accepting the supervisory posi tion he/she has agreed to have his/her department carry out instructions from higher man agement. Agruing with your supervi sor is out, but discussion is defi nitely in. If what you have been asked to do is routine, but you feel you know a better or faster way of doing it, ask your super visor if you may make a sugges tion about the job. This opens the door to discussion. Your suggestion may not be better or faster, and it may have been tried before, but your super visor will appreciate and respect the way you have handled the suggestion. It doesn’t make you look like you think you know how to do things better than the supervisor. If you have a suggestion about something in general, perhaps writing it down and giving it to your supervisor to read at his her convenience would be best. A smart supervisor will recog nize that you are interested in finding better and faster ways of doing a job. This will make you look good to the supervisor and make the supervisor look good to higher management. You have to discipline your self not to make a suggestion or ask questions each time you are United Way Chairman Says Thanks EDITOR’S NOTE: Following is a letter from Clark Gibson, 1990Campaign Chairman of the United Way of Greater High Point to Adams-Millis President George Burfeind. Dear Mr. Burfeind: I wanted to take a moment to sincerely thank you and your em- Amco News May 1991 Vol. 47, No. 2 AMCO NEWS is edited and produced quarterly by Adams-Miliis Corpora tion, 1823 Eastchester Drive, High Point, North Carolina, 27265. Editoriai contributions, comments and suggestions are always welcomed by your staff. ployees of Adams-Millis Cor poration for helping United Way get “Back on Track.” Through your company’s efforts. United Way of Greater High Point raised a total of $2,204,083 in the 1990 campaign. You can take pride in know ing that Adams-Millis Corpora tion’s contribution of $100,677 will help to make High Point a better place to live and work. Your gift will provide much needed services like handicapped swim programs, fellowship ac tivities for the elderly and sub stance abuse prevention and education. The list is endless. Please share with your em ployees our sincere thanks for their gifts to United Way so that they too will know what a tre mendous impact their contri butions have made. If you can Sincerely, Clark Gibson, President Jones & Peacock 1990 Campaign Chairman Graduation May and June is a time for graduations at high school and college and many members of the Adams-Millis Family will be celebrating them. We invite you to share infor mation about anyone in your immediate family who graduates this year. As in the past we will publish information and photos of graduates in the coming issue of the Amco News. Please send the name of the graduate, name of the school or institution from which he or she is graduating, type of degree earned and employee’s name and location. Send information and Pho tos to Linda Leach at the Ad- asked to do a job unless \ iide vitie training or have never do: he 5 ius,s lob before. This can be,. vating to the supervisor bq ^ you have been hired to not ask questions. This will only make supervisor ignore you as as possible and ask someonsj^ to do the job. Ifyou are plat for a promotion, this is way not to get one. Cooperation is a iaaorcg^] thing you do. You will ha\^ cooperate with your supei\,jg no matter what he/she teltg p to do unless it is against j pany policy. This will pro\.gj( him/her that you care and.j.jj to get along. Cooperatioi^j j big plus in business. Withc^gj no matter how organized oi^g hard you work, you will ik.^ able to accomplish the goa! ^ by your supervisor. Last but not least is youi tude. Perhaps your super^ thinks that you feel you Lj better than he/she does the job. Although you ma;j ^ feel this way, your attitudCjj.^ make you look or act as tliL you do. With an attitude^j, spect, discipline and coo[ ^ tion your supervisor will ge ^ message you want him/h(^^ get- These tips can be a lot of ^ to you. Put them to use day in order to accomplisljj most from them. Start sli especially if you have not this type of behavior before supervisor may become si^ post this letter or print it in your company newsletter, I would sincerely appreciate it. Thank you again for your sup port. Super Job! cious of your new behavioik 1 minstrative Office in High Point. If you have any questions, call Linda at 919-454-7420. attitude, and you could spoi good you wish to achieve, y You may still feel likei| | ting your job at times, buL member, there are no p«ij jobs or perfect supervi Supervisors are people, jusi{, you, that have a job to do# boss to whom they must ans When they have employees are respectful, cooperative, and friendly, they are us’ much easier to get along By staying with your job, | ing experience and showing!' supervisor you can get along him/her, you will put you into an excellent position! promotion or an excelled erence if you do decide to cK jobs eventually. i
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