West Milton IGA promotes employee of five years OHIO – Spencer Post, who is from Laura, Ohio, approximately five minutes outside of West Milton, Ohio, has recently just received a promotion at his local grocery store. Post has worked at this location going on five years now and has been offered a managing position. It will require him to put in more hours, but he will receive better pay, plus benefits. With this new position he will be in charge of opening up the store, along with closing; depending on what shift he works. Added to that he’ll make sure other co-workers stay on task, as well as balancing out cashier’s money drawers. Post will as well have to be trained on the cash register for when that have a rush of customers to be able to provide help. The previous position Post held was just a regular customer service position. Post stocked shelves when new products arrived on the truck, conditioned the shelves, and bagged customer’s groceries. Post as well would provide carrying out customer’s groceries if there were four or more bags, or upon customers request. Every night before leaving Post would start his nightly responsibilities, which included filling eggs and milk, sweeping the store, and taking out all trash. That job helped Post get comfortable interacting with customers on a daily basis, and improve his people skills. Post was approached by his boss before he left one day and he said, “what would you think if I said we’d like to promote you to a higher position?” Post was more than
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thrilled by this comment. Post’s boss continued by saying, “you’ve shown some real dedication to this store recently, and you’ve received many compliments from customers.” With all this positive feedback, Post was more than excited to accept his bosses offer. Post graduated from Milton-Union High School in 2011, where he then continued his education at Sinclair Community College. Post later transferred to Columbia College Chicago where