My last day of work, for 8 weeks. Went in early with my employees, they are self initiated. I posted the list of what the Director expects for closing duties, last week, highlighted what they could do(what wasn't highlighted was stuff only the manager could do-me) and wow. They worked their hours, we each took on a variety of tasks and when they rolled out, I just needed to finalize the paperwork, do a quick run through before the business manager arrived and voila! Was informed, that I have exceeded all expectations and then some And was told, that if I keep working like this, and bide my time, there's step up levels

Out of the three closings I have ever done, this was by far, the better of the three years. Each of us, tackled some industrial cleaning tasks and one of my employees, was smiling because the former manager said it took two hours to clean the convection ovens and I said one hour, based upon experience at my last location. Conclusion, one hour to clean the convection ovens. (((nothing like building trust...)))