A few recent by all the branch manager was off recuperating. The region manager came to see me, he stated that the sales were down and that that was probably my fault because I wasn't experienced at being a branch manager and running their routes and that I was so shorthanded, I assured him that I would do the best I could and that we would get the branch up and running as soon as we had a couple of new people hired to fill the positions that I would do would concentrate on sales. The region manager however disagreed with being and decided to bring somebody else than for the position of branch manager Bill branch manager wasn't coming back and you should have a new position selling throughout warehouses.
Again I felt that I have been overlooked for the position of branch manager just as I was overlooked as sales manager at Coca-Cola. I knew that I could be a great branch manager thought was given a chance however they brought in someone from the outside that was young and that could do the job that that they felt could do the job. My job change a little bit, I was told to train him to teach him how to do the branch manager's job and that one day I would get my own branch somewhere else in the country.
The new fellow arrived and I did my part and try to teach them how to do accounts receivables how to set up the ads how to use the monies that were given us every month to buy ads and buy down product all the while I was disheartened by doing this. I stayed doing this for a while actually another year and I couldn't befriend this guy at all but just wasn't to be I guess in the meantime several people were retiring from their jobs so we had three or four people and the first year and a half retire. That meant that I was going to be on the routes even more running routes by myself as a route salesman, even though I was a route supervisor.
One day I got a call from Bill branch manager he wanted to meet with me that one of our customers. I met with them in a customer and the customer offered me a job and you'll branch manager told me I should take it. The new job would be to learn to be a general manager over several grocery stores in this chain. The position gave me a company car and good pay and some benefits. I gave noticed to the meat company and I was gone.
