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I work at a popular fast food pizza company and I have been a trainer there since last December. One of the employees, we’ll call them Stan, has recently been promoted to trainer as well and has been working with two new hires since the beginning of the week. 

I typically work morning and they work nights, so I haven’t really interacted with these new hires. During the shift change today the shift lead had asked me to train the new guy (NG) how to evaluate what’s under the make line and decide what we will need for the upcoming shift. While I’m teaching the NG how to make the list Stan comes up and watches us. I had told Stan that I will finish up with NG while he goes and sets up for the upcoming shift since I was about to leave. 

I finish the list and bid all my coworkers goodbye and head out, until I see Stan walking out the back door with me. He started off saying that I was out of line for training HIS NG and that I should’ve asked him first to do so. 

At this point I was really confused because when we first opened the store together we had learned that training was a group effort and that it’s not one sole persons responsibility. So I asked him about it and he said that he understand that, but that’s not his way. I told him that I’m not trying to personally attack him or his new position because it’s honestly not that big of a deal. 

He then said, “Well I take it personally and want you to back off. I can understand how you feel but that’s not how I work.” 

To which I responded that he might need to re-evaluate his position then because that’s not what it’s about and left because I really didn’t want to talk about it anymore. 
