When Pamela J. McGee, SHRM-CP, accepted an offer to become vice president of HR at The Father’s Table, a national dessert manufacturer in Sanford, Fla., she decided to begin the job by going undercover.
“My background was in retail, not manufacturing,” she said. “I wanted to get a sense of what life was like on a manufacturing floor.”
McGee attended the new-hire orientation conducted by a staffing agency. She then went out on the floor and began to work just like everyone else. No one there, including the supervisors and managers on shift, knew she was the new vice president of HR.
