1) Cashier
2) Front office assistant
3) Front office manager
4) Assistant store manager
5) Operations Support Associate
6) Operations Support Manager
7) Manager FP&A
8) Director FP&A
9) VP FP&A and IR
Few other minor roles along the way and I didn't even have a college degree till #7. First 8 of those roles were with a grocery chain and current role is with a hotel company. I agree a lot of executives are useless, but there are good ones out there. I've had less than 5% turnover under me in the last 10 years, which is a pretty impressive track record of treating my folks and their folks below my directs well.
1) That is impressive, hats off.
2) What is FP&A and IR? There are many acronyms in the world.
3) Thank you for the honesty in admitting there is such a thing as a useless executive.
4) You are right, treating people well is worth a LOT of money; particularly treating them with respect, rather than a "resources" (interchangeable cogs who must exert their own efforts on their own time, to fill the business needs, without compensation, while being threatened with arbitrary termination and being spit on in the meantime.)