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From: gregorymorrow@msn.com (gm)
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Subject: Re: Last night was "surf and coop."
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 01:28:02 +0000
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Hank Rogers wrote:

> Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2025-03-09 5:34 p.m., Jill McQuown wrote:
>>> On 3/9/2025 10:36 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>>>> My son managed a few bars and staff turnover was a major problem.Â
>>>> He was forever firing servers, most often for theft.
>>>
>>> I had a fun time working for a restaurant for a year back in the 90's.
>>> Part of my job was to handle the accounting.  Back of the house
>>> stuff, including payroll.  The general manager was re-assigned to a
>>> different restaurant and the new GM changed the computer password and
>>> wouldn't tell me what it was.
>>
>> That alone can be a disaster. There was a Tim Hortons in a town about 20
>> miles from here that was a popular hang out for motorcyclist which the
>> owner encouraged because he was a motorcyclist.  Unfortunately he was
>> killed in a bike accident.  It turned out that he had kept his password
>> secret. That threw the restaurant business into disasterous situation.
>> All the payroll, banking info, scheduling, ordering etc was  on the
>> computer and no one could access it.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> I complained to the regional manager (RM).  He blew off my
>>> concerns.  Perhaps he was complicit?  Turns out, the new GM added a
>>> bunch of his family members to the payroll system and was forging work
>>> hours for them and having weekly paychecks cut for them. He was
>>> eventually caught.  I no longer worked there but I did get to say to
>>> the RM, "I told you so." :)
>>>
>> In my son's first manager position he had been moved to Toronto to set
>> up a new outlet. It was a French company and the Canadian franchise was
>> in the hands of a Greek family, so that was his glass ceiling. After
>> about a year and already profitable, they sent a family member down to
>> work as an assistant manager. Thanks to an extensive security camera
>> system my son saw that the guy had taken a deposit on a reservation and
>> then pocketed the money. He was in a bind because he knew there would be
>> problems for reporting a family member for theft.  He ended up contacted
>> a trusted friend in the head office. It wasn't long after that my son
>> was laid off when his position had been eliminated.
>>
>> It was actually a blessing. He hated the job and went looking for a job
>> in law enforcement. That is a time consuming process and after a couple
>> months he took another restaurant management job. Then he was accepted
>> to a position with the federal government and his probationary pay was
>> about 40% more than he had been getting managing two restaurants, and
>> that was for 40 hours per week instead of 60-80 hours.
>>
>
> I bet you were very disappointed when dave Jr was scrubbed from law
> enforcement. :(
>
> Do you ever take him along on trash spreading missions?  That could be a
> great father-son binding project.
>
> You guys could even run a mission on that restaurant that fired him for
> being a snitch!  How cool would that be?


Offiser Dave's "tales" rank right up  there with that old literary
classic "One Thousand and One Nights"...

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