Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.quux.org!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: gregorymorrow@msn.com (gm) Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Last night was "surf and coop." Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 01:28:02 +0000 Organization: Rocksolid Light Message-ID: References: <67caf01a$13$1786$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <47c0744f2bd51cc37e867bf09eed7ae7@www.novabbs.org> <452ff357f9191c16a0cd7fe8d0f711c7@www.novabbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="3657526"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="x3QOwNU5QUUvrhrYjTQpLb8UrZNO5Hphcsc0zyawgLE"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Rslight-Posting-User: c37b0b244a7cebb25c4cd655889780917c66ff2d X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$yJzupbexomM0FzHZp2VILuyo6iIbss6xeqlBsfD5GjVQ01dOa5ycC X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 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. >>>> 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"... -- GM --