
Originally Posted by
Suzanimal
Looks like it's going to be a beautiful day which means I'm going to get my ass kicked at work - our patio is wildly popular. I'm short staffed (yes, I've tried hiring taller staff). I had two days off which meant I spent most of my time on the phone listing to hoes bitch about other hoes, cooks whine about having to cook, and drug addict managers complain about other drug addict managers. Seriously. I have two part time managers who are probably worse than the staff. They're so bad, I can't trust them with the combination to the safe. I have to go in, open the safe, do the daily paperwork, straighten out the money from the night before (you'd think people could count to $300!!!) and, if I'm lucky, I get to go home for a few hours before I go back and close - we close at 2 am because I can't trust them on weekend nights when it's really busy. They don't even stay at work. I can't tell you how many times I've caught them sitting in their car smoking pot or leaving altogether and coming back later to clock out.
I pay 'managers' $17 an hour, plus they make bar tips which in credit cards alone are $100-$200 for am & $200-$400 for pm and they can't leave their cash drawer at $300?
I would love to fire every single one of them. I did that once - fired almost the whole staff. But, then I would have no one. I hire everyone who walks in the door and only fire for theft. Which, btw, I'm going to be calling the police on a server who I caught committing credit card fraud. So far, we've received $1000 in chargebacks and I suspect there are more to come. Not to mention the items he collected the cash for and voided off checks. That was a fiasco. Our POS system, Toast, did an update and unlocked the void function so servers could do voids without a manager swipe. Of course, when I called them about fixing it, the update took away my manager privileges and I had to get the owner who was in Costa Rica at the time to call and straighten it all out.
Then you have the customers....Yes, we had to raise our prices. No, we are not price gouging you for chicken wings. I'm sorry you walked in without a reservation with a party of 20 (!!!) and we have no where to put you on a Friday night at 7:00 pm. No, I will not ask those people to leave so you can sit down. People are $#@!ing morons.
And today is inventory so I get to go to work early and count all the booze but the weather is nice so I got that going for me.
BTW, I was lamenting about all the methed up 20 somethings and a bar regular (who claims he worked with Snowden, has classified papers on Benghazi, and says Osama bin Laden is alive and well living in San Diego. He keeps all his proof on his iphone. He also says drones follow him around. I don't know why they would bother with the drones, he sits in the bar from 2:00 pm - about 10:00 pm every day) and he told me it's because they were on ADD drugs as kids and got hooked on Meth - that actually made sense. Maybe Bin Laden is living in San Diego....
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