Month: February 2023

Hey folks, I’ve never posted here before, but after reading comments for a few months, I’d like to chime in on what a restaurant manager’s life is like. My qualifications: I started working restaurants in 1993, at the age of 15. I stuck with them. After time in the army, I went back to them as an assistant manager. In due course, I became a GM. All in all, I spent 24 years in restaurants, with 20 of those being in management. In 2020, I changed careers, and have never looked back. A restaurant manager’s role is actually pretty difficult, especially if you care about your employees. You are set a salary, and that salary, at least in my case, broke down hourly to about $11.00 per over the course of my career. You work a minimum of 50 hours per week and, depending on the company, those hours can…

First interview with this startup in NYC went well, spoke to Head of Ops, had a good experience. She told me the founder would connect with me soon and he might give me a design test – I said okay, that's fine. I have 2-3 years of experience in design, so I didn't think of it too much because my current employer also made me do a design test before he hired me; this test was barely a 15-20 min deal and he told me it was optional, so I assumed that the company I was interviewing with would do something similar. The interview with the founder goes a bit weird; I'm very nervous because he isn't asking me questions about my design process or ANYTHING, I'm trying to explain a few work projects to him but he seems disinterested. He keeps repeating that the designers they want to hire…

This person resigned the day before (Thursday) and suddenly flipped personalities (Fridays) . We’ve only been a new team for a month. I raised with my mgr, that she refused to do her work, her behaviour deteriorated so bad none of us felt safe and one of my other team members had to step in and protect me, I did her work for her that was due, told the team to take a breather for the afternoon and we’ll revisit Monday. and then checked in she was ok on Monday and she was aggressive saying she needs to leave and we should pay her out early but I’m not tell anyone about this. I have to she wants to be paid out early. So set up a chat with 1-up then she’s early perfect employee again. How do deal you with people who flip, make the whole team feel unsafe…

I was recently promoted at my job from an entry level position to my supervisors previous job. I verbally accepted the position without signing any paperwork about a month ago(huge red flag, I know) I was told at the time that they would have to find and hire a candidate for my current role before officially starting training in my new role. The role has not been filled yet. Now I’m finding myself doing a little bit of both jobs with the pay of my starting position.