1) None of us get promoted to manager because we “like” management, we're all here because we were pretty good at the jobs we had.
2) Now, suddenly, along with doing all those jobs, you also have to start badgering your (former) friends into doing the bare minimum while they hate you for being a sellout. (My raise was NINE CENTS an hour. It's not like someone drove a dump truck full of cash to my door.)
3) If they don't do that work, guess who gets to stay late until it's finished. Is it the owner? The District manager or Store manager? No, it's you. Don't forget your keys.
4) And what are the options when employees don't show, or show but don't even do their role? Fire everyone? And then what, run five stations yourself during lunch/dinner rush?
5) And the paperwork. MY GOD THE PAPERWORK. Forms with sections like “Describe why you didn't meet your service metric time during this period.” I dunno, there was a line out the door because the sandwich place next door lost their water and had to close for the day and the 250 office workers on this block have to eat something for lunch. And because you think three team members between 1-4 p.m. is enough, here's a number.
Snitch on my friends for 9 cents an hour? Nah, I'm good.