Re: Last night was "surf and coop."

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.

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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." :)
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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?