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The original was posted on /r/antiwork by /u/MarlonRando55 on 2024-11-23 23:52:39+00:00.

I interviewed at this place early this summer. They were just opening and trying to piece together their team. I was the final manager hired to work through the day-to-day. It was slow at first, but slowly I started to take on more roles and responsibilities. I didn’t complain, I got my work done and had an eye on the open GM role. Within two months, they let go of two other managers, adding more to my plate and again no raise or promotion in sight. I start bringing up my 90-day review since it seems like I’m entitled to a raise at minimum, but not in their mind. We haven’t made enough money yet. Business has been too slow. We’ve overspent and didn’t get the return we were hoping for…

I kept working on solutions but they had no interest in actually changing anything about their establishment. They wanted to do exactly what they were doing but somehow have a different result.

Our KM walked out a couple weeks back and I don’t really blame him- the amount of pressure they had on him was insane. But guess who they turn to pick up the slack? So now I’m doing HR, Admin, inventory, ordering, BoH, FoH- wherever they need me to keep the place running. And still crickets.

I asked the sous why he hadn’t been implementing the changes we had previously discussed (nothing big; just small adjustments) and he refused to do them. This guy has been a problem from Day 1. And somehow their loyalty to this guy has cost them several team members.

When I finally brought this up yesterday, I’m given the brush off and told we gotta learn how to work together. After my shift, I get thrown under the bus for being out of sauce. Sauce the sous didn’t make, didn’t bother checking stock on and just went about his day spending lunch smoking weed or sitting at the bar chatting up the bartender. I ask why it didn’t get made and he just makes excuses. THEY FUCKING DEFEND HIM! The owners keep insisting everyone else is the problem. They want to be this upscale place but they don’t want any actual cooking coming out of their kitchen.

It’s so funny to me that these guys want to just sit back and collect money but want to micromanage the fuck out of every decision; no decision can be made without their approval and when we need it most, they are nowhere to be found. Why have managers?!? You want to run it so specifically, you sit there all day and do it. I’m done with these guys who think because they have the means to purchase a restaurant means they know how to run one.