Are You Nuts Revisited

For my first post of the year I wanted to revisit the first post I ever wrote for this blog. Hope you like it...again.

So You Want To Be a Banquet Manager...Do you have any idea what that really means?

Oh sure, you think wearing a tuxedo is cool & it makes you look like James Bond or something. But it only makes you look like a damm penguin!

The term "the grass is always greener on the other side" really applies here.

This job is great for you if you like the following:

• never getting paid what you’re worth
• working 70-80 hour weeks without any set days off
• always having to deal with cranky chefs & dopey sales people
• never having weekends or holidays off to spend with your family
• dealing with union waiters that make more money than you do
• and worst of all, absolutely NO job security

Other than that, it’s a great job.

Some of your main job responsibilities will be:

• pleading with the waiters to come in for a last minute (pop-up) event
• having to explain to them why the gratuity (tip) was so low for the event (greedy bastards!)
  
• arguing with the sales manager as to why giving you the room diagram on Saturday morning for a Saturday night event is not acceptable (duh!)
  
• explaining to the General Manager on Monday why you “harassed” her when she “got you the diagram as quickly as she could” (that bitch!)
  
• fighting with the chef because he didn’t give you enough food for the damm buffet (happens all the time)
• explaining to your wife why you can’t go to her friends dopey birthday party tonight because you need to “do a double” because your assistant called in sick (even though you planned it that way)
  

And that even before you deal with any zany customers!

I need a REAL job...

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