Not only were we (my F and B Director, The Chef and I) going, but we had plans for dinner at the Waldorf and then staying overnight. That was supposed to be our “surprise” year-end bonus! Do you believe it? I was actually getting a bonus and a trip to New York! I must have done something right this past year.
Well I guess I’m just getting an “atta-boy” and a pat on the back now. Maybe we’ll get taken out to Denny’s instead.
The worst part with this whole thing is that somehow I even got my wife to agree to let me go to this friggin’ thing in the first place. Now it got canceled…that really bites the big one. That might be the last time she agrees to let me out of her sight!
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7 comments:
That is a drag. I guess they cannot afford to keep good people either! Right??
You will always have Denny's! That ain't too shabby!
Hey, here's your raise.
Yeah, I know, it's about the same as the rate of inflation over the past year.
Times are tough and at least we aren't losing any money.
And here's your bonus cheque as well.
I really hope you didn't keep last year's bonus cheque stub.
Because then you'd notice this years bonus plus this year's raise equals last year's bonus.
Oh, you did notice.
Well, even though you probably want to tell me to eat shit and die, you are getting long in the tooth.
And it's not like you have any better options available to you in this industry in this town.
I mean, with a wife and kids at home what are you gonna do?
Quit and go back to school at your age? [ ;)!! ]
One more thing.
You also have the chance to feel the way I do about handing you this crap.
Thirty or forty chances, depending on who we fire now that we're over the holidays.
That's right, you have to do your annual staff reviews.
Well, tell most of them that they did a really good job last year and hand them all the same twenty five cent raise. Works out to about five hundred bucks a year if they get full time hours.
Make a couple of them sweat.
Beat them up a little bit for motivation.
But still give them twenty five cents because fair is fair.
I know you read the news, too.
So you know minimum wage is going up twenty five cents three months from now.
No, we don't index our wages to the minimum wage.
Your job is to make them feel special about getting their minimum wage increase three months early.
But don't tell them yet.
Wait until three months from now.
It'll be easier to lie to them then when we get some new blood in around here.
Whoa what was that??
That's a smackdown.
Wow!
I went back to school when I was 39.
Something in me triggered now or never.
You can be a forty two year old banquet manager or what you really wanted to be.
I still don't understand what made that decision so easy.
I was a very good banquet manager.
And they fucked me over until I said that something else has to be better than this.
Going back to school at 39 was one of the scariest things I have ever done.
And I had to do it because I couldn't be fucked over for the rest of my working life.
I did it on my own fucking dime.
I had no other choice.
It wasn't easy living on fuckall for three years.
Giving up my income.
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