There are several different managers at my restaurant.
Each one of them actually has a slightly different position because there is a certain hierarchy in place.
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There a couple of different ways to become a manager. You can either go to college and get a degree in business or you can work your way up through the system.
I'm always really impressed when a server or another type of employee becomes a manager.
About a year ago we had an extremely tall server that had originally come from another store and usually helped us out now and again.
Eventually that server became a manager. He is funny and super cool...... definitely one of my favorites.
He and his wife were are both extremely tall and fun to be around.
This manager told me several stories that his wife had a couple of miscarriages and was always worried about getting pregnant. She really wanted to have kids though but it seemed like her body wasn't working with her.
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Nevertheless they continuef to try to get her pregnant because they both wanted children.
Eventually she did get pregnant and they were both really nervous about the child hoping that it would make it through the full term.
It did make it to the full term and they were both extremely excited...... as were we all.
The baby was born two weeks ago and weighed over 11 pounds.
That manager was able to take just a few days off when his baby was born. Our managers work about 70 hours a week so he was needed back at work right away.
The following week he was late for a couple of his shifts...... and on one particular Friday has alarm apparently didn't wake him up since he had been so sleep deprived.
He called work and apologized but I told him to just stay home and not worry about coming in that day.
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Today the new schedule for the managers was released and we all found out that two of the managers were changing positions.
The lowest manager was moving up and the middle manager was moving down.
Since it's Christmas time and I really like the lowest manager as well it's pretty cool that he gets a promotion right around the holidays.
However, it's really crappy that they take this manager who has been trying for over a year to have a baby and finally finds success and demote him after having a couple of issues the very week after the child is born.
You might be thinking "Well maybe they've been having a lot of issues with this manager and they were able to use this as an excuse to demote him."
I really don't think that that is the case though.
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I've seen managers that were in very good standing suddenly be fired because they got into an argument with the manager above them.
I've seen managers come and go more times than I can count.............probably over a hundred different managers in my 11 years at this restaurant.
This manager is a really great guy and he actually took the news pretty well.
I've noticed during the holidays some people are stingy and other people seem to just in a bad mood about everything.
It really blows my mind though that someone is willing to demote a great man that just had a child on account of the fact that he missed a little bit of work........ despite the fact that he's been a dynamo and a great guy from the time he started.
Today one of my favorite managers, who had a baby last week, got demoted for missing time from work.
