Comments on: The New Kid http://www.restaurantgal.com/2009/02/the-new-kid/ Scenes from the podium...one pager at a time. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:18:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: just me http://www.restaurantgal.com/2009/02/the-new-kid/comment-page-1/#comment-8040 just me Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:40:47 +0000 http://www.restaurantgal.com/?p=750#comment-8040 It sounds like he's a pill...and may be run out of tow. But maybe he's being a jerk because he is young and new and is terrified about what to do and how to make it in a new town. If there is that much bravado, it usually is covering a weakness. It sounds like he’s a pill…and may be run out of tow. But maybe he’s being a jerk because he is young and new and is terrified about what to do and how to make it in a new town. If there is that much bravado, it usually is covering a weakness.

]]> By: ivan http://www.restaurantgal.com/2009/02/the-new-kid/comment-page-1/#comment-8032 ivan Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:01:50 +0000 http://www.restaurantgal.com/?p=750#comment-8032 How about some friends of yours coming in as anonymous customers and telling him what you cannot say or what he will not hear from you? How about some friends of yours coming in as anonymous customers and telling him what you cannot say or what he will not hear from you?

]]> By: Restaurant Gal http://www.restaurantgal.com/2009/02/the-new-kid/comment-page-1/#comment-8031 Restaurant Gal Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:43:21 +0000 http://www.restaurantgal.com/?p=750#comment-8031 Ex-Restaurant Manager--Great idea, except I don't want to waste my coveted happy hour time drinking with someone I don't really like! Kim--Nah, you can just drop it on the floor and re-plate it. Kidding, of course. JoeinVegas--Actually, great idea. Happily, the owner and my actual manager saw the kid was over-doing it and pulled him off the floor for now. Mary--Yeah, but this one seems to have gotten the message already and toned it way down. I actually had a chat with him yesterday and was very civil toward him! last one home--Don't even think it. No, no and no, I won't be a manager. NO! As for free meals, I constantly graze through hash browns and just about everything else there. My cook will make me anything I want, and he is always shocked at the sheer volume of food I can put away. Ex-Restaurant Manager–Great idea, except I don’t want to waste my coveted happy hour time drinking with someone I don’t really like!

Kim–Nah, you can just drop it on the floor and re-plate it. Kidding, of course.

JoeinVegas–Actually, great idea. Happily, the owner and my actual manager saw the kid was over-doing it and pulled him off the floor for now.

Mary–Yeah, but this one seems to have gotten the message already and toned it way down. I actually had a chat with him yesterday and was very civil toward him!

last one home–Don’t even think it. No, no and no, I won’t be a manager. NO! As for free meals, I constantly graze through hash browns and just about everything else there. My cook will make me anything I want, and he is always shocked at the sheer volume of food I can put away.

]]> By: last one home http://www.restaurantgal.com/2009/02/the-new-kid/comment-page-1/#comment-8030 last one home Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:23:50 +0000 http://www.restaurantgal.com/?p=750#comment-8030 just when you think you're out...they pull. you. back. in. will you get a free meal when you're the manager? just when you think you’re out…they pull. you. back. in.

will you get a free meal when you’re the manager?

]]> By: Mary http://www.restaurantgal.com/2009/02/the-new-kid/comment-page-1/#comment-8029 Mary Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:37:53 +0000 http://www.restaurantgal.com/?p=750#comment-8029 Saw that in an aerospace company - young stud, just out of college (Berkeley) with his business degree, decided he knew much more than the "old-timers" who had been there for easily 20 years. He didn't last long. How about metamucil or something similar in his food or beverage of choice? Saw that in an aerospace company – young stud, just out of college (Berkeley) with his business degree, decided he knew much more than the “old-timers” who had been there for easily 20 years. He didn’t last long.

How about metamucil or something similar in his food or beverage of choice?

]]> By: JoeInVegas http://www.restaurantgal.com/2009/02/the-new-kid/comment-page-1/#comment-8028 JoeInVegas Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:51:44 +0000 http://www.restaurantgal.com/?p=750#comment-8028 Start making fun of him to your tables. Tell people you are not responsible and have no control, and appoligize to them for his stupidity. Maybe you can get the regulars to be your voice and get rid of the guy. Start making fun of him to your tables. Tell people you are not responsible and have no control, and appoligize to them for his stupidity. Maybe you can get the regulars to be your voice and get rid of the guy.

]]> By: Kim Ayres http://www.restaurantgal.com/2009/02/the-new-kid/comment-page-1/#comment-8027 Kim Ayres Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:41:43 +0000 http://www.restaurantgal.com/?p=750#comment-8027 I understand ground up glass in his food is supposed to be quite effective... I understand ground up glass in his food is supposed to be quite effective…

]]> By: Ex-Restaurant Manager http://www.restaurantgal.com/2009/02/the-new-kid/comment-page-1/#comment-8026 Ex-Restaurant Manager Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:44:22 +0000 http://www.restaurantgal.com/?p=750#comment-8026 Perhaps you should think like Upset Waitress, RG. Get the lad wasted after work and take some blackmail-worthy pictures. Perhaps you should think like Upset Waitress, RG. Get the lad wasted after work and take some blackmail-worthy pictures.

]]> By: Restaurant Gal http://www.restaurantgal.com/2009/02/the-new-kid/comment-page-1/#comment-8025 Restaurant Gal Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:18:45 +0000 http://www.restaurantgal.com/?p=750#comment-8025 UW--Oh, I know. But I'm still kind of a new kid, too! Mike--Actually, I think a trip to the woodshed must have occurred, because all good today. UW–Oh, I know. But I’m still kind of a new kid, too!

Mike–Actually, I think a trip to the woodshed must have occurred, because all good today.

]]> By: Mike http://www.restaurantgal.com/2009/02/the-new-kid/comment-page-1/#comment-8024 Mike Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:28:35 +0000 http://www.restaurantgal.com/?p=750#comment-8024 sounds like this guy has a "there's a new sheriff in town" attitude about him. i think people assume when they come into a new place as a management type, they have to become a tough ass or they will not be respected. usually it backfires, and if they had just tried to come in and lay low while they learn the laws of land, they would have done much better in the first place sounds like this guy has a “there’s a new sheriff in town” attitude about him. i think people assume when they come into a new place as a management type, they have to become a tough ass or they will not be respected. usually it backfires, and if they had just tried to come in and lay low while they learn the laws of land, they would have done much better in the first place

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