[The Jewish Cunthead]

Good luck Sharky

[DevSop]

Sharky, I will almost definitely visit on my cross-country trip this summer. For at the very least, I will play in those hold-em tournies.

[Road Warrior Shark]

That'd be good. If I get to play I'll let you know how the competition is.

[Eric O'Mac]

Yeah, Sharky, when I start going on summer vacations (starting next summer, probably) then it sounds like I'll have to hit up Austin. Good luck on your move.

[Road Warrior Shark]

Figured i'd bore you folks with an update...

after a huge, bitter, ugly internal battle, I am now the Operations manager at the center. Previous management, whom i was working for until now, saw my arrival and the involvement of my old boss (the guy who brought me here) as sabotage and he has done as much as he possibly can to undermine and out right get rid of me.

We are part of a small chain of centers (3 in all nationwide so far) but that is expanding. My old boss has invested in the company and has assumed a role much like that of a Regional Manager. He oversees this center and several expansion projects in various stages of completeion. THe former GM saw his involvement as a threat and rather than working with him/us, has gone out of his way to undermine me both of us. He has made several attempts to get me fired for small things (like visiting here, despite the fact the company fileserver has folders of porn he has downloaded over the years) calling meetings and not telling me they were being held so I would miss them, petty stuff all in all. He was also skimming from the tills daily, not reporting sales, screwing with liquor inventories and above all else, creating a very negative place to work.

Finally , My old boss collected enough data on things that were going on and brought in the company president and they fired the GM. They also fired our head bartender, and two assitants who were in on all the under-the-table happenings.

So that leaves me, and a young 19 year old shift manager and a movie manager, neither of whom had any idea how to do end of day paperwork, scheduling, hiring, etc... I worked 4 straight 18-hour days, then followed those up with 8 straight 12 hour ones. I think I have the young one ready to do openings by himself, and now I'm showing the other one how too as well. Even took a day off !

as for the job itself, The bar business is pretty easy to pick up. biggest challenge there has been keeping staff on the slow nights. Seems like noone wants to work the Sunday and Monday mights where there is little tip income to be had. we even pay our bartenders a full wage, not the 'scale' wage that is supplemented by tips like most bars around these parts do.
I have learned I HATE the movie business. so much crap to deal with up front $$$ for movies. and I swear it is mob-controlled. Film. We still use physical Film .. not a digital image.. but a projector where you feed film around a couple of super-huge reels. and the film jams... and has to be spliced together... and unspliced to ship back out. Trailers that have to be played with specific films, even if we don't anticipate getting that film. certain film come LOCKED until the night before.. so someone has to come in really early or stay really late to put it together... just red tape out the ass. and with only 4 screens, we get charged even higher down payments for blockbusters... the studios want guaranteed $$ to make shows look like they do well. example.. we didn't get Transformers right away. We were supposed to, but they decided they wanted 50% more of a down than what had been agreed upon.. and 3 days before the movie came out. The president told them no.. so we scrambled to take down 'coming soon' posters, etc... and lost out on a big opening weekend.

The bowling side is as I expected. It had been neglected for so long, I'll be focusing more on it and leaving the movie manager to deal with most of the theater crap. Started bowling sunday.. and sucked. averaged about 30 pins below where i ought to be.. but I really haven't practiced in months.

So.. thats about it. I'll be poking in here and there.. but I don't see myself contributing (like I really did alot anyway) much at all for a while. I miss the OOWF ... how sad is that? Perhaps I cant get back in to the groove after the first of the year...

[creepy]

That sucks, Sharky. Good luck.

[Outback Frito Pendejo]

Shark, no sell all that like Road Warrior Hawk no selling a piledriver!