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Originally Posted by ChefRAZ  get a
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BEEP: Wrong answer. Life is a result of choices, and chefcrank has made a choice NOT to become the Chef, which given the facts, is a pretty sound choice.
The facts. Well, we know that chefcrank doesn't want the job, but is the backbone of the kitchen. The assistant mngr, let's call him M&S for short, for mover and shaker, is someone to watch out for. We know that he was behind getting the chef fired and is now telling staff that chefcrank is next up. The hiring and firing of top mngmnt positions is usually the realm of the GM, the member's comitee, H.R. or all three, yet the M&S seems to have a pretty good grip on the hiring and firing of top mngmt postions.
Let's assume that chefcrank takes the job. He's already in the doo-doo becasue he hasn't kneeled down and bowed to the M&S for his "promotion". M&S's need some way to control people, one good way is to either promote them into their postions or to let them think that the M&S was responsible for this--and they never let you forget either. This explains M&S's letting "slip" to others of how chefcrank is top choice for the job. Problem is, chefcrank didn't want the job, M&S is aware of this and must now find another way of controling the Chef. Easiest way is to control the staff, and judging by how he's influenced other positions, this seems to be his way of choice. Other ways are in order of preference; cooking up new budgets--effective immediately, controlling the suppliers, controlling the A/P who cut checks for suppliers, and by interfacing with the member's comitees long before the Chef knows about it, thereby having tremendous power.
Make no mistake, M & S's need to control people. While working under one particularly energetic M & S who couldn't get any dirt on me, he finally resorted to extracting a zapped fly out of the ultra- violet light fly zapper and placing it ontop of an almost-empty 6" deep hotel pan of mashed potatoes in the staff canteen. His claim was that the fly was in there since coming from the kitchen--allegedly buried under 20 odd pounds of mashed pots. The fly was remarkebly intact and devoid of any crushing or even of any mashed pots. The eejit forgot to jam and grind it into the pots before making his claim, but like a cat that lands on his feet, he came out O.K. Last time I heard, he's the GM there now.....
Yeah, yeah great story. Just watch out for the M & S's, because if they can't control you or find any dirt on you, they'll invent something. In order to survive in a managment postion in a hotel or club you can't be on defense all the time--that means just to watch your back; --you have to go on offense, which means backstabbing first.