Is the manager you report to going?
not me, but, yes the manager's boss will be there.
background, local company but national presence. explosive growth in the last 15 years. the management structure and culture has not caught up.
to wit, the #3 in charge. runs day to day for a national company. worked at a Burger King before this. as a shift manager. for a few months. when she was 20. it's widely believed that she got her job because she fits the prototype of the #2's perfect woman. almost everyone that guy hires is a clone. tall, blonde, young, "cheery". she's clearly in over her head (as is my understanding from talking to a number of people there) and making things a lot worse for everyone but won't ever get fired.
the president/owner comes to work in ratty cutoff sweatpants, flip flops and socks and a wrinkled polo having not showered or shaved for days. he's eccentric as hell and radically changes his mind at the drop of a hat.. putting jobs in and out of danger on a whim. fires a whole department/team one Wednesday afternoon... then a couple weeks later hires all new people for the same job and fires them 3 months after, etc.
the #2 likes to party and drink. he's the organizer of these events and the one putting the pressure on to attend regardless of cost or time commitment. married but he has no kids. they both work well paying jobs so money is no object. years ago he asked me for advice on a bachelor party in South Beach (since that's where i went for mine). the scale at which he wanted to party at and the events he was organizing was so far out of my reach that i could only tell him "the airport sucks".
he paid for all his entire wedding party for a week in Miami. golfing, charter fishing, expensive hotel, dinner & drinks every night.
that's the expectation he lives with.
everyone that works there is being asked to keep up despite making.......... not remotely the same money.
