So hungover this morning I accidently wore two different shoes (2 Viewers)

[RokNRole]

Seems like the cooks, particularly our head chef, has taken a liking to me. We have very poor management. He's from Argentina and thinks I would be a good GM for him if he were to open his own restuarant.

He wants to open one in Chicago but I've argued with him to stay in Dallas and see how it goes before expanding. It seems I've convinced him I'm a good manager and able to get the most out of staff. Not entirely a lie since I've been doing such at my old position at the staffing agency and now at my current job.

He wishes to speak with me tomorrow afternoon about a possible business venture. 

 

[RokNRole]

What does the FFA make of this?

Should I go for it if he's game?

 

[msommer]

What does the FFA make of this?

Should I go for it if he's game?

Things you have to consider:

Can you handle and do you want the pressure and the responsibility?

As you have been a little liberal with the truth (to him), ask yourself: can you do the job, even if you have to assemble a staff from scratch and don't get premium applicants?

Can you live without a pay check for awhile? At the very least while the new place is getting refurbished, possibly longer if you are a partner

Are you resigned to the fact that the (vast) majority of new restaurants fail? 

 

[Conanthecontrarian]

Seems like the cooks, particularly our head chef, has taken a liking to me. We have very poor management. He's from Argentina and thinks I would be a good GM for him if he were to open his own restuarant.

He wants to open one in Chicago but I've argued with him to stay in Dallas and see how it goes before expanding. It seems I've convinced him I'm a good manager and able to get the most out of staff. Not entirely a lie since I've been doing such at my old position at the staffing agency and now at my current job.

He wishes to speak with me tomorrow afternoon about a possible business venture. 

i think he wants you to be a drug mule.

 

[trogg78]

Running a restaurant should be much easier than commissioning artwork for t-shirts.

 

[msommer]

Running a restaurant should be much easier than commissioning artwork for t-shirts.

I know this is sarcasm, but different skill set completely. Is it one Rok possesses? Heck if I know

 

[trogg78]

I know this is sarcasm, but different skill set completely. Is it one Rok possesses? Heck if I know

It is hard to know what skill set he possess. The only thing he's been capable of doing consistently is being an alcoholic. Every new venture he's taken up he would quit as soon as things got a little tough.

 

[msommer]

It is hard to know what skill set he possess. The only thing he's been capable of doing consistently is being an alcoholic. Every new venture he's taken up he would quit as soon as things got a little tough.

Hence my suggestions for reflection above.

 

[TLEF316]

You previously had issues dealing with the ineptitude and irresponsibility of lower-level employees at the staffing agency.

And now you want to be responsible for wrangling restaurant workers at a start up?

This should work out well.....

 

[T J]

Things you have to consider:

Can you handle and do you want the pressure and the responsibility?

As you have been a little liberal with the truth (to him), ask yourself: can you do the job, even if you have to assemble a staff from scratch and don't get premium applicants?

Can you live without a pay check for awhile? At the very least while the new place is getting refurbished, possibly longer if you are a partner

Are you resigned to the fact that the (vast) majority of new restaurants fail? 

And give up his waiter job? 

 

[msommer]

And give up his waiter job? 

I don't think I was commenting on what I thought of the option..

 

[the rover]

What does the FFA make of this?

Should I go for it if he's game?

You are completely unqualified and unsuited to be a GM of a restaurant.   Go for it.  

 

[Limp Ditka]

Seems like the cooks, particularly our head chef, has taken a liking to me. We have very poor management. He's from Argentina and thinks I would be a good GM for him if he were to open his own restuarant.

He wants to open one in Chicago but I've argued with him to stay in Dallas and see how it goes before expanding. It seems I've convinced him I'm a good manager and able to get the most out of staff. Not entirely a lie since I've been doing such at my old position at the staffing agency and now at my current job.

He wishes to speak with me tomorrow afternoon about a possible business venture. 

You can't spell restaurant but you can run one?

 

[RokNRole]

You can't spell restaurant but you can run one?

I was drunk last night

 

[RokNRole]

You previously had issues dealing with the ineptitude and irresponsibility of lower-level employees at the staffing agency.

And now you want to be responsible for wrangling restaurant workers at a start up?

This should work out well.....

Different ballgame

 

[TLEF316]

Different ballgame

Not really. But go nuts.

 

[RokNRole]

Things you have to consider:

Can you handle and do you want the pressure and the responsibility?

As you have been a little liberal with the truth (to him), ask yourself: can you do the job, even if you have to assemble a staff from scratch and don't get premium applicants?

Can you live without a pay check for awhile? At the very least while the new place is getting refurbished, possibly longer if you are a partner

Are you resigned to the fact that the (vast) majority of new restaurants fail? 

1. Don't know yet

2. Probably

3. No but I won't be a partner since I don't have money to put in.

4. I'm aware of that

 

[RokNRole]

You are completely unqualified and unsuited to be a GM of a restaurant.   Go for it.  

I don't think I'd be GM. Probably operations and/or floor manager

 

[RokNRole]

Managing a restaurant requires incredibly long hours which is probably a deal breaker for me. Couldn't pay me enough to spend 60+ hours a week working.

Im seeing him a couple hours to pick up some coke from him and we will talk about it a little. I'll report back.

 

[msommer]

1. Don't know yet

2. Probably

3. No but I won't be a partner since I don't have money to put in.

4. I'm aware of that

3. It is possible to be  partner without money. It is all in how your "value" is presented and calculated. E.g. your unpaid work during a certain period, that would potentially have value to the venture (lowering the cash requirement in the critical start up phase), such value could translate into a equity stake

 

[msommer]

Can you handle and do you want the pressure and the responsibility?

1. Don't know yet

Managing a restaurant requires incredibly long hours which is probably a deal breaker for me. Couldn't pay me enough to spend 60+ hours a week working.

It appears you have your answer

 

[Captain Cranks]

Only accept if his presentation is this tight...

Possibly you!

 

[Wooderson]

I was drunk last night

I'd pass. Stick to what you do best. 

 

[Evilgrin 72]

Managing a restaurant requires incredibly long hours which is probably a deal breaker for me. Couldn't pay me enough to spend 60+ hours a week working.

Im seeing him a couple hours to pick up some coke from him and we will talk about it a little. I'll report back.

You make it difficult for me to keep the "haters" at bay with this kind of stuff.  You're always decrying the system and bemoaning your lot in life and how you have no money, but you're not willing to work "long hours" for a shot at a better future and you spend money/time that could otherwise be spent usefully doing cocaine.  You have the talent to better your position, but 0 desire.  I know, I used to be that way too, but I was in my early 20s, not my mid-30s.  If you're not going to get it together now with opportunity potentially knocking and a woman moving to Texas to start a life with you, it's never going to happen.  Keep the waiter job.

 

[T J]

I don't think I was commenting on what I thought of the option..

It was a generic response - just happened to be to your post. 

 

[Limp Ditka]

Managing a restaurant requires incredibly long hours which is probably a deal breaker for me. Couldn't pay me enough to spend 60+ hours a week working.

Im seeing him a couple hours to pick up some coke from him and we will talk about it a little. I'll report back.

One would think that the coke could/would make those long hours a breeze. You sure you're doing it right?

 

[kentric]

Seems like the cooks, particularly our head chef, has taken a liking to me. We have very poor management. He's from Argentina and thinks I would be a good GM for him if he were to open his own restuarant.

He wants to open one in Chicago but I've argued with him to stay in Dallas and see how it goes before expanding. It seems I've convinced him I'm a good manager and able to get the most out of staff. Not entirely a lie since I've been doing such at my old position at the staffing agency and now at my current job.

He wishes to speak with me tomorrow afternoon about a possible business venture. 

1. It sounds like he may want you to put money into the business.  Those with skin in the game are more likely to push harder and stick around.

2. Find out about the Argentinian concentration in Dallas vs. Chicago (assuming that it will be an Argentinian restaurant) and sell on that point.  If not Argentinian, do your homework and find a way to sell Dallas.

3. Make sure he includes pet insurance as a benefit.  Don't just settle for equity options, 401K, private car, etc.

 

[kentric]

You make it difficult for me to keep the "haters" at bay with this kind of stuff.  You're always decrying the system and bemoaning your lot in life and how you have no money, but you're not willing to work "long hours" for a shot at a better future and you spend money/time that could otherwise be spent usefully doing cocaine.  You have the talent to better your position, but 0 desire.  I know, I used to be that way too, but I was in my early 20s, not my mid-30s.  If you're not going to get it together now with opportunity potentially knocking and a woman moving to Texas to start a life with you, it's never going to happen.  Keep the waiter job.

I didn't take you for a Pepsi man EG.

 

[Henry Ford]

Couldn't pay me enough to spend 60+ hours a week working.

 

[fantasycurse42]

Did not read, but I'm sure whatever the venture is will be a massive success. You're going to be rich

 

[Beef Ravioli]

Im seeing him a couple hours to pick up some coke from him and we will talk about it a little. I'll report back.

I want to believe you on everything, I really do but comments like these just make me think it's more fishing. 

If you are fishing, you are so bad at it, you are good. If you are not fishing, you really do need to seek professional help! 

 

[the rover]

Just get a vasectomy, whatever you do.  

 

[Evilgrin 72]

I didn't take you for a Pepsi man EG.

I've done damn near everything there is to do on this planet (excepting heroin or injecting anything) but if you can't balance the partying with still being a productive member of society, you're always going to end up where Rok is.  Unless you're one of the exceedingly few that can somehow become Nikki Sixx through some melange of talent and luck, you have to figure out how to play within the rules of society.  No matter what you think of them, and I'm no fan, you're not going to change the world.  So, either party while you can, rock til you drop, and go out on your shield... or figure out a way to strike a balance that allows you to keep the party going as much as possible while still keeping your head above water.  If you choose option A, though, don't complain when you realize you're one of the 999,999 that get spit out the other end and not the 1 who somehow gets paid to drink and do drugs until you #### yourself.  Most of us just have to clean that up and get back to work.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

Enticing partner material indeed what with your drinking, coking that he knows about, and participates in by selling it to you, and a work ethic that wanes around the 25th or so hour worked per week.

Imagine choosing to go into business with somebody of admittedly very limited ambition who is involved with a highly addictive substance that impairs work output and often leads to embezzlement of company funds to support the habit.  Not to mention which occasionally leads to asset forfeiture of the business if sales or use are found to go on there.  Real solid planning.  I would not give you or he a half interest in my Lemonade stand if you supplied all of the lemons, sugar, cups, and ice and you broke down, cleaned up, and reset the operation each day. 

 

[McGarnicle]

You make it difficult for me to keep the "haters" at bay with this kind of stuff.  You're always decrying the system and bemoaning your lot in life and how you have no money, but you're not willing to work "long hours" for a shot at a better future and you spend money/time that could otherwise be spent usefully doing cocaine. 

 

^Perfectly comically absurd and sums up every ridiculous flight of fancy this dude has brought in here. We now have this on the record, yet next week he'll be starting a law firm and guys will be giving serious responses. 

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

 

^Perfectly comically absurd and sums up every ridiculous flight of fancy this dude has brought in here. We now have this on the record, yet next week he'll be starting a law firm and guys will be giving serious responses. 

Well he does have some experience in the law, what with him dodging it all these years and expressing no respect for the rights of creditors or the expectations of taxpayers. 

 

[McGarnicle]

Well he does have some experience in the law, what with him dodging it all these years and expressing no respect for the rights of creditors or the expectations of taxpayers. 

Meh. This describes millions of trailer trash people. That life is its own punishment.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

Meh. This describes millions of trailer trash people. That life is its own punishment.

I believe the politically correct term to be mobile housing advantaged, recyclable and environmentally friendly, equally valuable biological entities.

 

[RokNRole]

What?

 

[RokNRole]

3. It is possible to be  partner without money. It is all in how your "value" is presented and calculated. E.g. your unpaid work during a certain period, that would potentially have value to the venture (lowering the cash requirement in the critical start up phase), such value could translate into a equity stake

I wouldn't be able to provide free labor. 

Not in my current financial state at least.

 

[RokNRole]

 

^Perfectly comically absurd and sums up every ridiculous flight of fancy this dude has brought in here. We now have this on the record, yet next week he'll be starting a law firm and guys will be giving serious responses. 

I thought we buried the hatchet. What gives?

 

[Henry Ford]

What?

If you wish to change your future, be prepared to sacrifice some of your present. I have been in a position not terribly dissimilar from yours. 

The way out is paved with blood, sweat, tears, and quite a bit of temporary madness. But it leads to a lovely place. 

 

[Limp Ditka]

The way out is paved with blood, sweat, tears, and quite a bit of temporary madness.

If he keeps throwing that #### up his nose he'll be there in no time. 

 

[RokNRole]

I want to believe you on everything, I really do but comments like these just make me think it's more fishing. 

If you are fishing, you are so bad at it, you are good. If you are not fishing, you really do need to seek professional help! 

Define fishing please.

 

[RokNRole]

If he keeps throwing that #### up his nose he'll be there in no time. 

This is my last party.

Going on the straight and narrow very soon once my girl is here.

 

[Zegras11]

This is my last party.

 

[ProstheticRGK]

This is absolutely perfect. I knew as soon as you floated the idea that you and this line cook were doing blow together when this idea floated. 

Snort...."Whooooooo! hey, man, you know what we should do? We should open our own restaurant and get paid. I can cook and you can run FOH. WE could totally do it. I have plans and ideas, man. That'd be sweet! You know how to handle that... ive always liked that about you, even though before tonight we never even talked, but youre cool, man. You're totally good people, bro, i can tell. Youd be a good manager or something. And i totally know how to cook, man. You wanna do that? Run a restaurant? Thatd be really cool. You and me, we can do that, man. I swear we can. Its not that hard."

i know how hard you crave any kind of positive feedback, but it was just coke talk.

 

[The Kerminator]

This is absolutely perfect. I knew as soon as you floated the idea that you and this line cook were doing blow together when this idea floated. 

Snort...."Whooooooo! hey, man, you know what we should do? We should open our own restaurant and get paid. I can cook and you can run FOH. WE could totally do it. I have plans and ideas, man. That'd be sweet! You know how to handle that... ive always liked that about you, even though before tonight we never even talked, but youre cool, man. You're totally good people, bro, i can tell. Youd be a good manager or something. And i totally know how to cook, man. You wanna do that? Run a restaurant? Thatd be really cool. You and me, we can do that, man. I swear we can. Its not that hard."

i know how hard you crave any kind of positive feedback, but it was just coke talk.

Cheech and Chong 2017

 

[Beef Ravioli]

Cheech and Chong 2017

They might get some business with that name. 

 

[Captain Cranks]

This is my last party.

Going on the straight and narrow very soon once my girl is here.

I've followed less than 5% of this thread but that's enough to know this is complete bs.