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(Some Guy)		After getting a promotion do you: C) Steal cash and torch the business? (kentonline.co.uk)		33
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Pud

2011-10-21 10:05:23 AM

Best to quit while you're ahead.

cgraves67

2011-10-21 10:14:26 AM

Did he get his red stapler?

God--

2011-10-21 10:14:51 AM

I sense lots of Office Space references coming...

Chinchillazilla

2011-10-21 10:15:23 AM

I don't blame him. Pot washer is a good gig.

gwydion56

2011-10-21 10:17:05 AM

Geez, I usually only do this when I get fired from my job.

/Recently fired
//Hope my ex-boss doesn't read Fark
///I keeeeeed, I keeeeed!

The Madd Mann

2011-10-21 10:18:02 AM

Reading the article, it doesn't seem like he got promoted. It sounds like the boss just said "Hey, can you manage the store and wash dishes at the same time? Cool. Oh, will I pay you more? I don't think so."

gwydion56

2011-10-21 10:18:41 AM

Chinchillazilla: I don't blame him. Pot washer is a good gig.

Pot quality tester is even better.

domo_kun_sai

2011-10-21 10:19:26 AM

Molavian

2011-10-21 10:20:21 AM

The Madd Mann: Reading the article, it doesn't seem like he got promoted. It sounds like the boss just said "Hey, can you manage the store and wash dishes at the same time? Cool. Oh, will I pay you more? I don't think so."

It sounds like he was washing the dishes, cooking the food, and managing the diner.

I'd probably burn the joint down, too.

USCLaw2010

2011-10-21 10:20:34 AM

Hassan Ben Sobr

2011-10-21 10:21:18 AM

Did the melting formica bubble and squeak?

Englebert Slaptyback

2011-10-21 10:31:10 AM

FTFA:

Staff at the neighbouring Texaco garage spotted smoke bellowing from the cafe and called the emergency services.

smoke: "RRRRAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"

Gabrin_Kinoda

2011-10-21 10:31:21 AM

Of course. I always try to leave on a high note.

tricycleracer

2011-10-21 10:32:54 AM

Come on, Pookie! Let's burn this motherfarker down!

SweetSaws

2011-10-21 10:38:49 AM

I choose C

Tarl3k

2011-10-21 10:41:55 AM

Yes, yes you do, duh...

www.thequickten.com

vexle

2011-10-21 10:44:54 AM

I have some experience in the food service industry, (not a ton, but some,) and I don't mean this as an insult, but in that experience I have not found that the average dishwasher is the kind of person you want managing anything, let alone a business that you own. At my last restaurant gig, dishwashers fell into one of two categories: minors just there for the season and twenty-somethings there because their history of petty crime wouldn't let them work any other job. Make no mistake, they were all fine dishwashers- even the one kid who had to take monthly drug tests and firmly believed that Tupac was still alive could wash dishes like a motherfarker- but they weren't exactly manager material.

My point is that maybe the boss who "promoted" this guy should have seen this coming.

rogue_L_chick

2011-10-21 10:56:09 AM

D) Crash into the sun.

Like a boss.

peterthx

2011-10-21 10:59:04 AM

"Damn straight. And lock in the fat people and cripples for good measure."

heavymetal

2011-10-21 10:59:59 AM

Molavian: The Madd Mann: Reading the article, it doesn't seem like he got promoted. It sounds like the boss just said "Hey, can you manage the store and wash dishes at the same time? Cool. Oh, will I pay you more? I don't think so."

It sounds like he was washing the dishes, cooking the food, and managing the diner.

I'd probably burn the joint down, too.

Exactly. I wouldn't burn thr joint down but I'd quit. Sounds like the owner "downsized" and expected the guy to take up the slack.

Trance750

2011-10-21 11:02:21 AM

heavymetal

2011-10-21 11:10:21 AM

vexle: I have some experience in the food service industry, (not a ton, but some,) and I don't mean this as an insult, but in that experience I have not found that the average dishwasher is the kind of person you want managing anything, let alone a business that you own. At my last restaurant gig, dishwashers fell into one of two categories: minors just there for the season and twenty-somethings there because their history of petty crime wouldn't let them work any other job. Make no mistake, they were all fine dishwashers- even the one kid who had to take monthly drug tests and firmly believed that Tupac was still alive could wash dishes like a motherfarker- but they weren't exactly manager material.

My point is that maybe the boss who "promoted" this guy should have seen this coming.

I worked from when I was 16 until I was 32 as a cook. Pretty much spot on but there is one more, and I think this guy is one of them. "The mentally unstable time bomb". They work hard, take instruction well, and seem harmless albeit possibly some a little slow; but you wonder why all they can manage to hold is a job washing dishes. Then one day they no show, nobody hears a thing, then when you hear why it is usually due to them "snapping" and freaking out in some way. Maybe nothing violent or totally "sicko", but definately not considered "normal".

The owner probably figured since dude seemed a little "slow" but hard working they could pull it over on him. It seems this dude was one of the more extreme cases.

redswingline

2011-10-21 11:12:21 AM

Yeah, of course. But don't forget me.

squidgod2000

2011-10-21 11:19:05 AM

So he got "promoted" from pot-washer to pot-washer/cook/manager? With no mention of better pay in the article.

Yeah, I'd burn that shiat down too.

Hoopy Frood

2011-10-21 11:22:14 AM

Business bad? Fark you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? Fark you, pay me. Place got hit by lightning, huh? Fark you, pay me.

Fano

2011-10-21 11:26:55 AM

God--: I sense lots of Office Space references coming...

upload.wikimedia.org

He's Cold Slither and you'll be joining him soon...

vexle

2011-10-21 11:32:33 AM

Trance750: vexle: I have some experience in the food service industry, (not a ton, but some,) and I don't mean this as an insult, but in that experience I have not found that the average dishwasher is the kind of person you want managing anything, let alone a business that you own. At my last restaurant gig, dishwashers fell into one of two categories: minors just there for the season and twenty-somethings there because their history of petty crime wouldn't let them work any other job. Make no mistake, they were all fine dishwashers- even the one kid who had to take monthly drug tests and firmly believed that Tupac was still alive could wash dishes like a motherfarker- but they weren't exactly manager material.

My point is that maybe the boss who "promoted" this guy should have seen this coming.

Or maybe the person who was promoted didn't want to deal with the responsibility

So, let's see how that conversation may have happened:
Boss: You're promoted!
New Manager: ...okay.
Boss: That alright with you?
New Manager: fine.
Boss: If there's a problem, you should mention that now.
New Manager: No, there's no problem.
*later*
New Manager: BURN IT! BURN IT ALL! IT'S THE ONLY WAY! I NEVER HAD A CHOICE!

Just off the top of my head, I can identify at least one course of action that New Manager could have taken that would most likely not have ended in flames (literally.)

Of course, the story changes if the promotion was more of a forced reassignment than a true promotion, but the article doesn't suggest that that's what happened.

Nemo's Brother

2011-10-21 12:06:48 PM

vexle: Trance750: vexle: I have some experience in the food service industry, (not a ton, but some,) and I don't mean this as an insult, but in that experience I have not found that the average dishwasher is the kind of person you want managing anything, let alone a business that you own. At my last restaurant gig, dishwashers fell into one of two categories: minors just there for the season and twenty-somethings there because their history of petty crime wouldn't let them work any other job. Make no mistake, they were all fine dishwashers- even the one kid who had to take monthly drug tests and firmly believed that Tupac was still alive could wash dishes like a motherfarker- but they weren't exactly manager material.

My point is that maybe the boss who "promoted" this guy should have seen this coming.

Or maybe the person who was promoted didn't want to deal with the responsibility

So, let's see how that conversation may have happened:
Boss: You're promoted!
New Manager: ...okay.
Boss: That alright with you?
New Manager: fine.
Boss: If there's a problem, you should mention that now.
New Manager: No, there's no problem.
*later*
New Manager: BURN IT! BURN IT ALL! IT'S THE ONLY WAY! I NEVER HAD A CHOICE!

Just off the top of my head, I can identify at least one course of action that New Manager could have taken that would most likely not have ended in flames (literally.)

Of course, the story changes if the promotion was more of a forced reassignment than a true promotion, but the article doesn't suggest that that's what happened.

Then just quit. Both ways, you don't have a job. Only with my way, you don't go to jail for arsone.

fortheloveofgod

2011-10-21 12:35:29 PM

Nemo's Brother: Then just quit. Both ways, you don't have a job. Only with my way, you don't go to jail for arsone.

Or arson either...

ThirdGenerationImbecile

2011-10-21 12:38:40 PM

Trick question, Subby! Stealing the cash, torching the business, and blaming it on my immediate supervisor was how I GOT promoted!

pnjunction

2011-10-21 01:47:06 PM

It sounds like the Job Creator that owns the place decided to create two more jobs for this person while leaving his pay the same

foxyshadis

2011-10-22 03:37:26 AM

pnjunction: It sounds like the Job Creator that owns the place decided to create two more jobs for this person while leaving his pay the same

Good news, everyone! Mr. Arson here created a half-dozen jobs in the insurance and law enforcement fields with his little stunt! I think he really IS management material, after all.

haws83

2011-10-22 08:24:29 PM