Do you know what your boss does?

I used to work for a BMW dealer service department in Atlanta. We think our manager spied on us from his laptop at home, naked, with his skank boobjob bottleblonde girlfriend on his lap while they did meth.

Now that you say it, I really don’t.

I do know what my bossdoes but I don’t know what his boss does!

I know what my boss does, and what his boss does, and what his boss does.

LOL you think chefs get paid a lot??? That’s a riot

Tell me their titles.
You work in a restaurant, are you a server? Hostess?

What chefs do you have, Executive Chef, Sous Chef, Chef du Cuisine, Line Cook? That’s tha basic order of command in a kitchen (actually the chef du cuisine might be above sous chef…depends) And sometimes you havea kitchen manager, which can be quite pointless, but sometimes vital to running a kitchen if the chef isn’t good at the paperwork and managing others. That’s mainly a chain restaurant thing.

I don’t currently work, my husband works in two restaurants…I have worked in restaurants. I have always known what my bosses did, what they controlled not all were my immediate supervisors and I didn’t have to report to them at all…usually the kitchen staff sticks to themselves, and the front of the house is run on it’s own management.

He gets paid a lot more then I do.

Okay, I take it you’re an underpaid line cook then. Welcome to the culinary world.

He would probably say something like: “I spent many years in your position asking the same question”

Okay whatever. So what about the front of the house managers?

Yes, he has to handle even more pressure than I do.

I know what my boss does because we work right beside each other.
He does a little programming like me and LOTS and LOTS of phone calls with external contractors.
The more you step up the ledge, the less programming and more phone calls.

No idea. He seems very stressful.

But its not my job to question what he does. Everyone has their own responsibility and getting up to that position is no easy task. Basically he gets paid higher and have a better position because of experience and capability.

@simone54 I’d have to know their titles, but sometimes there does seem to be pointless managers in the FOH. I notice it’s usually because one person doesn’t know how to do it all, like the inventory (sometimes they allow bartenders to do this, but that’s rare) My last job was confusing. There was a “Service Manager” uhh some other manager who was the next to the top, but I was only supposed to report to whoever was the working manager that day. If there is just one manager, they probably get paid close to 40k, because of all the work they have to do…scheduling, inventory, keeping the restaurant and staff afloat. It’s harder than it looks.

This question may appear to be about specific situations, but I suspect that there is a lot more underneath it. It’s about communication (or lack thereof) in general. Most employers do not find it necessary to let them know how they fit into the organization. “Just do what I tell you to!”

Unfortunately, that generally leads to bad decisions. You probably deserve to know more about what your boss is doing and what ze is thinking about. It would probably help you do your job more effectively. But you’d have to be educated about the entire business, and probably about economics, as well, if you are to really gain a useful understanding of what your boss does and how you fit into the organization.

It’s a good question, and generally the best way to answer it is to pay your dues and watch. That is, do what they tell you to without too many complaints until you have more information and a much greater understanding of the organization. You will pick up this information through observation, but it won’t be instant. It’ll probably take at least six months to a year to get a sufficiently accurate idea about how the place works.

After that, you can start making suggestions for improvement, and have half a chance that they believe you know enough to have ideas worth listening to. As long as you have no clue what your boss does, you don’t know enough.

@daloon I may not read every word you write, but I will defend to the death your right to write it! :-)

@janbb It’s hardly worth defending to the death. Most of it is nonsense, anyway. I just do it to entertain myself. If I didn’t write the words, I wouldn’t read most of them, either. In fact, I should apologize for even putting it up here. It’s probably an imposition on people when they see all the verbiage I’ve spilled out and they simply don’t want to deal with it. I know I feel bad when I just skip over MontyZuma’s and DalePetrie’s posts. Still, I don’t blame anyone else for skimming it, or even skipping it entirely. Just press GA and move on! ;-)

@daloon I did (after skimming for the meaning first, though.) Just a gentle joke – hope I didn’t offend you.

@janbb But I was serious. I wouldn’t spend the time to read what I write. It’s just not worth it, when there are so many more quick hitters to get to. I’m not offended at all.