"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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Who is the *******? Scheduling Conflict with owner and manager

2Rocky

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Scenario: Small Retail business
Owner - works in day to day role as well . Posts Monthly Schedule at beginning of the month
Manager - oversees daily operation but owner does scheduling
Employees - report to manager

Manager tells Owner in previous month they have an event next month and owner tells manager that They (OWNER) will cover for manager.

Owner has something come up and tells manager that they cannot cover for them.

Manager asks Employee to cover. Employee agrees. Verbal.

Employee is a no-show.

Owner writes up manager.

Who is the ******* here?
 

"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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The employee who didnt show up. The owner too fro writing up the manager
 
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It's the manager's fault, it's his place to make sure that things get done.

Sh!t rolls downhill.
 
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The owner agreed first, so the manager is covered and it's now the responsibility of the owner for agreeing. Manager agrees to sort it out and they do as far as they can possibly know. Employee agreed and didn't show up, regardless of who asked it's wrong since they agreed and didn't fulfill.

Both the owner and the employee are assh0les for promising something they didn't deliver, the manager is caught in the middle as managers usually are. The blame on the owner is less than the employee on this point since the manager agreed to sort it out, but that quickly turns around as the owner blames the manager for something the manager can't control (the employee actually doing as agreed).

The manager is the only innocent person in this conflict, they did their part in getting cover and couldn't know the employee didn't show up to it until after the fact. The manager delivered as far as is possible in this situation.
 
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I'll have to say the Manager gets some of the blame for not getting the shift covering in writing. We have text, email, etc, no excuse to rely on verbal.
 

"She's Out of Your League"

You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.

Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.

She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.

Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.

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The fact that the Manager got the employee to cover verbally without writing it down makes it sound shady. Like he was hiding something, he wanted the Owner to think that he was still covering it himself, so he got the credit. In the end, I guess he did.
 
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