Re: Today at work. True story!

[Dawn Godfree <dawnmariegodfree@xxxxxxxxx>]

You are fortunate to have a boss with, not only a sense of humour, but has
great taste in music.

Nice story, Chef, and I'm glad you had a nice morning. :)


On 9 January 2014 23:53, Frank <fmiller6@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So here I am sitting in the Chef's office and in walks the general manager
> of my hotel. He asks if he can interrupt me for a moment and of course I
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> yes. Then he looks at me with a very serious look on his face and asks,
> "Will there be cake served with the employee meal today"? I hesitated and
> asked him to repeat himself. He said again "Will there be cake served with
> the employee meal today"? I still did not have an answer for him and I
> stumbled a bit because I did not know what the dessert for the employee
> meal
> was. I said to him I did not know. Our line level people create and serve
> the employee meal and I rarely involve myself as I have so much other stuff
> to deal with. Then he said " I think there should be cake in the employee
> lounge today." I told him I was not sure I could make that happen at this
> point as the meal had already been planned. He then looked at me with a
> very
> serious look and said, "There should be cake, it's Jimmy Page's birthday."
> I
> then leaned back in my chair and smiled wide and shook his hand saying "You
> are correct. I'll see what I can do." We weren't able to produce a cake in
> such short notice but we had some cupcakes in the cooler which we sent
> down.
> He and I then talked music for about 20 minutes. It was a cool morning.
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