I Need To Vent

I need to vent about work a little bit so thanks for listening, or reading if you look at it.

I am a General Manager for a chain restaurant that, in the past, had 3 top priorities that we believed in, the first was your health (without that, you could not take care of business), second came your family (if that wasn't in order, then your focus would on that and not on things you need to focus on) and finally came your job (which supports everything else in your life).

Sounds great and was they way they ran their company. Now that we no longer have those same leaders that believed in this, things are exactly the opposite. They don't worry about your health because they work you to death. They don't care about your family because of the same reason, all work and no play. They do care about your job, because that is all they keep pushing. Work, work, work. It's all about the almighty dollar.

So, now instead of managing my restaurant, I am busy doing the jobs that I hired people to do. You see, they keep taking away hours that we are allowed to use and that puts me and the managers that work for me in a position to do the jobs that don't get done since I can't schedule people to do those jobs. Shitty and not what I signed up for.

I have 2 managers that work for me and one of them is out with knee surgery which leaves me and the other manager to handle everything. I hope he gets better soon, his knee was in bad shape and needed to get this done. So what did my boss do? He told me to figure it out on my own and that I would get no help. Great guy huh? This has made the other manager miss out on a vacation and I am about to miss out on one if he doesn't get back in time. The other manager is great and doesn't deserve this. Oh ya, she is also missing out on a vacation because we are redoing our entire menu and service so the awesome leaders of our company have blocked out vacation time during most of July and August.

So, I do have options. I have an opportunity that would put me with a better company that would give me the chance to be with the people who matter most. You know who you are and you do matter most. There are 3 people in this world that I consider whenever I make any decisions, especially the important ones. My 2 kids and my amazing woman. So the problem with this opportunity would mean I would have to move. Not soon, there is a long training period, 4 months I think. But the two places I would be looking at would be in Ohio and Virginia. What to do, what to do? Stay here and be miserable with my job or move and be away from at least one of my kids who lives with my ex-wife and my woman who I don't think would want to make the move.

I need help so if you read this and have any ideas, or another option for me, please let me know.

I am an optimist and I know things will work out and there will be the right opportunity for me and everyone in my life.  Now, time to do some more job hunting.