He can smile with you and compliment your work this minute and then walk off to tell somebody to fire you.  He stands by his decisions (often made on "instinct", meaning, poorly thought-out) wrong or right.  And he is wrong a lot. A lot. You get the feeling that leaping to conclusions and uninformed reasoning are mistaken for decisiveness around here.

You act quickly without really knowing what you are doing and that's better than being observant and making intelligent assessments.

The restaurant business is known for it's ability to train a newbie in any position relatively quickly, hence the ease of replacing pretty much anybody. Firing the wrong person, or placing blame wrongly are almost without consequence to management. Cooks should never be in positions of power.

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So maybe there was a little criticism of how The Resort was being run last season. Maybe a few snide remarks, a little exasperation, who knows? The Leadership responds with a speech, the message being pretty much: "You don't like how how we do things, we don't want you here." This, of course, is aimed at the non-teamplayers.

No, it's not "if you come up with a better way of doing things, or a better idea, we will at least consider it." They won't even pretend to think about it before shitcanning it. If you don't like how they do things you need to leave, not try to make things better. Fucking leave!

This is how you wind up with a staff of gossiping whispering backstabbers and bullies. Ass-kissing Yes-people. The less-gifted you are as a leader, the more you need shit like that. Stalin, for instance, would not be my idea of a gifted leader. If you need fear to prop up your empire, you are probably short on ideas.

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So right now I'm watching Kill Bill Vol 2 on TNT and wondering how come large scale revenge plots never work out in real life. Maybe the Big Revenge Scheme is like the spontaneous sex-scene of your porno-movies, pure fantasy. What we want (the perfect, clean destruction of our enemies from which we walk away unscathed), is not always what we can get. Maybe real revenge is more a matter of chipping away, of going at it for years and your enemies never even knowing that you were behind it. Maybe revenge involves self-destruction.

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"Jasmine Porch is located in a high-end resort hotel. The prices match. The food and service both aim high. While service was above average, it wasn’t out-of-its way great. And as noted, the recipes could be refined for significant improvement in bringing fine-quality ingredients the care they deserve."

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You search for any kind of resort/holiday destination on Google's Blog search engine and all you get are these glowing reviews of resorts that you know aren't all that hot. Spam. Believe nothing you read if it's good. It's a sensible strategy. If a good review of something would ultimately result in you spending money chances are, there is bullshit involved.

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Had a virus this morning according to grisoft's AVG antivirus (which identified it as "trojan horse generic.xdr") , ran Panda activescan,  which found something but wouldn't tell me what, Symantec's online scan found something other than what AVG found, I deleted both infected files and installed Zonealarm which I have been trying to do without. I know all of this probably sounds ridiculous, I should have installed a firewall on this PC a while ago you say. Well, I don't have a lot of time these days...

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Watching the movie Unleashed (aka Danny the Dog) tonight I was reminded (by the Bob Hoskins character) of how our management views us, their workers. What we are are tools, means to an end, not really human. They can relate to us only insofar as we are a benefit to them, how effective we are at getting them their bonuses and praise from their masters. Anything else, our needs, our enjoyment of our work, all of it is irrelevant since it doesn't get them what they want.

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Kiawah Island is a gateway for illegal immigrants. They (legally) bring guest workers here to the USA, who come with the expectation of being able to make enough money to send some back home. Many don't even make enough money to eat. At that point there is no alternative but to go illegal. These disappear after a few weeks of $3.00-$70.00 bi-monthly paychecks to be replaced by other future illegals. The handful who make good paychecks (waiters, for example) tend to go home at the end of the season as intended. The dishwashers and housekeepers tend to leave illegally. Understand this: Kiawah's profitability depends on bringing in foreign workers, there aren't anywhere near enough experienced guest workers in the Lowcountry willing to drive 45-90 miles to work for $6.00-$8.00 and hour and uncertain hours to staff the resort. Kiawah cannot keep its stars and diamonds staffed by ex-convicts and junkies.

Kiawah is caught up in a cycle of bringing in, distributing illegal aliens. It doesn't affect their bottom line so, of course, there is no reason to stop. This is not a rant against illegal immigrants, nor against Kiawah, I am simply pointing out the fact that bringing people here and not paying them has broad consequences. The cause and the effect are clear. Returning home to their families after spending (sometimes borrowing) money to get here is not an option in most cases.

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