is it wrong to......

Is it wrong to inadvertently tell your boss to go fuck himself?

setting: Hostess scrubbing glassware behind the bar, owner/boss sitting directly in front of hostess' task. Boss says "hey! here's a bottle with a message in it!" (empty bud bottle with label inside). Hostess looks up and asks "does it say "go fuck yourself"?....

Hostess wasn't thinking before she spoke, was she? not. at. all. Hostess was thinking she'd like to take that message and send it to a few unreserved diners in the hotel, who deem themselves above a reservation. This was not how boss took it. oops. Good thing the New & Improved Boss is soooo much more easy going than old boss. He shrugged it off.

Line backer says to hostess at 3 pm Saturday "You better take it easy on me today." Bear in mind that we are mid funeral (12-5pm) gathering, and she has just taken two more large reservations without phone numbers that I simply cannot seat at the times requested, which LB KNEW... Hostess, having had two bloody Mary's in lieu of pay for her efforts during the funeral gathering, looks directly at the Line Backer and says " I am going to hand you your ass, just like everyone else in this place, after the book you left for me tonight." LB had no further comment. And she definitely had her supple ass handed to her, in spades, just like everyone else. We are an equal opportunity employer :)

For Teeny

Thank you, Teeny.
Thank you for being the first neighbor to come say hello and welcome us to the neighborhood. Thank you for having the most easy disposition about my horses getting ready to swan dive into your inground pool, without permission. Thank you for bringing your grandbabies over to play in the puppy pile. Thank you for giving us access to your water when our pump broke over a holiday weekend. Thank you for tipping my kid generously at the hotel.

Thank you, Teeny, for having been a good neighbor in a world to full of bad ones.

You will be missed dearly by all who had the pleasure of knowing you in your short life.

God speed....

New & Improved!

Ever notice when a product or service has a blip on their screen they "change" something about it? The hotel is mid blip. Changes are happening at the speed of light. New policies. New employees. Old employees with new titles or responsibilities. New accountant. New bar plans & construction. New atrium. ATRIUM??? WTF??? They're RED NECKS, for gawd's sake! What do they know from plant room to atrium? I knew.
When asked to "find somebody to fill the porch up with plants and maintain them.", I replied
"oh, you want to have an atrium? That will be beautiful!". I got a blank look and then..." yeah, one of them".... this is the OWNER.
And I did. Several somebodies, in fact. One I really liked, another was a patron, one downright snooty-your-beneath-contempt type and a couple tree huggers. All designers. I shoulda known....And to think, I got the job because the BIG GUY was scared a man might look at his butt. No gay men responded to any of my plant inquiries, except my sorta son, but he doesn't count, not this time anyway...
After several proposals were submitted to me, I asked Mr Cheese if perhaps we ought to go and buy our own plants at home depot and try to maintain them as best we can, in house. He said he didn't want to deal with maintenance.
guess what?
We're going to the plant nursery next week to buy our new plants.
I now have a third title at the hotel. Interior scape designer.
Guess that makes me New and Improved?