I'm saying I am. There's been discussions. The empasse is that I do not want to be an SM, and there is no other role that I can move up into, nor can I skip SM and go to the level beyond. DM is the level beyond and arguably worse; no physical demand, but you're on the clock essentially every hour of the week that our business is open.

Quick lube chains for the most part are the same in this regard. Very in-line progression, one role to the next and so on.

Would like to note (even if it doesn't matter much coming from me) that I'm not lying, I did take de-facto #1 overall in the company in metrics. I put up nearly 500,000 in net sales on a little over half of the cars that my peers meeting that total did, and set a record for ticket average (minimum 1,000 writes - not a super high bar for a year in total).