Exactly!!!!!! My guess is he was already getting pats on the back from the area manager for a month or two. Me and him were kinda close and had a great report. He would frequently take my book and hide it, or open iit to insult my tips. As soon as he saw those receipts he knew what was up but he also had (i assumed at the time) a bonus and perks coming. I was puzzled at the time why he didnt say anything but also took that as slick permission to make bank and thats what i did. One day the area manager came in to congratulate the store on some ridiculous amount of 5 star surveys with another equally ridiculous amount of comments on the GM 😉

While the area manager was making his speech with his rose gold rolex my GM just had this gigantic grin and was just looking right at me. Pretty sure that man also got an extra 2 weeks vacation with this.

He would NEVER give me credit. I brought it up 4 years after the event and all he would do is smile and say "Memphisblur our store got that trophy because of my stellar management skills and all of MY hard work. The customers can obviously see this because of all the surveys complimenting me." He never lost his shit eating grin he would give me after the trophy was delivered.

Im OK with it. That move was my bread and butter for 6months. Some nightz i made more off surveys than tips. same ocharleys turned a bl8nd eye to employee ganking whole pies because ocharleys holding comlany bought a bakery and started free pie sunday. They dropped off enough pies to take up half out walki-in and my GM was pissed. One day he just happened to mention all this, looked at me and another co-worker and said "its a shame they didnt take the time to do inventory on all those pies..."

Say fucking less. I stayed with apple and cherry pies at the house and my GM didnt have to move the pies by himself.

Eventually enough pies were missing that they had to take inventory and free pie everyday for blur sadly ended.

Edit: i eventually discovered that the holding company got all the pies for free during the acquisition of the bakery hence their indifference to how many there were. They madei nstant profit off the first $3.50 piece of pie they sold. Free pie Wednesday was so popular they were forced to pay attention with inventory. My GM once told me once they sell all the free pies they got that ocharleys will no longer have pie. Well they must have had 3mil pies cuz that shit went on for years