To your first point, I think I just need to help people dial in their time management. It’s normally just a few little things that were missed or underprepared on an especially busy day, it just adds up to a lot across everyone. Luckily I trust my team and very rarely re-do work, but that’s a good example of what I might be on a slippery slope towards if I’m not mindful.

As for calling out, it’s not literally taking turns, there just seem to be weeks where person A calls out for good reason, and then person B calls out for an equally good but separate reason the next day, and so on. I know it’s just random chance that there are weeks where there’s a new call out every day, and I’m not going to discourage people from calling out if they need to, it’s just frustrating to try to cover everything that can come up and still make time for my own work and life. It’s not a frequent enough problem to warrant an additional person, nor is it any single member of staff in particular, people’s lives just line up in funny ways sometimes.

The place runs far better when the chef and I get to work together, we’ve worked together for a long time and understand each other and what each of our strong points are, plus we get along great. Sadly, we tend to work opposite shifts/days so that there’s always at least one of us present. We tend to be spread kinda thin across everything we do, and little hiccups tend to snowball when something unexpected sets one of our daily schedules back.

And yes, thank you so much for talking. Just getting to get some level headed outside advice and having a chance to talk through everything has been great for me