u/DownToRant

So I work in a pub and a little over 2 months ago our managers resigned and left with the minimum amount of notice, only telling us staff about 2 days before they were leaving. I work for a brewery and in the last 2 months they have not been able to find us a manager to run the place. We have had a relief manager on and off who has been great but last week she was told she needed to go back to her own pub and that they didnt have anyone else lined up to run the place.

In the last 2 months we have been closed more than we have been open and its been difficult to understand and figured out what to do. Everytime we've had to close we've either known the plan in advance or within a few days we've know there was a plan in place, right now we know nothing.

At the end of April, there was a manager lined up to take over but then the day he was supposed to start he bailed. Only messaging the area manager at 5 am the day of, and this message was never passed on to the staff until one of the chefs turned up and no one answered the door.

Its been a really difficult few months and just when things start looking up we are dealt with another blow. Right now it has been a week since the relief manager was told to leave and we have still not heard anything. I love my job, we are a quiet pub and there tends to be a lot of solo working both Front and Back of House (with a manager around if needed). We are open from 12-11pm each day and I actually like not finishing at a stupid time like I have in other jobs. It also gives me flexibility to work shifts in my casual jobs either during the same day or on my days off.

I know many people will say I should get a new job but honestly I don't want to leave. I just want to work but without a manager we cannot open and therefore I cannot work. Some people will say I should look into being manager but I am not qualified and whilst I enjoy working for this company at the level I am, a manager's position is way too much of a headache for me and I do believe my mental health could handle that.

I honestly don't know what to do, as I said I don't want to leave but at the same time I don't know how long this closure is gonna go on for. I am looking at what else is out there but nothing else has the same working hours as where I currently am, a lot of the places looking are in the city centre and would require me to work til 1/2/3 am and I just really don't want to go back to that. After 14 yrs in hospitality I am finally in a place where I enjoy what I am doing and earning a decent amount each week and I really don't want to have to go back to square one if I don't have to.

I really really don't know what to do anymore.

So every so often (generally when I am cold and am trying to warm up) I get this weird shooting pain in my little finger. None of the others, just my little one. I have tried to figure out with help from Google what this is coz it doesn't happen all the time. It doesn't last long but it annoyingly painful when it does happen.

When I have searched up what it could be Cubital Tunnel Syndrome seems to be a possibility that always comes up and I keep coming back to. I do occasionally get a weak wrist in the same hand (right) but I work in a pub so have always put that down to pulling pints constantly. I have no idea if the wrist weakness and the finger pain are related but as I said I keep coming back to this being a possibility.

I haven't been to my GP coz I feel a bit stupid since it doesn't happen all the time and last time I went about other pain I had, while I was referred I just got told I needed to exercise more by physio.

Am I over thinking things or could this random shooting pain down my little finger be Cubital Tunnel Syndrome?

Looking at the stats post Season 17, I believe Adam is now on double digits.

Adam has won 10x

Ben has won 7x

Sam has won 5x

This is not including Hide & Seek: NYC

Came on here a couple of weeks ago to vent about my work situation. Many people said get a new job, which at the time I really didn't want to consider. Now things have become a shit show once again.

I said in my previous post that we had a new manager starting on 25th April. That became today (28th April). 12.23pm I get a message from the manager who had been with us a couple of weeks as relief that my shift this evening was cancelled coz the new guy bailed! They hadn't even started yet and have bailed! I am so fucked off at this whole situation, the last month has been such a shit show. We've managed to catch the nice weather and were open over Easter and this past week but now we are closed again, and once again I have no idea when I will be back in work.

I am looking for something else just incase but I am not looking massively hard, I have not fully committed to leaving and ideally don't want to leave. I love my work place and the people I work with in a day to day but if someone higher up does not pull their finger out and actually do something to keep the place open then they are gonna lose me as well as the rest of the staff that work there.

I have worked for this company, in this place for 15 months and we have had 7 different sets of managers, including relief and the guy who has now bailed. We were in a great spot towards the end of last summer and over Christmas until they basically sent the manager to a new pub with only 2 weeks notice. Since then its been one thing after another.

Like I said earlier, I am looking at what else is out there and applying but not to the point of actively wanting to leave. If they can sort their shit out amd get us back to a place where we can function and stay open then I'm gonna stay. If this open/close/open/close bullshit continues to happen then I am gonna leave.