u/reagan_baby

And if it's been a while, how many years have you been listening to them?

Chewy has very nice and accommodating customer service agents. I know this because almost every shipment I get of canned wet food comes with dented cans that I need to discard because of the risk of botulism. So I call and they help.

Even the replacement pack that they added one piece of cardboard cushioning to came with dented cans. I'm exhausted.

A business model that focuses so much on the bottom line that they'd be willing to lose merchandise just to save money on packaging is just not a good one when the merchandise is food and nutrients for a living creature. If you put that much risk of botulism on a pet owner's plate, how much do you really care.

I am the General Manager of a restaurant and I was wondering how my workload sounded to other managers. The restaurant averages about 1,200 covers a week and $66K in sales. Open for lunch/brunch and dinner 7 days a week (except Mondays - just dinner). We do not have a host and it is the manager-on-duty's role to be the host of the restaurant, oversee the floor (max capacity about 100), and close up shop.

I work 4 floor shifts a week on dinner shifts that are either 4hrs, 4.5hrs, or 5.5hrs depending on the night of the week. All other manager shifts are filled by the owner (1 shift) and my team of 3 managers who do 2-3 manager shifts. On other days, they do tipped roles like bartend, food run, and serve. I am the only one doing full managerial duties.

We have an offsite accountant and two owners who are relatively present, so I am not looking at the financials. I do handle our large parties/private events, social media, all staff issues, and issues of maintenance tend to go through me before I bring in the owners if necessary.

The owners are going to start a new place by next year and have implied they'd like me to take a firmer role over the place. I think they'd like the buck to stop with me more. I am very happy in my role and my relationship with them, and happy with that slight shift in responsibility. No specific added responsibilities, but it sounds like I should handle more issues on my own.

But I often find myself working 50-60hrs a week as it is, which I know is normal. I am wondering if I have a case to make to ask for a host or direct things from a little higher vantage point than working 4 shifts in the trenches on the floor with a specific role of host. Being tied to the door makes for what feels like a pretty short period of time before and after the shifts to get all of my other work done and also look ahead at things.

Does anything jump out as unreasonable? I am also happy with my compensation currently and am paid on the higher end of similar roles in my area, so this is not an issue of being underpaid. If I need to suck it up and inject more energy into this, I will.

The 1998 Summer Tour had 44 different songs. They've done more songs just over halfway through the tour than any other tour they've done. And they've got 14 shows to go.

Just a passing thought while listening to Dave's Tiny Desk show. It would be cool if he took songs that they play full band and cycle them into the E1 spot instead of reserving it for songs that are specifically not played full band typically. Like Typical Situation back in the day.

He seems to play songs a lot that have specific meaning to him presently, like political songs. I think some songs could take on a different dynamic by being stripped down and presented with a little Davespeak like Don't Drink the Water or Cry Freedom.

Or a good old sing along where it's just Dave and 15,000 people singing 41 or something. You'd sacrifice the full band experience for sure, but the crowd tends to be pretty connected and focused during E1 (I think, right?) that it would be fun for the crowd to try to fill the room with their sounds.

Also the opportunity for the DMB fanbase fave: the rarity.

This is more NYS specific than NYC, but I received notice that United is applying to the Department of Financial Services to increase my premium in 2027 by 38.7%. Apparently, I have the option to submit comments to the DFS about this while the application is open. Does anyone have any experience or success with fighting back in some way over this?