So, about a month and a half ago, feeling determined to start working my way out of the restaurant business, I began scouring every help wanted ad I could find, in print and online. All I knew was I that I didn't want a job with regular business hours, Monday through...
In the restaurant, when we're running low on an item, it gets put "on a count." If there are only five creme brulees left, creme brulee gets put on a count and on the computer where we enter our orders, there's a little "5" on the creme brulee button. That number gets...
I’m still realizing that I chose my current job according to a single criterion which was not a good idea. I reacted so emotionally to the corruption and collapse of my former employer, Arthur Andersen, that my job search really only had one focus: a business that had...
Remember Arthur Andersen? After 89 years as the gold standard of accounting, in the spring of 2002 it became the poster company for corporate America gone wrong and within months had been stripped of its clients and completely dissolved. No, this is not a business...