My work is organizing right now, this afternoon, and I don't know what I'm doing. What are the best practices? What are the pitfslls?
I work in a restaurant, high-end, multiple locations across the US. We are in Chicago, specifically. We have corporate in for the week as we launch a new menu with training for the whole team every day. Yesterday, second day, right before the end of the day, they sprung on us that they are changing our pay structure....
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