Chapter 4Present time
I called all the people that had interviewed with me, told the ones we wanted to hire when to come in for work and those we didn’t want, I thanked them for coming in and said we’d keep their resume on file, which we would, in files of Next, Maybe Later, and Probably Not. Jean would have to re-interview the Maybe-Laters if we had a space open.
I hired fourteen servers and two hosts: Kellen and Patrice.
Unfortunately, I called Pat last which didn’t leave me with a good excuse to keep the conversation short.
“Montie, I knew you would call. I almost quit my job at the Hyatt last night, but I couldn’t be sure.”
“It’s never good to take a chance like that.”
“You sound like you know from personal experience.”
“Well, almost, but if you had quit and I hadn’t hired you,
