I have a buddy who runs a breakfast restaurant. It’s a successful restaurant but his only “real goal” is to win the competition for having the nation’s best breakfast sandwich.
Even though my buddy’s restaurant is in a mid-sized market, the restaurant was always full and customers we’re generally happy.
One day, my buddy hired a manager for the restaurant and the new manager brought along two new chefs. And these chefs could really cook. So much so, that lines started forming around the block.
Because of this success, my buddy’s restaurant was entered into the breakfast sandwich championship, and with the two new chefs, winning was finally within his grasp. But unfortunately, the new restaurant manager didn’t turn in the paperwork needed to get to the tournament because he was too busy interviewing at another breakfast restaurant, in a bigger market.
The manager left and soon after, the two chefs left as well. The manager was quickly fired for incompetence at his next job and found himself back in a small market restaurant. That restaurant was only half-full and eventually he was also fired from that restaurant for incompetence, sleeping with the owner’s wife, AND sexually harassing the waitstaff.
Once again, the manager needed work, but no restaurant in their right mind would hire him as a manager. So he worked as a line chef, a busboy, and an assistant manager, all for crappy quick-serve restaurants.
Then, 7 years later, he gets a chance to run his own restaurant again. This time in a crappy small town that has no other restaurants for competition. And he gets the restaurant only to half full and then one morning, one glorious morning, the restaurant is full.
Seeing that very loooooooooong and very miserable track record, and then that one tiny success, the original owner, my buddy, calls the manager and offers him his old job back.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how screwed is my buddy? Asking for an entire state.