I guess I should've said 'The idea of just listening without offering possible solutions' was totally foreign. The idea of someone just needing to vent without comment, didn't computer, at the time. Now I've gotten pretty good at it.
Originally Posted By: 25
"W, you can Shut up about that now. I told you how to fix it so there's nothing for you to keep whining about."
It's frightening to even think I may have come off or been interpreted that way.
After reading 25's post, one thing that keeps popping into my mind is a discussion we had in August 2011 with one of her best friends. We were discussing her restaurant, food cost, sales, etc... She asked me if I thought she should close it down because it wasn't making enough money. Well, it WAS making money, we just needed to adjust some pricing and remove no and slow sellers from the menu, and we discussed this as well.
But I did tell her that ultimately, it was her restaurant; only she really knew what the sales numbers were, customer flow, costs, etc... and that only she could make a really educated decision on whether to close it or change what needed to be changed - and that regardless of her decision, I would support her 100%. To help her after she terminated her morning help, from July 2011 until the time it closed in February 2012 (right before the opening of her 'partnership' restaurant), I was going in and opening the restaurant for her, from 5:30am until about 7:30am - my start time at my job was 8am.
Somehow, that conversation got turned into me not giving a damn about the restaurant or the equipment, and she could do with it what she wanted. That's a conversation I have NO memory of - and her friend doesn't remember it that way either, and has told her so. There's currently some coldness between them right now, and I suspect that may be why.
W does bring this up every now and then, and I tell her I'm sorry she took my comment that way; but that is no where near what I meant - she claims I used those exact words.. Question is: how many times should a person have to apologize for something they didn't say?
