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Becky,

I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but some of us enjoy work and actually have fun doing it. Taking a pattern that fits for one particular work environment and applying it to all work environments and in life in general is a Part-to-Whole fallacy (someone tries to say that what is true of part of something must be also true of the whole thing together). I manage programmers where innovation and creativity is needed. Not assembly line make ze hamburger atmosphere.

Now, I'm not in the restaurant business but I have eaten in plenty of restaurants and understand the franchise model. I do know your husband is working with unskilled labor and really what I would categorize as Mc'Jobs. In that case the only will motivator is fear, and it seemed to work in his case. That style really backfires in the world of professionals and will end up destroying motivated, creative workers. But when your only tool is a hammer everything looks like a nail, eh.

Did you teach your children with the same techniques?

Your are so full of yourself your pathetic.

My husband did not manage out of fear. He did not fire anyone they quit. He just explained to them the job they were hired to do and then made them do it. Is that managing with fear??? Is there anything wrong with asking/expecting people to do the job they are hired to do.

I love horses, love riding. People pay me to ride their horses for them, guess what. Even tho I love doing it, it's work and alot of days it's not fun. It's a grind. That's life. That is not to say I don't enjoy it and get extreme satisfaction for doing it even on the days it's a grind. That's the attitude has been lost. Probably because of the likes of you spouting the fallacy that that your job is "fun".

Becky