Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager - Series Overview

Series Overview

See also: List of Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager episodes

The first season follows Chad and his interactions with his co-workers. He admires his boss Randy, acquires Jeremy as an apprentice, hazes Lloyd and dates Clarissa. After troubles with Clint, Chad is moved to the night shift, where he meets Weird Jimmy, before quitting his job at Empire Market. After unsuccessfully working briefly at a number of jobs, he returns to Empire Market to re-ally with his coworkers and battle Clint to reclaim the day shift manager position.

In the second season, Empire Market is bought out by Red Leader Foods, a large corporation. Maggie McCall arrives as the corporate liaison for the new owners. After failure on the new laser checkout system, Randy is demoted to night shift manager, where he becomes mentally unstable, and Maggie becomes the acting general manager. The series also introduces another love interest for Chad, Maggie's assistant Libby and a minor antagonist, Sean Banditson. The season focuses on Chad's misuse of Jeremy and Maggie's attempts to ally with Jeremy. Afterward, Jeremy and Chad duel, leading to the accidental death of Weird Jimmy. After the battle, Chad and Jeremy reconcile.

The third season begins with the trial promotion of employees to general manager for a day. After the employees' failures, Maggie trials Clint as manager-for-a-day, where he pressures Randy to ally with him. New employee Damien Nightshayde allies with Chad and Jeremy, while a dead Jimmy, in Jeremy's visions, tells Jeremy a prophecy. Randy claims an unspecified plan is in motion. Later, former store owner Champion J. Pepper returns to the store and is the manager-for-a-day. He appears to do nothing, although a bit more than Tony. Later, Randy is seen crazier than ever. In the ending of the episode, Baby Cookie is seen ticking behind products. Soon, it is finally Chad's turn to be manager-for-a-day although Maggie has already decided that the best manager is Clint. To compensate, Chad goes to challenge Clint for a duel to the death and they initially duel in the back room, before moving towards the front of the store due to product damage to continue their duel. Soon, Chad surrenders and Jeremy and Damien throw a small net at Clint. Clint is irritated. However, soon after, Jeremy found a Baby Cookie bomb behind the shelf, and the timer indicates six minutes until detonation. Clint, Chad, Jeremy, and Damien race to find the other five bombs before the store blows up. When the sixth and final bomb is found, it turns out to be in the surveillance assailant. Damien grabs the bomb and is killed when it blows up in the parking lot. Seeing the explosion, Champion J. Pepper comes in and exercises a clause in the original sales agreement with Red Leader Foods that allows him to reacquire the store. He hires Maggie as the night manager, and promotes Chad to general manager. Jeremy, however, feels guilty about causing the death of Jimmy and Damien, and goes on leave.

The fourth season opens up with Chad as the general manager of Empire Market. Weird Jimmy's brother Johnny enters the store to pick up his brother's stuff. When he reminisces about Jimmy, Jimmy possesses him, and ultimately becomes the janitor for the store again. Jeremy then stumbles into the store in tattered clothing. Jeremy reveals that after he left the store, he played Skyrim for 3 days straight. He then wandered around the homeless district for food when Ben the Ghost appeared and told Jeremy to return to the store. Chad rehires Jeremy and it is revealed that Chad bribed Ben to tell Jeremy to come back to the store. Later, it's Chad's birthday and he and his co-workers celebrate. Chad tells of how his interview went where apparently Randy has heard of Chad and quickly hires him and tells him how great he is. Then, Brian Krause appears. Before he was on Charmed, he worked at the store. He was at Chad's interview and apparently when Randy told Chad about how he needs references from his previous job at Olive Garden, Chad got on his knees and started begging for the job so Randy decides to hire him. Brian then continues to tell the rest of the co-workers about Chad's first day on the job.

In the second 5 episode arc of the season Chad Vader locates his "dark soul half" and begins to become a much more harsh and increasingly unstable manager. He promotes the night shift manager—Maggie—to be his deputy. He isolates his girlfriend, Michelle, by giving her a written warning for being ten minutes late, and fires a popular stockboy for writing a critical song entitled "Chad Vader Makes Me Cry".

An inspection by Champion J Pepper shows the store falling in disarray with a homeless man sleeping in an aisle, and Chad trying to sell free samples. Champion discovers a generator problem which has so far been ignored by Chad Vader and urges Jeremy to take action. Chad's relationship with Michelle falls apart due to his unkindness and dictatorial attitude, however Chad mostly blames Michelle for this breakdown and convinces himself to push the store all the harder—even after Champion attempted to talk him down.

Chad's unpopularity grows to such an extent that he has to call imperial trooper to patrol the store and puts all employees on "indefinite overtime". Chad degrades into Jabba the Hutt, having Weird Jimmy dance for him, and orders Michelle to be his girlfriend again. She declines and then quits.

Finally Jeremy decides to enlist Weird Jimmy in helping him repair the generator. It is revealed that Maggie was behind the entire generator malfunction in an attempt to become General Manager again. Chad Vader is revived from his deathbed by Hal Thompson, and realizes the extent of what he did. In a speech before the store he promises raises and bonuses before stepping back down to Day Shift Manager. In terms of his successor, he made it clear that he would recommend Jeremy due to his efforts to save the store.