Do you like gambling? Detonation is the term for uncontrolled fuel ignition, and is the possible result of running lower octane than required. The car can somewhat mitigate the issue by trying to adjust the spark timing, but if you’re lucky and the fuel ignites spontaneously in multiple locations you can get pressure spikes in the 10’s of thousands of psi. If they happen in the right place little pieces of piston / cylinder wall start getting blown off, then maybe they land somewhere they shouldn’t. Just buy the correct gas.
We had rotating Saturday shifts at one of the shops I worked at, and if you had to work Saturday lunch was comped. We’d pick a restaurant and order and the porter would go pick it up. Always made the weekend shift a bit more tolerable.
In all seriousness though the only thing I want out of a service manager is someone who has my back and doesn’t micromanage me.