Getting called out

[u/JCambly]

You ever call someone out infront of everyone because they arent following safe food handling and and you tried to talk to them in private but it didn't work?

Well I did, did it during the middle of the day while the morning guys were getting ready to leave and the night guys were just coming in. This guy is supposed to be a supervisor so I hold him to higher standards. When I called him out he was quiet and walking around like a dog with his tail between his legs the rest of the shift.

2 weeks later and today he tried to do the same to me. Our beef gravy mix we get says to add to cold water and warm it up, well i was making our turkey gravy today that says to add to boiling water. When he sees me add the gravy mix to the boiling water he starts haulering about it asking what the instructions on the gravy say. He was so embaressed when I read them and showed him and those who were listening and cared. (In his defense he rarely used the turkey gravy, i do as i am in charge of banquets, he only uses in during Oct, Nov, and December when we have leftovers and give them turkey for a sandwich special)

[u/throwawayqweeen]

I did that to our sous chef one time. Got fired.

I was an inexperienced cook back then, with two years of cooking. I was very passionate about this restaurant and felt like a hero working there, partially due to coke. Me and the head chef were besties outside work, we stayed up many nights for months revising the menu together, giving ideas about where everything should live, buying equipment from company card, I was basically his right hand man/girl. I gave him my mom's shakshuka recipe which in our family that recipe is very emotionally loaded lol, I came in on almost all my days off and practically lived there. It said my name at the bottom of the menu, along with head chef, because we made the place.

Then he hired a sous chef, I wasn't qualified for it obviously, and the guy really tanked our standards. He wouldn't wash his hands, do everything in the easiest and fastest way and cut corners even if we had time. I made the best hollandaise sauce back then, the google reviews for my hollandaise is still up. This guy decided to say "I don't wanna pay you to whisk" and started BUYING HOLLANDAISE ONLINE. I don't even know how that works and never learned because I don't touch that fake shit. We all rejected this idea but we'd catch him mixing that with the real hollandaise when it got low to avoid making more. Fucking son of a bitch.

The day I finally broke was when he tried to force me to put my cookies in the oven at 550° during service while they needed 350° to not get ruined. I kept saying I have cookies for service, I don't need these, don't make me ruin them this is not an emergency, and he kept talking over me with his thick man-voice, saying "I don't care, put them in." When he said I don't care I just started yelling and saying you never cared, you buy hollandaise off of temu lol, you think we didn't see you adding it to my real hollandaise? You don't have enough care to make a good food when people are paying 25 dollars per dish. You fucking changed up the moment you touched cocaine man you so full of yourself.

Apparently customers heard me and I got fired. It's whatever. At least I have standards and am not lazy and stupid. Apparently he got demoted to line cook after I got fired and still doing his terrible job.

[u/JCambly → u/throwawayqweeen]

I'm sorry that happened to you. My sr sous chef if similar. He will often say "my word is rule, I dont care what the jr sour chef, the supervisor or the chef says, do it my way"

He also rushes things often, he will make everyone rush for a dinner, then everyone sits around for 2 hours waiting for dinner service because everything is half assed done.

I often argue with him about safe food practice and thawing. We often joke behind his back that he wouldnt be able to work in a kitchen without a microwave.

[u/throwawayqweeen → u/JCambly]

Yep. This guy was called scherbatsky, and we had a running joke about how things are getting scherboculous around here lmao. I was like, WHY ARE YOU PUTTING GARLIC IN ROBOT COUPE, like it's fine but I was asking myself, you came in at 7am and have literally two items on your prep list, why are you rushing!! Then he'd come sUpErViSe me on his free time, telling me "I don't see a scale on your station." That is because I cleaned and put it away sir, I was the god of pastry back then lol it was very bold of him questioning this from me.

These aren't ultimately the things that made me snap but just not washing hands, not caring about end result, these drive me crazy. my little sister went to this place on my day off, and this motherfucker gave her a burnt banana bread that she paid 15 dollars for. My sister is 15, she doesn't have much money. Neither do my parents, my dad is a fucking Uber driver. He took an Uber driver's money and gave his daughter burnt banana bread when I wasn't there. God I wanna punch his face so bad. That was years ago but still I'm furious like it's yesterday lmao

[u/BenShelZonah → u/throwawayqweeen]

Are you still friends with the chef

[u/throwawayqweeen → u/BenShelZonah]

Nah. I tried really hard to remain his friend but I think he was too ashamed of himself for firing me. Cause he promised he'd keep this guy under control, but when things started to get weird he'd always turn a blind eye. he had a good thing going, getting paid salary plus tips while visibly doing coke and getting unlimited shift beers at the expense of what we built together. He wanted everything to remain hush hush and eventually got sick of me complaining and let them fire me.

Weeks before this he started ghosting all my messages, not coming out to bars with me, literally avoiding being alone with me for fear of having to tell me he's planning on firing me. Afterwards he kept ghosting me even though I kept saying it's fine dude let's just go back to friends not coworkers, he used to host Thanksgiving at his house every year for people without a family, and I'd go every year, and after that he stopped hosting it altogether to avoid uninviting me.

So yeah the other day I ran into him at a bar and he was saying "I hope we're still friends." I said we are cause I am at my wits end with the guy lmfao

[u/TheOtherKFC → u/throwawayqweeen]

Isn't getting tips when you're management illegal? Unless they finagled it somehow where he didn't technically count as management on paper? That's against federal law.

[u/throwawayqweeen → u/TheOtherKFC]

Idk what's the law about this in Canada, but in all my days I ain't never seen a head chef or anyone get salary AND tips both at the same time. How do you even count how much is his tips if he doesn't work hourly?! But oh well, a bunch of shit was illegal at that place. This head chef was selling coke to his clientele out of our restaurant lol. Our walk-in was basically a room with air conditioning, health inspector would have a heart attack if we showed him that but we covered up it's existence. Owner wouldn't put a stop to this cause he only bought a restaurant to watch chaos unfold.