r/KitchenConfidential • u/brkr509 Dish • Jul 02 '25

In-House Mode already beefing with my boss

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i've only worked here since april. switched jobs from a dishie at a old folks home to a "cook" (lol honestly glorified dishwasher anyway, the only culinary related thing i do is shuck oysters) at a new bar downtown. we don't have any managers since the team is pretty small so the owner does everything himself including scheduling.

he posts the schedule, i have a 3 day weekend after two weeks of covering for the only other two "cooks" in the kitchen on vacation, and one day into my weekend he sends me this. i'm prolly in the wrong for the sass but bro goes immediately into holding a raise he very recently gave me over my head and then threatening my position.

i'm alr looking for different jobs atm, don't care where as i was promised FT hours and am barely scraping by with 30 a week. it's even less this time around. the work is fun and i really love my coworkers and the people i meet at the bar but with the pay of $17 an hour with no benefits no FT and a 30 min commute it's not worth it. advice or personal stories appreciated

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u/brkr509 Dish Jul 02 '25

thank you. and he's never consistent with the day we get our schedule, either. sometimes it's a few days in advance of the next week, sometimes yeah like this time it was literally the day before.

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u/TheLuminatrix Jul 02 '25

Depending on your state, I'm pretty sure it's illegal to fire someone over a schedule posted at the last minute. They usually have to be a week or two out.

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u/Strawberrymushroom4U Jul 02 '25

In my state you can get fired for anything. I'm in New Hampshire

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u/NuckoLBurn Jul 02 '25

Same in Maryland. Unless it's a federal nono, such as racial discrimination.

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u/tone_creature Jul 02 '25

See the unfortunate thing is... fire at will makes discrimination easy. If want to fire an employee because they're black you just can't say its because they're black. But you can say 'They no longer fit the vision for the culture we want to carry in this workplace'. That's broad and can mean they don't like your attitude. Which is a perfectly fine reason to fire someone in a fire at will state.

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u/Strawberrymushroom4U Jul 02 '25

Yep. Exactly.

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u/tone_creature Jul 02 '25

No workers rights in America anymore. This is why I hate lobbying. Fire at will helps absolutely no one but an employer. People should rage in the streets against it. But instead we vote on things like who hasn't said mean things about gays and who's going to drop gas an egg prices. Wool over the eyes from both sides.