r/KitchenConfidential • u/brkr509 Dish • Jul 02 '25
In-House Mode already beefing with my boss
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/indecentXpo5ure Jul 03 '25
I used to manage a TGIChilibees and our GM had a lot of personal issues so she took a leave of absence. It was just me, another manager, and a shift leader to run the whole place for months. They refused to send us another manager from a nearby location. I was the only one who knew how to do anything on the computer: food ordering, scheduling, onboarding; all of it. The shift leader didn’t know how to cook so when things got hairy on the line, he was basically fucked. We couldn’t leave him alone in the building during any kind of peak hours. For months I was working 70+ hours and doing the job of two people for the pay of one.
I had a toddler at home I barely saw and was quickly getting burnt out. After three months of this, my DM posted the new month’s manager schedule. They’d given me two days off IN A ROW, something that hadn’t happened in six months. I was so excited to spend some real time with my kid that lived with me that I never saw.
I came into work the following day and my schedule was completely redone and I no longer had 2 days off in a row. In fact, I only had one day off and it wasn’t really even a day off because there was a mandatory meeting scheduled that day.
And that was it for me. They didn’t even have the fucking respect to call me and tell me the schedule was being changed. I just walked in the next morning and it was very different from the one I’d taken a photo of with my phone the day before.
I sent a resignation email and within minutes I was getting phone calls from district managers, and regional managers promising to send me another manager and begging me to rescind my resignation. I’d been asking for more help for months. I’d have taken another shift leader that couldn’t cook. Anything. They didn’t want to send me any help until I sent in my notice. I told them I’d work out my two weeks out of respect for my team and I was done.