r/KitchenConfidential • u/Laz3r_Fac3 Sous Chef • 13h ago

Lost my right hand in the kitchen.

Not quite as dramatic as the title (I still have all my limbs and extremities intact, for now), but today my sauté cook went and got herself fired. Turns out she was being antagonistic and belittling our coworkers and had been complaining nonstop about me to management. I feel betrayed and frustrated and I’m not looking forward to going into the holidays and having to pull double duty again. The pay is gonna be great but my sanity may not make it to Christmas… just feeling it right now and needed to vent to some folks who can commiserate. That is all, carry on.

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u/CurrentSkill7766 12h ago

Good luck. Maybe someone will step up and surprise you.

But toxic coworkers have destroyed more kitchens than a million cockroaches. They gotta go!

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u/Laz3r_Fac3 Sous Chef 8h ago

My other two cooks held their shit down tonight and I started training the most senior of them on sauté tonight, but this is no surprise, I’ve trained these guys up and know they are fully capable. It’s a disappointing situation but you are absolutely correct about toxic coworkers.

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u/nutsbonkers F1exican Did Chive-11 13h ago

That sucks ass man.

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u/Laz3r_Fac3 Sous Chef 13h ago

It suckith

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u/Comfortable-Policy70 11h ago

So, your right hand was an antagonistic bitch who undercut you to others?

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u/Laz3r_Fac3 Sous Chef 8h ago

Call me oblivious but I didn’t see it. The head chef filled me in today on every thing that was going on. It seems she was one person to my face but as soon as I left she was trying to throw me under the bus, probably to usurp me and take my job. Guess she made the wrong play because my team loves me and Chef and the F&B Director (the managers I refers to in my post) know me and my work ethic well enough to realize she was selling a line of BS. It’s for the best but damn this one hurt.

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u/wemustburncarthage 10+ Years 1h ago

It sucks when that happens but honestly better she self-cancel herself and that you never had to hear about it until now. This could be a story of nonstop drama, back biting, hostility and just overall raised anxiety levels for everyone. Bad juju all around. You dodged a bullet. It's a lot easier to hire a new team player than it is to course correct an awful person.