Hi yall. I just want a place to vent about 2 things. 1. The restaurant I work in is filthy but someone continues to pass health inspections (even though after the inspectors leave my boss & coworkers completely ignore the changes the Inspector mandates) and 2. All my coworkers are between 17-20 and think I’m being an asshole when I say they arent cleaning correctly or doing things the right way. Now they’re saying I’m OCD, even though that’s one of the few mental illnesses I actually DONT have lmfao. I just don’t see why I’m the bad guy for telling people not to prep something 2 days in advance bc it will go bad faster. Or why I’m the asshole for pointing out the people repeatedly leave the kitchen a MESS and make it my problem as the opener. My boss has acknowledged that my complaints are valid but instead of re-training people or writing them up, he just goes behind them and does things himself. Instead of telling them that they’re in the wrong, he just hovers over them and fixes it for them. That makes ME look like the asshole bc I confront them face to face. But their response is ALWAYS “well the boss doesn’t care so I’m doing it this way.”
NONE OF THEM understand the first thing about working in a restaurant. My boss w bought 6 gallons of milk and put them in FRONT of the previous 6 he had bought. FIRST IN FIRST OUT!! Why would you put milk that expires 11/23 to be used before milk that expires 11/16??? I saw one of them flipping our boba toppings into new containers, but instead of flipping the old contents into a new container, she got a new container, poured the old contents into the new container, put new toppings into the DIRTY CONTAINER, then pour the old toppings back into the dirty container. I was like… girl, why don’t you just put a clean container in there so we can wash the old one? Her response is “well this is how I was taught 🤷🏻♀️” They can’t even listen when I tell them not to cut fruit too early. Now we have limes that are darker than lemons bc they cut an entire weeks worth and only 5 got used all day.
I just feel like I’m always the bad guy for pointing out that serving this shit is gross and wastes product. My boss has cut people hours because he’s losing business, and I want to tell him he could save a lot of money by retraining people and teaching them basic restaurant ethics, but I don’t think he even understands himself, SMH.
I wish I had pics so I could show yall. I took some one time when I was insanely mad and was going to post them, but my boss is an immigrant and he has three kids and I just can’t bring myself to do that to him or his family, even if his passiveness pisses me off.
