Hey guys, I recently left a catering company after working for them for three years due to the fact that I worked my ass off in the kitchen (as a microwave technician) and didn't get the respect I deserved at all.
Basically I got a new job in a new kitchen. It's a smaller business and it started off so well, the boss was being really nice and I was thinking how my luck has finally changed, that I finally have a good job. Work colleagues were pretty sound too.
As I said, my boss was being super nice. Just giving me money because I had none as I had changed from weekly pay to monthly. Slipping me tobacco when I needed it. Saying I'm a good worker ect. Deep down I was feeling a bit odd about all this. Like it was too good to be true.
There's only three people Rota'd for the kitchen all week. We have an insufficient amount of people and I got thinking why this is and that if this manager is so nice, why are people just walking out?
2 weeks later ( I have only been here a month) I noticed a change in his attitude. I kinda brushed it off due to him having stresses about the job, ya know, like any manager in his position. I then started noticing how shit he would treat my other colleague. I starting thinking "how long till this is me?". Again I carried on my job as usual.
Recently my boss has become very distant. Distant as opposed to him being all touchy feely, cuddly, up beat (he's gay and I'm not saying this because of his sexuality but I did notice he was a little closer to me than others, which kinda creeped me out. Especially when he would feel my ass I'm straight and I let it go cos he's my boss ya know?).
So yeah yesterday he came into the kitchen after I was in there for 8 hours doing a perfectly fine job and he was in a foul mood, started asking me loads of stupid questions e.g "why is the oil in the friar gone down so much?" My response "it's 8 o'clock in the evening and we have been busy all day, oil will naturally go down (then thinking in my head "you stupid fuck!!") It was just the way he asked it though and the look on his face to how 'disgusted' he was that I allowed this inevitable action to take place. He just got in the way and generally made me feel uncomfortable about myself and the job I was working in. He was obviously taking out his personal issues on me. This does not go down well with me when I'm on a all day shift in a hot kitchen on my own on a Friday evening within the build up to Patrick's day. So I was Pissed at him. He carried on his attitude after I was being pleasant to him numerous times despite my own anger. I just felt shit and ended up walking out leaving the kitchen in a shit tip for the fucker to clean himself. Like I'm not going to work for one place to feel bad and go to another place that's the same.
I'm in this place with my life where I know I'm worth more! I'm at college redoing my gcse's and I have a place in my science and engineering course in September. I have a lot going for me at this time in my life. I'm just going through a small self worth dilemma.
Was it right what I did? Also, I'm wanting to get out of catering all together and start something else but I don't know what. I feel domesticated, as in, catering is the only thing I know but 9 years in the business hasn't shown a lot. Also someone with a bit of understanding about this would go a long way right now. I'm in a seriously sticky situation.
Basically I got a new job in a new kitchen. It's a smaller business and it started off so well, the boss was being really nice and I was thinking how my luck has finally changed, that I finally have a good job. Work colleagues were pretty sound too.
As I said, my boss was being super nice. Just giving me money because I had none as I had changed from weekly pay to monthly. Slipping me tobacco when I needed it. Saying I'm a good worker ect. Deep down I was feeling a bit odd about all this. Like it was too good to be true.
There's only three people Rota'd for the kitchen all week. We have an insufficient amount of people and I got thinking why this is and that if this manager is so nice, why are people just walking out?
2 weeks later ( I have only been here a month) I noticed a change in his attitude. I kinda brushed it off due to him having stresses about the job, ya know, like any manager in his position. I then started noticing how shit he would treat my other colleague. I starting thinking "how long till this is me?". Again I carried on my job as usual.
Recently my boss has become very distant. Distant as opposed to him being all touchy feely, cuddly, up beat (he's gay and I'm not saying this because of his sexuality but I did notice he was a little closer to me than others, which kinda creeped me out. Especially when he would feel my ass I'm straight and I let it go cos he's my boss ya know?).
So yeah yesterday he came into the kitchen after I was in there for 8 hours doing a perfectly fine job and he was in a foul mood, started asking me loads of stupid questions e.g "why is the oil in the friar gone down so much?" My response "it's 8 o'clock in the evening and we have been busy all day, oil will naturally go down (then thinking in my head "you stupid fuck!!") It was just the way he asked it though and the look on his face to how 'disgusted' he was that I allowed this inevitable action to take place. He just got in the way and generally made me feel uncomfortable about myself and the job I was working in. He was obviously taking out his personal issues on me. This does not go down well with me when I'm on a all day shift in a hot kitchen on my own on a Friday evening within the build up to Patrick's day. So I was Pissed at him. He carried on his attitude after I was being pleasant to him numerous times despite my own anger. I just felt shit and ended up walking out leaving the kitchen in a shit tip for the fucker to clean himself. Like I'm not going to work for one place to feel bad and go to another place that's the same.
I'm in this place with my life where I know I'm worth more! I'm at college redoing my gcse's and I have a place in my science and engineering course in September. I have a lot going for me at this time in my life. I'm just going through a small self worth dilemma.
Was it right what I did? Also, I'm wanting to get out of catering all together and start something else but I don't know what. I feel domesticated, as in, catering is the only thing I know but 9 years in the business hasn't shown a lot. Also someone with a bit of understanding about this would go a long way right now. I'm in a seriously sticky situation.
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