Well, I'M here again. I am suffering some backfire from my propensity of trying to get to the bottom of things. A week ago Thurs. I ran into a snag at work.Flip Flop Woman, a fellow cook at Morris has been telling me all these tales about M the head cook. all the time she goes on and on about Ms faults. I admit I kind of like to hear the tales because I don't particularly like her and because I like to talk sometimes. Flip Flop has also told me to my face that I need to get over some of my quirks, such as liking the dish towels we use at work to all be folded neatly and stacked a certain way. I also like the food cooked right, tasting right, and looking right. FF leaves at 4:30. But I stay until close, I am the dinner shift supervisor. Well several times T the manager has not liked the appearance or the taste of the food that FF has made. but by the time T checks it out FF has left and then T asks me what happened and if I tasted the food or checked it out before it went on the line. I have not tasted it on a number of occasions I have to admit I have not. Well I promised that I would check out the food before it goes out. I take my job seriously, maybe too seriously, and I really hate to have the food be wrong. The last straw was when FF had made some Chimichunga sauce. I had not checked it out. It Was like water. I have never seen such a poor example of sauce in my life. Fortunately FF was still there, one of the servers asked me about it, and I knew it wasn't supposed to look like it did. I myself had made it many times and it definitely didn't look like hers. I asked FF about it, but she said it was supposed to be thin, because that is the way thy served at at ***. Well I argued with her that it wasn't how it should be. I finally got T to check it out. I was not acceptable and FF had to fix it, saying I followed the recipe. The next week I came in at my regular time and FF was making it again, and she was not the one assigned to do it, but there she was making it again.She thinks that she has to make every thing on the menu as fast as she can. leaving nothing for anybody else to do. I hate it, because I don't go to work to stand around for 8 hours. she says she just has a good work ethic and she can't slow down just because others might need to work. Well , making the food edible or making it fast are not necessarily the same thing. It is not a good work ethic in the food industry if all you care about is throwing it together as fast as you can. She will go and finish up the food that someone else has started, making that person feel worthless. Well back to the backfire part, FF asked me one day if we had run out of food for dinner the night before. I told her we had not. Then she told me that So an so had been talking about the dinner the night before and how we had run out of food. She then told me that M said "I guess I will have to come in on T,W, and Th evenings to help out then. That really burned me up. I went to So and so (even though I didn't think they had said it.) Well they were mad because they said they had never said that. I told them that I thought they didn't but the cat was out of the bag. They took affront, and I told them that I believed that they hadn't said that. The one that is my helper at night walked out and then said she was going to take the next day off. Well then I went to t and confessed that I had messed something up, and she went and brought a back. T told me the FF doesn't know what she is talking about 3/4 of the time. she just has to talk. I made up with A and we are better friends than ever but I know who the gossip is. We FF and I are not on very good terms now and I feel like an idiot. Every time i try to make things better they blow up in my face and I feel guilty and ashamed for weeks. Why do i do this to myself? By the way FF had actually put two conversations together and turned it into one whopper of a story. The truth of it was So and so were just having a simple conversation about how the day before had gone. M was indeed coming in on T,W,Th evening to help serve on the lines so the hose in the dining room could keep up on their jobs. We are 79 people short of staff. We have 86working (mostly all students and part time) and we need 79 more. No wonder I am tired all the time. Next week , July 4th week, we will be having 2200 people for breakfast and dinner. O goody. That is more than the MTC feeds and they are overstaffed and have a bigger kitchen! Any suggestions on how I can handle such situations should one come up again, and I know one will. I have already found out that FF is a gossip, so I wont listen to her again. but what else can I do? It sounds like you are all in various states of busyness and running around trying to get it all done.
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There are always FF's in the world. The best thing to do from my perspective is not to repeat what they say, and never talk about them either. People will figure out that you won't play, and eventually they'll stop all the macinations and not bother you with it or believe you are part of it. It's miserable to work where there is tension between people. I hope it gets better soon, and that you will get more help. the idea of cooking for 2200 people gives me the heebie-jeebies and nightmares. Good Luck.
Easy, don't tell FF anything you wouldn't want posted on a billboard.
I hate hostile work environments, but the best thing to do is keep your mouth shut, do the best work you know how to do an come home and vent in private.
I agree with Wyo. Sis, I don't want to cook for four people, let along 2,200
I have learned through the years, that people who whine and complain are those who do not like themselves anyway. It is their way of getting attention for they have a need to be the center of everything. It makes them feel important. Believe me I know what I am talking about! I agree, silence is golden. Eventually, their actions will catch up to them and they will get snared and unable to get out of their own trap. It is times like these I am so thankful I cannot hear the animosity in these environments.
P.S. what is FF?
Hillbilly, FF stands for Flip Flop you know like J. Kerry. Big... the best thing you can do is tell the truth and stop telling FF anything because it will be used against you. If she is telling you stuff other people have said then she is telling others what you say. The best way not to get snake bit is to keep track of where the snake is. People like that eventually self-distruct.
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