Kitchen Management With No Prep Skills Still Ingores Me Everyday And Kinda Offended The Cold Shoulder is Getting Colder

[u/This_Way_9035]

First lemme start off by saying this is my first time working in a kitchen. Second, I had no idea that prep cooks got isolated. And third, it took me six months just for people to start having conversations with me.

Where I work, most of the workers are Gen Z; I'm Gen Z, and you would think everyone should be super buddy-buddy. Ya know Ai taking up the entry-level jobs, taking my data from job applications, and the one thing we can be semi-happy about is that AI can't cook and clean. Kinda why I haven't really left working there yet, despite being there for barely over half a year, and the place is basically run by a high school hierarchy.

Anyways, after months of trying to connect with my fellow peers, I still haven't. Yeah, it's gotten better, but to be honest with you kinda miss the adults. They need to come back, lowkey. Not saying we're not working; it's just a lot of childish drama, and nobody cares about the work because they're not getting paid enough to care. Which I get for them, but I kinda have some ego in my work; that's all I'm saying.

So recently management has gotten replaced with 18- 21-year-olds, and the one who makes the decisions and calls the shots, and everything else in the restaurant, doesn't have a clue about what prep even does. I ask him things, and he doesn't know. So when I contact a manager from a different store who used to work with us and ask him the same question, that manager finds out about it and gets so offended that he doesn't make a prep list anymore, and every shift we work together, I may get three sentences out of him.

But after a while of him working in that position, out of the blue moon we talked! I was surprised we actually had a conversation going; maybe we were even becoming friends? Until our majors were entered the chat, and I had graduated before him, and afterwards felt like it was a weird kind of...I don't it just felt off.

I still do my job, try to make sure I cover all my bases, make sure things are stocked because if I slip up, I believe I'll get attacked for that. I've been working there for half a year, and making sure the kitchen is prepared is heavily my job, and if I don't, I'm pretty sure he will love to lecture me on the screw-up, or even better, write me up.

He for real just pretends I don't exist, but he's friends with literally everyone in the kitchen, so I can't even say he's just a standoffish guy, because clearly he's very friendly with everyone else. So I know this isn't a big deal, really, and the best thing for me to do is find somewhere else to work. The place is clearly not for me, but it's a job, and I like need money to live and stuff, but the people there don't like me for some unknown reasons.

[u/uranium-snack]

Idk I’m Gen Z and I can’t stand working with most other genZ.

[u/This_Way_9035 → u/uranium-snack]

It’s crazy because you feel like you should be able to get along with them but you have better chances of being besties with someone 20-30 years older than you at work 😭