Petty and Jealous Coworkers Making My Temp Kitchen Job Miserable!!!
I'm 32 and look 25. I've always looked young so I'm used to being treated as a kid by peers at the beginning and can usually deal with any disrespect pretty well.
I've worked in kitchens for 14 years, I was at a cushiony job in an airport for the last 4 with small menus, small kitchens, very light work, high pay and benefits.
(I resigned and left the city to be closer to family)
I'm a cook, not a chef. Just experience. I don't even enjoy cooking. I just know how to do it, so it's where my job applications end up.
I'm going back to school and switching careers to the total opposite of a kitchen, but needed a job now so I got another one... in a kitchen.
With my experience, after about a month the GM's already throwing the idea around of me running the kitchen. I told him it's not what I'm looking for and he had no hard feelings.
The other cooks though, wow! One especially with the most seniority seems very jealous and competitive now.
He's stopped answering any questions I have about the menu telling me to figure it out.
I'm overhearing things like...
"We're a team, but it's still a competition."
"I get off on ruining people's day,"
"My favorite thing is causing problems."
"He'll quit soon, I'll make sure of it,"
"I'm a better cook than the Indian that taught him,"
(I'm white and was trained by an Asian chef. One Cook is just an idiot-racist)
I've grinded my ass off and paid my dues to get to the top before. I don't have that passion anymore. I was looking for something easy to make a little extra money while studying.
My plan is to just kill them with kindness and really need to vent it out.