Started a new job, owner won’t let me clean, has it out for me for telling him he’s wrong and what’s wrong with his kitchen, and it’s just been constant verbal abuse at work and unnecessary micro managing, I’ve been doing my best to clean things behind his back but I’m at my limit with the constant harassment for having legitimate concerns for our customers health, he’s forcing me to serve very very questionable meat, how do I deal with this? Can anyone please help, I need money but this can’t continue, this is insane
by Grey_Station_
32 Comments
If your serving the food your just as responsible 🤷 Do what you need to for your bills but you gotta get out of there homie
No one is forcing you to serve questionable meat.
Keep looking. Always seems to be easier to find a job when you’re employed
You gotta get out of there asap and as soon as you do call a health inspector
Dude if he resents you for what you are doing to the point that he finds it important to micromanage you have to go! It is only a matter of time.
The Owner WILL win this tug of war. Do not do anything outside your good integrity but please leave! He is going to cause you major problems down the road.
Your going to get a health inspection and to spite you he will hold you accountable and by the sound of it you will fail it. You have to go!
Call it a constructive discharge. Get unemployment on hostile work environment and putting the safety of your diners at risk. Document everything. This guy has it out for you and will not stop. Resign under Duress if you have to, if you need the money coming while you find a job. But that kind of abuse is not for anyone. STOP putting any effort into it. It is a waste of time, you are cooked. Dudes an asshole.
Wish someone would have mentioned brake parts cleaner to me sooner. Good luck with that outlet, gross.
I mean you could always call the health department but you’d most likely lose your job.
That’s the most disgusting shit I’ve ever seen
SHUT THIS PLACE DOWN YOU’RE GONNA KILL SOMEBODY
But seriously I really hope y’all shut down operations until this is fixed. I know GMs are dumb as shit and will try and squeeze blood from a stone, just tell em don’t bother we got plenty in the walk in hot box
This would be a great time for a surprise inspection and then they get to tell the bosses to toss it out and shut the doors until it’s operational
Report him to the health department
Health department Standart aside. I always tell my ppl that their own etandart is the benchmark to measure. If you wouldn’t like or accept it change something.
Also: Get out there.
Fuck man run I know it sucks but that restaurants reputation will become yours… you’re a professional, own it.
Call the health department. If you know your job will make others ill in any way, tell on them.
Pack your shit, start looking again, and call the health department. It sucks to have to start again, but it sucks more to be culpable in someone dying.
If it’s the owner telling you not to clean, quit and immediately call your state’s health inspector. Granted, make sure you already have a job first in case there’s blowback, but for real. Salmonella might be the least of that place’s concerns soon if that shit isn’t locked down quick.
Option 1: Stop putting forth any extra effort. Stop communicating with the owner. Find a job, put in two week notice, have a good nights sleep.
Option 2: Resign under duress citing hostile work environment (forced to serve potentially dangerous food), collect unemployment. Be concerned with what the future might bring.
Option 3 (or the nuclear option): Call the health inspector. Let them know you are being forced to serve food that is unsafe or face termination. Let the owner fire you, File a lawsuit. Win under retaliation, don’t settle, subpoena the health department and go to trial. Win lots of money. Keep it on your conscience and your employment history forever.
Call the health inspector and then quit
Welcome to the Circus 🎪
Why haven’t you called in an “anonymous” too to the health department. That should have been step one.
You cannot serve that and have any self respect. “Violation” doesn’t touch it. Call the health dept yesterday.
Call the health department, I’ve done it, fuck em
You’re knowingly serving tainted food, you quit and report them to the health dept.
Hello fellow human being.
It’s time to look yourself in the mirror and find another job
Please leave assholes who will abuse you. You seem like a person we would all like to work with, so why torture yourself by cooking in a place which can’t treat you or themselves or their clients properly?
You deserve better.
Bro just call the health department and walk away. Jfc you’re going to kill someone.
Bro you need to call the health department.
You need to call this in to your local health authority and not posting on Reddit for Internet points.
Have you called an inspector? You need to call this in asap and quit. There’s other kitchens. The owner will not learn until they are financially forced to learn.
I give it 5 buttholes
Might as well burn it to the ground.
Start making your boss meals in this kitchen everyday and when they die of food poisoning you’ll be set for an elaborate inheritance heist.
But really. That careless attitude is unfortunately very normal in every single kitchen I’ve worked in. Some people just take advantage of the passivity of others. Whether it’s intentional or not the impact is that people literally die. [I’m not exaggerating.](https://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/2011-foodborne-estimates.html)
Post this on your local restaurant review Facebook group. Let the locals eat him alive.
Call out and start looking for a new job while you still have this one. Doesn’t need to be a forever job, just a better one until you can find the next stepping stone.
Anonymously call the health department. Try to collect unemployment. Start somewhere new.
Your mental health, your integrity, your ability doesn’t need to be spent there. That place looks like a black hole for happiness.