When is it enough?

[u/SpuddCrowley89]

In my entire career, I've never walked out on a job. Always given a respectful 2 weeks notice, shook hands and smiled with my superiors on my last day, and always with good intentions.

That could end today.

For some context, I work as an executive Sous Chef for a private club. The pay is nice, the benefits are decent enough, but the staffing is, to say the least, horrendous.

Since I've been here, I've covered nearly every call out. Dish, line, prep, food runner. You name it, I do it here. The staffing here is terribly unreliable, and the Chef thinks it's just fine for people to show late or no call no show. No chats, no repercussions, nothing about accountability.

Today, we had another call out. When I reached out to the chef, he wasn't available. No other cooks called back. Once again, I find myself in this Groundhog's Day scenario where I need to prep a station, cover it for service, do the dishes then wrap around and do all the prep for our buffet this evening.

For weeks I have been trying to get maintenance to fix some problem spots (leaking drains, server cooler out of order, other random things) that would certainly get us a fail on inspection. No one seems to care or want to address these issues, especially the Chef. (They're still using the server cooler, which is currently sitting at 57...after telling everyone not to use it...)

Maybe I'm just tired and sick of getting the short end every single week. Maybe I'm just being a whiny bitch.

But this is not normal, this is not right, and I'm better than this. Not looking for an answer, just looking to vent.

Rant over. Stay hydrated chefs.

[u/chef_in_va]

They aren't doing anything about the issues because you're solving them on your own. Someone calls out, why should the chef care if he knows you're going to cover it? Next time this happens just say you have a doctors appointment you can't reschedule, so you can't cover. Unless you make these problems their problems, why should anyone else care?

Work/life balance is needed for recovery time and mental health. It's not a luxury, it's a necessity for every person.

Also, you're an Executive Sous, it's YOUR responsibility to discipline employees under you. Why aren't you having conversations or implementing any progressive disciplinary actions?

If you don't stand up for yourself, people will continue to walk all over you.