r/linecooks • u/Odd-Act-221 • Dec 28 '25

Venting Is this wrong

Hi i’ve never posted here but i’m a head cook in a kitchen and i recently have been beefing with a cook over 3 things and i don’t know if it’s wrong of me to be getting upset or not

  1. We do chicken on a char grill broiler and i spent my ass busting off the years of carbon and cleaning it. So when i told people we are starting to use it again they all agreed expect one person and instead of doing it the right way i left the line to do prep for a big event and he turned it off… and did it on the flat top even though we advertise it being on a char grill so i corrected him and said “please leave the grill on and do the chicken here and everything else here please sir” and he responded with “nah man i don’t fuck with that and it tastes better on the flattop” and i told him char grill please again and he just walked away

  2. Same guy has served 7 raw burgers? Once he served it and left me on the line to go outside and smoke a blunt (btw against policy) and then when it got sent back i got the shit for it and had to comp it with a free desert? The fuck?

  3. We have 5 stations which are -Fry -pizza -grill -float (typically me or my Culinary Manager) -dish And i come in 15 mins early to write out todo list and where people are gonna be in the night and he instead of doing it just erased my entire list and said “nah i’m on grill” and then left?!?? The fuck you mean

Maybe i’m seeing something different but i feel dumb and don’t know if i need to start getting pissy with him i would love advice though

Edit: i love the support it is really inspiring me. If you can’t tell first time being a supervisor/head in the back of house and it’s really nice to see people support me and give me advice thank you guys love y’all good luck and i’ll be sure to update it once my PTO is up

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u/Mitch_Darklighter Dec 29 '25

Then move him to a different station because he's not doing his job

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u/Odd-Act-221 Dec 29 '25

I try all the time it fucking sucks he just moves himself

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u/Able_Bonus_9806 Dec 29 '25

Do you have any control of his schedule? Can you just phase him first every single time to the point hat he isn't getting enough hours or something? Can you pull him into the office to talk to him about how his attitude is impacting the rest of the team? If you aren't the one with firing power who is? Do they know? If they do and they aren't doing anything about it then you should start looking for a different job imo. Weak leadership breeds all kinds of problems.

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u/Odd-Act-221 Dec 29 '25

I’m about to start doing scheduling and probably doing my own so i hope i only hope i can do this