Being expected to train your new boss!

[Antari]

So the pub I work in has a new landlord and he is bringing the head chef from his previous pub to this one.

The thing is that despite being the same company this chef has never worked on a site with our main menu and doesn't have a clue on how to run a carvery. So I'm being expected to train him in both.

Yet this person is going to be earning significantly more than me an hour, which in itself wouldn't be annoying except I was in line to have the head chef job before the new landlord wanted to bring in his own.

So not only do I have to train my new boss, who earns more than me, but I am going to be doing it while knowing he took my chances of promotion away. I know it isn't personal but it is still damn annoying.

Anyone else found themselves in the same situation?

PS. I know this should have gone in the Advice section but that place is deader than my enthusiasm to go to work tomorrow.

You should set a meeting up with the new landlord. Explain to him/her the situation from your eyes and see if the two of you can come to a more agreeable arrangement, because right now hes/shes showing you disrespect but may not see it as such. He/she can either have a new head chef with no support. Or a new head chef with the support of the staff. Which does he/she want? At the very least you may get a raise out of it. If you get fired, well you were already looking in that direction so its no fault of your own. But don't just allow it to happen.

 

[jklinders]

More or less specifically happened in my case. The second time I was bucking for kitchen manager where I was working a few years back a subordinate got it my place.

I didn't really mind too much. He was better suited to it and I was pretty burned out from doing his predecessor's work at no extra pay for a year. I was also taking shit for his predecessor's screw ups and fixing his financial errors on a consistent basis. Bluntly put I was tired and glad to get a reduction in hours as I was pulling over 50 a week at the time.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

On a student film set, sometimes you end up with a Director who doesn't think visually when trying to tell his/her story. Then you have to go through what's going to work or not work. Its... frustrating, to say the least.