My entitled co-worker thinks that she owns and runs this entire restaurant, barking demands and orders at literally everybody around her.

But after being pushed to my breaking point, I finally decided to get some revenge on her.

Here's how it went down.

So this was a few years ago, right after the end of the pandemic.

I was working as a pastry chef and wanted to change restaurants to shake things up.

I ended up in an Italian place in town that seemed like a nice enough place. I didn't try it first, and now I regret that. Now, it's important to understand the weird structure of this particular restaurant. The owner was in his 70s and barely ran anything. And for the sake of the story, we'll call him Tom. He just wanted to run his appetizer station and pay someone else to be the head chef. And that chef is my mentor, who we will call Otto. Then there was a sous chef by the name of Keith and the front of house manager who we will call Jamie. Jamie had been working line cook shifts in the back due to short staffing, and she felt that made her our boss, even though she had literally zero authority over the line cooks, let alone the chefs. Now, this restaurant, to put it

nicely, has seen better days. Not kitchen nightmares material, but definitely going underwater due to

their rapidly aging fan base. Chef Otto was brought in originally as a consultant to revamp the

menu and overhaul procedures. And you know what? He did. But then Jamie nagged Tom until he slowly

made Otto change it back. And here's the thing. Jamie hates change. We've done it this way for 20 years. Yeah, and now you're in the red. Clearly, things need to change. After a few months, Chef Otto got fed up and moved to another restaurant 40 miles away. And unfortunately, I couldn't follow at the time because of a family situation. We remained in touch with him teaching

me a lot of things just through conversations. They then brought in a new executive chef who we will call

Dudley to take over. Jamie helped choose this guy and I was wondering, well, why does she want him? Well,

it's because he was a burnt out do whatever she wanted. Sue Chef Keith and I tried desperately

to convince them to stop using recipes

that physically, scientifically did not work. But Jamie's complaining continued. Her famous mantra

was to say, it's fine, we've done it for so many years. And it honestly, slowly was driving me

mad. Jamie is not just stubborn. She's an active bully that did not like him when people told her no.

Tom hasn't had passion for much,

probably since the 70s. So it was easy for her to bully him and get whatever she wanted.

Eventually, Keith got fed up and bounced, leaving me alone to deal with Jamie and her beaten-down

lackeys. Now, the important thing is that weirdly, Tom actually really liked me. He liked that

I was excited about food and wanted to make everything

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