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Am I the Jerk?

Toxic New Coworker REFUSES to DO HER JOB

Am I the Jerk?

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🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 22 minutes

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0:00.0

An entitled brand new hire at the restaurant I work at is insanely rude and refuses to take any direction.

0:05.9

Things have gotten so bad that she literally just doesn't do her job sometimes,

0:09.7

leaving me and the rest of my coworkers on the hook as we have to finish her job up in order to close the restaurant.

0:15.3

And at this point, I'm exhausted putting up with her antics that I'm seriously now considering talking to the owner.

0:20.6

Here's what's going on. Okay, I just really need to get this out because I'm raging right now. Basically, I've been working at this restaurant for a few years, and I'm working one of the busiest holidays of the year. Normally, I'm a server, but I was hosting and I was floor managing because we were short staff for the weekend. And that way, I could kind of be a floater. I could be hosting, doing to-go orders, resetting tables, etc.

0:41.3

Now, there were two servers on the floor, and one was a new hire who's been there for about two weeks, maybe.

0:46.3

It gets insanely busy with the phones, the to-go orders, seating, and I'm updating the menus on the laptop all at the same time.

0:52.3

Meanwhile, this girl is not paying attention to her tables and has multiple tables sitting there with no water and not being greeted for 10 plus minutes at a time. I turn around and she's standing there behind the bar just wiping menu slowly. Now, this is not important side work, especially during dinner service, nor is it necessary because I had plenty of clean menus.

1:12.0

She even left one table outside without greeting them for 30 minutes, even though she had

1:16.2

stepped outside twice and somehow had not talked to them.

1:19.6

The entire night, me and the other server were taking care of her tables, while I was also

1:23.7

hosting and doing all the other things I mentioned.

1:26.1

Additionally, the other server was on a

1:27.9

double as well. The end of the night comes along and the new hire sits her butt down and is just doing roll-ups. So yeah, she's not helping break down the floor or anything, or even take in the outside furniture. Now, the server that's on a double wants to talk to me outside and smoke, and I said to her, Okay, sure. Let's grab the broom though and also sweep the outside seating while we do that.

1:46.6

We were outside for maybe 10 minutes max. We come back inside and the new hire says, can you guys like get a move on and hurry up and finish closing? Because I'm doing all these roll-ups, and I want to leave and have a birthday party to go to. And it's like, I'm sorry, but that's just not my problem. You should have taken today off then.

2:03.0

I then said to her, well, we were outside sweeping, but all you've been doing is the roll-ups. And that's all you have to do, so once you're done, you can go. By the way, the roll-ups were almost done, even though there was still other closing duties to be done. So I thought that would be helpful to her leaving faster.

2:18.0

She then starts talking back and telling me that I haven't done anything and acting like she's

2:22.3

done so much today. I told her that I shouldn't even still be there because I was hosting,

2:27.1

not serving, but because there was still closing stuff to do, I had to stay. She then tells me

2:32.0

to leave. And now I'm like, girl, I have to do the money drop and do other shift lead things. To what she tells me, well, anyone can do that. At that point, I had to go to the kitchen because I thought I was going to fully flip out on her. No, not anyone can do that. You idiot. That's why I have to do it. And you don't know what you're talking about because you're new and you have no clue what you're saying. The other server told her to then clock out and go right then and there because the disrespect was just not tolerable. And she literally refused to leave when that was told to her. But it's like, wait a second, didn't you just want to rush out so badly? So now all the sudden you won't leave? Anyway, in the end, she was just sitting there

3:08.4

after doing the roll-ups, and I said to her, okay, you can now go for real. And she said to me, oh no, now my friends are running late, so I'm actually just chilling. And she sat there on her stupid phone and watched me while I swept the whole inside floor, which by the way is her side work and not mine. Now, I'm not trying to be

3:25.1

harsh to her and I dislike bickering with coworkers and I'm not down with being rude to new

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