Posted by Celeste on July 06, 1998 at 21:48:07:
Thanks to everyone who wrote back with the information I requested on the creme brulee bet. I'd also like to thank you for the open advice on dealing with the gentlemen that I work with, but I feel like you still don't quite know what it feels like to be brushed aside like I have been in this job. I really like working with them, but I'm not going to let them lecture me like I'm some idiot while I sit there and smile and take it one step at a time. I know that they all really appreciate the work that I do, but I feel as if they value me only because I'm early everyday (sometimes saving their butts) and I do my job well. Maybe I'll get the nerve up to talk to my chef.....who knows, maybe I'm imagining the whole thing. I'ts not that I think it's even chauvenistic or anything. I just want to be treated as an equal. I've never asked them to do anything for me because I couldn't do it myself. After all they curse like sailors, as do I, and tell me dirty jokes...I just thought that being treated as an equal wouldn't be such a stretch.