Treated different to other staff member,would you be annoyed ?

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Well maybe not annoyed but made me question the company.
I started a new job in a boutique hotel on Monday.
Independent chain,60 rooms,2 restaurants and 1 bar on site.
I am a receptionist
I was told to get there for 9am as another new starter was coming in for that time and we would get an induction.

We both arrive ,she is the new HR manager on site and like I say I'm a receptionist.
So we are in a small room having an induction with the hotel owner.
We will call the new HR manager "Lisa"

Gets to lunch time and he goes "okay we will break for 30 mins lunch,hands Lisa the restaurant menu and asks what she would like for lunch "
Proceeds to tell me to go on my lunch and take 30 mins and points me to the outside area if I smoke.
Luckily I had brought pack lunch.

I guess I felt a bit like my job role wasn't worthy of getting a meal and I was sent on my way.
I had my lunch in the reception back room where it's full of files /boxes -general chaos

Would you be miffed too ?

Sorry for lack of punctuation ha ha

sounds a bit shit - perhaps she was meeting someone over lunch - this often happened when i was in HR and if she was then right for them to give her lunch x

Crass and badly managed.

not overly surprising that senior roles get better perks but that sounds really badly handled.

I think this could have been better handled for the induction day, but I don’t think it’s surprising a new receptionist wasn’t given the run of the restaurant menu. But deliberately having you in for an induction day alongside a new employee with a very different status within the business should have involved someone thinking this through in advance, so that you didn’t feel like a poor relation on your first day.

I totally understand that she's obviously much more experienced etc and on a normal day I wouldn't be working alongside her.
I just think as we were both doing the same induction....it was shit to have me leave the room and she gets a meal of choice.
Maybe I'm too sensitive

No, not too sensitive. It was badly handled.

Crass and bad-mannered.

Very poorly managed, I would be upset too OP.

That’s horrible and sadly gives you an insight into how more junior staff are treated at this establishment. It’s fair enough if an executive colleague has wider benefits such as lunch in their contract but to shoo you away was extremely crass of them

What comes with age is bolshyness.

I would have said something.

'Oh that's great ( trying to see menu), do we get this every day? Ha ha!'

Make THEM feel uncomfortable, not you.

But then I'm of an age I put up with no shit anymore!

What a horrible way to treat you.

I'm wondering if they were having a meeting though, so a working lunch?

Mind you if that was the case, he should've made it clear.

Senior managerial department head gets treated differently to junior receptionist shocker.

Having worked at hotels ,sometimes being fed by the hotel is a perk of the job,sometimes not?

I think it’s odd that you had the same induction. The roles are very different.

It was a induction to the hotel
Learning about the brand
What he was hoping to create in the future
Tour of the building etc

Yes this is what makes me think it was an actual induction for the OP, but more of a 'come along, see the place/meet the staff' for the HR manager.

Before they then discussed things over lunch that wouldn't involve the OP.

It was handled badly and nastily.

They didn't discuss anything over lunch
She went to the restaurant for lunch by herself and sat by herself
The manger wasn't there at lunch

You're not being over sensitive, that was badly handled.

Oh, in that case it was weird and rude.

Unless there's something in her contract that means she gets to eat for free.

Or (still clutching at straws here) she may have paid for lunch and told him in advance she'd be doing that?

Did anyone actually tell you her lunch was free?

Not at all. Shows what insensitive and unfair arseholes that they are. So much for valuing all staff.