AIBU to be upset about this from work today

[Tina5]

Work with one other person in a nursery kitchen (Chef) and apparently I’m doing everything wrong from how I cut Sprouts to how slow I am at Peeling Potatoes to being too slow at everything today. Tomorrow is the Staff Christmas Dinner at work and I appreciate it’s stressful however from the morning I was rushed off my feet and didn’t appreciate being told this by the Chef, I did mention that I was rushed off my feet from the morning and it was a stressful day but AIBU to be still overthinking this to the point of being upset

How long have you worked there?

6 years

How long have you been working with that Chef? Chefs get stressed.

And your colleague?

My Colleague is the Chef I am the Kitchen Assistant

I think that the question is around how long the chef has worked there, Op 😊

Sorry misunderstood 🤦‍♀️
Chef 10 years

Well if you've been working with a Chef for 6 years, and today is all you've got to complain about, you're doing well 😆

Not to minimise your distress, OP, but Cheffing is stressy and, as you say, tomorrow is an even more stressy day.

Hope all goes well tomorrow, you might even get an aplogy once the tension has worn off.

So you have worked together for many many years?

6 years

Just say you can't go any faster or slower and to do them him/herself if she/he can do better.

Yeah, no, don't say that to a chef.

The chef knows how long things take to prep. And the chef has the stressiest days of the year today and tomorrow.

There'll be time to chat about this afterwards.

It's a nursery not the Ritz. Op you absolutely can tell her/him that you can't go any quicker. What can they do they can't sack you?
Try not to let it get to you.

Go off sick tomorrow, chef can get on with it 😆

It's a nursery not the Ritz.

What a snitty thing to say. Tomorrow, the chef is cooking for their colleagues, a special Christmas lunch, and they want it to be right.

Still doesn't give them the right to speak to a colleague in that way. She's not less than.

We don't know how the chef spoke to the OP.

I'd be going slower with every comment. If asked why, say you are fuelled on respect and right now there is little in the tank.

The nursery needs to get a potato rumbler, beautiful things.

Having worked in many a kitchen (mostly care homes and schools, head cooks can indeed be cunts).

I had something similar in a temp job where I wasn't typing quick enough. I told them I wasn't a machine and to get someone else if they'd like, but they kept me on!

If you’re not keeping up with the pace or aren’t prepping the way the chef wants you to, he/she isn’t being unreasonable to tell you so. You’re the assistant and It’s your job to do things the way the chef wants them.