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'Stay in your lane': Restaurant chef spars with manager over leaving his station to help with a crisis, cue malicious compliance

There are certain people you do not want to frustrate in a restaurant, one of whom is most certainly the lead cook. 

However, as in any fast-paced work environment, people can get hot-headed and conflicts can arise between folks who feel like they are stepping on one another's toes. This lead cook was often stationed in an accessible place in the kitchen so that everyone could easily access him and vice versa. However, on one busy night, the lead cook briefly left his station in the hands of a new trainee, who had been doing a good job, so that the line cook could help with another station that was lagging behind. Of course, during this temporary moment, the cook's boss stopped by and saw that he had changed stations. The cook was given a "stern talking to" and was blamed for the slow productivity that night.

Well, the next time this situation arose, the cook made sure that he (and everyone else) remained in their stations just to show his boss how unproductive his instructions actually were. Keep scrolling below for the full tense exchange between the two. For more stories like this, take a look at this post about a line-cutting male Karen who got his comeuppance.

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