One of my coworker left at the beginning of July and another one replaced him two weeks ago.
The new guy is from Morocco and he just immigranted here so I was quite interested in talking to him because of his origin. He is really a hardworker and he wants to learn as much as he could but there is one problem... Whenever I talk to him about work, we end up arguing.
Yesterday at work, there was a rush at work so I asked him if he could make a bagel while I take the order, he said : Yes. So I thought, okay you make the bagel. I was half way through the order of a customer and he talks to me. I said : Wait! Wait! After I finished serving the customer, I came to him and he went away. I went to see him and he was so pissed. He said : I can't serve the client with an injury *show me his injured finger*! Don't you dare order me around anymore!!! I was confused and shocked at the same time. What was wrong exactly? I tried talking to him after an hour and a half and before I start anything, I said that I respect him and that I didn't treat him as a slave or anything but I was stress and that was the reason why I react like that. He doesn't want to listen to it and he didn't make much sense to me. Another of my coworker said to him : Wait till you go in the front, you'll see how it's like. He said : No! I will never be like that!! I told my coworker who just talked to him : Well just forget it... He'll understand it later. After another hour while I was on my break, he apologized and he said he doesn't want any tension between us. I said I was okay with that and I tried explaining to him that when we're stress, we have to act like the customer is our priority.
Our second argument, we tried to advoid it as much as possible. When we talked to me about the tips that he should be getting soon. I just talked to him about my concern that the boss wants him to do three things. He has to know the cash register, the sandwich counter and the baker in the afternoon. We almost got into an argument. To be honest, I don't even know half of what he was talking about because he seems to find the way I talked to him like I was insulting him.
I decided it's better not to talk work with him or else, I'm going to start disliking him more. I don't think I want to train him anyways. It's better that my other coworker train him.
Disliking my new coworker
July 8th, 2007 at 10:24 am


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