17 year old son being bullied by boss

ILW

SarEl wrote: »

Perhaps the problem is that he thinks he's a chief and not a chef

s.

I believe the word chef is a french version of chief.

Timalay

It being part time, is it part of some college course? If so I would report the employer to the college.

McKneff

Let's all remember folk, this is assault on a minor. The bairn is only 17.

How big is your husband........................

Get him to go round and slap this chef on the head, see how he likes it.

SarEl

ILW wrote: »

I believe the word chef is a french version of chief.

Yes it does, but I am pretty sure that the French word for "under" is "sou" - not sioux :rotfl:

Although I am fairly sure that the chef wouldn't try bullying any of them!

Alter_ego

French under chef- Sous chef. Not sioux or sou

pleasedelete

SarEl wrote: »

Yes it does, but I am pretty sure that the French word for "under" is "sou" - not sioux :rotfl:

Although I am fairly sure that the chef wouldn't try bullying any of them!

Or even sous

scheming_gypsy

newmrslockwood wrote: »

:mad:
My student chef son works in a kitchen of a restaurant part time. he has been there about 3 months and i have just found out that his boss, the head chef and owner, is bullying him.

I understand that a little bullying goes on everywhere but he has been slapping my son round the head! This is NOT acceptable! Only thing is I don't know how to handle this.

I would tell him to give up his job, but jobs for students are not easy to come by, and he really wants to work and earn himself some spending money.

I also think that the incidents should be reported to someone but have know idea who, or how!

:mad:

i remember being 17 and i only really told my parents what i could be bothered to tell them and what they needed to hear rather than everything.

So it's hard for anybody to understand exactly what's happening from what you've said, especially as he might have given you the short hand version.
Is he being bullied or is his boss just giving him a slap across the head? a slap across the head can be any number of things and a hard slap across the head will hurt the person slapping more than the person receiving it. I'm trying to actually visualise somebody being slapped across the head in an aggressive way but failing, if he was threatening him, pinning him against the wall, punching him etc then it'd make more sense.. But 'slapping across the head' does sound more like a quick knock on the back of the head in a 'come on, people are waiting' kind of way rather than bullying.

t0rt0ise

If it's making him miserable then he should leave. It's really not worth it.

viktory

t0rt0ise wrote: »

If it's making him miserable then he should leave. It's really not worth it.

No, if it is making him miserable he should deal with it.

SarEl

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

i remember being 17 and i only really told my parents what i could be bothered to tell them and what they needed to hear rather than everything.

So it's hard for anybody to understand exactly what's happening from what you've said, especially as he might have given you the short hand version.
Is he being bullied or is his boss just giving him a slap across the head? a slap across the head can be any number of things and a hard slap across the head will hurt the person slapping more than the person receiving it. I'm trying to actually visualise somebody being slapped across the head in an aggressive way but failing, if he was threatening him, pinning him against the wall, punching him etc then it'd make more sense.. But 'slapping across the head' does sound more like a quick knock on the back of the head in a 'come on, people are waiting' kind of way rather than bullying.

Any slap across the head is assault, and any slap across the head can cause serious physical damage. Because it doesn't take a lot to cause brain injury or perforation to the ear drums - just "bad luck" that someone may have a weak skull, or you may hit them in just the wrong place. Is there something wrong with saying "Come on, people are waiting"??? I find my staff respond so much better to a verbal communication rather than a slap around the head.