I had to make Chef a macchiato today.

[pinkhotcocoa]

So I had to make Chef a macchiato today. Everyone cowered away from the task and I foolishly accepted it. There is a very particular method to how we make our espresso. I know I'm not too great at it but I'm also not terrible and since everybody was afraid I just took it on for the team. Apparently there is very particular way that Chef likes his macchiatos. Nobody wanted to tell me that. I honestly think they set me up to fail sometimes. I'm also not a barista and I never make coffee drinks for guests; it's just not in my job description. However the barista called out tonight. Regardless of my shitty circumstances I took extreme care into making his macchiato. I made sure my espresso was perfect, and I made sure my foam was perfect. I even took a towel and wiped the inside of the cup so that there were no espresso drips or spots. When I delivered it to him, he immediately scowled at it, stuck his finger in and yelled at me, "Who told you how to make this?". Apparently I used the wrong cup and I didn't prepare the foam with the correct viscosity. Before I could answer he told me how to make it, except he said he wanted a little bit of milk on the top, not foam. I said, "no foam?" because I didn't want it to be incorrect a 2nd time, and he scoffed again as if to say he obviously wanted foam. As I prepared the 2nd one, ever so delicately, a manager came over and yelled at me for scooping the foam on top. At this point I was very irritated. If it was so damn important and the manager knew how to make it, why didn't he just make it?? But I felt like I was right so I yelled at him for correcting me, which in hindsight was probably not the right thing to do but I really felt like he wanted the foam there. I brought it up to the pass and didn't bother to call Chef over to check it. I just left it there. I was too irritated. When I came back a minute later it was half drank. I'm not positive that it was correct, but he drank it.

Anyway, it was a lesson to not get that irritated. That could have been a great bonding moment for me but instead it was just pure anxiety and anger. Chef really wasn't even that bad considering last time he yelled at me he was screaming profanities. It was really embarassing to get yelled at in front of everyone for fucking it up when I was trying to do everyone a favor. In any case, I'm cowering away next time.