“I hope to hell that you feel like #$%&!”
-Gordon Ramsay “Hell’s Kitchen” Season 10, Episode 14″
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Wow…
I gotta tell you, if I heard someone tell me that in the workplace, I would quit in a heartbeat. A couple of blogs ago, I talked about how there was a Season 10 episode that demonstrated how not to disrespect your customers when Gordon Ramsay tore up comment cards in front of his chefs.
Now, I’m bringing “Hell’s Kitchen” Season 10 back to discuss the following episode and how it demonstrates another example of a toxic work environment and how job coaches helping neurodivergents seek work should take caution to this particular episode.
I am talking about Season 10, Episode 14 where the theme was southern cuisine and we are made to believe that the contestants failed miserably on the dinner service. But dinner service aside, it was how Chef Gordon Ramsay reacted that caught my attention.
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If you paid attention to the quote I put at the start of the blog, then you will know that what he told the chefs after service is something that can really hurt your business more than anything. I am of course, talking about setting yourself as an example of being a leader. It doesn’t matter if you are the head of a major business or a small business, you have to show your employees the ultimate respect. While I have read that Ramsay’s anger is for the benefit of the audience, to me, it’s not beneficial for me.
To me, “Hell’s Kitchen” seems like a legitimate business more than a reality show. You have a staff, both in the kitchen and the front of the house, and you expect them all to perform to a high standard. However, standards are second best in any business and it’s more about the respect you show your employees.
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When it came to the Southern themed dinner service, this should have been something like a walk in the park. It was simple southern cuisine and it was a menu that someone who is neurodivergent or neurotypical could execute. This also brought about the idea that what we are supposed to see on “Hell’s Kitchen” in reality was made difficult by the producers. In a way, the contestants were set up to fail.
Now you might want to ask yourself a question here…. would you want to be in a job where you are set up to fail? What’s more, when you are set up to fail, then you are set up to believe that it’s your own fault and it’s really not. In a way, “Hell’s Kitchen” isn’t a reality show, but a representation of a business that doesn’t care about an employee’s well-being in the workplace.
I mean, when I heard Ramsay say that he hopes all the chefs felt like you know what, I was blown away at the fact that he would get away with such behavior. Let me ask you, if you are a job coach or advisor? Would you want your neurodivergent client working in this environment? Would you want to tolerate such a boss like Gordon Ramsay who demoralizes employees for the sake of entertainment or ratings?
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Sure, “Hell’s Kitchen” has had plenty of similar episodes where an easy dinner service was made difficult, but I bring up the southern themed dinner service because it represents a type of job that a neurodivergent individual can do, whether it’s data entry, filing, etc. and the business decides to screw the individual over.
In a way, job coaches along with their clients, should study the business or job before acting upon it. What’s more is that “Hell’s Kitchen” is one of those shows that keeps toxic people in the competition for the sake of ratings the same way as regular businesses. If a business or job is going to be easy at first but ends up being nothing but trouble, then that job should be avoided at all costs.
Trust me, there are better options out there and I wouldn’t mind doing mac and cheese and fried chicken as long as it is not meddled with.
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Catch you all later!!
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