When the smile and nod fails....

So first I have to tell you that my recipe blog is up and running finally. I'm adding recipes to it every day!

http://theculinarycompanionrecipes.blogspot.com/

You should totally check it out. Now on to our regularly scheduled program.

So when I started this I didn't fully comprehend how much time everything else was going to take. Culinary School is not just cooking that's for sure and I haven't had time to sleep let alone keep up with this like I wanted to. So this i think is going to become my daily venting form for things that upset me that I can't talk about in my official journals for school. Which leads me to my post for today.

I was wondering when I would find that person that would make it extremely hard to do the whole fake smile and nod that I've gotten good at over the years. And guess what! I've found him! You know that one jack ass that thinks he is god's gift to the world and the sun shines out his ass? yep. same douche that's in my class.

Maybe I need to explain something first. We work in teams of three to four people at my school and while I've been extremely lucky to have gotten a really good team this quarter it's very apparent that not everyone has the best group to work with. There is a team at the table next to us that I feel down right sorry for. Two of the three that are on the table are okay. Yeah one of them (the one that stands right behind me) likes to ask me a million questions, some of which he probably could answer himself if he thought things through, but he's not a bad guy. The third guy is a completely different story. I don't know how he doesn't get that no one in the class likes him, we've not made it a big secret or something, but he remains a clueless dick head.

You see he's one of those people that likes to put things off on other people. It's important that your team is a machine. You all need to work together, not against each other, and when something goes wrong the person who was in charge needs to take responsibility. If you want to play the leader you have that added stress. Don't go blaming everything on the others in your group. Seriously it's always someone's fault! Really?

Lesson to be learned here. Don't be that dick head. If you don't know what you're doing don't pretend that you do. And if you do, don't try to play the blame game and pin it on someone else.

Till next time culinarians!
xo
katie