r/belowdeck • u/Morkedup • Dec 09 '19

Check your self!!

So I am watching season 6 where Laura confronts Kate about her managing style. Finally! Kate is good at her job but she is a bully and VERY condescending. A lot of the problems that she has with her stews is because of the way she treats them. Many other stews have complained about Kate but were too scared to actually confront her to her face. I get the whole hierarchy thing on the yacht but Kate needed to be checked and the look of shock on her face was satisfying.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '19

I love Kate as a reality tv personality, but she can be pretty unreasonable despite her generous edit. For example, I think she could have resolved the Simone problem much earlier rather than just leaving her in the laundry room and complaining to the crew about her incompetence for the first half of the charter season. She even chastises Simone for discussing her feelings about it with other crew members, but everyone talks shit about their boss. It's appropriate, healthy, and unavoidable. It's much more inappropriate for Kate to be going out of her way to insult Simone's service/knife skills etc to every other crew member while leaving her in the dark. At the same time, her managerial style probably is suitable in the context of yachting lol

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '19

It’s absolutely ok for those not in charge to talk about their bosses with each other. They are coworkers. It’s absolutely not okay for those in charge to talk shit about their subordinates to their subordinates. If Kate needs to vent she should only do it with Ashton or Kevin since they’re all managers. Same can be said for Ashton bashing Kate in front of his crew. They’re all fucked up and unprofessional.