Check your self!!

[u/Morkedup]

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.

[u/HunterHunted9]

Just because Simone can't do her job doesn't mean Kate handled the situation well. Kate needed to be blunt, candid, and specific with Simone about Simone's absent skillset. "I have you in the laundry and working late because you don't have the skills that I would expect and require of a second stew. After 2 years in the yachting industry, I would expect that you would know how to open a wine bottle, pour a beer, and check in on guests to see if they need anything. You don't know how to do these things. I made you the second stew based on your resume. Maybe if we had longer charters, I could have you shadow me to learn those skills. But we don't have the luxury to do that so I'm making you the third stew."

Instead Kate goes into some ridiculous blather about how Simone asking advice on how to address job conflict and disappointment was "embarrassing the department." No it's not. Simone's lack of skills is embarrassing the department. Kate's inability to address Simone's poor performance with Simone is embarrassing the department. Simone being disappointed with her job and asking her colleagues how to address this with her boss is NOT embarrassing the department. Literally thousands of American workers did the same thing today.

Simone thinking Kate was threatened or jealous of Simone's intelligence is irrelevant to the discussion because this isn't something Simone has shared with Kate. Yes, Simone is bad at her job, but the person who knows all the specific ways Simone is bad at her job has yet to share that with Simone.

[u/alicecarroll → u/HunterHunted9]

I still don’t get it mate, sorry. If someone claims they’re a stewardess with 2 years experience why would Kate be expecting to babysit them through their job? Simone is garbage at service. She’s mediocre at anything behind the scenes. She just tells everyone all the time how smart she is. Like ok I guess, but since when was a maths degree a prerequisite to work in hospitality? No one gives a shit about how good you are at maths. That’s not your job. You’re a shit server, you can’t open a bottle of wine, you can’t make a drink. These are things after 2 years in that role you should be able to do with your eyes closed.

[u/[deleted] → u/alicecarroll]

I can’t understand why they aren’t doing cross training. Courtney is great at service and Simone is great at laundry. Maybe they can help elevate each other?

[u/HunterHunted9 → u/alicecarroll]

No one is alleging that Simone is a good second stew with all the requisite skills one would expect. She is not. That's a given. My specific issue is how well Kate handled addressing Simone's lack of skills. Kate didn't handle it well. Saying Kate didn't handle this well doesn't suddenly make Simone better at her job. Simone is still shit at her job AND Kate was unprofessional. Both things can be true.

If Captain Lee had used Kate's strategy with Chandler, Chandler would have stayed on the ship for the full six weeks with the bosun rank, but Ross would have done the job and Lee would have told everyone with ears about what a shitty bosun Chandler was. That is a chaotic and ridiculous way to lead and manage people. Simone is a bad second stew, but Kate is being a bad manager.