So I’ve been working for almost three months now and I’m doing well. I was lucky enough to be trained well, to have decent amount of time, and to get to work on all aspects of being a barista. As a result, I’ve turned out to be a well rounded barista and I’m thankful for my SM, the multiple trainers I’ve worked with, and all of my SSV’s.

With that being said, I have a partner who wasn’t my trainer but is someone who trains someone else. Every chance she gets, she’s pausing whatever she’s doing to come into my personal space and peak over my shoulder to see if I’m doing something wrong. 95% of the time I don’t need her help or her corrections. She’ll say something like “don’t forget to…____” and I’ll say, “thanks, I know.” Or she’ll automatically assume I’m doing something wrong when in fact I’m not, and then instead of acknowledging she was wrong, she just leaves it and goes on with what she’s doing. There’s many moments in addition to these, where she’ll talk to me like she’s my superior. My superiors don’t even talk to me like this. She’ll rudely tell me to go on my ten or my half, or to unassign, or to clock out. Like…. At this point, I’ve tried respectfully telling her to stop but she won’t. I don’t think she means any real harm so I don’t think reporting her to my SM is necessary, but I would like to hear your opinions on this.

Is she supposed to be coaching me and telling me what to do? I’ve come so close to passive aggressively telling her “congrats on your promotion” since she thinks she can talk to me like she’s my SSV or SM.