This is something that has been the talk between me and my partners. No I'm understands why our manager is so obsessed with this partner. He is slow on bar and extremely cocky and condescending to other partners. As a barista, after only a month at Starbucks, started telling me when to clock in and clock out. He also had told me to do my covid check , and watched me as I completed the questions and made me show him my results. I was absolutely taken aback he was acting that way, to someone who has been working there so much longer. I found out last week he is now training the new hire. He was just hired and trained 2 months ago and is now going to be training our newest hire. Why wouldn't she pick a partner that is confident in the job and actually knows all the ins and outs. He still asks questions and makes mistakes on bar, as many new partners do ( totally understandable ), so he shouldn't be training? It seems he kissed the managers ass and she is infatuated with this dude. He's extremely hard to work with, what do I do? I'm scared he will be promoted to SSV next.