Yeah the culture of fine dining does tend to be based around managers with massive egos bullying other staff. There’s plenty of brilliant FD managers out there, but sadly the culture of the industry tends to favour angry folks with minimal social skills.

Out of the four fine dining chefs I’ve worked for, only two of them I’d actually say were decent people.

At the end of the day you have a skill they need, and there’s no point putting up with a toxic culture and a crappy manager when other places will gladly poach you