Sounds like they are on a quest. A button quest. The shinier the buttons the more they like to push them, and the more buttons to push the better they like it.
First thing to do is to take some shine off your buttons. The more they know it bothers you, the more they'll push. Learn your job the best you can, meanwhile doing your best to let their nastiness roll off your back, and into one ear and out the other. I know, hard to do.
That also drives them nutz.
Does any of this sound familiar?:
Hey, stupid, how many times are you gonna ask that? How many times have I got to show you?
You don't have to do it that way (correctly). Do it "this" way (the way they do it...easier on them, but not correct). This is also to get you in trouble (in their thinking).
You don't have to clean that.
Yell at you for a mistake that everyone makes occasionally.
There are many, many others, but the jist of it is they are comfortable with the status quo, and a new person trying to learn the right way and join their "club", they perceive as a threat. If a supervisor or manager is aware of this and does nothing, he/she isn't the one to talk to. Particularly if they get really good at it pretty fast. Some people are just lazy, and don't want some new person showing them up. Most of the time it's that simple
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Advice: You'll always have one or two that don't particularly like what's going on, but won't buck the "group". Catch them one on one for questions.
If you decide to quit the job, don't just walk out, give notice with reasons. But don't walk off the job because some jerks wanted you gone. Besides, believe it or not, you can come out eventually better than you went in. You'll also learn what to watch for on the day you're running one of these things. But first, like the other guy said, learn all you possibly can. Corporates have spent millions perfecting this stuff.
That said, there's no reason to stay forever in misery. Some corporates are very political all the way up the ladder, and favoritism does exist.
Also, it's easier for some managers to ignore the situation than to confront the problem.
Don't lose your desire to work in the restaurant industry. At any new job, first learn the correct way, than you can work on your speed. Good luck. Hang in there. Check your own attitude regularly. Don't look for bad behavior, there's plenty already there.