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For TE (a well known Catering hall) I worked only few weeks, until I was fired.
My work was to come in, few days a week to supervise & do the Hashgacha work. The kitchen was also open in those days where I wasn’t there. The Chef was there, doing preparations (Cold, as I have been told); and deliveries arrived as well.
Due to the circumstances, It was strange to come, for example, on Wed., and check the fridge, that all deliveries that came on Monday are Kosher for use in this kitchen, as I was instructed by Rabbi K. who gave the Hashgacha.
I found items that should not have been there in the first place.
The Mashgiach Has to check ALL deliveries on arrival. How should I know (and say) everything is Kosher, without being in control of Everything I should as a Mashgiach??? I really felt being & positioned as a puppet there.

The hardest times were when we had an event on Friday nights & Motzaei Shabbat. At least once I remember working into Shabbat in preparation for dinner. I felt disgust.
I really felt sick that night.

Motzaei Shabbat. The kitchen was supposed to be open After Shabbat ends. I was there 5-10 minutes before, as scheduled. Shabbat is not over yet. The door to the kitchen was locked. But, from the upper-mid door’s circle window, I saw the kitchen was crowdie. I knock on the door, people are passing behind it, looking at me, but nobody open the door. I couldn’t see what they are doing in there. I was left out for about 15 minutes. That is in addition to the time they were in there against what was planned. That is without mentioning the fact that the Chef was Jewish, and such events encouraged him to be Mechalel Shabbat, which is against Halacha.
But who cares?!?!? The show must go on, right?

It is basic that the Mashgiach has to have the key to the kitchen he supervises. Preventing the Mashgiach from accessing is wrong. In such place, where the Mashgiach cannot supervise all incoming items to the kitchen, And cannot have access to the kitchen whenever he like/need/want; the Kashrus is under a huge cloud of uncertainty.

At the end of the evening, I went to the caterer/owner, and asked for a key to the kitchen, so such events won’t repeat themselves. I only asked for a key, and the caterer confronted me in a scary way, and exclaimed in an unmistaken strong voice: “I invested a million dollar in this place, YOU (he said in a sharp tone) are not the one who is going to ruined it!".

I called Rabbi K (who previously said, in few occasions, I am a good Mashgiach) and told him about what happened. He said again: Don’t worry. About 24 hours later I got a call from him, saying: I have another Mashgiach for the place. When I asked the Rabbi to explain to me the reasons Why he stop my work there, He said nothing. That was the end of it.

This is only 1 tiny example to show what happens when Money talks!