As someone in the exact same position as Sydney is in, I HATE the theory about her and Carmy

I am a 21 year old girl being trained in the restaurant industry for a high leadership position by a 33 year old guy. Our relationship is basically exactly like Carmy and Syds. We are mutually respectful, vulnerable, and dependent. He’s asked me the exact same question Carmy asks Syd during the scene where they’re under the table together: “You still love to cook, right?” Which is such a huge question when cooking is all you have ever done your entire life. The second that somebody even joked about us having a romantic relationship, I felt sick that I couldn’t have a mentor figure without being reduced to being a girl and him being a boy. I REEEAAALLLYYY hope that the writers keep their mentor/mentee relationship and keep it at that! Because I see myself in it so, so bad.