Signs that staff motivation is on the floor

Wompa1 · 25-12-2015 12:25AM

Patww79 wrote: »

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If you mean it and your nice, you're making an effort to be nice. If you're doing it for tips. You're still making an effort. I think the term fake is too loaded. It's not fake to make an effort to provide a friendly service.

I have had memorable experiences with people work in retail and the like in Ireland and bad. Don't think everybody is an arse. When I worked in retail, I made my best effort to be nice...I wasn't getting tipped, I just wanted to do the best job possible.

the_syco · 25-12-2015 01:19AM

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And unless you've worked in a bar, you've no reason to know the significance of ordering Guinness at the end of an order.

The person who adds the Guinness at the end of the order will be the first to complain about how long it's taking :pac:

TallGlass wrote: »

This is my first year out of retail in 7 years.

After doing the pub pretty much every xmas for a few years once upon a time (and then back doing the xmas period for a year or two after I had left), I had completely forgotten what to do on the days after xmas!

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How is every eejit meant to know that most barmen will make the drinks in the exact order you ask for them.

The eejits in question most often wait until all the pints are pulled, and then ask for a Guinness, with the money in their outstretched hand.

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Instead they (three tables of 8) walk in 3 minutes before I close the kitchen and order but put a hold on the food because they want a round of drink first.

On the one side, the manager probably doesn't want to turn down 24 people, but on the other side, they'll find themselves with a lot less experienced staff if they allow this crap, imo. And tbh, if they knew you weren't taking bookings, I'd wonder if they did it on purpose.

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Spare a thought for us folk working in pubs at this time of year, we have young kids too and want to get home to them

Xmas eve is unpredictable. Have done a few quite ones when I worked in the pub a decade ago as a lounge boy, but also some mental-busy-until-the-Gardai-came-in-at-midnight-to-make-sure-we-stopped-serving xmas eves. And the latter would often be profitable to barman and lounge staff alike.

In saying that, a few of the older staff would be getting home at 2am to put the presents under the tree with the knowledge that they'd be woken at 7am for the presents to be opened.

DareGod · 25-12-2015 12:39PM

Most shops do use paper bags actually, except the supermarkets. But if you want a bag, ask for it.

And if you don't know by now that Guinness should be the first drink ordered then you don't deserve it.

Retail and service staff are troopers during the year and are god damn war heroes at Christmas time.

Dr. Mantis Toboggan · 25-12-2015 12:47PM

MightyMandarin wrote: »

This. Most of my irritance while working at a bar is not caused by management, but the bar being full of annoying arsehole customers.

In the past 2 weeks I've dealt with pr*cks adding drinks on to the order each time I return to them, asking for a guinness right at the end of an order, complaining about price, looking for my opinions of drinks we don't stock, ordering the most obscure cocktails in the world, all while the bar looks like a scene from Saving Private Ryan.

Obviously crappy customers come in all the time, but christmas just seems to bring out all of them at once. Maybe it's a 12pubs thing, I dunno.

If drunk people annoy you i don't think a pub is ideal for you to be working in.

I get what you're saying about the 12 pubs thing. Only dickheads do it.

OldMrBrennan83 · 25-12-2015 12:49PM

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Signs that staff motivation is on the floor

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