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    3 days ago

    I was in hospitality for 15 years until I injured my back and had to leave the industry. I never sat at people’s tables when taking orders, but do you have any idea what it’s like to stand 10 hours a day, most days with no break at all? The amount of foot pain? And you get told off if you sit down even when there’s no customers. Sometimes customers would rock up and get upset that I was sitting on a stool when it had been like 3 hours since the last customers had been through and I was doing stock take at the till. Like what the fuck. I’m not your servant, you’re not paying nearly enough for that. Get off your high horse and get over yourself.

    I now have life long back pain and nerve damage after spinal surgery at 30 because of the stress hospitality put my body through and people like you were part of the reason. Don’t go out if you don’t want to talk to people.


  • I was a bar manager and used to get a flood of applicants every time I needed to hire people. I wasn’t particularly picky since I was always happy to train people up to my standards since I usually had to untrain bad habits anyways, so I would only schedule one interview at a time and generally just hired the first person I interviewed to save myself the work unless their vibes were off.

    The one time I interviewed someone where I thought “damn he’s hot asf”, seemed nice, could answer my questions and he was experienced in the role, so I hired him on the spot. I have never had to fire someone so fast. Dude lost his shit at another bartender for bumping into him, I gave him a warning and told him it would be his only one. Shit happens, it’s a tight space.

    Then a customer that was smoking in the alley after we shut asked him a question as we were leaving and he said “why the fuck are you talking to me”. Had to tell him not to bother coming in for his next shift…


  • I used to manage a pub and when hiring new staff and giving them their branded uniform t shirt (that were provided by the head office from the parent company), I had to explain to the girls that yes, you are xxxl if you want a “female” shirt, and yes most of it is boob space. Most opted for the men’s xs because it actually fit a human body.

    Unsurprisingly we had a ton of women’s small shirts in storage because they never got used. They were basically baby sized…