Big retail chains deserve it. Treated like dirt, expected to work 10 day weeks, called on your days off to cover that one employee who never turned up but faced zero consequences. Get blamed when scams happen on the premises and expected to pay back what was stolen before they even report the crime to the gardai (true story, desperate to name and shame but that’s a big one). Holidays dictated on the employers terms and not yours months in advance.
It makes me happy now the shoe is on the other foot. Hospitality treated staff as disposable for so long.
I remember the years where the same owners refused to talk to me in college without prior experience for retail or supermarkets and blunty refused to take a cv. These were shelve stocking roles or cleaning tables etc.
You get what you reap.
Yup. Lots of hotel, restaurant, and pub owners who do nothing all day, then come in and gleefully flex their authority on poorly paid staff working horrible hours with no security.
Lots of egomaniacal chefs also quick to do the same.
They can all get fucked. Bring on the era of food trucks and family run cafes. Better dining experience a lot of the time anyway.
I still remember that story from a few months ago about the hotel owner who drove a minivan to a Ukrainian refugee centre to “pick up” refugees to be used as cheap labour in his hotels in exchange for housing. With the current state of the war I can see this being a current trend going forward unfortunately.
There is no staff shortage. There’s only a shortage of people willing to work 40 hours a week for a shit wage that won’t even allow them to meet their basic needs.
Its not funny its hilarious. And well deserved too.
For the amount of unpaid hours I had to put in when working for several bars over the years I’m glad to see the shoe finally on the other foot. If hospitality staff were paid and treated properly they would have been back in a flash like everyone else.
Any business not willing to pay or unable to pay a living wage in the current climate will fail and deserves to fail. We shouldn’t support businesses that don’t pay their workers properly, simple as.
Upvote for sentiment, downvote for “edgy” Joker meme.
My brother was a chef for 20 years. When he was off during covid he saw the light. He couldn’t imagine going back to it he’s spraying planes now. He’s loving it.
Along with chefs being able to ask for ridiculous money because “who else are ya gonna get to run your kitchen?”
Why are these jobs paid so badly? Simply cannot exist without floor staff. No staff, no management, no business, no fucking third Lexus for the overpaid higher ups. They’d sink without basic staff. Serves them the fuck right. Long May it last
And like, they still refuse to pay more to get staff back. So the existing staff just have to run everything and be super busy constantly
Killarney is really struggling to get staff because no one can actually afford the rent on a minimum wage job. AirBnB has taken so many rental properties that rooms to rent are now €700 and one bedroom flats are about €1k a month. One hotel has the foresight to build staff accommodation a few years ago.
Still not leaving them a tip.
Genuine and serious question, where have the staff gone? I understand a fair percentage are doing something else but the shortage seems so extreme that it’s like every worker got a different job, which simply isn’t possible as we’re talking hundreds, if not thousands of jobs.
Retailers constantly try to penalise employees for human error, know a certain station in galway. How is it an employees fault if a customer drives off not paying 50 euro in petrol?
the treatment plus the anti-social hours, driving home from work at 2 in the mourning
After a year in Fast food and more than 2 years of hotels during the pandemic, I said enough!
I quit my job and I travelled around the world from Ireland to South Korea and I also spent a time with my mom, as she don’t live in Ireland.
That was the best decision I made in my live.
Now I am back and ready to start a new job in 2 weeks away from the hospitality sector.
I handed my notice in Friday and never felt better.got a job that pays more has less hours and cuts my daily commute by 2 and a half hours.current employers are “puzzled” why I’m leaving this great business despite the place loosing staff hand over fist due to work hours, pay,lack of remote working and an increasing toxic atmosphere.
Gonna enjoy these last 4 weeks and watch a fuckin mountain of Netflix and amazon prime in here.is the boys any good on amazon.hearing good things about it?
My sister visited last week. When I collected her from the airport, the first thing she said was: “what happened? there are piles of left luggage everywhere, and the place is filthy. It looks like there was a bomb scare and everyone just run away.” I kid you not.
Few places closed down in Cork, had the stones to charge people €15 for take away sandwiches and Eggs Benedict and the sort.
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Big retail chains deserve it. Treated like dirt, expected to work 10 day weeks, called on your days off to cover that one employee who never turned up but faced zero consequences. Get blamed when scams happen on the premises and expected to pay back what was stolen before they even report the crime to the gardai (true story, desperate to name and shame but that’s a big one). Holidays dictated on the employers terms and not yours months in advance.
It makes me happy now the shoe is on the other foot. Hospitality treated staff as disposable for so long.
I remember the years where the same owners refused to talk to me in college without prior experience for retail or supermarkets and blunty refused to take a cv. These were shelve stocking roles or cleaning tables etc.
You get what you reap.
Yup. Lots of hotel, restaurant, and pub owners who do nothing all day, then come in and gleefully flex their authority on poorly paid staff working horrible hours with no security.
Lots of egomaniacal chefs also quick to do the same.
They can all get fucked. Bring on the era of food trucks and family run cafes. Better dining experience a lot of the time anyway.
I still remember that story from a few months ago about the hotel owner who drove a minivan to a Ukrainian refugee centre to “pick up” refugees to be used as cheap labour in his hotels in exchange for housing. With the current state of the war I can see this being a current trend going forward unfortunately.
There is no staff shortage. There’s only a shortage of people willing to work 40 hours a week for a shit wage that won’t even allow them to meet their basic needs.
Its not funny its hilarious. And well deserved too.
For the amount of unpaid hours I had to put in when working for several bars over the years I’m glad to see the shoe finally on the other foot. If hospitality staff were paid and treated properly they would have been back in a flash like everyone else.
Any business not willing to pay or unable to pay a living wage in the current climate will fail and deserves to fail. We shouldn’t support businesses that don’t pay their workers properly, simple as.
Upvote for sentiment, downvote for “edgy” Joker meme.
My brother was a chef for 20 years. When he was off during covid he saw the light. He couldn’t imagine going back to it he’s spraying planes now. He’s loving it.
Along with chefs being able to ask for ridiculous money because “who else are ya gonna get to run your kitchen?”
Why are these jobs paid so badly? Simply cannot exist without floor staff. No staff, no management, no business, no fucking third Lexus for the overpaid higher ups. They’d sink without basic staff. Serves them the fuck right. Long May it last
And like, they still refuse to pay more to get staff back. So the existing staff just have to run everything and be super busy constantly
Killarney is really struggling to get staff because no one can actually afford the rent on a minimum wage job. AirBnB has taken so many rental properties that rooms to rent are now €700 and one bedroom flats are about €1k a month. One hotel has the foresight to build staff accommodation a few years ago.
Still not leaving them a tip.
Genuine and serious question, where have the staff gone? I understand a fair percentage are doing something else but the shortage seems so extreme that it’s like every worker got a different job, which simply isn’t possible as we’re talking hundreds, if not thousands of jobs.
Retailers constantly try to penalise employees for human error, know a certain station in galway. How is it an employees fault if a customer drives off not paying 50 euro in petrol?
the treatment plus the anti-social hours, driving home from work at 2 in the mourning
After a year in Fast food and more than 2 years of hotels during the pandemic, I said enough!
I quit my job and I travelled around the world from Ireland to South Korea and I also spent a time with my mom, as she don’t live in Ireland.
That was the best decision I made in my live.
Now I am back and ready to start a new job in 2 weeks away from the hospitality sector.
I handed my notice in Friday and never felt better.got a job that pays more has less hours and cuts my daily commute by 2 and a half hours.current employers are “puzzled” why I’m leaving this great business despite the place loosing staff hand over fist due to work hours, pay,lack of remote working and an increasing toxic atmosphere.
Gonna enjoy these last 4 weeks and watch a fuckin mountain of Netflix and amazon prime in here.is the boys any good on amazon.hearing good things about it?
My sister visited last week. When I collected her from the airport, the first thing she said was: “what happened? there are piles of left luggage everywhere, and the place is filthy. It looks like there was a bomb scare and everyone just run away.” I kid you not.
Few places closed down in Cork, had the stones to charge people €15 for take away sandwiches and Eggs Benedict and the sort.
Insane mark ups, scamming bastards