To be fair all these small businesses owners stole these ideas off the Burger goblin.
As the great Bernard Black once said: “The pays not great but the work is hard”.
Worked at my local Centra for a few months earlier this year. The owner and management have clearly not realised with the amount of vacancies these days the ball is no longer in their court.
Minimum wage, charged €60 for a uniform, which of course was mandatory. The rare time it was slow enough for there to be no work to do, they’d expect you to walk around looking busy rather than taking it easy for a few minutes. When I started working there I told the manager there was certain evenings I couldn’t work, after a few weeks she started rostering me in for them anyway, after I brought it up she responded by instead just rostering me in for like 18 hours and calling me to cover nearly every day.
Final straw was when a customer slapped some change down on the counter to pay for a purchase and walked off, turned out to be a fiver short, it ended up getting deducted from my pay, despite the fact I’d been specifically told to never confront a customer in any circumstance.
It’s a shame they haven’t learned a bit of respect is needed out of necessity to fill vacancies even.
My fear is that in the New year the ball will be back in the employers court as we’re in for a long recession and they’ll be even more bitter towards staff.
Usually I’m loath to say Ireland is intrinsically worse than any other country in the world, but I truly believe Irish people are some of the most greedy and short sighted people there are. Growing up in the Dublin suburbs, a huge proportion of my peers worked or still work in cafes and restaurants, and there has never been a nice boss among them. The closest was the one who would work you to the bone but at least threw fantastic staff parties. That was until a friend was sexually assaulted by him at one of said parties. In other instances I’ve heard of people having tips taken away for all sorts of nonsense reasons, people getting sacked for being 90 seconds late (yes, really), people just not being paid for the hours they work and on and on. The petit bourgeois of Ireland are really a bunch of odious cunts, they see themselves as captains of industry or like the modern Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, no pal, you opened a coffee shop in a town with 10,000 people and not a single other restaurant. You’re not Warren Buffett or something. The concentration of these people seems to be highest in hospitality as well, I haven’t heard many stories of hardware shop or painter/decorator company owners that act like this.
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To be fair all these small businesses owners stole these ideas off the Burger goblin.
As the great Bernard Black once said: “The pays not great but the work is hard”.
Worked at my local Centra for a few months earlier this year. The owner and management have clearly not realised with the amount of vacancies these days the ball is no longer in their court.
Minimum wage, charged €60 for a uniform, which of course was mandatory. The rare time it was slow enough for there to be no work to do, they’d expect you to walk around looking busy rather than taking it easy for a few minutes. When I started working there I told the manager there was certain evenings I couldn’t work, after a few weeks she started rostering me in for them anyway, after I brought it up she responded by instead just rostering me in for like 18 hours and calling me to cover nearly every day.
Final straw was when a customer slapped some change down on the counter to pay for a purchase and walked off, turned out to be a fiver short, it ended up getting deducted from my pay, despite the fact I’d been specifically told to never confront a customer in any circumstance.
It’s a shame they haven’t learned a bit of respect is needed out of necessity to fill vacancies even.
My fear is that in the New year the ball will be back in the employers court as we’re in for a long recession and they’ll be even more bitter towards staff.
Usually I’m loath to say Ireland is intrinsically worse than any other country in the world, but I truly believe Irish people are some of the most greedy and short sighted people there are. Growing up in the Dublin suburbs, a huge proportion of my peers worked or still work in cafes and restaurants, and there has never been a nice boss among them. The closest was the one who would work you to the bone but at least threw fantastic staff parties. That was until a friend was sexually assaulted by him at one of said parties. In other instances I’ve heard of people having tips taken away for all sorts of nonsense reasons, people getting sacked for being 90 seconds late (yes, really), people just not being paid for the hours they work and on and on. The petit bourgeois of Ireland are really a bunch of odious cunts, they see themselves as captains of industry or like the modern Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, no pal, you opened a coffee shop in a town with 10,000 people and not a single other restaurant. You’re not Warren Buffett or something. The concentration of these people seems to be highest in hospitality as well, I haven’t heard many stories of hardware shop or painter/decorator company owners that act like this.