Bar work and tedious rules

[Xanadu]

Ah, so it is about whether we need bosses, is it?

No, bar staff who are experienced and trained don't need bosses, they just need to learn how to talk to each other, and they just need to be loyal and hard working and whatever.

But what if it is all agency or temporary staff? How should that be managed? By osmosis?

Anarchism can work maaaaan.

 

[miss direct]

Your school must have had sloppy rules. They have a duty of care for their pupils and if they allow them to wander off without knowing where they are failing in their duty. If there was a fire and someone was unaccounted for their would be big problems.

My school didn't have sloppy rules, it was very strict in every usual sense. They just treated us like adults and didn't require us to tell the whole world and ask for permission to do a basic bodily function like go to the toilet!

I have worked in a lot of jobs from the age of 14 onwards, and this place has proved an exception in pettiness!

 

[baldrick]

It's not so much about needing to seek permission, as to be sure that the supervisor knows where their staff are. What if they all went for a loo or fag break at the same time?

i've worked in bars for many years and generally, the staff work out between themselves whose turn it is for a fag so that enough people are behind the bar. same goes for loo breaks.

If you treat people like adults and give them responsibility instead of micro-managing every little thing, they behave accordingly.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Ouch,I have just seen my post quoted and see that there is a typo where I wrote their instead of there. Cringe, cringe

 

[Megaton]

My advice - find a new job.

 

[Jografer]

You think they couldn't organise loo/fag breaks without the help of a 'supervisor' then?

... thought the poster said he started the job last night...

.... but guess there would be people here who would moan if some-one said they'd started a job, were pointed at a bar & told to get on with it.....

 

[the button]

But what if it is all agency or temporary staff? How should that be managed? By osmosis?

Management's right to manage. Anyone would think you were a trade union FTO or something.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Management's right to manage. Anyone would think you were a trade union FTO or something.