Indeed very noticeable - however i put it down to laziness, the same laziness i see from them every day - unwilling to work hard. fortunately they make all of the foreigners who work in their companies look like great staff.
It’s the same in Aus. Retards behind the bars in the vast majority of places. Notable exception in a new haunt of mine the Welcome Inn in Rozelle has a lad from Kerry behind the bar who is professional. Couple of dopey ones behind the bar only get in his way as he takes 4 and 5 orders at a time and he remembers orders too.
Nail on the head with their bar staff, they are stone useless and it seems the more pig ignorant they are the better. I went into this big pub with a few work mates one day after work, it is called ‘Toby Carvery’, half pub and half restaurant that does food. The place was packed so i was thinking this will be alright. There were three apes working behind the bar and a massive queue out to the door. They would only serve the person at the top of the queue. So one person was served at a time and the three apes would alternate between who would take an order. It’s not rocket science FFS. You would see one of them who wasn’t serving looking gormlessly at the other person slowly and wrongly pouring a pint with their hands on their hips before taking an order themselves then after that customer is served. And they just pull down the handle and place the pint glass underneath sat on the counter with no tilt or anything, the same way they would serve you fanta or coke in McDonalds. :shakefist:
Anyway, i get to the top of the queue after what was about ten needless minutes. I was in total astonishment and my blood was boiling at what i was seeing. Bear in mind i worked as a barman in a high class establishment in Ireland myself and know how we do things. I still couldn’t make up my mind about which of the slop they had on offer i wanted a pint of. I asked for a pint of Grolsch. “Oh sorry we are out of Grolsch.” Alright. I’ll have a pint of Kronenburg then. “Sorry, we are out of that as well.” Well can’t you change the keg then says i. “No we are all out of it, we won’t have it in until Wednesday.” I started laughing but i was laughing in a fuming sort of way. So basically it was Carling, John Smiths, some other thing and Fosters was there as well. I went for the Fosters. It was poured with no tilt, the pint i got was flat. I looked at it and said can i have a head on it please. Your one didn’t know how to put a head. The state of her trying to figure out how to put a head on this and she getting annoyed now becuase she has to deviate from her robot tasks. This wasn’t in the contract. It is wrong on so many levels. :shakefist:
thats one thing I noticed about some English pubs or people drinking there, they dont like frothy heads on their beers, they think its a waste and want it filled with liquid than having a head at the top. makes it look and taste like slop to me.
Speaking of putting heads on beers, they are not too big on it in the States either. I was in New York a couple of years back and was nearly thrown out of a pub for hitting one glass on another to try to give my pint a head.
Great post Dunph. The only place in the UK I could say there is good service in the bars in in Cheltenham when I’d say they have learned from years of abuse from Irish people
You have summed up the sad situation over there alright. I wonder is it the fact that none of the pubs are owner-run over there that has the staff doing fuck all? They’re just slaves working for the man and no one gives a shit. Unlike in Ireland where there’s often a legendary boss man like Murty McMahon behind the bar to make sure shit gets done, and can give the nod for a bit of after-hours, over there it’s usually just a soulless kunt of a place. That said, some of the ales in English pubs are lovely, it’s just a shame the staff are so incredibly shite at times.
