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To find these double standards annoying?

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TheFoxAndTheMum · 07/06/2025 14:30

I work in a chain pub (carvery style family friendly pub). The GM is very involved in the day to day running and he can often be found serving on the bar a lot of the time as well.

We are all instructed by the GM to measure Wine and Gin etc before pouring drinks to ensure that we are not accidentally pouring too much and wasting stock. The GM enforces this and often tells staff off if they accidentally forget to measure.

However, whenever the GM is serving on the bar he never (not even once, not even when the Area Manager is in!) measures drinks before pouring them for customers. But he is always the first person to tell staff off if they don’t measure drinks. Multiple staff, including me, have pointed this out to him about how he doesn’t measure drinks and that he should start measuring drinks too because it’s double standards if he doesn’t but he just never changes and still doesn’t measure any drinks.

Staff get annoyed by it (the fact that the GM never measures). It doesn’t annoy me as much as it annoys some staff but some staff get very annoyed and frustrated by the fact that the GM never measures drinks that he makes.

Is it unreasonable to think this is double standards from the GM and to be annoyed by it?

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JLou08 · 07/06/2025 14:34

I don't think it's just about waste. I could be wrong but I thought there was some legislation around measures so people know how much alcohol they are consuming? If that's the case then at least staff doing the measures are protected. If GM has done bar work a long time, maybe he feels comfortable in the amounts he pours being the right measure.

MonTuesWeds · 07/06/2025 14:34

I think you legally have to? Weights and measures legislation. This isn't America. You have to measure!! How can he not know this

LyndaSnellsSniff · 07/06/2025 14:33

What excuse does the GM give for not measuring? Does the AM spot it when they visit?

JustTalkToThem · 07/06/2025 14:33

What does it matter if he measures or not? It’s your job to measure - so measure.