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To find these double standards annoying?

54 replies

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?

OP posts:
TheFoxAndTheMum · 08/06/2025 10:41

PyongyangKipperbang · 07/06/2025 17:21

There is a technique called free pouring which is legal to do with spirits. You have to use the nozzle pourers and count as you are doing it. With practice it is very accurate, I can do it. I have been in the business longer than your GM. Wine though, no he shouldnt do it.

He doesn’t measure wine either, he just pours it.

And for spirits he doesn’t use nozzle pourers.

OP posts:
ForZanyAquaViewer · 08/06/2025 11:29

TheFoxAndTheMum · 08/06/2025 10:41

He doesn’t measure wine either, he just pours it.

And for spirits he doesn’t use nozzle pourers.

Does the way your boss pours affect you in
some way? Your job is to use measures, so do your job. How you pour is his business, how he pours isn’t yours. That’s not a double standard, that’s the nature of your roles.

So, mind your own business.

Nevertea · 08/06/2025 16:33

If he suddenly relaxed on staff not formally measuring Op, you and your colleagues would be delighted and fully embrace no longer measuring.

You don’t give a hoot about the illegality. It’s the “doubt standard” that he’s doing something that YOU wanna do! 😆

Coconutter24 · 08/06/2025 17:59

TheFoxAndTheMum · 07/06/2025 14:49

He’s breaking the law!

He might be but your post seems you are more bothered about the double standards. Either report him and move on or leave him to it and make sure you are doing your job right

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