There are signs up at the pub saying to social distance but none of the staff are enforcing the rules, or putting a limit on the amount of people allowed at the pub. They're also accepting cash payments, and the sign in book is almost bare despite hundreds being there over a matter of days.
So the staff are responsible for other people's behaviour then? People who no one respects, who are on minimum wage, already responsible for the drinking habits of anyone who walks through the door. Who get abused and ridiculed for trying to enforce even a decent standard of behaviour, or the law. They're the ones to blame and not the people actually refusing to follow the rules? Total cop out. I asked a lady to follow the one way system yesterday. Got told no. Just a straight no. She went where she wanted. Short of rugby tackling her I'm not sure what else I could have done.
I feel like if these people were worried about the industry or job security then they should have a better way of enforcing the rules. It's their livelihoods and their health they need to protect, as well as that of their inebriated customer base.
The inebriated customer base should be bloody well responsible for themselves. We are trying to protect our health and our future but the vast majority of people just won't do it. I agree we should have a better way of being able to enforce, but we don't. We can ask, and once they've been an arsehole and already put others at risk we can refuse service, get abused and threatened for that then slagged off all over social media for it.
In the meantime schools have been trying to figure this thing out, and make sure their staff are as safe as can be because the government are thrusting being open upon them and they have no say in the matter.
This wouldn't even need to be a choice if establishments actually enforced the rules and saw it as an investment into their future and the economy but the pub opposite us has just been allowing what and who they can in to maximise profit short term.
Maybe the pub opposite you is lax, but not all are, I've seen it as staff and as a customer elsewhere, there is no way of knowing when someone walks in that they're going to be a knob, all we can do is ask and then if they refuse, stop serving. Where I work it isn't about profit. My employer isn't putting me at risk, they have put everything in place. The general public are putting me at risk by behaving like a few pints and doing what they like is above anything else, and anything said to them about it, any requests to adhere to the rules in place is poor customer service.
Stop blaming the people on the recieving end and start blaming the people actually behaving like idiots.