Anyone who has worked in hospitality will know that the job is a lot harder than just pulling pints and slinging beers.
If it's a busy establishment, then you're in for a long night of balancing customers' wants and needs, cleaning the place a million times over, barely getting a chance to sit down, getting drenched and covered in all types of liquids and stains and everything else.
But it seems like there are too many young hospo staff that aren't pulling their weight...that's at least according to Jake Smyth and Kenny Graham.
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The duo are behind the legendary Mary's Group, who own the various Mary's joints in Australia as well as the Lansdowne and Unicorn hotels.
Speaking on their podcast The Fat, Smyth and Graham went in on the younger staff members who don't work hard enough.
The pair said the majority of their employees are 'hard-working beasts', but there are too many who don't understand what it takes to keep a good bar going.
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Jake said one of the worst ideas that is big at the moment is the 'work-life balance'.
"It is one of the most dangerous terms young people have been introduced to," Mr Smyth said.
"The luxury that I got given as a kid was you can choose what you want to be. That was the thing my parents and my grandparents fought to give me. I thought the whole idea was trying to find a f***ing job that you loved, and that's your work-life balance."
He added that these 'self-entitled f***s' also didn't spend their downtime properly, according to him.
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"On your days off, just actually put your f***ing phone down," Jake said. "Don't respond to the message on the WhatsApp group, and don't check your emails. Stay off Instagram. Actually treat your two days like you're on holiday."
Kenny agreed and said some staff will work 32-hour weeks, wake up at midday, go to work at 4pm and then get hammered on booze during their off time.
The pair then went onto the idea of cancel culture and how it's ruining the ability to have fun.
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One Mary's establishment came under fire last year when it shared a picture of Jesus with a cigarette and a beer, which prompted loads of bad press. Jake has questioned what happened to a joke just being a joke.
"It's almost impossible to run a business now without offending somebody. It's almost impossible to run a life without f***ing offending somebody," he said.
"You're seeing it so clearly with this cancel culture behaviour, which seems to be getting some sort of push-back now, thank f***. I think Covid has given some perspective to life, to a degree."
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