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Workers roast job ad

Melanie Carroll

A Wellington bar’s job advertisement for a duty manager who can take a joke and ‘‘won’t cry every day on the floor’’ has angered hospitality workers who say it makes light of trauma suffered by people in the industry.

Avida bar manager Alan Roberts said it was a tongue in cheek attempt to highlight the struggles of hospitality workers and tied in with Mental Health Awareness Week.

The position of duty manager, also in charge of social media marketing, started about $25 an hour.

It called for a duty manager who ‘‘won’t quit after 2 months, who works hard and doesn’t think she/he [is] doing me a favour by working here, who can take a joke and won’t cry every day on the floor’’.

It concludes: ‘‘Please bring your banter and humour, you will need it!’’

Chloe Ann-King, founder of hospitality workers’ union Raise the Bar, said the advert may have been meant as a joke, but it was not professional and made light of issues that were traumatic for many people in the industry.

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