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A group of young, smelly warhammer fucks came in the other day, wouldn't have been a problem if they weren't massive cunts. One didnt have their ID. It was sweetest refusal of service ive had in a long time. One called their dad (to tell on me?) and the dad told him he was a dickhead. Once a week this rude older man comes in for 4 bottles of Guinness. He knows where they are, he's able bodied, he's just fucking lazy. Anyway every week I sell this guy 4 shaken up bottles of Guinness and every week he comes back. I think he just thinks thats how they come.
young bloke gave us a 1 star review because the manager thought his ID was fake, proceeded to write that he was being stereotyped (he was a white man, however he was ginger). worth a read - BWS Geelong West
We got a 1 star because we operate in a dry area with strict rules on alcohol. As if we dictate what the government does in regards to the liquor laws. 😂
Worked in a Langwarrin Bottlemart in Langwarrin when I was 19. It was a solid place, the owner knew his shit and there wasn't anything dodgy going on between staff. What was dodgy, was some of the regulars. There was one old fella in particular who was always ready to spin a yarn about fishing or 'the ladies', like he was trying to impress the boys at a college party, even though he was in his 70s and clearly in spurious control of his remaining faculties. He would drop in regularly for a VB longneck traveller, but one fateful arvo he made a blunder from which a return to simple g'day g'days was impossible. The store had a TV tucked into the top corner opposite the counter that would play music videos from one of those Foxtel channels for rich cunts. He'd just sauntered in wearing his trademark wifebeater coloured an orange that was uncomfortable distinguish in tone from his skin, and was clearly ready to show us young fellas that he hadn't lost touch with the bants. He walked over to the TV, eyeing the currently playing music video at point blank range of a female dancer in a house. After a few seconds, he looked over at us, clearly ready to drop a banger, and loudly announced - "Gee! I'd fuckin have a go at her ay?" The music video was for Chandelier by Sia. I'm not going to spoil the surprise if you haven't seen it already. My coworker's and my jaw dropped, I let out an audible "UUUUHHH", my brain unable to compromise its way to the formation of a single word, while my counterpart yelled "UH, mate, she's fucking 12!?" Old mate's response was a started "fuckin what?" as his head snapped back to the telly fast enough to cause soft-tissue damage. As the terrible truth dawned on him, a profound panic swept across his face, eyes wide as he repeatedly grunted "AW"s and "NAH"s in a frenzied fugue state of shameful confusion. Eventually, enough of his senses conspired to form the lucid decision to fucking leave quickly. The building entirely left his awareness as he glide-stumbled out of the door like something hungry was pursuing him. He never returned.
That smirnoff in a bottle of water is hilarious cause I've actually done that to smuggle it into pubs lol. Almost died from alcohol poisoning one night i did that cause my colleagues whom i was drinking with cut off my alcohol but left me with the vodka bottles. Interestingly enough i got laid by this chick i liked, got carried to a maccas after the pub found the vodka, threw up in the bathroom, got found by cops, almost caused a scene when i realised my colleague had my wallet and was worried about my firearms licence (Apparently i kept forgetting to say licence.) and then was sent to hospital in an ambulance. Night was 11/10.
@lokelaufeyson9931 yea, it turned out that one of my colleagues took the wallet to talk to the police or something. Oh, in case you're curious about me and the chick, it turned out that I'd told her that I was intoxicated and that I wouldn't remember us doing each other. Long story short, I forget, she tries bragging to other chicks we both work with about the great sex, I'm genuinely confused, so she doesn't talk to me much afterwards and changed departments cause it was too hard her having to work in the same area. By this point, I vaguely remember, but I'm still really confused. Oh, there was a rumour that circulated a while after that I'd gotten her pregnant, but she aborted it. So yea, definitely a good night. Even got the seal approval from some Americans I worked with whom complained that Aussies don't party hard enough.
@@sudoertor2009 the aftermath and the memory loss is normal :) When you party hard you have to accept that people will troll you with rumors and stories and confuse you, its the price you pay for fun :) Congratulations to the approval of the party level, i got a similar approval from a friend that said "i speak very good english while im half dead drunk" (i did drink half a bottle of whiskey or more while we were playing online). Im not a english local.
@lokelaufeyson9931 they did try a few rumours, but I tend to believe the one about the pregnancy because it would explain a lot. She did have a growing belly and left the abortion right up until the legal limit based on the apparent size. I don't know if she wanted me to talk about it with her? But I only was aware of it well afterwards. If she'd kept it and told me about it I'd definitely of stepped up if it was definitely mine, as I low key needed a kick up the ass to get me out of the grove I was stuck in, that and I want to have children some day. But like I said, she never mentioned it despite me trying to talk to her and her avoiding me. Oh, and a mutual female friend stopped talking to me around the time I would guess the abortion would have occurred. Hence why I suspect the rumours were true.
@@sudoertor2009 the important part was that you were ready to take responsibility if she kept it and its was true. We all make mistakes and we can only step up to meet the challenge, it was a fun party though so i know that you have some good memories of it :)
The reviewers calling out BWS for "not accepting cash" were probably just at a store with a glory safe instead of a traditional till. All they need to do is put the money in themselves. Seriously, if a store has a history of hold-ups, they're not allowed to directly handle cash. The amount of times I've had to explain this to people is mind-numbing.
I used to work at a Dan Murphy’s in rural NSW, the amount of times you’d find spew in the cool room on the pallets of beer from the homeless or the drunk bush pigs that would come in before/after a B&S was insane, also, they wouldn’t have shoes in half the time. Fuckin grots. Also, if there is every a “bottle-o confess sins” video, I had a homeless person get asked to leave the store due to a very piss poor attempt at getting a two-for-one deal on Midori then when told it’s not something we do they then tried to steal the bottles anyway, they then proceeded to go out side, take a fat dump in the car park then harassed some customers for some darts and coins. Wednesdays am I right?
Why eat an ice cream while working? Cause you manager said "Jack called in sick, if you work through your break I'll give you an ice cream, the alkies will lose their shit if we close for 3 minutes while you pee and I have to guard the back-door while the deliveries come in or the trash and the teens will run off with the Schmirnoff."
:'( there will never be a bruz tour in dallas. :'( Also in TX, you Bottle-os (liqour shops) also close at 9 on the shop. You can buy up to the minute, because they need to be precise. It's all logged, if the register rings anything up after 9, they're in trouble. The people I've seen waiting in line at 8:59, only to be like "sorry, we're closed", and flip out, is pretty funny.
Eating ice cream while working is probably a bit better than what I've seen... There was an employee at a McDonalds that was eating Fries out of her pants... I kid you not. She was cooking... Never walked out of a place faster.
At my local Coles we have a BWS next door. Woolworths put it there solely so coles couldn't put a liquor land next door. Pretty funny because people try to use the docket deals from Coles in there and get rejected constantly.
I manage a BWS in this exact situation. Dozens of times a day I hear "Bit weird a BWS being next to Coles" bro, we have 1500 stores nationwide, Coles has about half as many Liquorlands.. It isn't that uncommon.
Shopping centre near me has a BWS next to the Coles and a liquorland next to the Woolies. Super common cat and mouse game the companies play Theres a bunch of laws regarding how many bottleshops can be attached under one hotel license so alot of the time they sneak into a spot while the other ones getting their paperwork together still
@@watt0455 in NSW where I am it doesn't matter, as Liquor Licences are held by the manager of the site so we have Licensee attached to our RSA which differs to the rest of the fucking country. So as long as the license is approved by the local council & OLGR then it's fair game to be where ever they want within reason. in QLD however you are correct, usually it's one attached license plus 4 or 5 satellite licenses within x KM of that hotel. I assume Victoria is a similar situation from what I have heard from my mates down there.
The Hallmark of a comedic disposition: Jordie: "I won't do a poll because I'm worried I've done too many" Jordie: "You know what? Screw you Mr Strawman-I-Made-Up. POLL TIME!" Why does that always crack me up 😂
Keith Hotel in South Australia has the cheapest takeaway beers while Dan Murphys in Ballarat are pricey. Sixer of Cooper's Pale in Keith $19.00 while it's $26.00 in Dan's Ballarat.
The saddest thing is that a young man called Declan....while working at a BWS in Darwin was stabbed.. just because he refused service to someone really drunk already... we all get drunk and silly, but then you get fu**heads that go around doing things like that..My condolences to the kids' family..
oh i remember this, when i was still working for bws they were either finalising a policy change or were about to implement a policy change that required at least 2 staff on to close the store because of that incident
I thinks It shows how one persons comment in the video was to fire the older worker (someone who like a lot of older workers may have been unlucky looking for work until somewhere gave them a chance) should be made redundant so a younger person could have the job (when not only may a younger person be less reliable but making something redundant means the job role isn't needed and it's legally not meant to be filled as its redundant) is of someone who knows less than they pretend to know about things...
My brother and I used to walk past a pub/driver thur bottlo in primary school. Well, one time my brother was on his scate board just in front of me and got his by a car come out. The woman was one of my classmates' mum, my brother was ok so she brushed him off and drove away.
5:16 How the hell do aluminium cans rust? Even if it's just a dried spill, which necessarily would have involved a damaged carton, that's an unacceptable state to sell anything that goes in a customer's mouth. 7:35 You can see the booze kicking in as she typed that.
In relation to that second comment I have people that act like that all the time at the pokies. I'm a security guard at a pub in SA and we have a 15 minute lockout period, (anyone can leave but you can't come back in) and people will show up with 3 minutes to go and freak out when they nearly walk into the front door. Once I was walking one of our regulars to their car and a couple of guys I had refused entry to earlier (lockout time) tried walking past me as the outer doors opened only to be stopped by the inner doors in the foyer as I walked back inside he goes walking past me mumbling threats random threats of violence (by this time we had less than 30 seconds before closing).
No celebrations or hungry camel. Yeah my last experience with smirnoff was when i was 16 smashing half a bottle in a 2 litres of orange juice on the way to my mates, that wasn't home at the time, to then pass out in hes lounge and get a wake up jolt resulting in my leg kicking the glass table almost breaking it in front of hes mum. He finally got back and gave me some double blacks, that i proceeded to chunder on hes front lawn and passout in. Sorry for the shitty punctuation as i am currently hungover
I don’t know about Smirnoff lemonade when I was a teen we were drinking whiskey, moonshine, and Budweiser and lemonade with alcohol was for the girls though the girls I usually drank with could drink a case of bud light.
Have a look at the reviews left on government department of families, fairness & housing! There are sum rippa's! I started with Frankston office n kept laughing so hard I had a look around Australia!
I work in a bottleshop on the gild coast. We had a regular that would buy a 6 pack of Guinness stout regularly. He would always walk in the cool room and grab the 6 pack. One time I just went behind the counter and looked at the CCTV and as he entered the cool room, he then pulled his dick out and proceeded to walk and piss the entire length of the cool room, then once he had finished, gave it a good shake and then walked out. I said mate, what the fck are you doing, you can't just piss in the coolroom. He said he didn't, I said I just seen you mate. He said oh I have a medical condition. 😅
Once drove a mates housemate to a bottle-o in Elizabeth SA. On the way out the dude rolled down his window & started abusing a girl in the carpark. So yeah never helped that wanker again.
Reminds me of when i was at a bottle-O and some guy came walking down the street singing, the person who was serving me drinks at the time stopped for second and yelled at the man and told him to shut up and get away from the store The guy then said something back before the bottle-O employee yelled "your banned from here you have to leave" the other guy told him and i quote "you're a fucking ugly slut so get fucked" The bottle-O employee then proceeded to grab a lump of wood from behind the counter before jumping over it and hitting the guy in the head and chasing him down the street i didn't see him again so I just took my drinks and left. Overall it was pretty good and i got free drinks
Worked in Fitzroy, one night we had a massively fat man come in, like you could feel him coming like the T-Rex in Jurassic park. He was obviously very drunk so we told him he couldn't be served, he then proceeds to incoherently start yelling at us, so we go to escort out the door...only to realise he's shat himself in the middle of the room. We manage to get him out the door whilst trying not to gag. We watch him from in the store as he stumbles around outside for a bit before falling over backwards and cracking his head on the bike racks, I'm pretty sure there was a seismic shake when he hit the ground. We run out to check on him and he's out cold and bleeding on the ground, call 000 and an ambo rocks up within a couple of min. Only problem is he's so massive that they can't get him on a stretcher, so they call for assistance and a police car rocks up...and two small women get out, they try to get him on, no good. So another police car rocks up this time and man and a woman and even then they couldn't get him on, eventually another cop car comes with two big male officers and they can finally get him into the back of the ambo. Never heard what happened to him, but there's still a blood and shit stain on the footpath by the bike racks.
Some say if you reach far enough back in the outside fridge you'll find yourself in the woods with a lamppost ahead of you. The magical realm of liquorland.
As someone who used to be a store manager for Liquorland and has since resigned, being "too clinical" is the least of their problems. That company is a dead end for anyone with any moral virtue; head office culture is the most toxic thing I've ever experienced, and that's coming from someone who's dated three people with BPD. Fuck Coles.
Valparaiso, Chile has an alcohol store named Mr. Drunk. I went in hoping to talk to the owner himself, but Mr Drunk wasn't there, disappointment :( I did buy a 1.5 liter bottle of cheap Carmenere and drank it on the stairs of Cerro Bellavista while talking to stray dogs, so it was all fine in the end. Four stars, and hello to the dog named Oso or Bob, depending on who you ask, he's adorable.
In 1985 I worked at Australia’s highest turnover bottlo, Liquorland Drive Thru at St Ives. Our manager didn’t give a fuq so we used to write the discount signs ourselves, e.g. “Baileys Irish Cream, $18.99. It’s as Irish as bombing Mountbatten.” Anyone cheeky to staff on the driveway would have the sh17 shaken out of their slab in the coolroom.
Fun Fact. When a liquour shop closes in Australia they have to close on time and not serve ANYONE due to liqour liscencing laws. So being strict on the closing time is VERY important.
I work at a BWS and the wildest story I have is a crazy homeless man came in with a pair of scissors and nearly stabbed me with them but didn’t only because “I was a true Australian”. Talk about a weird day at work
Bloke came into the bottleo I work at with his entire ass out, said he lost his draw string. Just stumbled in cheeks on display, walked the entire store before pulling them up. Still served him tho, good bloke
For some reason that reminds me that we had a guy walking around on a severely broken leg one night. The lower part of his leg was jutting out at a 45 degree angle. He didn't appear to be in any physical pain (!?) and was using one crutch, but dropped it when he tried to find his wallet, and it turned out that he didn't have money anyway. At the very same moment, I was approached by a young woman in her 30's who'd had so much unnecessary plastic surgery that she looked like a CGI animated character (no joke). I struggled to answer her due to the shock. My workmate proclaimed: "it's a fucken' freakshow in here tonight!"
My Smirnoff memories are the obscene amounts of under 18 girls from my school who had to have their stomach pumped due to Smirnoff consumption at house parties in the bush.
@lokelaufeyson9931 I drank copious amounts when I was younger (we're talking 2 bottles of vodka in 1 night on a weekend) and I never needed to go to hospital to get my stomach pumped after all if you drink too much your stomach pumps itself 🤮
I feel like I’m peering into an exclusive club watching these Australia videos. Like these are Australian videos made by an Australian dude for an Australian audience, and yet here I am watching them in Montana USA. I didn’t even know what a Bottle-O was before I clicked on this video lol
I stupidly started working at a bottleo at 21 when I had no idea what to do and got stuck there until I was 30. 9 years just disappeared. Easy as piss job, working in aircon, good exercise but your back gets cooked from constant lifting and walking on hard concrete floor. When I went to work in the city at 30 i realised why on earth did i stay there so long hahah. Was character building but I would probably own a house by now and be about $500k better off. It pays peanuts, funnily enough it gave me thick skin, great customer service and sales skills and really good interpersonal skills as well. So wasn't all bad lol - also got free piss occasionally and one time I found $50 on the ground lol.
The worst BWS bottle O story I have ever heard was about 6 months ago when a young staff member (i think he was 18) refused a sale to an aboriginal man that was banned from buying alcohol ( the NT has a banned drinkers register ,comes up when they scan your ID ) anyway this bloke decided that being told no was so bad he waited the 10 minutes or so till close, followed the young worker to his car and stabbed him to death. His name was Declan Laverty. Now thats got to be the worst thing thats ever happened to anybody at a bottle’O Cash or no cash situations considered.
While it is the worst story I've heard (I'm a former BWSer) regarding bottlo's, he wasn't followed to his car. It happened in the store. It was on CCTV.
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I work at a BWS and ive got some wild stories, especially working the city. We're talking casual death threats, people stealing 10 packs and cartons without even hiding it, and sometimes just really interesting characters. Everyday i go home and im more then likely to have a short story to tell. Its great, never a boring day
Oh, the casual death threats are charming. I had one once because I refused to exchange coins for a $5 note for an obnoxious drug addict lady. Fun times.
Man I just walked out of a bottle-o in melbourne, a young lady was threatening to end her life with a big rock (that she pulled out of her purse) if she wasn't allowed to leave with the bottle of little fat lamb she was in the process of stealing. Owner had a big wooden stick. Classic stuff
Worked at a drivethru Liquorland in the Sunshine Coast and we had these crackheads that lived in the park next to us who use to cruise through and buy a longneck of northern whenever they could. Anyway, one time one of them came through the main shop area with a crackpipe hanging from his mouth and I said to him "hey man, can you just put that away please?" Immediately he snapped back that "He's been coming to this bottleo since he was 14 and no one had any problems with it!" And I was like oh. Okay no worries then. We also had a lady we called "Brandy lady" because she used to come through every morning and wait for the doors to open to buy her little bottle of cheap brandy. I have about a million stories from that place.
We had a bloke come in ever few days buying bottles of vodka. im convined he was trying to drink himself to death, he looked Ashy white and more and more sickly, but it was years he was doing this. I worked there 9 years!
I got a juicy story from working in a BWS in Sydney. We had this customer that would come in, you can imagine the type. He is very old, probably homeless, only buys longnecks and smells like piss. One day he comes in more pissed than usual and buys his longnecks, after he leaves we notice a puddle in front of the counter, little did we know this man had just taken a piss in the store right in front of us. Obviously we were like holy what in the Kentucky fried fuck, we shouldn't let him back, so we tell the manager and he REFUSES TO BAN HIM. After that incident some of us just flat out refuse him service anyway when he comes in but one day when came in again I was feeling generous and decided to serve him again. After he left the smell of piss was high in the air once again and a customer that was in line behind him said "I think he pissed on the floor", i must've made a horrified face because she asked if i was ok, felt like i was having Nam flashbacks. After cleaning that up along with the stream he had going to the door and outside i messaged my manager begging to ban him, my manager then informed me about a week later that he won't be rostering me alone or with other people that won't serve him because of "discrimination" and told me that it was very rude of me to not want to serve him. I told him i'm not paid to clean up human waste, this had no affect. Moral of the story, piss in all the stores you want they won't do shit.
Yea i had a manager that refused to ban a whole bunch of people cause he was more worried about what the community would say about it. They never worked past 5pm so they never experienced all the verbal abuse we received from the drunks we refused service to. We couldn’t even ban a known alcoholic. What’s the point of holding an RSA when the managers don’t even care about serving alcohol responsibly?
Argh, shit man. That's classic spineless BWS management for you. We had a massive photo album of banned shoplifters and deranged types which was quite effective. Then a new manager took over and disregarded that system, and slowly but surely every single fuckwit who had given up trying to enter our store began to visit regularly again. The manager knew that people were stealing but he wouldn't take action. I also watched him serve highly intoxicated people, which I challenged once: "That guy was wasted" "He's not wasted, he's on heroin" ...I was speechless.
Totally unrelated to booze but a bit over 20 years ago, I bought an almost 100 year old 25-volume set of history books from Lifeline. There was a big sign on the table with a few handwritten sentences about the set and a price of $600 (for anyone that doesn't know Lifeline, it's a charity shop) but because there was a 50% off sale someone had added $300 to the bottom of the sign. I was in a position where I couldn't actually afford it but could just manage it if I borrowed about $50 and didn't eat for a week, so I went to the local used book dealer, told her about the set, and asked her if she thought it was worth me buying. Her eyes lit up like a Christmas tree. This woman had been running the book shop for decades and it was unusual in originally being located next to a popular pub and closing at around 10pm every night. She was a really nice lady but she was also well-known to be an unscrupulous second-hand dealer, so when she hesitated and said that it was a really good price but if I can't afford it I should give it a miss, I knew what I had to do. I went straight back to Lifeline to ask them to put the books aside for me while I rounded up some cash because it was a bit much. Standing next to the books and the big sign, which said $600 and $300, I was cheerfully informed that they were having a 50% off sale, so it was only $150. I reflexively went to correct her but bit my tongue and pretended I didn't know. A quick trip to the ATM later, I was trying to figure out how to get 25 very large books home on the bus (it took three trips). I didn't yet have internet at home, so it was a few months before I searched those books for myself at a cafe. Prices for my 1908 edition of the set ranged up to $2500, with sets in far worse condition than mine selling for well over $1000. The best deal ever all because someone looked at the bottom of the sign, where it said $300, instead of looking at the top where it said $600. Currently, the books are no more than 3 metres away from me. It's a fantastic resource for comparing how views of history have changed but even more fascinating are the contemporary discussions of then-recent events that would spiral into WWI only six years later, or describing the Russo-Japanese War as "the first Great War of the 20th century".
lol mine had a guy die with a heart attack while in the drive thru, the cops showed up only to see if he had paid for his carton, which they promptly confiscated and left
@@Low-effort-individual there's more stories, but then you could track down where i live (the info is easily accessible with it's location on the internet)
Did a Mt Barney hike once (9 hours, 16km, 1200m elevation gain), then after walked into the Browns Plains Liquorland afterwards, or more accurately, limped, swayed, and had trouble staying upright because my legs and feet were very sore. The lady behind the counter takes one look at me and says "I'm sorry sir, we cannot serve intoxicated people". I replied "I'm not intoxicated, I just went on a hard hike and my legs and feet are sore" and after a long pause, in a voice that says she has heard literally every excuse under the sun she simply says "......sure"
From experience of working in a bottleshop owned by Coles, we don't get breaks unless we work over 6 hours, so often have to try and sneakily eat food behind the counter as we're on our own
I work at a first choice and we had a guy who wasnt homeless but would come in everyday (upto 5 times) and buy the second cheapest bottle of Chardonnay. I was honestly impressed at how he could drink so much. He was an asshole though.
Alcoholism does that to ya lol. Back before I quit booze the liquor store owner knew me by name. I knew I needed to quit when I came in every day that week and 3 times in one day and he just hands me a sleeve of minis and goes “nobody likes these but you will” knowing I drank the worst cheapest liquor I could find. I wanted to be offended but I was just happy for getting free booze
@@Shiestey yeah it's bad, I initially I was worried, wanted to bar him for his safety, but then he would drive so I was a bit confused. Luckily he hasn't come in a few months so I hope he has changed.
The "second cheapest" is the really curious part to me. Obviously someone buying that much liquor is an alcoholic, but I wouldn't expect an alcoholic to have high enough standards to go for the second-cheapest. Was the cheapest just really that bad?
The funniest thing about BWS work is the amount of people who go "It's gone up again!?" then continue the transaction. Some rattle on but they are going to drink themselves into a coma regardless of the pay hit.
The amount of middle aged men who will yell at a teenaged bottle-o worker when the price of a case of beer goes up is staggering. I don't set the prices mate, calm tf down.
Wow, I know a lady BWS sacked because a wild customer was smashing up the shop and she ran out of the store from fear. BWS policy is staff can’t step out of the store or be dismissed. Difference to your contributor.
Just a story of a great (business model) bottle-o. The Woolies in Katherine, Northern Territory. One day I commented on the pallet of cask white wine, "Lady in a boat" as the locals called it. He said they sold a pallet every two days. Man, Katherine likes her white wine!! Especially the fact you can take it out of the box and heat it in the sun, gets us drunker quicker that way...
I don't understand why alcoholics stay in Australia, in Belgium beer and wine is legal from 16 and hard liquor can be bought in all supermarkets and corner shop for the same price as in liquor stores.
Holy heck, the nearest Taco Bell to me is always dead and if by chance you do get food from there its like a 30-45min wait for meh food. I reckon alot of stories from there will just be bored employees or workers rushing their asses off to get one of the four orders from the day out.
It's incredibly easy to be a top contributor on Google reviews, I've somehow managed to be in the top 30 percent of reviewers and I'm also marked a local guide. I use it to bitch out places that have hair in the food. 😐
The saddest is when you serve a regular and their skin is completely yellowed from liver failure. We aren’t doctors and can’t refuse service based on a perceived medical condition, but fuck it’s sad.
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Why are you Australian
why are you not@@nubnubthegreat8215 ?
Kebab shops
@friendlyjordies As someone featured in this series, The Worst NUDE BEACHES in Australia 10min 29sec, I suggest Brothels, I know you already did strip clubs so this will be a good continuation on the series!
Also do game stores, only old people leave reviews on those places
We need a bottle-O workers confess their sins
Mhmmm
"Half of the time I tell customers it's cash only, half of the time I say we don't take cash".
I’ve worked to the bottle-o for 8 years and I sure do you have some sins
as a dan murphys worker, no you do not
A group of young, smelly warhammer fucks came in the other day, wouldn't have been a problem if they weren't massive cunts. One didnt have their ID. It was sweetest refusal of service ive had in a long time. One called their dad (to tell on me?) and the dad told him he was a dickhead.
Once a week this rude older man comes in for 4 bottles of Guinness. He knows where they are, he's able bodied, he's just fucking lazy. Anyway every week I sell this guy 4 shaken up bottles of Guinness and every week he comes back. I think he just thinks thats how they come.
young bloke gave us a 1 star review because the manager thought his ID was fake, proceeded to write that he was being stereotyped (he was a white man, however he was ginger).
worth a read - BWS Geelong West
"I’ve been to dozens of shops to attain alcohol and never have I ever been rendered mute to such extent" - sounds like a weirdo lol
he was ginger so he was "special" .. dont hurt the poor snowflakes, they break so easy. Did he get hes ginger ale?
He was ginger? Racism against the Irish is back, and can I say it's about damn time.
@@douglassmithe9799 dont talk bad about the irish people O.O They are the best people on the earth and in the universe.
We got a 1 star because we operate in a dry area with strict rules on alcohol. As if we dictate what the government does in regards to the liquor laws. 😂
Worked in a Langwarrin Bottlemart in Langwarrin when I was 19. It was a solid place, the owner knew his shit and there wasn't anything dodgy going on between staff. What was dodgy, was some of the regulars. There was one old fella in particular who was always ready to spin a yarn about fishing or 'the ladies', like he was trying to impress the boys at a college party, even though he was in his 70s and clearly in spurious control of his remaining faculties.
He would drop in regularly for a VB longneck traveller, but one fateful arvo he made a blunder from which a return to simple g'day g'days was impossible. The store had a TV tucked into the top corner opposite the counter that would play music videos from one of those Foxtel channels for rich cunts. He'd just sauntered in wearing his trademark wifebeater coloured an orange that was uncomfortable distinguish in tone from his skin, and was clearly ready to show us young fellas that he hadn't lost touch with the bants.
He walked over to the TV, eyeing the currently playing music video at point blank range of a female dancer in a house. After a few seconds, he looked over at us, clearly ready to drop a banger, and loudly announced -
"Gee! I'd fuckin have a go at her ay?" The music video was for Chandelier by Sia. I'm not going to spoil the surprise if you haven't seen it already.
My coworker's and my jaw dropped, I let out an audible "UUUUHHH", my brain unable to compromise its way to the formation of a single word, while my counterpart yelled "UH, mate, she's fucking 12!?"
Old mate's response was a started "fuckin what?" as his head snapped back to the telly fast enough to cause soft-tissue damage. As the terrible truth dawned on him, a profound panic swept across his face, eyes wide as he repeatedly grunted "AW"s and "NAH"s in a frenzied fugue state of shameful confusion. Eventually, enough of his senses conspired to form the lucid decision to fucking leave quickly. The building entirely left his awareness as he glide-stumbled out of the door like something hungry was pursuing him.
He never returned.
That smirnoff in a bottle of water is hilarious cause I've actually done that to smuggle it into pubs lol.
Almost died from alcohol poisoning one night i did that cause my colleagues whom i was drinking with cut off my alcohol but left me with the vodka bottles.
Interestingly enough i got laid by this chick i liked, got carried to a maccas after the pub found the vodka, threw up in the bathroom, got found by cops, almost caused a scene when i realised my colleague had my wallet and was worried about my firearms licence (Apparently i kept forgetting to say licence.) and then was sent to hospital in an ambulance.
Night was 11/10.
it was a good night out with the lads i see :) I hope you got your firearms (license) back.
@lokelaufeyson9931 yea, it turned out that one of my colleagues took the wallet to talk to the police or something.
Oh, in case you're curious about me and the chick, it turned out that I'd told her that I was intoxicated and that I wouldn't remember us doing each other. Long story short, I forget, she tries bragging to other chicks we both work with about the great sex, I'm genuinely confused, so she doesn't talk to me much afterwards and changed departments cause it was too hard her having to work in the same area. By this point, I vaguely remember, but I'm still really confused.
Oh, there was a rumour that circulated a while after that I'd gotten her pregnant, but she aborted it.
So yea, definitely a good night. Even got the seal approval from some Americans I worked with whom complained that Aussies don't party hard enough.
@@sudoertor2009 the aftermath and the memory loss is normal :)
When you party hard you have to accept that people will troll you with rumors and stories and confuse you, its the price you pay for fun :)
Congratulations to the approval of the party level, i got a similar approval from a friend that said "i speak very good english while im half dead drunk" (i did drink half a bottle of whiskey or more while we were playing online).
Im not a english local.
@lokelaufeyson9931 they did try a few rumours, but I tend to believe the one about the pregnancy because it would explain a lot.
She did have a growing belly and left the abortion right up until the legal limit based on the apparent size. I don't know if she wanted me to talk about it with her? But I only was aware of it well afterwards.
If she'd kept it and told me about it I'd definitely of stepped up if it was definitely mine, as I low key needed a kick up the ass to get me out of the grove I was stuck in, that and I want to have children some day. But like I said, she never mentioned it despite me trying to talk to her and her avoiding me.
Oh, and a mutual female friend stopped talking to me around the time I would guess the abortion would have occurred.
Hence why I suspect the rumours were true.
@@sudoertor2009 the important part was that you were ready to take responsibility if she kept it and its was true.
We all make mistakes and we can only step up to meet the challenge, it was a fun party though so i know that you have some good memories of it :)
Worst Jehovah Witness encounters would be holy sick.
The reviewers calling out BWS for "not accepting cash" were probably just at a store with a glory safe instead of a traditional till. All they need to do is put the money in themselves. Seriously, if a store has a history of hold-ups, they're not allowed to directly handle cash. The amount of times I've had to explain this to people is mind-numbing.
I used to work at a Dan Murphy’s in rural NSW, the amount of times you’d find spew in the cool room on the pallets of beer from the homeless or the drunk bush pigs that would come in before/after a B&S was insane, also, they wouldn’t have shoes in half the time. Fuckin grots.
Also, if there is every a “bottle-o confess sins” video, I had a homeless person get asked to leave the store due to a very piss poor attempt at getting a two-for-one deal on Midori then when told it’s not something we do they then tried to steal the bottles anyway, they then proceeded to go out side, take a fat dump in the car park then harassed some customers for some darts and coins. Wednesdays am I right?
Please do a 'The WORST charcoal chicken shops in Australia'. Some absolute beltas out there.
Why eat an ice cream while working? Cause you manager said "Jack called in sick, if you work through your break I'll give you an ice cream, the alkies will lose their shit if we close for 3 minutes while you pee and I have to guard the back-door while the deliveries come in or the trash and the teens will run off with the Schmirnoff."
:'( there will never be a bruz tour in dallas. :'(
Also in TX, you Bottle-os (liqour shops) also close at 9 on the shop. You can buy up to the minute, because they need to be precise. It's all logged, if the register rings anything up after 9, they're in trouble. The people I've seen waiting in line at 8:59, only to be like "sorry, we're closed", and flip out, is pretty funny.
Eating ice cream while working is probably a bit better than what I've seen... There was an employee at a McDonalds that was eating Fries out of her pants... I kid you not. She was cooking... Never walked out of a place faster.
Keeps them hot
At my local Coles we have a BWS next door. Woolworths put it there solely so coles couldn't put a liquor land next door. Pretty funny because people try to use the docket deals from Coles in there and get rejected constantly.
I manage a BWS in this exact situation. Dozens of times a day I hear "Bit weird a BWS being next to Coles" bro, we have 1500 stores nationwide, Coles has about half as many Liquorlands.. It isn't that uncommon.
Shopping centre near me has a BWS next to the Coles and a liquorland next to the Woolies. Super common cat and mouse game the companies play
Theres a bunch of laws regarding how many bottleshops can be attached under one hotel license so alot of the time they sneak into a spot while the other ones getting their paperwork together still
@@watt0455 in NSW where I am it doesn't matter, as Liquor Licences are held by the manager of the site so we have Licensee attached to our RSA which differs to the rest of the fucking country.
So as long as the license is approved by the local council & OLGR then it's fair game to be where ever they want within reason. in QLD however you are correct, usually it's one attached license plus 4 or 5 satellite licenses within x KM of that hotel. I assume Victoria is a similar situation from what I have heard from my mates down there.
The Hallmark of a comedic disposition:
Jordie: "I won't do a poll because I'm worried I've done too many"
Jordie: "You know what? Screw you Mr Strawman-I-Made-Up. POLL TIME!"
Why does that always crack me up 😂
Keith Hotel in South Australia has the cheapest takeaway beers while Dan Murphys in Ballarat are pricey. Sixer of Cooper's Pale in Keith $19.00 while it's $26.00 in Dan's Ballarat.
The saddest thing is that a young man called Declan....while working at a BWS in Darwin was stabbed.. just because he refused service to someone really drunk already... we all get drunk and silly, but then you get fu**heads that go around doing things like that..My condolences to the kids' family..
oh i remember this, when i was still working for bws they were either finalising a policy change or were about to implement a policy change that required at least 2 staff on to close the store because of that incident
Top shelf video Uncle Jordie. Your old school Aussie humour is so appreciated 😅🎉❤
6:12 as someone who specialises in dog care, 10wk old puppy in a bottleo is insane behaviour.
I thinks It shows how one persons comment in the video was to fire the older worker (someone who like a lot of older workers may have been unlucky looking for work until somewhere gave them a chance) should be made redundant so a younger person could have the job (when not only may a younger person be less reliable but making something redundant means the job role isn't needed and it's legally not meant to be filled as its redundant) is of someone who knows less than they pretend to know about things...
Surely there would be gold in "Massage Parlor" reviews...
Next episode: “The WORST Officeworks in Australia”
My brother and I used to walk past a pub/driver thur bottlo in primary school. Well, one time my brother was on his scate board just in front of me and got his by a car come out.
The woman was one of my classmates' mum, my brother was ok so she brushed him off and drove away.
We need woolies workers stories , if this catches I'll share my story 😂
5:16 How the hell do aluminium cans rust? Even if it's just a dried spill, which necessarily would have involved a damaged carton, that's an unacceptable state to sell anything that goes in a customer's mouth.
7:35 You can see the booze kicking in as she typed that.
“World war bunker in Marseilles” lmao
Good on ya youtube switching to bunnings black friday ad as soon as Jordan said bunnings
You got me with "naughty lemonade".. pure gold
In relation to that second comment I have people that act like that all the time at the pokies. I'm a security guard at a pub in SA and we have a 15 minute lockout period, (anyone can leave but you can't come back in) and people will show up with 3 minutes to go and freak out when they nearly walk into the front door. Once I was walking one of our regulars to their car and a couple of guys I had refused entry to earlier (lockout time) tried walking past me as the outer doors opened only to be stopped by the inner doors in the foyer as I walked back inside he goes walking past me mumbling threats random threats of violence (by this time we had less than 30 seconds before closing).
No celebrations or hungry camel. Yeah my last experience with smirnoff was when i was 16 smashing half a bottle in a 2 litres of orange juice on the way to my mates, that wasn't home at the time, to then pass out in hes lounge and get a wake up jolt resulting in my leg kicking the glass table almost breaking it in front of hes mum. He finally got back and gave me some double blacks, that i proceeded to chunder on hes front lawn and passout in. Sorry for the shitty punctuation as i am currently hungover
Playgrounds reviews. Parent reviews about how they weren't watching their kids are crazy
I don’t know about Smirnoff lemonade when I was a teen we were drinking whiskey, moonshine, and Budweiser and lemonade with alcohol was for the girls though the girls I usually drank with could drink a case of bud light.
Worst reject shops in the country would be a good one
Have a look at the reviews left on government department of families, fairness & housing! There are sum rippa's! I started with Frankston office n kept laughing so hard I had a look around Australia!
we not going to talk about snoop dawg as the intro?
To quote Jordie's new nerd hobby, Yu Gi Oh. That bit about 'barely adults' drinking Smirnoff 'attacked my life points directly.'
5:35
Kicked the shit out of
Homeless dude at Uncle Dan's
Hood-oosed his liver
Worst Bunnings in Australia/Bunnings workers confess their sins
I work in a bottleshop on the gild coast. We had a regular that would buy a 6 pack of Guinness stout regularly. He would always walk in the cool room and grab the 6 pack. One time I just went behind the counter and looked at the CCTV and as he entered the cool room, he then pulled his dick out and proceeded to walk and piss the entire length of the cool room, then once he had finished, gave it a good shake and then walked out. I said mate, what the fck are you doing, you can't just piss in the coolroom. He said he didn't, I said I just seen you mate. He said oh I have a medical condition. 😅
Shopping at a coles or woolworths owned business is gross.
My 50 year old mother still drinks Smirnoff
Cant believe you'd leave out First Choice like this. It's in the name, Jimmies! It's First Choice!
Once drove a mates housemate to a bottle-o in Elizabeth SA. On the way out the dude rolled down his window & started abusing a girl in the carpark. So yeah never helped that wanker again.
Gotta do a worst of or confess over McDonald's. We are way overdue imo
ANY simpsons clip makes a friendly jordies video a FIVE STAR 🌟
There’s an Australian place called Khols, but it’s spelled differently?
"Alcahel Goad!" And love your self-help video.
New Best Of, Worst of topic.
Psychiatric In Patient Wards
Actually saw Dan Andrews at the Mulgrave Ritchies Bottle-O so we can put that one to rest.
cellarbrations is the best one and I won’t be told otherwise
Worst of Hotels
Reminds me of when i was at a bottle-O and some guy came walking down the street singing,
the person who was serving me drinks at the time stopped for second and yelled at the man and told him to shut up and get away from the store
The guy then said something back before the bottle-O employee yelled "your banned from here you have to leave" the other guy told him and i quote "you're a fucking ugly slut so get fucked"
The bottle-O employee then proceeded to grab a lump of wood from behind the counter before jumping over it and hitting the guy in the head and chasing him down the street i didn't see him again so I just took my drinks and left. Overall it was pretty good and i got free drinks
Oh hell no, I am gonna eat ice cream at the liquor hole and enjoy every last bite when the local yob tries to skeet by with a fake ID
"I am a leader in a large customer service based company" Dude is definitely a manager at Maccas
my thoughts exactly lol
I was thinking a drug dealer to be honest
Worked in Fitzroy, one night we had a massively fat man come in, like you could feel him coming like the T-Rex in Jurassic park. He was obviously very drunk so we told him he couldn't be served, he then proceeds to incoherently start yelling at us, so we go to escort out the door...only to realise he's shat himself in the middle of the room.
We manage to get him out the door whilst trying not to gag. We watch him from in the store as he stumbles around outside for a bit before falling over backwards and cracking his head on the bike racks, I'm pretty sure there was a seismic shake when he hit the ground. We run out to check on him and he's out cold and bleeding on the ground, call 000 and an ambo rocks up within a couple of min. Only problem is he's so massive that they can't get him on a stretcher, so they call for assistance and a police car rocks up...and two small women get out, they try to get him on, no good. So another police car rocks up this time and man and a woman and even then they couldn't get him on, eventually another cop car comes with two big male officers and they can finally get him into the back of the ambo. Never heard what happened to him, but there's still a blood and shit stain on the footpath by the bike racks.
They truly have a shit occupation don't they. Thanks for your service.
Damn that's sad actually
6 police officers (including 2 strong gym guys) and 2 ambulance staff for one dude? If there is a sign that you need to change your life that is one..
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@@lokelaufeyson9931 i imagine if the 2 big guys had arrived first they wouldn't've had to wait for 4 more people.
I love the name Liquorland. It sounds magical. The Beer Store is too clinical.
Their rebrand completely understates the name
Some say if you reach far enough back in the outside fridge you'll find yourself in the woods with a lamppost ahead of you. The magical realm of liquorland.
Codys! Court case in a can! 😅
As someone who used to be a store manager for Liquorland and has since resigned, being "too clinical" is the least of their problems. That company is a dead end for anyone with any moral virtue; head office culture is the most toxic thing I've ever experienced, and that's coming from someone who's dated three people with BPD. Fuck Coles.
Valparaiso, Chile has an alcohol store named Mr. Drunk. I went in hoping to talk to the owner himself, but Mr Drunk wasn't there, disappointment :( I did buy a 1.5 liter bottle of cheap Carmenere and drank it on the stairs of Cerro Bellavista while talking to stray dogs, so it was all fine in the end. Four stars, and hello to the dog named Oso or Bob, depending on who you ask, he's adorable.
In 1985 I worked at Australia’s highest turnover bottlo, Liquorland Drive Thru at St Ives. Our manager didn’t give a fuq so we used to write the discount signs ourselves, e.g. “Baileys Irish Cream, $18.99. It’s as Irish as bombing Mountbatten.” Anyone cheeky to staff on the driveway would have the sh17 shaken out of their slab in the coolroom.
Genuinely sounds like one of the best places to work
@@dafuzzbear7711 mate, it was a fuqqing three ring circus! I have stories…
LOL that sounds amazing. Would laugh my ass off everyday, I bet
Most Bottle Shop workers I have come across are either Indian or Aussies who look like they are on something …. 😅
@@the_black_douglas9041Go on....
Until you’ve run a bottleshop in Alice Springs for 3 years you don’t know what a bad bottleshop is. Lol
Sweet baby jesus! 3 years of that! Respect!
I know exactly what you mean hectic up there
Lol yeah I did it in Katherine for two years and that was enough for me
Went there a few years ago - hectic man - every bottlo had a police escort out the front.
3 years, 500 break ins, 12 armed robberies, $1.5million in insurance claims and 3 hospital trips later. I stil have to ask, why did you quit?
Fun Fact. When a liquour shop closes in Australia they have to close on time and not serve ANYONE due to liqour liscencing laws. So being strict on the closing time is VERY important.
betchu he was gonna browse for like 10 min after coming in 2 min till close
@@bluespidergaming7719 Those people are the absolute worst. The type who give you a blank stare when you mention that they only have two minutes.
I'm drunk and crazy. Fuck dominos.
The fact the person using “bye” as buy and “stare” as star uses “alienated” perfectly is a mystery!
I work at a BWS and the wildest story I have is a crazy homeless man came in with a pair of scissors and nearly stabbed me with them but didn’t only because “I was a true Australian”. Talk about a weird day at work
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Reminds me of the poor bloke that got stabbed earlier this year at a BWS in Darwin. A little too close to home.
dont say that, he'll read this and come back to finish the job
The unfortunately racist things you hear working in a bottle o and just having to smile to get them to leave 😅
Bloke came into the bottleo I work at with his entire ass out, said he lost his draw string. Just stumbled in cheeks on display, walked the entire store before pulling them up. Still served him tho, good bloke
Legend for serving him
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For some reason that reminds me that we had a guy walking around on a severely broken leg one night. The lower part of his leg was jutting out at a 45 degree angle. He didn't appear to be in any physical pain (!?) and was using one crutch, but dropped it when he tried to find his wallet, and it turned out that he didn't have money anyway.
At the very same moment, I was approached by a young woman in her 30's who'd had so much unnecessary plastic surgery that she looked like a CGI animated character (no joke). I struggled to answer her due to the shock.
My workmate proclaimed: "it's a fucken' freakshow in here tonight!"
My Smirnoff memories are the obscene amounts of under 18 girls from my school who had to have their stomach pumped due to Smirnoff consumption at house parties in the bush.
I pretty much can't drink anything lemon flavoured anymore from the obscene amount of double blacks my friends and I consumed from 16-19 😂
have been doing a lot of stupid stuff while drunk but i have never managed to be stomach pumped .. maybe i drink too smart?
I’ve only ever had to put 2 mates in the recovery position while waiting for the ambos thank god.
@lokelaufeyson9931 I drank copious amounts when I was younger (we're talking 2 bottles of vodka in 1 night on a weekend) and I never needed to go to hospital to get my stomach pumped after all if you drink too much your stomach pumps itself 🤮
@@nrgbunni. its a self balancing process.. but what have been absorbed will be there,,
I feel like I’m peering into an exclusive club watching these Australia videos. Like these are Australian videos made by an Australian dude for an Australian audience, and yet here I am watching them in Montana USA.
I didn’t even know what a Bottle-O was before I clicked on this video lol
i feel the opposite way about american stuff made by americans for americans.
Oh, Australia has an Australian audience Every day - just beware of your surroundings every time you go out and you'll see a story 🙃
Superwogs, Mychonny, Ramzaes, EconomicsExplained, Internet Historian are some other good Aussie creators from back in the day if you're interested.
As an Aussie, Costco and Walmart are basically Disneyland to me so Hi American!!! 8D
I stupidly started working at a bottleo at 21 when I had no idea what to do and got stuck there until I was 30. 9 years just disappeared. Easy as piss job, working in aircon, good exercise but your back gets cooked from constant lifting and walking on hard concrete floor. When I went to work in the city at 30 i realised why on earth did i stay there so long hahah. Was character building but I would probably own a house by now and be about $500k better off. It pays peanuts, funnily enough it gave me thick skin, great customer service and sales skills and really good interpersonal skills as well. So wasn't all bad lol - also got free piss occasionally and one time I found $50 on the ground lol.
The worst BWS bottle O story I have ever heard was about 6 months ago when a young staff member (i think he was 18) refused a sale to an aboriginal man that was banned from buying alcohol ( the NT has a banned drinkers register ,comes up when they scan your ID ) anyway this bloke decided that being told no was so bad he waited the 10 minutes or so till close, followed the young worker to his car and stabbed him to death.
His name was Declan Laverty.
Now thats got to be the worst thing thats ever happened to anybody at a bottle’O
Cash or no cash situations considered.
That story makes me so sad. Had his whole life ahead of him and was taken away. RIP Declan Laverty.
I just read up on this story, seriously messed up. No wonder they have such strict laws.
Rest in peace to Declan Laverty.
thats the uncivilised aboriginal for you. and they wonder why so many of them are in prison?
I remember my housemate who's a manager at BWS going on about that. Absolutely wild.
While it is the worst story I've heard (I'm a former BWSer) regarding bottlo's, he wasn't followed to his car. It happened in the store. It was on CCTV.
Can we get a Worst Bunnings Warehouses in Australia ?
And a Bunnings workers confess their sins (mainly because I got some stories)
@ld5382 Too right. I've got a couple myself.
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Which Google-Review cesspool should we crawl through next? What do you want to hear the public's opinion on?
ALSO, my show is in Melbourne tonight and plenty of other places soon. TICKETS: www.friendlyjordies.com/live-show
jb hifi - we cop it heaps hey
Std clinic👁️👄👁️
JB or EB. They’ve gotta have some horrific g*mer 🤮🤮🤮 stories.
Was anyone still actually drinking smirnoff by 18? I grew out of it before i could legally drink it
lmao me too
its a chick thing right? ive probably had smirnoff double black like twice in my life?
Don't see why considering double blacks are one of the strongest premixes next to -196
@@iris4547 I mean I'm a chick & I've only ever met 1 girl who's ever liked the stuff. Who knows what the deal is
smirnoff is nice when you drink one but after 3-5 it gets bad.. sugary bad
I work at a BWS and ive got some wild stories, especially working the city. We're talking casual death threats, people stealing 10 packs and cartons without even hiding it, and sometimes just really interesting characters. Everyday i go home and im more then likely to have a short story to tell. Its great, never a boring day
I feel this. My store has a guy who comes in literally every two days and takes at least two ten packs and there's nothing we can do about it.
Oh, the casual death threats are charming. I had one once because I refused to exchange coins for a $5 note for an obnoxious drug addict lady. Fun times.
Man I just walked out of a bottle-o in melbourne, a young lady was threatening to end her life with a big rock (that she pulled out of her purse) if she wasn't allowed to leave with the bottle of little fat lamb she was in the process of stealing. Owner had a big wooden stick. Classic stuff
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caveman discourse
@@Chowdonut 😂
Worked at a drivethru Liquorland in the Sunshine Coast and we had these crackheads that lived in the park next to us who use to cruise through and buy a longneck of northern whenever they could. Anyway, one time one of them came through the main shop area with a crackpipe hanging from his mouth and I said to him "hey man, can you just put that away please?" Immediately he snapped back that "He's been coming to this bottleo since he was 14 and no one had any problems with it!" And I was like oh. Okay no worries then.
We also had a lady we called "Brandy lady" because she used to come through every morning and wait for the doors to open to buy her little bottle of cheap brandy. I have about a million stories from that place.
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"Brandy Lady" is a cute one.
"The Goon Guy"
"Passion Pop Guy"
...the possibilities are endless.
We had a bloke come in ever few days buying bottles of vodka. im convined he was trying to drink himself to death, he looked Ashy white and more and more sickly, but it was years he was doing this. I worked there 9 years!
I got a juicy story from working in a BWS in Sydney. We had this customer that would come in, you can imagine the type. He is very old, probably homeless, only buys longnecks and smells like piss. One day he comes in more pissed than usual and buys his longnecks, after he leaves we notice a puddle in front of the counter, little did we know this man had just taken a piss in the store right in front of us. Obviously we were like holy what in the Kentucky fried fuck, we shouldn't let him back, so we tell the manager and he REFUSES TO BAN HIM. After that incident some of us just flat out refuse him service anyway when he comes in but one day when came in again I was feeling generous and decided to serve him again. After he left the smell of piss was high in the air once again and a customer that was in line behind him said "I think he pissed on the floor", i must've made a horrified face because she asked if i was ok, felt like i was having Nam flashbacks. After cleaning that up along with the stream he had going to the door and outside i messaged my manager begging to ban him, my manager then informed me about a week later that he won't be rostering me alone or with other people that won't serve him because of "discrimination" and told me that it was very rude of me to not want to serve him. I told him i'm not paid to clean up human waste, this had no affect. Moral of the story, piss in all the stores you want they won't do shit.
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Yea i had a manager that refused to ban a whole bunch of people cause he was more worried about what the community would say about it. They never worked past 5pm so they never experienced all the verbal abuse we received from the drunks we refused service to. We couldn’t even ban a known alcoholic. What’s the point of holding an RSA when the managers don’t even care about serving alcohol responsibly?
@@sorntrash yeah i thought about going over my managers head and mentioning that it's an RSA issue cause that'll freak the corpos out
Argh, shit man. That's classic spineless BWS management for you.
We had a massive photo album of banned shoplifters and deranged types which was quite effective. Then a new manager took over and disregarded that system, and slowly but surely every single fuckwit who had given up trying to enter our store began to visit regularly again. The manager knew that people were stealing but he wouldn't take action. I also watched him serve highly intoxicated people, which I challenged once:
"That guy was wasted"
"He's not wasted, he's on heroin"
...I was speechless.
As a BWS employee I can say for sure that the size and visibility of a sign has no effect on how many people comprehend what it says
When everything is a sign, nothing's a sign.
Totally unrelated to booze but a bit over 20 years ago, I bought an almost 100 year old 25-volume set of history books from Lifeline. There was a big sign on the table with a few handwritten sentences about the set and a price of $600 (for anyone that doesn't know Lifeline, it's a charity shop) but because there was a 50% off sale someone had added $300 to the bottom of the sign.
I was in a position where I couldn't actually afford it but could just manage it if I borrowed about $50 and didn't eat for a week, so I went to the local used book dealer, told her about the set, and asked her if she thought it was worth me buying. Her eyes lit up like a Christmas tree. This woman had been running the book shop for decades and it was unusual in originally being located next to a popular pub and closing at around 10pm every night. She was a really nice lady but she was also well-known to be an unscrupulous second-hand dealer, so when she hesitated and said that it was a really good price but if I can't afford it I should give it a miss, I knew what I had to do.
I went straight back to Lifeline to ask them to put the books aside for me while I rounded up some cash because it was a bit much. Standing next to the books and the big sign, which said $600 and $300, I was cheerfully informed that they were having a 50% off sale, so it was only $150. I reflexively went to correct her but bit my tongue and pretended I didn't know. A quick trip to the ATM later, I was trying to figure out how to get 25 very large books home on the bus (it took three trips).
I didn't yet have internet at home, so it was a few months before I searched those books for myself at a cafe. Prices for my 1908 edition of the set ranged up to $2500, with sets in far worse condition than mine selling for well over $1000.
The best deal ever all because someone looked at the bottom of the sign, where it said $300, instead of looking at the top where it said $600.
Currently, the books are no more than 3 metres away from me. It's a fantastic resource for comparing how views of history have changed but even more fascinating are the contemporary discussions of then-recent events that would spiral into WWI only six years later, or describing the Russo-Japanese War as "the first Great War of the 20th century".
lol mine had a guy die with a heart attack while in the drive thru,
the cops showed up only to see if he had paid for his carton,
which they promptly confiscated and left
You know what I see no issue here comedy gold 😂
@@Low-effort-individual there's more stories,
but then you could track down where i live
(the info is easily accessible with it's location on the internet)
Did a Mt Barney hike once (9 hours, 16km, 1200m elevation gain), then after walked into the Browns Plains Liquorland afterwards, or more accurately, limped, swayed, and had trouble staying upright because my legs and feet were very sore. The lady behind the counter takes one look at me and says "I'm sorry sir, we cannot serve intoxicated people". I replied "I'm not intoxicated, I just went on a hard hike and my legs and feet are sore" and after a long pause, in a voice that says she has heard literally every excuse under the sun she simply says "......sure"
She probably has. 😂
From experience of working in a bottleshop owned by Coles, we don't get breaks unless we work over 6 hours, so often have to try and sneakily eat food behind the counter as we're on our own
Liquor land?😂
8:36 "Where all currency is digital and controlled by the government"
Is currency not controlled by the government?
(technically also the RBA)
cash can't be controlled well and banks control digital currency at the moment and usually don't have to cooperate with the government
please do a bottlo stories episode, I have so many from work of people stealing either 0% alcohol or wine with corks and coming back very sheepishly
I work at a first choice and we had a guy who wasnt homeless but would come in everyday (upto 5 times) and buy the second cheapest bottle of Chardonnay. I was honestly impressed at how he could drink so much. He was an asshole though.
Alcoholism does that to ya lol. Back before I quit booze the liquor store owner knew me by name. I knew I needed to quit when I came in every day that week and 3 times in one day and he just hands me a sleeve of minis and goes “nobody likes these but you will” knowing I drank the worst cheapest liquor I could find. I wanted to be offended but I was just happy for getting free booze
@@Shiestey yeah it's bad, I initially I was worried, wanted to bar him for his safety, but then he would drive so I was a bit confused. Luckily he hasn't come in a few months so I hope he has changed.
The "second cheapest" is the really curious part to me. Obviously someone buying that much liquor is an alcoholic, but I wouldn't expect an alcoholic to have high enough standards to go for the second-cheapest. Was the cheapest just really that bad?
@@drpibisback7680 not sure it's was $3.50 vs $5.50 I guess it must of actually been so hard to drink
Bottle-Os is Australia's 7/11
Australia has 7/11
@@jetsurge250everyone has 7/11, It's inescapable
💀
7/11 is Australia's 7/11
As an American, I assumed it was a cereal tbh lol
The funniest thing about BWS work is the amount of people who go "It's gone up again!?" then continue the transaction. Some rattle on but they are going to drink themselves into a coma regardless of the pay hit.
The amount of middle aged men who will yell at a teenaged bottle-o worker when the price of a case of beer goes up is staggering. I don't set the prices mate, calm tf down.
@@lyndsayeverett3095 middle aged white dudes also the highest percentage of our thefts too. I'm a white dude come at me
You just reminded me that Becker exists and somehow knocked more childhood memories back into me than 5 years of therapy ever has.
Wow, I know a lady BWS sacked because a wild customer was smashing up the shop and she ran out of the store from fear. BWS policy is staff can’t step out of the store or be dismissed. Difference to your contributor.
Now there's an unfair dismissal case that should have been tested.
Just a story of a great (business model) bottle-o.
The Woolies in Katherine, Northern Territory. One day I commented on the pallet of cask white wine, "Lady in a boat" as the locals called it. He said they sold a pallet every two days. Man, Katherine likes her white wine!! Especially the fact you can take it out of the box and heat it in the sun, gets us drunker quicker that way...
8:17 now correct me if I’m wrong, but currency is already controlled by the government. There’s a treasury and everything
I once had a bottle-O server in Katoomba ask me if i needed a bag OR if i had ID
Can confirm, shmirnof's were the drink for when we were 15
In NZ mainly Cody's or billy mavs
Review sketchy Auzzie tourist traps or get crazy stories about going to tourist traps.
I bet a bunch of them will just be dissatisfied tourists who are like "oh, it is just a big banana"
The police station review regarding the penguin police makes me giggle every time!!! Between my son and I we have watched that at least 30 times 😂
That manager who is a leader in customer service is for sure a team leader selling foxtel door to door.
I don't understand why alcoholics stay in Australia, in Belgium beer and wine is legal from 16 and hard liquor can be bought in all supermarkets and corner shop for the same price as in liquor stores.
I'm positively sure that looking at Taco Bell reviews would lead to a good time.
Holy heck, the nearest Taco Bell to me is always dead and if by chance you do get food from there its like a 30-45min wait for meh food. I reckon alot of stories from there will just be bored employees or workers rushing their asses off to get one of the four orders from the day out.
wdym isn't there only a handful of them in the entire country?
@@artemisiakyrell7727 Yeah there is.
Do yourself a favour and look up reviews for Aussie caravan parks in untoward areas.
Even better if they have owner responses.
Nah that chick eating the ice cream behind the counter rocks. You don't need to pay attention at these jobs.
Nice to see Jordan help give smaller up and coming artists like Snoop Dogg a chance at his true passion, voice acting for commercials. A++
Such a nice guy
That one in the active wear was definitely a Karen.
It's incredibly easy to be a top contributor on Google reviews, I've somehow managed to be in the top 30 percent of reviewers and I'm also marked a local guide.
I use it to bitch out places that have hair in the food. 😐
“If you don’t have a tattoo of a snake then you don’t have what it takes - simple as a chicken schnitzel.”
Wow. I did not expect to have my alcoholism be exposed through a google review on friendly jordys... but here we are 😅 I Stand by what I said...
The saddest is when you serve a regular and their skin is completely yellowed from liver failure. We aren’t doctors and can’t refuse service based on a perceived medical condition, but fuck it’s sad.
Are you never going to do cinema workers confess there sins?
Do employment agencies some wild reviews in this sector mate 😂