Pros
Good music and good staff food
Kontras
Management was terrible at communicating not just with staff but with each other, you’re expected to give you’re all for the job but expect nothing in return, half the time you don’t even end up getting your staff discount
Pros
you MIGHT make some good friends.
Kontras
* Very tight social circles within the venue, leading to feelings of isolation during shifts. This also results in managers having "favourites" who ultimately receive the majority of the hours and other opportunities. * Everyone, including the managers, feeds on gossip. This place would cease to exist if it weren't for the toxicity. * You are expected to work everywhere in the venue (bar, floor, and kitchen) for the same salary. * The managers don't seem to realise that employees are working for minimum wage, yet they expect Michelin-level service. * Very understaffed almost every day. The venues are massive, and expecting only one person to close an entire floor or bar is simply unrealistic and unethical. * I was told during the interview process that complimentary food would be provided on every shift, only to be asked to pay for it a few weeks after being hired. I could write a book but these are the ones that stood out.
Pros
- If you like cardio, there might be a positive in the 22km I used to walk in a standard 10 hour Saturday shift. - IF you like working both floor, bar and kitchen because the labour spend is so low, you may find a positive. - I F you like being an electrical subcontractor, climbing and checking multiple lights in a SERIES to hopefully find the issue, placing ladders onto extremely slippery bowling lanes… scrap that, there are no positives to working at Roxy Lanes.
Kontras
- Isolated shifts due to tight social circles formed. - Constantly moving from one end of the venue to the other over 100m runs between the sides of the venue. - Machinery constantly breaking and not being fixed, but repaired enough to work again… for like a day or two. - For management roles, you will be expecting to run the shift with MAX another 2 members of staff to cover bar, floor, kitchen and the host desk, completely out of the realm of possibility. - If you are a woman, you WILL be sexually harassed by the customers. If you’re a man working there you WILL be sexually assaulted by the hen parties that go. - If all of this doesn’t turn you away from it. You will be subjected to insane levels of harassment, bullying, lies and rumours, I don’t think it appropriate to name the individual who does it. But they are not staff level, which brings a power dynamic issue to rise.