Questions and Answers about Lounges

You sit there while General Manager and Area Manager gush on how "great" Loungers is, and how you're lucky to be even considered a position!
They sell you the dream, and on your first day, it all comes crashing down like a house of cards the realisation just how much they sold you a dud!

Pay overtime.
Pay overtime.
Pay overtime.

Cut back on all the identikit social media people and invest more in your people on the front line, the patronising suggestions on how to take pictures for Instagram etc really do miss the mark when they are delivered by people who probably have no comprehension of a 70 hour week and people that are certainly paid more than the actual people running your sites.
Your GMs are what will make or break your retention levels not people that actually make your employees feel their hardwork is secondary to someone with no front line experience, just a degree in Instagram or twitter.

Be transparent and honest.
The 48 hour week really needs to get dropped from your job adverts...
Pay overtime, give lieu days... Treat loyal employees like the fabulous people they are. I've seen so maybe amazing people leave this company because they are overlooked, overworked and hugely under appreciated.

Pay overtime.

For managers you are contracted 48 hours a week. However, you will be expected to do every hour they can throw at you. You will not get paid for extra hours worked. You will be expected to start at 8am and finish at midnight or sometimes even later. Then come back in for 8am. You will be utterly exhausted. Will little time for breaks.

I do work two days and then do 48 hour over the course of five days

No not even close

Area managers with no concept of their job OTHER than to make money, and subsequently, get their bonus!
The pressure and stress you endure as an employee is of no consequence to them at all.

4 weekly
Even if your hourly or saleried

Individual tubes are used for each member of staff - can become competitive but in a fun way, not an agressive way

Possibly in the kitchen, as a pot washer maybe? but front of house would be 18 and over as it is bar work.

I'm 23, but saw staff who were about 18 working there.