It's a trend seen across Melbourne, which many haveThe pub with just one bartenderIn West Melbourne, on the edge of Melbourne's CBD, Stuart Gaunt runs McMahon's Hotel, a bar that sits below backpacker accommodation.
The publican hopes Melbourne is close to the peak of the Omicron wave, and things improve in the next few weeks. "The problem is at the moment they are paying out a lot of money in personal leave and on top of that they have clients who are cancelling their appointments." She said it meant that hairdresser paid a large amount of personal leave all at once, while also being unable to operate three of their four salons, to bring in revenue."Most small businesses work week-to-week.They rarely have a kitty of excess cash," she said.In Perth, in Western Australia, Grant Johnston is worried about the same issue, but on a much larger scale.
But now he has lost about 15 per cent of his own workforce outside of WA because of COVID-related reasons, with many of his staff members caring for partners or children who were also sick or isolating.
Ironic since they all probably wanted 'Let it rip' for those lockdowns earlier as well 🤬
Were these 4 business leaders in the pack screaming to open up asap? If so, they have exactly what they wanted.
That was everybody asking to open up back to 2021, here we go.
The pack loudly called for end to lockdowns freedoms & opening up for business as i recall. Now what?
Business? Pfft! They complained all through 2020 because they waned to open up, they couldn’t care less about people dying as long as they can make money. Now that we’ve opened up, they’re still not happy. Go to hell.
Yet ScoMo says 'get vaxed and life returns back to normal'. This country is spiralling deeper into the darkest manure.
Perhaps scaring the shit out of people might be a good idea. For starters we still do not have any real information regarding the deaths around covid, with or from etc. look to the uk and stats released by the ONS