"I find the staff at Woollies very inviting friendly and all smile at me, go into any ALH hotels and it's as if the staff don't like you being there, they are so long faced. Even the managers, they walk around as if they just don't care, they don't even say hi, good morning...... Then again, are they paid enough, that is the question."

"Governments do care.
They care about the money they get from Pokies, they don't care how they get that money, they give tokenistic support to gambling help organisations as window dressing, but they could not give a rats about how many suicide or harm themselves, provided the till keep getting filled.
As long as the politicians get their subsidised perks and cheap grog plus their wages increased that is all they care about, anyone who actually thinks that Governments or Politicians give a hoot about how much harm Pokies do, are fooling themselves.
We can hammer away here till the cows come home, it wont make a skeric of difference to corrupt politicians, they rely on the revenue to help pay for their perks dont you know."

"I live near there and go there all the time. I see the same staff and they are happy."

"The RSL's staff just don't work the same as the staff in Hotels, if this sort of attitude continues in the RSL's they are doomed. management must take the blame for a lot of what is going on, my brother tells me they have so many shortages in the cash and stock it's not funny, and the management just laugh it off........Then again , if you have someone in St Kilda that is prepared to keep bailing you out, why worry....?"

"anybody know the menue for this place?"

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I view staff who work at these venues in the same way I view Parking Cops, Tax Inspectors and other lowly thought of individuals because they get a position where they are benefitting from the people who cannot help themselves and often go out of their way to ensure these people stay and spend more and are often falsely friendly towards them because they want them to keep coming back to often lose money they cnnot afford to lose.

The whole industry is total corruption, its a legalised scam and should be shut down, but we all know it wont be.

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