Re: Genie's interview
"Less interesting than dragons and about as likely to hurt you in some cases," he agreed, equally dry. He'd discovered that the hard way when he'd opened the club. Thankfully a lot of his original staff had far more experience than he did.
He nodded. "Mostly it's me, but there are a couple of other staff with supervisory roles who have permission to issue bans." He trusted most of his staff to make the decision by themselves really, and they all knew the guideline ban times, but in reality it was more practical for bans to be issued by only a small number of people so they could be kept track of.
"Oh! Excellent questions. I've got a breakdown of how tips are split somewhere if you want to see it, but the basics are that I take an absolute maximum of a galleon and it's weighted towards the bar staff but everyone does get a cut. Anyone who gets an exceptional tip gets to keep it outright if they'd like to." He glanced over to his desk, knowing the guidelines for both things were both in his top drawer. All the staff had to read and sign them when they joined the team.
"As for getting involved with either customers or co-workers... both are technically permitted providing you're not neglecting customers to flirt, and it's not going to cause problems if a relationship breaks up and so on. Some of the staff are in relationships, and breaking into those isn't going to make you look good, but otherwise the harassment rules apply to staff too, only the consequences are going to be losing your job on top of a ban," he said. "Incidentally that consequence also applies to discrimination against anyone in the LGBTQ community or because of blood status."
"Good choice. I encourage experimenting with flavours if you'd be willing to put them on the board as specials, but you've got to get them past the rest of the staff who want to try them first!" Usually there were enough of the staff willing to try drinks at the end of a shift to check them out before they went near the customers.