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Speaker 1: Well, we know these are restricted or changes to the

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Speaker 1: opening hours for bottle shops coming to place today. No

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Speaker 1: longer will you be able to pop in at ten

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Speaker 1: o'clock this morning. In seven minutes time, you're not going

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Speaker 1: to be able to purchase your alcohol until midday today.

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Speaker 1: Now joining us on the line is John, who works

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Speaker 1: in a city bottle shop. Good morning to you, John.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Kating. Thanks for having me on here.

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Speaker 3: Thanks so much for your time.

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Speaker 1: Tell me what's the situation for you and the staff

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Speaker 1: at the bottle shop that you're in.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Thanks, So we're in the same sort of bracket

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Speaker 2: as whether we've just lost a whole bunch of our hours.

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Speaker 2: For me personally, it's quite a few. It's eight hours

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Speaker 2: a week, which, as we know, is a huge, huge

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Speaker 2: amount of our sort of pay week in week out.

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Speaker 3: It is like, this is the thing.

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Speaker 1: Eight hours a week is actually a huge hit tier

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Speaker 1: hip pocket.

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Speaker 3: What are other staff that you work with saying at this.

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Speaker 2: Point, Yeah, so, look, as you can Imaginatie, we're all

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Speaker 2: pretty frustrated having this, you know, sort of right before Christmas.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's been been a bit of a tough

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Speaker 2: year for all of us, you know, start of the year,

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Speaker 2: we had the depth of declan which affected all our

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Speaker 2: bottle shop workers. And now we've sort of, you know,

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Speaker 2: with the drop of a hat, we've had the rules

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Speaker 2: change on us, and you know, with a few of

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Speaker 2: our guys are looking at moving on or moving out

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Speaker 2: of the industry. You know, a lot of guys sort

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Speaker 2: of use this as a little bit of a top

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Speaker 2: up for their pay and they've double lost to half

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Speaker 2: those hours, so they'll they'll try and look for something

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Speaker 2: else elsewhere.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So do you reckon you will actually see some stuff,

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Speaker 1: you know, change jobs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, for sure. You know, it's hard to keep

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Speaker 2: people in our industry to begin with with the you know,

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Speaker 2: the things that we deal with, you know, day and

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Speaker 2: day out, you know, with the with the thefts and

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Speaker 2: and the aggression from individuals you know, trying to trying

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Speaker 2: to get their hands on our goal. And you know,

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Speaker 2: this is just another thing that just makes it even

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Speaker 2: harder to do our job.

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Speaker 3: John, Can that be a pretty scary situation at times?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, you know, we we were sort of fortunate

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Speaker 2: enough to have the security put on for twelve hours

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Speaker 2: a day, you know, earlier in the year. Yeah, that

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Speaker 2: sort of stopped, so we and most people or most

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Speaker 2: businesses sort of haven't kept that on because it's just

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Speaker 2: too too hard to do. And you know, during the

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Speaker 2: day there's no security guard. A lot of places there'll

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Speaker 2: be you know, only one worker by themselves. You know,

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Speaker 2: it makes it pretty scary at times. Sometimes you have

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Speaker 2: three or four people trying to come in and steal things,

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Speaker 2: or you know, act aggressively because of refusal of servers

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Speaker 2: and things like that. And you know, this week we

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Speaker 2: sort of lost another couple of hours, which makes it

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Speaker 2: makes you wonder whether it's worth staying in the industry.

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Speaker 1: I mean, do you think it's going to have an

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Speaker 1: impact as well operationally? I mean we've spoke to Waza

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Speaker 1: about this a little while ago in terms of your deliveries,

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Speaker 1: you know, your stock levels, all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: I guess you're just you know, you're going to be

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Speaker 1: forced to get all that work done in the hours

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Speaker 1: that you're able to open.

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Speaker 3: But is it going to have an impact?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it may makes things really difficult, particularly coming into

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Speaker 2: the busiest, busiest time of the year for us, Like

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Speaker 2: you know, reschedule or your deliveries, reschedule your staff, making

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Speaker 2: sure you get the right stuff one of the times

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Speaker 2: in order to do it as well, which makes it harder.

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Speaker 2: You know, when you're having to start later, they are

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Speaker 2: they still going to be there, They're still going to

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Speaker 2: be available, you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Look, it sounds like it's going to be tough.

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Speaker 1: And I feel for you guys that are working and

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Speaker 1: that you know that you're going to have your hours

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Speaker 1: impacted at a time as well where we all sort

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Speaker 1: of want to be able to, you know, to spend

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Speaker 1: that little bit of extra money on our families around Christmas.

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Speaker 3: So I feel for you guys.

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Speaker 1: And and you know, I'm going to be really interested

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Speaker 1: to see how this trial period actually works.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, you know, you're right, Katie. Like you know,

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Speaker 2: we do work hard, and we we sort of just

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Speaker 2: want a little bit of certain in your history, particularly

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Speaker 2: come into Christmas. You know, we're just like, you know,

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Speaker 2: we just want to have enough money come the end

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Speaker 2: of the year to you know, have a beer and

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Speaker 2: a hand with the family, and we're not too sure

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Speaker 2: we'll be able to do that now, So you know,

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Speaker 2: it's it's just it's just quite difficult.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, John, mate, I really appreciate you having a chat

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Speaker 1: with me this morning.

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Speaker 3: All the best and all the best to all your

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Speaker 3: work colleagues.

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Speaker 2: As well, no worries, Thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Mine