{"id":407919,"date":"2026-04-20T08:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/407919\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T08:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:08:09","slug":"dear-vicki-what-should-i-do-with-staff-who-say-thats-not-my-job-when-asked-to-do-side-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/407919\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Vicki: What should I do with staff who say \u2018that\u2019s not my job\u2019 when asked to do side-work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nHow can I enforce standards without my staff quitting?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Some staff are happy to muck in but others may need some encouragement. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages_2239535391.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Some staff are happy to muck in but others may need some encouragement. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Q: I run a small gastropub. Lately, whenever I ask my floor staff to help with basic &#8220;side-work\u201d \u2013 such as polishing cutlery or restocking the bar during a lull \u2013 I get sighs and \u201cthat\u2019s not really our job\u201d comments. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It feels like there\u2019s a growing sense of entitlement, with them wanting only the \u2018glamour\u2019 parts of the role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How can I enforce standards without my staff quitting? Some staff are happy to muck in but others&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,898,60422,128197,167146],"class_list":{"0":"post-407919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker","12":"tag-news-in-90-seconds","13":"tag-shp","14":"tag-signature-business-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}