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Bar Puts Up A Brilliant Sign To Stop Female Workers From Being Harassed
When a female bartender is being nice to you, it’s because that’s what she’s being paid to do. It’s not because she’s uncontrollably attracted to you. But some customers at The Beer Cellar in Devon, UK, don’t quite understand this (because, you know, it’s so damn complicated), and so the bar has decided to put up a helpful sign to literally spell it out for them.
“We basically just printed it out after we had a very sex-pest heavy weekend about three months ago,” bartender Lauren Dew told Mashable. When asked about how the clientele have reacted to it, she said “people really laugh, people support it. One percent think it’s a bit offensive, which is funny to me because those are the people it’s aimed at.” The sign was created by Illustrator Charlotte Mullin, who said “I wanted to make it clear that female staff are nice to you because they have to be! And, of course, most of us are decent human beings and would be nice to you anyway, but in no way does this mean we’re dying for your dick.” Got the message yet guys? We sure hope so.
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“We…printed it out after we had a very sex-pest heavy weekend about 3 months ago,” said bartender Lauren
“People support it. 1% think it’s a bit offensive, which is funny because those are the people it’s aimed at”
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Ricky Couture 8 years ago
Although I absolutely support the message, I think it's bound to fall on deaf ears in the profession she's in. Men + Alcohol = Inappropriate. There's a reason that bartending is a lucrative profession for women, and that whole "being nice because it's my job thing" has a lot to do with recognizing that a lot of money can be had from men who think there's gold at the end of the rainbow, even if every right-thinking person in the world understands that's not reality. Just being real here -- if avoiding creepy men is your objective, bartending's probably not for you. Just sayin'.
Pest 8 years ago
It kinda happens in every job. When taking orders over the phone i hear everyday how beautiful i sound and can't i give my number/deliver the order myself (and sometimes more pervy stuff) by perfectly sober husbands and fathers and all i can do i laugh and be polite. Perhaps us women shouldn't leave the house at all and just get jobs where we work on computers where our sexual orientation is unknown so we don't get harassed by 'creepy men', and if we do it's our own fault for leaving the house right?
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Kaido Vesternin 8 years ago
Why the f**k would you kiss a random chicks hand? I mean. If you're wearing a bloody tuxedo and a top hat and the chick is your date to a Ball then sure, but a random bartender. No thanks, I'll stick to my beer.
Anna Brandigi 8 years ago
Guys that act like creeps and then start venting about good girls only wanting bad boys when you reject them 😍😩👅💦💦💯💯💯🔥 Screen-Sho...25-png.jpg 
Shortcut Panda 8 years ago
So this article goes both ways, if you are a customer and you are being nice and courteous. Most assume you are flirting.
person (i think) 8 years ago
Flirting is fine. Harassing is not. If you don't know the difference then you're doing it wrong (not you personally, Shortcut Panda; "you" in general).
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Wiktoria Urbaniak 8 years ago
I honestly think, there shouldn't be so much shouting and crying about it, in my country it is just showing u are well behaved, its a way men are showing their respect to a woman. Well it were so, these days almost nobody does that, just old people, but you know, if u are working where you interact with people, mostly men and one of them want's to kiss your hand, you just can say no, without cursing or offending anyone, just be nice and polite and just say no. Is it so hard? Remember you still can be nice and draw some line that people can't cross.
Master Markus 8 years ago
Hand-kissing? Weird. We... we don't really do that anymore. Maybe if you're at a fancy party meeting high-class people, but not just random ladies.
KateandAllison HW 8 years ago
Maybe in your part of the world you don't be I'm amazed the amount of men who try this...
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Jane The Killer 8 years ago
There are all these paragraph-to-essay length comments, so I'ma just add my single-sentence comment to try and help balance it out. Derp.
Nga Kieu 8 years ago
I feel sorry for those girls, some guys got too drunk and act creepy. flirting, asking for their #s. not all of them give good tips, some are cheap as hell. customers comes first, of course it's their job to be polite and chatty with them.
Gayle Bynum Cardosa 8 years ago
It's not just the guys that get drunk though. There are plenty that think a girl being friendly is an invitation to start getting a little too schmoozy. Guys that think a girl being friendly means she wants him to ask her out. It's a thing, trust me. It's a thing.
Load More Replies... Ricky Couture 8 years ago
Although I absolutely support the message, I think it's bound to fall on deaf ears in the profession she's in. Men + Alcohol = Inappropriate. There's a reason that bartending is a lucrative profession for women, and that whole "being nice because it's my job thing" has a lot to do with recognizing that a lot of money can be had from men who think there's gold at the end of the rainbow, even if every right-thinking person in the world understands that's not reality. Just being real here -- if avoiding creepy men is your objective, bartending's probably not for you. Just sayin'.
Pest 8 years ago
It kinda happens in every job. When taking orders over the phone i hear everyday how beautiful i sound and can't i give my number/deliver the order myself (and sometimes more pervy stuff) by perfectly sober husbands and fathers and all i can do i laugh and be polite. Perhaps us women shouldn't leave the house at all and just get jobs where we work on computers where our sexual orientation is unknown so we don't get harassed by 'creepy men', and if we do it's our own fault for leaving the house right?
Load More Replies... Kaido Vesternin 8 years ago
Why the f**k would you kiss a random chicks hand? I mean. If you're wearing a bloody tuxedo and a top hat and the chick is your date to a Ball then sure, but a random bartender. No thanks, I'll stick to my beer.
Anna Brandigi 8 years ago
Guys that act like creeps and then start venting about good girls only wanting bad boys when you reject them 😍😩👅💦💦💯💯💯🔥 Screen-Sho...25-png.jpg
Shortcut Panda 8 years ago
So this article goes both ways, if you are a customer and you are being nice and courteous. Most assume you are flirting.
person (i think) 8 years ago
Flirting is fine. Harassing is not. If you don't know the difference then you're doing it wrong (not you personally, Shortcut Panda; "you" in general).
Load More Replies... Wiktoria Urbaniak 8 years ago
I honestly think, there shouldn't be so much shouting and crying about it, in my country it is just showing u are well behaved, its a way men are showing their respect to a woman. Well it were so, these days almost nobody does that, just old people, but you know, if u are working where you interact with people, mostly men and one of them want's to kiss your hand, you just can say no, without cursing or offending anyone, just be nice and polite and just say no. Is it so hard? Remember you still can be nice and draw some line that people can't cross.
Master Markus 8 years ago
Hand-kissing? Weird. We... we don't really do that anymore. Maybe if you're at a fancy party meeting high-class people, but not just random ladies.
KateandAllison HW 8 years ago
Maybe in your part of the world you don't be I'm amazed the amount of men who try this...
Load More Replies... Jane The Killer 8 years ago
There are all these paragraph-to-essay length comments, so I'ma just add my single-sentence comment to try and help balance it out. Derp.
Nga Kieu 8 years ago
I feel sorry for those girls, some guys got too drunk and act creepy. flirting, asking for their #s. not all of them give good tips, some are cheap as hell. customers comes first, of course it's their job to be polite and chatty with them.
Gayle Bynum Cardosa 8 years ago
It's not just the guys that get drunk though. There are plenty that think a girl being friendly is an invitation to start getting a little too schmoozy. Guys that think a girl being friendly means she wants him to ask her out. It's a thing, trust me. It's a thing.
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