The WORST Bottle-Os in Australia

[@friendlyjordies]

Which Google-Review cesspool should we crawl through next, what do you want to see the public's opinion on? Also, my Live Show is in Melbourne tonight. Plenty of other places soon too. TICKETS: www.friendlyjordies.com/live-show

[@nubnubthegreat8215]

Why are you Australian

[@thebignosedbaron]

why are you not@@nubnubthegreat8215 ?

[@eighth08]

Kebab shops

[@XxfuzzydragonxX]

@friendlyjordies As someone featured in this series, The Worst NUDE BEACHES in Australia 10min 29sec, I suggest Brothels, I know you already did strip clubs so this will be a good continuation on the series!

[@nubnubthegreat8215]

Also do game stores, only old people leave reviews on those places

[@phoenixsplash135]

"I am a leader in a large customer service based company" Dude is definitely a manager at Maccas

[@SufficientCrayon]

my thoughts exactly lol

[@louislang7590]

I was thinking a drug dealer to be honest

[@thelonelyshrub9340]

We need a bottle-O workers confess their sins

[@MentallyIll54]

Mhmmm

[@bergfruehling]

"Half of the time I tell customers it's cash only, half of the time I say we don't take cash".

[@Masterpugway]

I’ve worked to the bottle-o for 8 years and I sure do you have some sins

[@ryangosling3198]

as a dan murphys worker, no you do not

[@bigpapalu]

A group of young, smelly warhammer fucks came in the other day, wouldn't have been a problem if they weren't massive cunts. One didnt have their ID. It was sweetest refusal of service ive had in a long time. One called their dad (to tell on me?) and the dad told him he was a dickhead. Once a week this rude older man comes in for 4 bottles of Guinness. He knows where they are, he's able bodied, he's just fucking lazy. Anyway every week I sell this guy 4 shaken up bottles of Guinness and every week he comes back. I think he just thinks thats how they come.

[@thelonelyshrub9340]

Worked in Fitzroy, one night we had a massively fat man come in, like you could feel him coming like the T-Rex in Jurassic park. He was obviously very drunk so we told him he couldn't be served, he then proceeds to incoherently start yelling at us, so we go to escort out the door...only to realise he's shat himself in the middle of the room. We manage to get him out the door whilst trying not to gag. We watch him from in the store as he stumbles around outside for a bit before falling over backwards and cracking his head on the bike racks, I'm pretty sure there was a seismic shake when he hit the ground. We run out to check on him and he's out cold and bleeding on the ground, call 000 and an ambo rocks up within a couple of min. Only problem is he's so massive that they can't get him on a stretcher, so they call for assistance and a police car rocks up...and two small women get out, they try to get him on, no good. So another police car rocks up this time and man and a woman and even then they couldn't get him on, eventually another cop car comes with two big male officers and they can finally get him into the back of the ambo. Never heard what happened to him, but there's still a blood and shit stain on the footpath by the bike racks.

[@phoenixrising7047]

They truly have a shit occupation don't they. Thanks for your service.

[@ikonic_artworks]

Damn that's sad actually

[@lokelaufeyson9931]

6 police officers (including 2 strong gym guys) and 2 ambulance staff for one dude? If there is a sign that you need to change your life that is one..

[@silverstorm1000]

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[@Chicanery_Artifice]

@@lokelaufeyson9931 i imagine if the 2 big guys had arrived first they wouldn't've had to wait for 4 more people.

[@the_black_douglas9041]

In 1985 I worked at Australia’s highest turnover bottlo, Liquorland Drive Thru at St Ives. Our manager didn’t give a fuq so we used to write the discount signs ourselves, e.g. “Baileys Irish Cream, $18.99. It’s as Irish as bombing Mountbatten.” Anyone cheeky to staff on the driveway would have the sh17 shaken out of their slab in the coolroom.

[@dafuzzbear7711]

Genuinely sounds like one of the best places to work

[@the_black_douglas9041]

@@dafuzzbear7711 mate, it was a fuqqing three ring circus! I have stories…

[@danielcorrea3471]

LOL that sounds amazing. Would laugh my ass off everyday, I bet

[@mikespike2099]

Most Bottle Shop workers I have come across are either Indian or Aussies who look like they are on something …. 😅

[@phoenixrising7047]

​@@the_black_douglas9041Go on....

[@thesnowwolf1114]

Fun Fact. When a liquour shop closes in Australia they have to close on time and not serve ANYONE due to liqour liscencing laws. So being strict on the closing time is VERY important.

[@bluespidergaming7719]

betchu he was gonna browse for like 10 min after coming in 2 min till close

[@KlausBahnhof]

@@bluespidergaming7719 Those people are the absolute worst. The type who give you a blank stare when you mention that they only have two minutes.

[@Tonymarony5113]

I'm drunk and crazy. Fuck dominos.

[@MrJonyish]

The fact the person using “bye” as buy and “stare” as star uses “alienated” perfectly is a mystery!

[@RobotSocialist]

I love the name Liquorland. It sounds magical. The Beer Store is too clinical.

[@suprememillipede4713]

Their rebrand completely understates the name

[@ASpaceOstrich]

Some say if you reach far enough back in the outside fridge you'll find yourself in the woods with a lamppost ahead of you. The magical realm of liquorland.

[@lightfoot.2000]

Codys! Court case in a can! 😅

[@elemenopycuaress7454]

As someone who used to be a store manager for Liquorland and has since resigned, being "too clinical" is the least of their problems. That company is a dead end for anyone with any moral virtue; head office culture is the most toxic thing I've ever experienced, and that's coming from someone who's dated three people with BPD. Fuck Coles.

[@vihmaussivenitaja]

Valparaiso, Chile has an alcohol store named Mr. Drunk. I went in hoping to talk to the owner himself, but Mr Drunk wasn't there, disappointment :( I did buy a 1.5 liter bottle of cheap Carmenere and drank it on the stairs of Cerro Bellavista while talking to stray dogs, so it was all fine in the end. Four stars, and hello to the dog named Oso or Bob, depending on who you ask, he's adorable.

[@Brinydeep666]

Until you’ve run a bottleshop in Alice Springs for 3 years you don’t know what a bad bottleshop is. Lol

[@watsisbuttndo829]

Sweet baby jesus! 3 years of that! Respect!

[@JAK3ELEFANTSAMUEL]

I know exactly what you mean hectic up there

[@squizmasterzero9342]

Lol yeah I did it in Katherine for two years and that was enough for me

[@mathewdeering]

Went there a few years ago - hectic man - every bottlo had a police escort out the front.

[@shovethatupyaNSmokeit]

3 years, 500 break ins, 12 armed robberies, $1.5million in insurance claims and 3 hospital trips later. I stil have to ask, why did you quit?

[@jordanmckay6348]

young bloke gave us a 1 star review because the manager thought his ID was fake, proceeded to write that he was being stereotyped (he was a white man, however he was ginger). worth a read - BWS Geelong West

[@jamesatherton1853]

"I’ve been to dozens of shops to attain alcohol and never have I ever been rendered mute to such extent" - sounds like a weirdo lol

[@lokelaufeyson9931]

he was ginger so he was "special" .. dont hurt the poor snowflakes, they break so easy. Did he get hes ginger ale?

[@douglassmithe9799]

He was ginger? Racism against the Irish is back, and can I say it's about damn time.

[@lokelaufeyson9931]

@@douglassmithe9799 dont talk bad about the irish people O.O They are the best people on the earth and in the universe.

[@sorntrash]

We got a 1 star because we operate in a dry area with strict rules on alcohol. As if we dictate what the government does in regards to the liquor laws. 😂

[@daniels5709]

The worst BWS bottle O story I have ever heard was about 6 months ago when a young staff member (i think he was 18) refused a sale to an aboriginal man that was banned from buying alcohol ( the NT has a banned drinkers register ,comes up when they scan your ID ) anyway this bloke decided that being told no was so bad he waited the 10 minutes or so till close, followed the young worker to his car and stabbed him to death. His name was Declan Laverty. Now thats got to be the worst thing thats ever happened to anybody at a bottle’O Cash or no cash situations considered.

[@kanelowrey5172]

That story makes me so sad. Had his whole life ahead of him and was taken away. RIP Declan Laverty.

[@jameskelleher4281]

I just read up on this story, seriously messed up. No wonder they have such strict laws. Rest in peace to Declan Laverty.

[@iris4547]

thats the uncivilised aboriginal for you. and they wonder why so many of them are in prison?

[@braydeno4189]

I remember my housemate who's a manager at BWS going on about that. Absolutely wild.

[@Kianiji18]

While it is the worst story I've heard (I'm a former BWSer) regarding bottlo's, he wasn't followed to his car. It happened in the store. It was on CCTV.

[@cameronnield9936]

I work at a BWS and the wildest story I have is a crazy homeless man came in with a pair of scissors and nearly stabbed me with them but didn’t only because “I was a true Australian”. Talk about a weird day at work

[@silverstorm1000]

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[@sorntrash]

Reminds me of the poor bloke that got stabbed earlier this year at a BWS in Darwin. A little too close to home.

[@dapsychokilla]

dont say that, he'll read this and come back to finish the job

[@justthatkingpin]

The unfortunately racist things you hear working in a bottle o and just having to smile to get them to leave 😅

[@TagetesAlkesta]

I feel like I’m peering into an exclusive club watching these Australia videos. Like these are Australian videos made by an Australian dude for an Australian audience, and yet here I am watching them in Montana USA. I didn’t even know what a Bottle-O was before I clicked on this video lol

[@dapsychokilla]

i feel the opposite way about american stuff made by americans for americans.

[@angelroar883]

Oh, Australia has an Australian audience Every day - just beware of your surroundings every time you go out and you'll see a story 🙃

[@Snoop_Dugg]

Superwogs, Mychonny, Ramzaes, EconomicsExplained, Internet Historian are some other good Aussie creators from back in the day if you're interested.

[@zenosyeetgalvus]

As an Aussie, Costco and Walmart are basically Disneyland to me so Hi American!!! 8D

[@adrianprice7959]

I stupidly started working at a bottleo at 21 when I had no idea what to do and got stuck there until I was 30. 9 years just disappeared. Easy as piss job, working in aircon, good exercise but your back gets cooked from constant lifting and walking on hard concrete floor. When I went to work in the city at 30 i realised why on earth did i stay there so long hahah. Was character building but I would probably own a house by now and be about $500k better off. It pays peanuts, funnily enough it gave me thick skin, great customer service and sales skills and really good interpersonal skills as well. So wasn't all bad lol - also got free piss occasionally and one time I found $50 on the ground lol.

[@sentinelav]

Worked in a Langwarrin Bottlemart in Langwarrin when I was 19. It was a solid place, the owner knew his shit and there wasn't anything dodgy going on between staff. What was dodgy, was some of the regulars. There was one old fella in particular who was always ready to spin a yarn about fishing or 'the ladies', like he was trying to impress the boys at a college party, even though he was in his 70s and clearly in spurious control of his remaining faculties. He would drop in regularly for a VB longneck traveller, but one fateful arvo he made a blunder from which a return to simple g'day g'days was impossible. The store had a TV tucked into the top corner opposite the counter that would play music videos from one of those Foxtel channels for rich cunts. He'd just sauntered in wearing his trademark wifebeater coloured an orange that was uncomfortable distinguish in tone from his skin, and was clearly ready to show us young fellas that he hadn't lost touch with the bants. He walked over to the TV, eyeing the currently playing music video at point blank range of a female dancer in a house. After a few seconds, he looked over at us, clearly ready to drop a banger, and loudly announced - "Gee! I'd fuckin have a go at her ay?" The music video was for Chandelier by Sia. I'm not going to spoil the surprise if you haven't seen it already. My coworker's and my jaw dropped, I let out an audible "UUUUHHH", my brain unable to compromise its way to the formation of a single word, while my counterpart yelled "UH, mate, she's fucking 12!?" Old mate's response was a started "fuckin what?" as his head snapped back to the telly fast enough to cause soft-tissue damage. As the terrible truth dawned on him, a profound panic swept across his face, eyes wide as he repeatedly grunted "AW"s and "NAH"s in a frenzied fugue state of shameful confusion. Eventually, enough of his senses conspired to form the lucid decision to fucking leave quickly. The building entirely left his awareness as he glide-stumbled out of the door like something hungry was pursuing him. He never returned.

[@sudoertor2009]

That smirnoff in a bottle of water is hilarious cause I've actually done that to smuggle it into pubs lol. Almost died from alcohol poisoning one night i did that cause my colleagues whom i was drinking with cut off my alcohol but left me with the vodka bottles. Interestingly enough i got laid by this chick i liked, got carried to a maccas after the pub found the vodka, threw up in the bathroom, got found by cops, almost caused a scene when i realised my colleague had my wallet and was worried about my firearms licence (Apparently i kept forgetting to say licence.) and then was sent to hospital in an ambulance. Night was 11/10.

[@lokelaufeyson9931]

it was a good night out with the lads i see :) I hope you got your firearms (license) back.

[@sudoertor2009]

@lokelaufeyson9931 yea, it turned out that one of my colleagues took the wallet to talk to the police or something. Oh, in case you're curious about me and the chick, it turned out that I'd told her that I was intoxicated and that I wouldn't remember us doing each other. Long story short, I forget, she tries bragging to other chicks we both work with about the great sex, I'm genuinely confused, so she doesn't talk to me much afterwards and changed departments cause it was too hard her having to work in the same area. By this point, I vaguely remember, but I'm still really confused. Oh, there was a rumour that circulated a while after that I'd gotten her pregnant, but she aborted it. So yea, definitely a good night. Even got the seal approval from some Americans I worked with whom complained that Aussies don't party hard enough.

[@lokelaufeyson9931]

@@sudoertor2009 the aftermath and the memory loss is normal :) When you party hard you have to accept that people will troll you with rumors and stories and confuse you, its the price you pay for fun :) Congratulations to the approval of the party level, i got a similar approval from a friend that said "i speak very good english while im half dead drunk" (i did drink half a bottle of whiskey or more while we were playing online). Im not a english local.

[@sudoertor2009]

@lokelaufeyson9931 they did try a few rumours, but I tend to believe the one about the pregnancy because it would explain a lot. She did have a growing belly and left the abortion right up until the legal limit based on the apparent size. I don't know if she wanted me to talk about it with her? But I only was aware of it well afterwards. If she'd kept it and told me about it I'd definitely of stepped up if it was definitely mine, as I low key needed a kick up the ass to get me out of the grove I was stuck in, that and I want to have children some day. But like I said, she never mentioned it despite me trying to talk to her and her avoiding me. Oh, and a mutual female friend stopped talking to me around the time I would guess the abortion would have occurred. Hence why I suspect the rumours were true.

[@lokelaufeyson9931]

@@sudoertor2009 the important part was that you were ready to take responsibility if she kept it and its was true. We all make mistakes and we can only step up to meet the challenge, it was a fun party though so i know that you have some good memories of it :)

[@skilletmccluskowskie389]

Man I just walked out of a bottle-o in melbourne, a young lady was threatening to end her life with a big rock (that she pulled out of her purse) if she wasn't allowed to leave with the bottle of little fat lamb she was in the process of stealing. Owner had a big wooden stick. Classic stuff

[@silverstorm1000]

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[@Chowdonut]

caveman discourse

[@KlausBahnhof]

@@Chowdonut 😂

[@ethmanolboy6816]

I work at a BWS and ive got some wild stories, especially working the city. We're talking casual death threats, people stealing 10 packs and cartons without even hiding it, and sometimes just really interesting characters. Everyday i go home and im more then likely to have a short story to tell. Its great, never a boring day

[@TheEternalRebellion]

I feel this. My store has a guy who comes in literally every two days and takes at least two ten packs and there's nothing we can do about it.

[@KlausBahnhof]

Oh, the casual death threats are charming. I had one once because I refused to exchange coins for a $5 note for an obnoxious drug addict lady. Fun times.

[@Elurra777]

From experience of working in a bottleshop owned by Coles, we don't get breaks unless we work over 6 hours, so often have to try and sneakily eat food behind the counter as we're on our own

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

Liquor land?😂

[@talinwarhaft--thu]

huh? i was always told to take a 15 minute break on any shift, in addition to any meal breaks. it's in the eba variation form. are you in nsw?

[@lawdpleasehelpmeno]

My Smirnoff memories are the obscene amounts of under 18 girls from my school who had to have their stomach pumped due to Smirnoff consumption at house parties in the bush.

[@haydenhall4541]

I pretty much can't drink anything lemon flavoured anymore from the obscene amount of double blacks my friends and I consumed from 16-19 😂

[@lokelaufeyson9931]

have been doing a lot of stupid stuff while drunk but i have never managed to be stomach pumped .. maybe i drink too smart?

[@sorntrash]

I’ve only ever had to put 2 mates in the recovery position while waiting for the ambos thank god.

[@nrgbunni.]

​@lokelaufeyson9931 I drank copious amounts when I was younger (we're talking 2 bottles of vodka in 1 night on a weekend) and I never needed to go to hospital to get my stomach pumped after all if you drink too much your stomach pumps itself 🤮

[@lokelaufeyson9931]

@@nrgbunni. its a self balancing process.. but what have been absorbed will be there,,

[@abc123456582]

Bloke came into the bottleo I work at with his entire ass out, said he lost his draw string. Just stumbled in cheeks on display, walked the entire store before pulling them up. Still served him tho, good bloke

[@FarangBish]

Legend for serving him

[@silverstorm1000]

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[@KlausBahnhof]

For some reason that reminds me that we had a guy walking around on a severely broken leg one night. The lower part of his leg was jutting out at a 45 degree angle. He didn't appear to be in any physical pain (!?) and was using one crutch, but dropped it when he tried to find his wallet, and it turned out that he didn't have money anyway. At the very same moment, I was approached by a young woman in her 30's who'd had so much unnecessary plastic surgery that she looked like a CGI animated character (no joke). I struggled to answer her due to the shock. My workmate proclaimed: "it's a fucken' freakshow in here tonight!"

[@darrenhepe1189]

Did a Mt Barney hike once (9 hours, 16km, 1200m elevation gain), then after walked into the Browns Plains Liquorland afterwards, or more accurately, limped, swayed, and had trouble staying upright because my legs and feet were very sore. The lady behind the counter takes one look at me and says "I'm sorry sir, we cannot serve intoxicated people". I replied "I'm not intoxicated, I just went on a hard hike and my legs and feet are sore" and after a long pause, in a voice that says she has heard literally every excuse under the sun she simply says "......sure"

[@sorntrash]

She probably has. 😂

[@jiahthehuman1853]

Worked at a drivethru Liquorland in the Sunshine Coast and we had these crackheads that lived in the park next to us who use to cruise through and buy a longneck of northern whenever they could. Anyway, one time one of them came through the main shop area with a crackpipe hanging from his mouth and I said to him "hey man, can you just put that away please?" Immediately he snapped back that "He's been coming to this bottleo since he was 14 and no one had any problems with it!" And I was like oh. Okay no worries then. We also had a lady we called "Brandy lady" because she used to come through every morning and wait for the doors to open to buy her little bottle of cheap brandy. I have about a million stories from that place.

[@silverstorm1000]

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[@KlausBahnhof]

"Brandy Lady" is a cute one. "The Goon Guy" "Passion Pop Guy" ...the possibilities are endless.

[@adrianprice7959]

We had a bloke come in ever few days buying bottles of vodka. im convined he was trying to drink himself to death, he looked Ashy white and more and more sickly, but it was years he was doing this. I worked there 9 years!

[@Ciarnyn]

You just reminded me that Becker exists and somehow knocked more childhood memories back into me than 5 years of therapy ever has.

[@darianmartin441]

As a BWS employee I can say for sure that the size and visibility of a sign has no effect on how many people comprehend what it says

[@spiritlevelstudios]

When everything is a sign, nothing's a sign.

[@sokar_rostau]

Totally unrelated to booze but a bit over 20 years ago, I bought an almost 100 year old 25-volume set of history books from Lifeline. There was a big sign on the table with a few handwritten sentences about the set and a price of $600 (for anyone that doesn't know Lifeline, it's a charity shop) but because there was a 50% off sale someone had added $300 to the bottom of the sign. I was in a position where I couldn't actually afford it but could just manage it if I borrowed about $50 and didn't eat for a week, so I went to the local used book dealer, told her about the set, and asked her if she thought it was worth me buying. Her eyes lit up like a Christmas tree. This woman had been running the book shop for decades and it was unusual in originally being located next to a popular pub and closing at around 10pm every night. She was a really nice lady but she was also well-known to be an unscrupulous second-hand dealer, so when she hesitated and said that it was a really good price but if I can't afford it I should give it a miss, I knew what I had to do. I went straight back to Lifeline to ask them to put the books aside for me while I rounded up some cash because it was a bit much. Standing next to the books and the big sign, which said $600 and $300, I was cheerfully informed that they were having a 50% off sale, so it was only $150. I reflexively went to correct her but bit my tongue and pretended I didn't know. A quick trip to the ATM later, I was trying to figure out how to get 25 very large books home on the bus (it took three trips). I didn't yet have internet at home, so it was a few months before I searched those books for myself at a cafe. Prices for my 1908 edition of the set ranged up to $2500, with sets in far worse condition than mine selling for well over $1000. The best deal ever all because someone looked at the bottom of the sign, where it said $300, instead of looking at the top where it said $600. Currently, the books are no more than 3 metres away from me. It's a fantastic resource for comparing how views of history have changed but even more fascinating are the contemporary discussions of then-recent events that would spiral into WWI only six years later, or describing the Russo-Japanese War as "the first Great War of the 20th century".

[@Erikwalters04]

I got a juicy story from working in a BWS in Sydney. We had this customer that would come in, you can imagine the type. He is very old, probably homeless, only buys longnecks and smells like piss. One day he comes in more pissed than usual and buys his longnecks, after he leaves we notice a puddle in front of the counter, little did we know this man had just taken a piss in the store right in front of us. Obviously we were like holy what in the Kentucky fried fuck, we shouldn't let him back, so we tell the manager and he REFUSES TO BAN HIM. After that incident some of us just flat out refuse him service anyway when he comes in but one day when came in again I was feeling generous and decided to serve him again. After he left the smell of piss was high in the air once again and a customer that was in line behind him said "I think he pissed on the floor", i must've made a horrified face because she asked if i was ok, felt like i was having Nam flashbacks. After cleaning that up along with the stream he had going to the door and outside i messaged my manager begging to ban him, my manager then informed me about a week later that he won't be rostering me alone or with other people that won't serve him because of "discrimination" and told me that it was very rude of me to not want to serve him. I told him i'm not paid to clean up human waste, this had no affect. Moral of the story, piss in all the stores you want they won't do shit.

[@silverstorm1000]

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[@sorntrash]

Yea i had a manager that refused to ban a whole bunch of people cause he was more worried about what the community would say about it. They never worked past 5pm so they never experienced all the verbal abuse we received from the drunks we refused service to. We couldn’t even ban a known alcoholic. What’s the point of holding an RSA when the managers don’t even care about serving alcohol responsibly?

[@Erikwalters04]

@@sorntrash yeah i thought about going over my managers head and mentioning that it's an RSA issue cause that'll freak the corpos out

[@KlausBahnhof]

Argh, shit man. That's classic spineless BWS management for you. We had a massive photo album of banned shoplifters and deranged types which was quite effective. Then a new manager took over and disregarded that system, and slowly but surely every single fuckwit who had given up trying to enter our store began to visit regularly again. The manager knew that people were stealing but he wouldn't take action. I also watched him serve highly intoxicated people, which I challenged once: "That guy was wasted" "He's not wasted, he's on heroin" ...I was speechless.

[@s1ckboirari]

Nice to see Jordan help give smaller up and coming artists like Snoop Dogg a chance at his true passion, voice acting for commercials. A++

[@sirspongadoodle]

Such a nice guy

[@Budginut]

Just a story of a great (business model) bottle-o. The Woolies in Katherine, Northern Territory. One day I commented on the pallet of cask white wine, "Lady in a boat" as the locals called it. He said they sold a pallet every two days. Man, Katherine likes her white wine!! Especially the fact you can take it out of the box and heat it in the sun, gets us drunker quicker that way...

[@xDMG15x]

That manager who is a leader in customer service is for sure a team leader selling foxtel door to door.

[@rollei35mm]

I work at a first choice and we had a guy who wasnt homeless but would come in everyday (upto 5 times) and buy the second cheapest bottle of Chardonnay. I was honestly impressed at how he could drink so much. He was an asshole though.

[@Shiestey]

Alcoholism does that to ya lol. Back before I quit booze the liquor store owner knew me by name. I knew I needed to quit when I came in every day that week and 3 times in one day and he just hands me a sleeve of minis and goes “nobody likes these but you will” knowing I drank the worst cheapest liquor I could find. I wanted to be offended but I was just happy for getting free booze

[@rollei35mm]

@@Shiestey yeah it's bad, I initially I was worried, wanted to bar him for his safety, but then he would drive so I was a bit confused. Luckily he hasn't come in a few months so I hope he has changed.

[@drpibisback7680]

The "second cheapest" is the really curious part to me. Obviously someone buying that much liquor is an alcoholic, but I wouldn't expect an alcoholic to have high enough standards to go for the second-cheapest. Was the cheapest just really that bad?

[@rollei35mm]

@@drpibisback7680 not sure it's was $3.50 vs $5.50 I guess it must of actually been so hard to drink

[@Qb3nsis]

2:35 Food industry here, they give the time in their review because they think they're reporting to some ghost manager who will look at the time sheets and get the employee in trouble. Class act.

[@robinharwood5044]

Interesting change in meaning of “bottle-o”. When I was a boy in Adelaide, a bottle-o was a bloke who drove a horse wagon or a dilapidated truck around the suburbs and collected beer bottles (West End) and lemonade bottles (Woodroofe) from householders who didn’t want to return them to the brewery themselves. He would pay slightly less than he received from the brewery. He would shout out “bottle o” as he drove down the street. Hence the name.

[@Driolo95]

My dad has been an independent owner of a Bottle-O in Canberra for over 10 years now, and I have managed the place for about the same time. I hate to disappoint but we’ve never had a proper issue, a couple of petty thefts but no actual threats or anything. We have a great loyal customer base that we’ve known for years. So much so the local welding and woodwork companies built together some chairs and benches and shade for anyone to have a beer at a big grass floodway behind the shop. Every Friday arvo theres always a bunch of tradies having a beer from us and having a good time. Cops occasionally set up RBT’s at all exits, as you would expect, but they mostly don’t care because there has never been a problem. Everyone just gets along.

[@NGHcosplayers]

Now that's the Australian dream right there

[@Driolo95]

@@NGHcosplayers Great bunch of blokes too stories for days

[@dama301]

Great stuff

[@piratebear3126]

So I work retail in the US and we just had the time change, which if you’re not American means 48/50 of our states had a 25 hour day to mess with timing of daylight. Guy came in complaining that we didn’t open until 9 that morning, at 8:30 in the morning. The closing 2 minutes early story reminded me of that, and yes we close 3 minutes before “close” to the minute too.

[@henrysymes]

“If you don’t have a tattoo of a snake then you don’t have what it takes - simple as a chicken schnitzel.”

[@noelzy7839]

Can we get a Worst Bunnings Warehouses in Australia ?

[@ld5382]

And a Bunnings workers confess their sins (mainly because I got some stories)

[@noelzy7839]

@ld5382 Too right. I've got a couple myself.

[@silverstorm1000]

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[@TheEternalRebellion]

The reviewers calling out BWS for "not accepting cash" were probably just at a store with a glory safe instead of a traditional till. All they need to do is put the money in themselves. Seriously, if a store has a history of hold-ups, they're not allowed to directly handle cash. The amount of times I've had to explain this to people is mind-numbing.

[@xkd495]

Was anyone still actually drinking smirnoff by 18? I grew out of it before i could legally drink it

[@artemisiakyrell7727]

lmao me too

[@iris4547]

its a chick thing right? ive probably had smirnoff double black like twice in my life?

[@amb1u5]

Don't see why considering double blacks are one of the strongest premixes next to -196

[@artemisiakyrell7727]

@@iris4547 I mean I'm a chick & I've only ever met 1 girl who's ever liked the stuff. Who knows what the deal is

[@lokelaufeyson9931]

smirnoff is nice when you drink one but after 3-5 it gets bad.. sugary bad

[@miti8523]

The saddest is when you serve a regular and their skin is completely yellowed from liver failure. We aren’t doctors and can’t refuse service based on a perceived medical condition, but fuck it’s sad.

[@joewow1229]

The funniest thing about BWS work is the amount of people who go "It's gone up again!?" then continue the transaction. Some rattle on but they are going to drink themselves into a coma regardless of the pay hit.

[@lyndsayeverett3095]

The amount of middle aged men who will yell at a teenaged bottle-o worker when the price of a case of beer goes up is staggering. I don't set the prices mate, calm tf down.

[@joewow1229]

@@lyndsayeverett3095 middle aged white dudes also the highest percentage of our thefts too. I'm a white dude come at me

[@samreid6010]

8:17 now correct me if I’m wrong, but currency is already controlled by the government. There’s a treasury and everything

[@mpk33]

Worst Jehovah Witness encounters would be holy sick.

[@friendlyjordies]

Which Google-Review cesspool should we crawl through next? What do you want to hear the public's opinion on? ALSO, my show is in Melbourne tonight and plenty of other places soon. TICKETS: www.friendlyjordies.com/live-show

[@aaronbennett2538]

jb hifi - we cop it heaps hey

[@CHCCHCCHCCHC]

Std clinic👁️👄👁️

[@jb-br8bf]

JB or EB. They’ve gotta have some horrific g*mer 🤮🤮🤮 stories.

[@_letstartariot]

I was a a bar connected to a bottle-o that does not exist anymore on Franklin St in Melbourne. The bar looks directly into the bottle-o. I’m standing at the bar drinking cider with co-workers. A big guy walks into the bottle-o and the girl working there says hi. The guy suddenly lunged at the register and tried to rip it off of the counter. He is using all of his strength, but it’s bolted to the counter. He keeps trying, the girl starts screaming and then a bunch of patron men in the bar jump over the bar and run into the bottle-o, knock him down and pin him to the ground. The employees there did nothing except call the police. The security guard did nothing. They remain like that while the police are called and come. They arrest him. This all happened whilst I stood there sipping my cider, front row seats. It was live entertainment & it has stuck with me for nearly a decade now. What a useless security guard.

[@WhatIsTheHeat]

8:36 "Where all currency is digital and controlled by the government" Is currency not controlled by the government? (technically also the RBA)

[@bumpygang737]

cash can't be controlled well and banks control digital currency at the moment and usually don't have to cooperate with the government

[@brokenman58]

8:30 If Shanks thinks going to digital WON'T be used by the government to freeze your assets or anything else, he has ignored how governments have been slowly taking more control of everyone's life for over 100 years and might need to go back to school for a bit.

[@chickenlittle5095]

The police station review regarding the penguin police makes me giggle every time!!! Between my son and I we have watched that at least 30 times 😂

[@BobB-bu1wk]

I once had a bottle-O server in Katoomba ask me if i needed a bag OR if i had ID

[@JimmahRL]

Please do a 'The WORST charcoal chicken shops in Australia'. Some absolute beltas out there.

[@Technickcall]

Gotta love that first guy calling the bottle store lazy but leaving it to 2 minutes before the place closes to buy his piss

[@CiviGG]

i got called an unaustralian cunt once by a bloke because i'd "shut the store on him" even though I'd closed on-time (i actually closed a minute late because i'd just finished serving a customer that wanted to fucking chat) and he showed up 10 minutes after our closing time (which, like every other fucking store in the country, was written on the door)

[@KlausBahnhof]

Classic entitlement.

[@skoosc]

Can confirm, shmirnof's were the drink for when we were 15

[@fergusporteous-gregory2557]

In NZ mainly Cody's or billy mavs

[@lachieh]

please do a bottlo stories episode, I have so many from work of people stealing either 0% alcohol or wine with corks and coming back very sheepishly

[@grumpyoldman-21]

lol mine had a guy die with a heart attack while in the drive thru, the cops showed up only to see if he had paid for his carton, which they promptly confiscated and left

[@Low-effort-individual]

You know what I see no issue here comedy gold 😂

[@grumpyoldman-21]

@@Low-effort-individual there's more stories, but then you could track down where i live (the info is easily accessible with it's location on the internet)

[@thanhool]

Your original bottle-o video is my favorite. It always cheers me up. "Snake charmer! Snake charmer!"

[@florpeacockraven65]

As someone that basically grew up in a liquor store because my dad is a cashier there. Omg some ppl are just crazy, we had this one lady run over the mailboxes at 8am drunk and saying that she needs to pick up her kids. She got arrested ASAP.

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

Bottle-Os is Australia's 7/11

[@jetsurge250]

Australia has 7/11

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

​@@jetsurge250everyone has 7/11, It's inescapable

[@samhianblackmoon]

💀

[@matty_isthemotto]

7/11 is Australia's 7/11

[@creativename724]

As an American, I assumed it was a cereal tbh lol

[@tiffanycameron2480]

I just got back from the states and a man in LA shut down an entire fuel station by messing with the safety mechanisms because they wouldn't sell him beer at 4am

[@Wagon_Lord]

I like to imagine that the guy at 8:00 intentionally wrote stare. He would've stared more but they were nice.

[@bruhspenning]

I don't understand why alcoholics stay in Australia, in Belgium beer and wine is legal from 16 and hard liquor can be bought in all supermarkets and corner shop for the same price as in liquor stores.

[@thegatorhator6822]

Forget Bottle-os, Coles regularly shuts 15 minutes early where I live. went without dinner a few nights after work until I finally made a habit of having sure to have something emergency frozen in the freezer.

[@PropheticShadeZ]

That's really sad man

[@thegatorhator6822]

@@PropheticShadeZ i know right?

[@gingerbeardmatt]

The worst bottle-o's in Aus are any bottle-o's owned by Coles or Woolies. Independents have the best range, the best service and the best prices. They'll also go out of their way to chase up requests. Good luck getting that from your conglomerate bottle-os.

[@nathenbutcool]

The AI Snoop Dogg voice could not have aged better

[@JamesSmith-xk1fb]

Red wine in a fridge is a 5 star review for one star. Pull your head in

[@CiviGG]

depends on the wine and how hot the weather is, pinot noir in summer, totally acceptable.

[@CaptCorgi]

Okay, As someone who works retail, no one should fucking care about brining in a dog small enough to carry, If you can carry it, And it does not make noise, The store does not care

[@OB.x]

:'( there will never be a bruz tour in dallas. :'( Also in TX, you Bottle-os (liqour shops) also close at 9 on the shop. You can buy up to the minute, because they need to be precise. It's all logged, if the register rings anything up after 9, they're in trouble. The people I've seen waiting in line at 8:59, only to be like "sorry, we're closed", and flip out, is pretty funny.

[@WilliamHollister]

The Hallmark of a comedic disposition: Jordie: "I won't do a poll because I'm worried I've done too many" Jordie: "You know what? Screw you Mr Strawman-I-Made-Up. POLL TIME!" Why does that always crack me up 😂

[@AKK5I]

Glad the bottle o company I work for isn't even mentioned in this video

[@de-ment]

"It's like a naughty lemonade!" hits so close for someone whose first favourite mix was a moscow mule... damn, it was smirnoff too!

[@Howie672]

Wow, I know a lady BWS sacked because a wild customer was smashing up the shop and she ran out of the store from fear. BWS policy is staff can’t step out of the store or be dismissed. Difference to your contributor.

[@TheNulligravida]

Now there's an unfair dismissal case that should have been tested.

[@dommycool100]

01:47 Being in the military and also being very dependant on alcohol are not mutually exclusive... or so I've heard

[@monogramadikt5971]

used to love hanging out and drinking in the cold rooms back in the day, even past out in one once and was rescued by some young female alcoholics from my area

[@EricWheaton-f1b]

Eating ice cream while working is probably a bit better than what I've seen... There was an employee at a McDonalds that was eating Fries out of her pants... I kid you not. She was cooking... Never walked out of a place faster.

[@coletrudo]

Keeps them hot

[@potet94]

"They knew, they just didn't care" applies to all the kids smoking behind the shed at school.

[@X-Bit-Gits]

My memories of Smirnoff are when you could buy a 4-pack of the Double Black Ice for ten bucks. 8 standard drinks for 10 bucks. This is why my late teen years are a haze.

[@adscott27]

they had a point about the red wines in the fridge

[@TollingBells]

It's incredibly easy to be a top contributor on Google reviews, I've somehow managed to be in the top 30 percent of reviewers and I'm also marked a local guide. I use it to bitch out places that have hair in the food. 😐

[@karlschlackwhitehouse7676]

beer too deer is a classic. got a bloke at work that says that every monday when we ask him if he went to the pub on saturday. Then normally by wednesday he'll be telling us about what went on at the pub over the weekend.

[@merrynesther]

6:47 for a split second i was like “hold on a minute that’s not true! when i lived in perth, we had a BWS drive through” and then i quickly came to the realisation that after my move to melbourne, i never saw a BWS drive through again (that drive through in perth is still open btw, they must be raking in a fuckton because the location is really convenient)

[@sorntrash]

I’ve driven past the drive thru in Palmerston NT and the line was LONG. I sat in it for like 5mins wondering why we weren’t moving till I realised I was in the drive thru line. 😂

[@chrislowles]

It's the most ironic thing ever that this didn't have any reviews for actual Bottle-Os but other liquor shops that we call "Bottle-Os" because they *were* the biggest name at one point.

[@sorntrash]

I always forget they were an actual chain. My uncle used to manage one that was connected to the local club for like a whole decade till the whole place was shut down. Now it’s just sitting there rundown.

[@maxlambie7788]

working in service, possibly one of the worst situations to be in is when the (stingy) boss is within earshot and a customer is short by like $1 and is >55 years old thus completely indignant that we cant just 'let it go'.

[@thefreshprince-t4m]

Just seen an ad half way through this, and it had a woman, striking a pose, and her image was just, panning into the screen then out of the screen repeatedly with spinning as well as zooming effects, in the centre of the screen, with all different sorts of clothing. Had to note that, the ad had a shock and awe effect, was quite innovative.

[@malkn]

I haven’t even started the video and I know this is already gonna be gold

[@ithinkurf]

At my local Coles we have a BWS next door. Woolworths put it there solely so coles couldn't put a liquor land next door. Pretty funny because people try to use the docket deals from Coles in there and get rejected constantly.

[@Virus__]

I manage a BWS in this exact situation. Dozens of times a day I hear "Bit weird a BWS being next to Coles" bro, we have 1500 stores nationwide, Coles has about half as many Liquorlands.. It isn't that uncommon.

[@watt0455]

Shopping centre near me has a BWS next to the Coles and a liquorland next to the Woolies. Super common cat and mouse game the companies play Theres a bunch of laws regarding how many bottleshops can be attached under one hotel license so alot of the time they sneak into a spot while the other ones getting their paperwork together still

[@Virus__]

@@watt0455 in NSW where I am it doesn't matter, as Liquor Licences are held by the manager of the site so we have Licensee attached to our RSA which differs to the rest of the fucking country. So as long as the license is approved by the local council & OLGR then it's fair game to be where ever they want within reason. in QLD however you are correct, usually it's one attached license plus 4 or 5 satellite licenses within x KM of that hotel. I assume Victoria is a similar situation from what I have heard from my mates down there.

[@lohenriksson9698]

Sweden has these military logistic experts too but even more annoying since our alcohol monolopy retailer has pretty strict closing hours

[@MrJohnprouzos]

The saddest thing is that a young man called Declan....while working at a BWS in Darwin was stabbed.. just because he refused service to someone really drunk already... we all get drunk and silly, but then you get fu**heads that go around doing things like that..My condolences to the kids' family..

[@CiviGG]

oh i remember this, when i was still working for bws they were either finalising a policy change or were about to implement a policy change that required at least 2 staff on to close the store because of that incident

[@Princessbuttercupish]

Every time I go to the local liquorland I'm always in for a treat. Like methheads threatening to fight people in the carpark or a pisshead who walks into the bottle shop and he's clearly shit his pants.

[@CiviGG]

one of the stores i worked in, a guy was stood at the counter about to get served, dropped his basket on the floor and ran outside and then just sat on the bench... which obviously was weird. he then got up and left and at some point in the next half an hour (i had to go out the front and clean up glass because a customer dropped a carton of wine bottles) there was a really pungent urine smell coming from the bench he'd been sat on with a HUGE darker patch on it. we then worked out why he just randomly left.

[@johnnymoore9783]

I used to work at a Dan Murphy’s in rural NSW, the amount of times you’d find spew in the cool room on the pallets of beer from the homeless or the drunk bush pigs that would come in before/after a B&S was insane, also, they wouldn’t have shoes in half the time. Fuckin grots. Also, if there is every a “bottle-o confess sins” video, I had a homeless person get asked to leave the store due to a very piss poor attempt at getting a two-for-one deal on Midori then when told it’s not something we do they then tried to steal the bottles anyway, they then proceeded to go out side, take a fat dump in the car park then harassed some customers for some darts and coins. Wednesdays am I right?

[@flynnorourke7620]

Your upload schedule it’s banging atm, just don’t burn out g.

[@ASpaceOstrich]

Red Rooster would be interesting, as I've literally never seen anyone go into there yet they're somehow never out of business. I don't even know if they're bad quality or not, because I've also never been to Red Rooster. It just kind of stubbornly exists next to the KFC and Maccas. I should go some time, maybe they're secretly amazing.

[@braydeno4189]

They're pretty good. They also don't leave you feeling like the grease king unless you have 6+ pieces of their fried chicken.

[@aiden4112]

I went there sometime earlier this year and they were just boring. Maccas and KFC both give you a feeling of being fat while providing you with something that tastes half decent. Red Rooster was just something you try and forget about it until someone brings it up.

[@Palaemon907]

Yea nah, 14 on the smirnof ice. Classic childhood.

[@evil-science]

still waiting for jordies to request stories from bottle-o staff bc LORD I have some bangers after the last 5 years I've had this job. Fridge turds, violent teens, entitled boomers and some hilarious thefts. and none off that includes the absolute chaos i've witnessed regarding staff. take your pick m8, i have plenty.

[@lacj]

I worked at a bws and once some guy came in probably 15 minutes before close, clearly on something. says hello to me and walks to the RTD aisle, have a dekko over the counter and there is a trail of blood leading to the RTD aisle. he comes back about two minutes later and sticks his hand out to shake mine, it's covered in blood and I politely decline. he pays for his items (which surprised me that he remembered to do that) then screamed "f-ing g*psies" and collected his change from the counter. as soon as he left I closed the shop as there was blood all on the RTD fridges, all over the floor and the counter.

[@stewartdavies929]

11:45 “I’m kind of a big deal” lmfao

[@glorpfruncus2180]

Nah that chick eating the ice cream behind the counter rocks. You don't need to pay attention at these jobs.

[@midnitepagan9118]

You got me with "naughty lemonade".. pure gold

[@Akkanater]

Worked at a Bws in southbank, on my second last shift I come back from the bathroom and this drunk regular chick is yelling at my co worker who is visible startled, told her to fuck off, only for her to come back the next day, my last shift before I moved back to the country, we’re she proceeds to yell at my co worker trying to get me fired, just stood in the back and winked at her, truly hope she felt good about her little outbursts

[@iris4547]

bottle shops really do attract a certain breed of people. thought it was just the large aboriginal population that kept the cops in permanent attendance at nowra liquorland but turns out even in significantly more affluent areas of sydney bottleshop thefts are just as frequent.

[@Alex.The.Lionnnnn]

This really is top tier, intellectual content. Important breaking research we've all been waiting for! Keep up the good work! 😂

[@magicimaginations]

I miss living in England when you could go to Tesco or Asda and they'd have HUGE long aisles INSIDE with all the alcohol under the sun, and even the little corner stores had alcohol, who are not supposed to serve after hours BUT THEY ALWAYS DO it was so good!!! None of this stupid separate stores with the doors shutting as early as 7 up to 10pm like here in Aus!!!

[@sorntrash]

Ya sound like an alcoholic. Who needs to buy alcohol past 8pm? 😂

[@shanemorc7784]

4:40 yes my memory of shirnoff is alive and well

[@v444vanquish]

had someone james bond like slide under our closing door and thought he was so smooth with it, but we politely told him sorry and kicked him out