All three say the election night party, which prompted social media users to call for a boycott of the bar, was the least of the business's issues. A second former employee, Reese, said they felt the owners saw their staff as "replaceable". Another former employee, Lee, said staff felt they were considered less important than customers. Lee and Reese told The Spinoff that when the staff member in question raised it, she was called "childish" for revisiting the issue. The Paynes reject the suggestion they called the staff member childish "in relation to the complaint of harassment".

Source: New Zealand Herald December 16, 2020 04:07 UTC