“Nice bar, but has the crankiest bar tender in town,” a woman named Lisa wrote in her three out of five star review of The Cricketers Arms Hotel in Surry Hills.

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“I’ve been there many times and will definitely go again, but the barman really dampened our spirits on Saturday night,” Lisa said, claiming two strangers came up and said the same thing to them.

In response, hotel administrators had none of it.

“Hi Lisa, thanks for the review,” the response began somewhat facetiously.

“We’ve had a chat with our barman regarding this and he’d like it to be publicly known that the ongoing instability of global recession that could render him unemployed at any moment, the lurking danger of COVID-19 potentially killing everyone he loves, the destruction of entire ecosystems due to climate change and the inability to find a bloody cheap pouch of tobacco in the inner-city has all made it quite difficult for him to find much joy in life at the current moment,” the response reads.

“He said, however, that he will try and make more of an effort to smile,” the hotel administrators added.

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Hospitality workers have been hit particularly hard by the pandemic as people have been stopped from going out and patronising the pubs, cafes and restaurants they work in.

The pressure on workers has been added to by publicans jumping into the media to accuse people being supported by the JobSeeker payment of refusing to take shifts because they’re supposedly earning more on the dole.

Tangible evidence that any such refusal has taken place has been scant, and an organisation representing unemployed workers have claimed that’s because these hypothetical dole-bludging workers don’t exist.

“No one has found a person who’s turned down suitable work and the evidence shows the opposite,” Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union (AUWU) spokesperson Kristin O’Connell told news.com.au.

“For the past month there has been at least 18 people on JobSeeker for every job advertised on Seek. Seek published figures proving that businesses are being flooded with applicants even though right now people don’t have to apply for jobs to get their payment.”

Ms O’Connell applauded the Crix for standing up for its workers and advised others to do the same.

“This employer is doing the right thing, it sounds like the kind of place lots of people would love to work – pub owners complaining they can’t find workers should take note,” she added.