NZ Cook Working in Australia is Against Employing Australians

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11581835/New-Zealand-chef-Andrew-Lee-slams-Australians-lazy-workers.html

A New Zealand chef has slammed 'lazy' Australians saying that he would always choose other nationalities when hiring his kitchen staff

In a TikTok video viewed over 200,000 times, Adam Lee tells interviewers from New Zealand social media content-makers Altbays that 'the biggest problem with Australia, is that there are too many Australians.'

The chef said that when he moved to Australia in 2010 he worked in Victoria's ritzy Portsea Hotel and soon found a poor attitude among the locals

'A lot of the Aussies don't want to work, especially in the hospitality industry,' Mr Lee told his hosts.

Mr Lee said he had worked with another New Zealand chef who shared his opinions.

'He swore black and blue to his bosses that he was going to fill the place with Kiwis, which is what he did and we ran it for several years,' he said.

'If I could fill a kitchen I would have Kiwis, Brazilians and Argentinians.'

Mr Lee's opinions quickly divided social media users, with some outright rejecting the claim that Australians were poor workers.

'Aussie chef here (30 years experience) and this is bulls**t,' one said.

'Treat us with respect and pay correctly,' another TikTok user wrote.

'Plenty of hard working Australians in the hospitality workforce... shocking thing to say about Australian people

Others nominated other Australian industries they believed were filled with harder workers from overseas.

'Mining industry in WA is 90% Kiwis. Aussies are waiting for the dole,' one commentator wrote. 

'Same in warehouses as well,' another wrote.

One cheeky Australian did not shy away from being labelled lazy.

'Thanks for paying for my Centrelink. Keep up the hard work,' they wrote.

Mr Lee didn't just bemoan the lazy behaviour of Australians, he thought young people in general were showing little drive.  Mr Lee also described some of his interactions with Aboriginals and described the social problems he had observed in the central town of Alice Springs.

According to Mr Lee there were 127 officers in Alice Springs but '94' of them spend all their time at liquor outlets stopping Indigenous people from purchasing any large amounts of alcohol.

'That's all they do their job is to sit outside the alcohol shop and check you ID,' Mr Lee said.

He said the township was plagued by petty crime, which was committed by Indigenous youth.

'They (the police) can't touch the kids and mostly it is the kids who are doing it,' Mr Lee said.

'If you are walking down the road and you have a shoulder bag you've got to hang onto it with both hands or the kids will rip it off you.'

'If you are walking down the road texting on your phone, they'll come and hit the phone out of your hand and steal it from you and it's in broad daylight.

He is spot on about Abos! He is correct about the "free for all" it has become for this "protected species"! Everybody needs to suck it up!?

There are some lazy Aussies but we want a good day's pay for a good days work .He works in Kings Canyon resort; a place that is infamous for throwing staff under the bus, penny pinching, bad conditions and stitch ups by management! They wonder why Morale is bad?!

Who the hell is he to come here and want to only employ foreigners?!