[smcl]

We weren’t swindling anyone :-) The manager of the pub (or I guess the licensee?) was the one telling us to do this. And the reason they’d do this is because the pub was part of a group of pubs, and there were incentives for the managers to hit wastage targets. So if there was a shortfall in some beer (like some somehow wasn’t usable, or there was a fuckup when switching a keg that caused the first 5 pints or so to be pure foam, or on a busy night on a big round you’d incorrectly ring something up without noticing) they’d try to recover that this way.

There wasn’t much theft that I was aware of, other than one assistant manager (who was constantly accusing us of stealing) was caught red handed stealing stock, but that was whisky or rum which wasn’t part of this iirc (when entire bottle goes missing, that really sticks out - very stupid man)