Minor grievance #7,763,985: you see them here, you see them there, you see them everywhere. They’re the bored-looking souls employed as human signposts, sitting or standing in the cold holding up an ad for a nearby restaurant.
The restaurant is always 100 metres that way, or just around the corner. For some reason, I find it rather off-putting.
It makes me rather disinclined to go to the restaurant at all. I know that places need to advertise, and that the human sign-posts get (probably minimum wage) work from it, but it just seems all a bit grim, especially in this weather. I can’t imagine it’s a job anybody would want to take unless they were hard up on their luck; it’s certainly not something I’d want to subject anyone to if I owned a premises.
What do you think? Am I being a job snob, or should shops and restaurants just pay for advertising space?