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Putting Yourself Out There

#41
Haji said:
I know a lot of you have played in bars, but have you worked in 'em? I spent a little over a year as a bouncer. The job was a source of income; I was kinda apathetic about it. Some people think its a cool job. It's a job. The main reason I quit doing it, though, was I got sick of seeing the same people, both customers and staff, night after night doing the same stupid crap night after night with the same ridiculous drama night after night.

It's MUCH better to work at them than in them.
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I was a waiter, mostly in restaurants, for quite a few years on and off in my teens and twenties. Some of the restaurants were also bars, and I even worked as a cocktail waiter, which I didn't much care for. I have bartended a bit, which I really didn't care for. I once worked in a place that had "customer appreciation night" on Sundays, and basically, for two hours, well drinks were free. After the first time I saw that madding throng, the rest of the times I worked, I went in the basement and HID during those two hours. No one tipped; everyone was pounding the free drinks, and the place was packed with greedy, impatient people. I was so glad we had a basement!

My years working in restaurants and bars definitely colored my feelings about bar owners. A very large majority of the ones I ever worked for were absolute MONSTERS to their employees.
 
#42
mellowinman said:
I was a waiter, mostly in restaurants, for quite a few years on and off in my teens and twenties. Some of the restaurants were also bars, and I even worked as a cocktail waiter, which I didn't much care for. I have bartended a bit, which I really didn't care for. I once worked in a place that had "customer appreciation night" on Sundays, and basically, for two hours, well drinks were free. After the first time I saw that madding throng, the rest of the times I worked, I went in the basement and HID during those two hours. No one tipped; everyone was pounding the free drinks, and the place was packed with greedy, impatient people. I was so glad we had a basement!

My years working in restaurants and bars definitely colored my feelings about bar owners. A very large majority of the ones I ever worked for were absolute MONSTERS to their employees.
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Probably because their employees were hiding in the basement instead of working.
 
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Haji said:
I know a lot of you have played in bars, but have you worked in 'em?
It's MUCH better to work at them than in them.
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I've been a bouncer, bartender and manager of a couple of different bars in my much younger and more insane years; I've been a patron of many and a performer at enough of them. Bars are just generally poopy environments - management, staff and patrons contribute a large amount of that poopiness. Ever spent any time in bar sober, on the clock or not? But, yeah, it's slightly better being a performer than an employee or patron.
 
#52
DirtDog said:
I've been a bouncer, bartender and manager of a couple of different bars in my much younger and more insane years; I've been a patron of many and a performer at enough of them. Bars are just generally ****** environments - management, staff and patrons contribute a large amount of that poopiness. Ever spent any time in bar sober, on the clock or not? But, yeah, it's slightly better being a performer than an employee or patron.
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Once upon a time I would have figured that being a patron [read paying customer] was the top of the ladder...

Well once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away...
The customer service was actually quite good. You see people in the business world,
actually understood that providing excellent customer service, along with a quality product at a reasonable price, was the ONLY way to attract and retain customers.
They also had wisdom passed down from generation to generation that decreed an order stating that without customers, you were without business.

During the apocalypse called politically correct, this wisdom was lost. And now all of the kings horses, and all of the kings men, can't distinguish beyond douchebaggery again.
And they all lived miserably ever after.

The End
 

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