As many of you know, I am a bartender and a damn good one.
I have been featured in bartending magazines, was once number eight in Taste of the top ten bartenders in Chicago, have made speciality drinks placed on menus of three different bars within this city, and was lead bartender at one of the biggest clubs this city has ever spawned.
Bartending isn't easy. You are pretty much a baby sitter for a bunch of drunks and have to create magic with a shaker tin in less then a minute on top. I'm 100% positive 98% of the morons here couldn't do the things I do with the quickness or quality I was gifted with. Sure, some of you idiots could sling a draft, but I highly doubt anybody can make ten different drinks at the same time in under a couple minutes.
I can.
So, to push things in a different direction, why am I so much better at being a bartender then the rest of you?
The money can be amazing, I get laid whenever I want, and I have as much power on the floor as I do in this community. Who here really thinks they can bartend?
I know I can bartend. Got paid to do so.
Did you have to pay for your spillage or was that covered?
Spill tab and thank God for it.
Flair with live bottles was a bad thing
Ooooooh..they had a spill tab, Fancy fancy, must be nice.
I had to pay any spillage out of my tips, so no flinging bottles about..
Cheap bastards.
Did that pertain to stocking, too?
No. We measure our bottles at the start of the shift, and then measure at the end of the shift. Compare the difference.
If losses don't match to revenue, you pay the difference.
Da fuck you work? Fort knox?
That's alot of tabulation for liquor. Thankfully I never worked at a place where the bottom line was that strict.
So I'm guessing free pour was out the question there
I worked in a Strip Club/Dance Bar (pending time of day and date)
You're given a $300 float and are responsible for all that shit behind the bar.
Leave the flipping of bottles and such for the likes of Tom Cruise.
I could open sling drinks fast, waitress's and customers did not have to wait. People were there to watch the strippers and/or get laid, not watch me do alcoholic acrobatics with a bottle.
Besides, likely to get a cue ball or bottle/glass thrown at you if you were showing off.
Just serve the damn drinks and quit dickin' around. Fast service gets good tips.