Through the years I’ve had many different jobs, waitress, prep cook, short order cook, bartender, cocktail waitress, cashier, and Cosmetologist. Wonder which one I liked the best? No? Well, I’ll tell you anyhow. That would be bartender and the reason is because I didn’t have to take anybodies attitude I could flag them or bar, ban them if they really got out of hand.
That was also the only position where the customer wasn’t always right. Now how can you be in your right mind if your under the influence? So basically a bartender is the boss and has to know what all the LCB regulations are and follow them to the T. Ignorance of the law is not allowed unless you want to incur fines and get shut down, LCB can shut you down in a heartbeat.
People act so different when they are drinking so it’s good to know how to handle someone in that state and if your not good with people then I would suggest you stay away from that profession. You need to know when to put a limit on someone because you don’t want to be responsible for any sort of accident that might happen or pay any steep fines along with your employer.
People can get very upset when you cut them off, I have been called everything you could possibly imagine and had things thrown at me or near me, in those cases that got you a ticket to barrdom and actually a policeman told one customer when he complained that a reason really didn’t have to be specified that he could be barred because we didn’t like the color of his eyes. Oh the power, I loved it.
However, I eventually got tired of being responsible for other peoples equilibrium and making sure they had a ride home and actually babysitting them and listening to all their problems. Now that really brought me down because I was always an empathizer and would feel what they felt and having my own problems at the time made it a double whammy.
I hope I haven’t bored you with some of my past history, I simply felt like sharing my favorite job as bartender and why I liked it best. I have worked in the people business all my life, but it’s very stressful when it comes to dealing with people. I have been on all sides of the restaurant business and I can honestly say that the waitresses and waiters have the worst jobs because they get it from all sides.
Not only do the cooks yell at them when the customer doesn’t like his food, the customer is upset and blames the wait person, bartenders get upset if the customer complains about the way a drink was made and for whatever reason the wait person gets blamed for that also. The poor waitress or waiter is in the middle of everything and it’s just not fair.
