Glass collectors in nightclubs

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 23-02-2010 04:14AM

Probably one of the handiest jobs I have had, but that could be due to location and company policies. Working behind the bar was pretty difficult in some locations. I have worked in some spots that the glass collectors job was pretty horrible, cleaning puke in toilets etc etc. Not a very nice job at all.

Tar.Aldarion · 23-02-2010 04:22AM

OutlawPete wrote: »

Somebody doing an honest job that needs doing, is far from "disgusting".

don't feed..

OutlawPete · 23-02-2010 04:30AM

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

don't feed..

I forgot it was after midnight .. :cool:

brendansmith · 23-02-2010 04:34AM

OutlawPete wrote: »

Somebody doing an honest job that needs doing, is far from "disgusting".

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

don't feed..

Afterhours.

Joking.

Lighten up.

Adyx · 23-02-2010 05:22AM

I remember working as floorstaff many years ago. They were simpler times when I could still get away with kicking customers out of the way and hitting them with sweeping brushes.

Degag · 23-02-2010 05:28AM

Worked as a glass collector before being promoted to barman. Man, some of the jobs i've had to do were disgusting. Cleaning up puke actually not being so bad in comparison. Some people have actually sh!t on the floor. Must really be the scum of the earth. Another time, there was **** on the walls. I kid you not.

I thought this was the worst one ever, but it's now a close second. One of the urinals got blocked one night so i was sent to unblock it. I had to unscrew the plumbing connection to let all the residue out. The contents was disgusting but the smell was absolutely terrible!

The worst ever was when one of the freezers gave up and the meat in there thawed out and went rancid. I had to clean it out. The smell was so bad it actually drifted all the way to the bar area and people had to go outside for air. Ii actually think i became ill because of it as i wasn't feeling well for a few days.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 23-02-2010 05:48AM

Degag_ wrote: »

The worst ever was when one of the freezers gave up and the meat in there thawed out and went rancid. I had to clean it out. The smell was so bad it actually drifted all the way to the bar area and people had to go outside for air. Ii actually think i became ill because of it as i wasn't feeling well for a few days.

That happened in a pub I worked in too, wow was that a bad smell.

Where abouts was that?

For your information, you are a glass collector, not a plumber

Degag · 23-02-2010 05:57AM

Adrian Fat Roadkill wrote: »

That happened in a pub I worked in too, wow was that a bad smell.

Where abouts was that?

For your information, you are a glass collector, not a plumber

Lol, was kind of worried i knew you but no, i'm not from the Dublin area!

artanevilla · 23-02-2010 05:58AM

Lounge Bots do everything us barstaff don't want to do.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 23-02-2010 06:13AM

Degag_ wrote: »

Lol, was kind of worried i knew you but no, i'm not from the Dublin area!

It wasn't Dublin I was working either

Go on, tell us what town, village or city it happened in.

Degag · 23-02-2010 06:33AM

Adrian Fat Roadkill wrote: »

It wasn't Dublin I was working either Go on, tell us what town, village or city it happened in.

Lol, you first!

Doc · 23-02-2010 06:39AM

I was a glass collector when I was younger and I really don’t see why everyone is saying it’s such a tough job.

I mean you pick up empty glasses and bring them to the bar. I must have missed out on the hard bit or something.

It was low paying job Ill give you that but it wasn’t hard.

When I worked behind the bar sometimes going out collecting glasses seamed like a bit of a brake.

I think some people need to drink some cement and harden the **** up.

By the way if the glass is empty you pick it up if its not you don’t (trick of the trade that) and if people give you **** for picking up glass ignore it if they do it too much tell a bouncer.

Pretty_Pistol · 23-02-2010 06:44AM

Oh yeah the joys of it all...

Customers shouting in your face. Having drink spilled all over you and people burning their cigarettes into your skin. Dirty old politicians trying to feel you up. Sleazy other men doing the same. Glasses smashing in your hands and getting cuts constantly. The filthy things you have to see and clean up. Constantly getting whacked in the face or people bashing into you. Men placing bets on whether your Irish or Eastern European. Bar staff being d!cks to you.

Glad I gave that up years ago. Would never eat pub food now either.

liah · 23-02-2010 07:22AM

Doc wrote: »

I was a glass collector when I was younger and I really don’t see why everyone is saying it’s such a tough job.

I mean you pick up empty glasses and bring them to the bar. I must have missed out on the hard bit or something.

It was low paying job Ill give you that but it wasn’t hard.

When I worked behind the bar sometimes going out collecting glasses seamed like a bit of a brake.

I think some people need to drink some cement and harden the **** up.

By the way if the glass is empty you pick it up if its not you don’t (trick of the trade that) and if people give you **** for picking up glass ignore it if they do it too much tell a bouncer.

Did you work in a pub or a night club? And are you male or female?

Honestly, I'm not sure why you got it so easy-- I'm assuming you worked at either a pub where most are sitting down or you can at least, you know, walk, or a not particularly busy night club.

Gotta deal with..
-Having the stacks up higher than your own head and being knocked around the place by large drunken men (I'm 5'5", female, and slim enough)
-Getting drinks purposely and not purposely thrown down your shirt, in your hair, etc
-Vomit, broken glass
-Getting a ridiculous amount of sleaze, people literally trying to pull my pants off me and following me around the club, grabbing my ass/breasts (why do they think this is okay?!)
-Getting in trouble instead of the offender when you get knocked into and the stacks of glasses go flying
-Cuts when people shove you into a wall and glasses break in your hands
-Being talked down/given verbal abuse to if you take a glass that someone hasn't re-filled with the contents of a pint bottle, or NOT taking an empty glass when you think there IS a full pint bottle
-Being asked to do favours when the bar's shutting down, like getting extra drink from the back-- I can't do that, I'd lose my job you drunken idiot, you can survive without another bottle, you're langers.

That was just from working a couple weekends around Christmas.. I can't imagine working any longer than that tbh.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 23-02-2010 07:38AM

All this emptying glasses talk is making me mighty thirsty.

Doc · 23-02-2010 10:00AM

liah wrote: »

Did you work in a pub or a night club? And are you male or female?

Ive worked in both and Im male. The night club I worked in was busy.

liah wrote: »

-Having the stacks up higher than your own head and being knocked around the place by large drunken men (I'm 5'5", female, and slim enough)

Why are you not going back sooner there is no need to stack glasses higher then you're head.

liah wrote: »

-Getting drinks purposely and not purposely thrown down your shirt, in your hair, etc

Did have people spill drinks on me some times but not that much and if anyone had thrown a drink down my shirt I would have gotten them kicked out.

liah wrote: »

-Vomit, broken glass

Okay this is a bad part of the job the vomit part that is as it made me feel like vomiting too but I only ever got cut once because on broken glass.

liah wrote: »

-Getting a ridiculous amount of sleaze, people literally trying to pull my pants off me and following me around the club, grabbing my ass/breasts (why do they think this is okay?!)

Its not okay and you shouldn't be putting up with it get security involved.

liah wrote: »

-Getting in trouble instead of the offender when you get knocked into and the stacks of glasses go flying

You did say that you were having the stacks up higher than your own head that dose sound silly on you're part.

You put up with too much from people and didn't use the security that is there to protect you. If anyone did anything bad to me in the place I worked in I walked over and said it to security and they where out, but it didn't happen much.

Truley · 23-02-2010 11:48AM

I worked as a glass collector for a summer in my teens and then a year during college and believe me, you name it, i've delt with it. Security or not when you're five foot nothing and all of 7.5 stone when you're actually out in the club by the time they've intervened its too little too late. I've had my ass grabbed, my hair pulled, my top pulled down, can't even count the number of times i've been come on to. As for the stacks of glass thing all staff were expected to carry glasses til it's at least over your head we would be barked at otherwise. We'd also get in trouble if glasses were left empty for too long which is why we would be a little to quick to pick them up. Seriously it wasn't in our interest to carry around half full pint glasses.

I worked in two well known nightclubs one that was frequented mostly by D4s and another in a very rough area. I had more trouble with the rich southsiders than the supposed 'scumbags' in terms of rudeness, harrassment etc

cson wrote: »

I can see the strike now...

What do we want?

Better working conditions for glass collectors

And why not? There is a night club in Sligo doing it right now.

Niall Keane · 23-02-2010 12:17PM

Glass collectors, b5'4t'4ds, I've lost many a fine whisky to them. It’s not my fault the miserly amount that makes a shot looks empty, once in a Club on Camden Street, I ordered a round brought half back inc. my whisky and went back to the bar for the rest, on return the whisky had been scooped away for a wash, later while spending the night distracted, my eyes fixed on the glass, concentrating on protecting the potions before me, rather in what the f'8k my friends were saying, I twice had to leap to action to save the divine malt. But yet again before the evenings retirement, the b'.,£$%d Glass collector used their Jedi mind tricks and this time scooped away and washed a double! Maybe they secretly work for the ice company, use our ice and we'll leave your whisky alone or something?

I don't know but there were some pissed up rats in the sewers around town that night, nowadays being older and with more of a tolerance / thirst, the Glass-Collectors have managed to force me out of clubs and into public houses, where a different breed exist, a type that even places a matt down for your whisky to rest upon!

Korvanica · 23-02-2010 02:30PM

yea its not a fun job, i used to have to do it when i worked in a bar a while back. Plenty of incidents where people got angry at me for taking their glass that had the smallest dribble of liquid in it. Even when they are drinking from a new drink... Didnt get too much abuse as i was taller than 90% of the people there... and they also knew i could have them thrown out easily, ..

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 23-02-2010 03:24PM

Doc wrote: »

Ive worked in both and Im male. The night club I worked in was busy.
Why are you not going back sooner there is no need to stack glasses higher then you're head.

Are you some sort of glass collecting pro? If she wants to put them that high, then let her... Everyone has their own technique for differant jobs.

Did have people spill drinks on me some times but not that much and if anyone had thrown a drink down my shirt I would have gotten them kicked out.

She's 5'5", no offence liah, but that's pretty small. I witnessed it lots of times, the lads hardly get any greif and the women get loads.

You did say that you were having the stacks up higher than your own head that dose sound silly on you're part.

Not at all, I have seen this plenty of times, anywhere I worked they always done that. I see it in a lot of other pubs too.

You put up with too much from people and didn't use the security that is there to protect you. If anyone did anything bad to me in the place I worked in I walked over and said it to security and they where out, but it didn't happen much.

Same, any problems you don't deal with it yourself, either go to the senior bar staff or the security. If the security are any good they will deal with it. In some cases if the patron is out of order they will get ****ed out for the night.

Degag_ wrote: »

Lol, you first!

Carlow?

Doc wrote: »

I was a glass collector when I was younger and I really don’t see why everyone is saying it’s such a tough job.

It depends from pub to pub, I found it extremely easy too, but I also worked as a barman in some places and thought the glass collectors job was very difficult and quite disgusting job.

Your job wasn't hard, but that doesn't mean all similar roles are easy.

I mean you pick up empty glasses and bring them to the bar. I must have missed out on the hard bit or something.

Sweeping carpets, shining floors, mirrors, stocking (difficult in a busy bar), mopping up spillages on a busy floor, shining brass, unblocking toilets, cleaning toilets, sorting empties, carrying in kegs to the bar plus other ad hoc jobs, anything that needs doing that the barstaff wont do, are all apart of job spec of a "glass collectors" aka lounge staff in places I have worked. There's some nasty jobs in there.

When I worked behind the bar sometimes going out collecting glasses seamed like a bit of a brake.

It would be if you are in a busy place, but collecting glasses is only one of the very many jobs they have.

I think some people need to drink some cement and harden the **** up.

Or some people need to take off their blinkers and see straight

You tar all glass collecting jobs as being easy, you should try working in a few differant establishments before you pass judgement, since you have very little authority to do so.

By the way if the glass is empty you pick it up if its not you don’t (trick of the trade that) and if people give you **** for picking up glass ignore it if they do it too much tell a bouncer.

What? If you pick up my glass and I am not finished with it I will let you know. Like anything, experience will help you quite a lot, you learn when to take a glass that is half empty, I normally asked "what glasses can I take" so I wouldn't offend anyone. I have taken peoples drinks that they haven't finished, but all I had to do is go to the bar and pull another drink, not that difficult to do. It does happen...

Otacon · 23-02-2010 04:09PM

Used to be a glass collector myself. A simple trick, ensuring you don't lose your pint, is something I do when I am drinking with a few mates.

Bunch all your empty glasses to one corner of the table. When the collector comes by, they see the empty ones, realise the other ones are still in use and collect the correct ones.

Simples.

And to anyone who hasn't done the job and is giving out, fup off home, where there are no collectors!

inforfun · 23-02-2010 04:50PM

liah wrote: »

Did you work in a pub or a night club? And are you male or female?

Honestly, I'm not sure why you got it so easy-- I'm assuming you worked at either a pub where most are sitting down or you can at least, you know, walk, or a not particularly busy night club.

Gotta deal with..
-Having the stacks up higher than your own head and being knocked around the place by large drunken men (I'm 5'5", female, and slim enough)
-Getting drinks purposely and not purposely thrown down your shirt, in your hair, etc
-Vomit, broken glass
-Getting a ridiculous amount of sleaze, people literally trying to pull my pants off me and following me around the club, grabbing my ass/breasts (why do they think this is okay?!)
-Getting in trouble instead of the offender when you get knocked into and the stacks of glasses go flying
-Cuts when people shove you into a wall and glasses break in your hands
-Being talked down/given verbal abuse to if you take a glass that someone hasn't re-filled with the contents of a pint bottle, or NOT taking an empty glass when you think there IS a full pint bottle
-Being asked to do favours when the bar's shutting down, like getting extra drink from the back-- I can't do that, I'd lose my job you drunken idiot, you can survive without another bottle, you're langers.

That was just from working a couple weekends around Christmas.. I can't imagine working any longer than that tbh.

Sounds more like the place where you work is shit, in stead of the job you are doing.

marko91 · 23-02-2010 07:03PM

never had a problem with them...when they try take a non empty glass they usualy ask are we finished with it no problems...god you people get pissed off easily:D

Truley · 23-02-2010 07:09PM

inforfun wrote: »

Sounds more like the place where you work is shit, in stead of the job you are doing.

no, it's people who are shit :P

rich1874 · 23-02-2010 11:35PM

Sometimes after work i used to catch myself collecting the glasses in my kitchen as if i were still working. Used to slam them down beside the sink and rush off to collect more...

lcrcboy · 23-02-2010 11:55PM

rich1874 wrote: »

Sometimes after work i used to catch myself collecting the glasses in my kitchen as if i were still working. Used to slam them down beside the sink and rush off to collect more...

haha brilliant:D

Glass collectors in nightclubs

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