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Bar-staff / club-staff..... Do they hate us all?

  • 01-05-2012 09:48PM
    #1
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    I've often wondered if the staff serving hundreds of tipsy / drunk / LOCKED customers in clubs and bars until 2.30am every night are mentally stabbing every single customer in the eye with a hot, sharp piece of metal.

    To all the bar-staff and club staff out there, do you hate the drunks you spend hours serving?

    Or do you like your jobs?


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  • #2
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    Like all people that work with the public anywhere, yes, every single one of them hate the people they have to deal with with the intensity of a hundred thousand suns.


  • #3
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    As a barman in a previous incarnation all I can say is..........

    Closing time is easy pickings for a sober man who has access to unlimited booze :)

    Drunk sluts

    YEE Haw


  • #4
    emeraldstar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,383 ✭✭✭emeraldstar


    whirlpool wrote: »
    I've often wondered if the staff serving hundreds of tipsy / drunk / LOCKED customers in clubs and bars until 2.30am every night are mentally stabbing every single customer in the eye with a hot, sharp piece of metal.

    I would be, if I worked in a bar or club. Thankfully I don't.


  • #5
    PickledLime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭PickledLime


    I'd nearly prefer to deal with drunks, because you could almost forgive their idiocy for, you know, being drunk. For those working with the general public in a customer service role in the cold light of day, well i salute each and every one of you for not going all Michael Douglas a lá 'Falling Down' on them!


  • #6
    It wasn't me!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,034 ✭✭✭✭It wasn't me!


    Everyone who has to encounter them in a sober professional capacity hates drunk people. They're all completely useless and completely unfunny.


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  • #7
    Aoifey!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,571 ✭✭✭Aoifey!


    I'm sure if I worked in a bar I'd slowly start to hate the human population.


  • #8
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,244 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    I only worked in a pub for six months, in London, but when we had lots of drunk people in, we were too busy to have any kind of emotional response. You all sort of blended in to this amorphous mass of stupid people, but as long as you kept shovelling the cash over the bar, it didn't matter. You'd need to do something really, really stupid to be remembered at all. :rolleyes:

    Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

    — Grover Cleveland



  • #9
    Glico Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,376 ✭✭✭Glico Man


    I hate you all. Every time I see a new customer walk through the door I swear a little.


  • #10
    abouttobebanned
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,943 ✭✭✭abouttobebanned


    The DJ hates you too.


  • #11
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Yes, hate everyone

    I'm not a sheepdog, don't whistle at me
    And I'm not a French waiter, don't click your fingers at me :mad:
    And why do you order a large round..........oh and a pint of Guinness??

    OP, get over to Ranting and Raving forum and Cries of Retails thread
    Best thread on boards


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  • #12
    Battered Mars Bar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 672 ✭✭✭Battered Mars Bar


    abouttobebanned wrote: »
    The DJ hates you too.

    Don't think anyone cares about a Dj tbh


  • #13
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    abouttobebanned wrote: »
    The DJ hates you too.

    nightclub djs are just human shuffle modes on ipods to be fair


  • #14
    Sparks43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,074 ✭✭✭Sparks43


    As an Ex Barman i have this to say


    You are all arseholes i hope you go to hell!!!!!


  • #15
    Adyx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭Adyx


    I'll put it this way: I never had the need to hit someone before I started working in a pub.


  • #16
    chimmy chonga
    Closed Accounts Posts: 185 ✭✭chimmy chonga


    It wasn't me! wrote: »
    Everyone who has to encounter them in a sober professional capacity hates drunk people. They're all completely useless and completely unfunny.
    ....and so easy to give them the wrong change!


  • #17
    branbee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 179 ✭✭branbee


    I remember being under the influence of something that wasn't drink- not my proudest moment i will admit!- and i kept apologizing to the poor bar man for ordering water instead of buying alcohol! He kept saying its grand but i was nearly crying with guilt every time i went up to the bar and kept saying sorry! Fair play to him he was lovely! still feel bad now!
    God love bar/club staff putting up with **** like that!


  • #18
    Organic Cavity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭Organic Cavity


    Yep, but it's a tough ass job watching people have the craic and get pissed when your working behind the bar for fúck all.


  • #19
    ArtyC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,513 ✭✭✭ArtyC


    chimmy chonga wrote: »
    ....and so easy to give them the wrong change!

    Oh ffs
    This is what makes life so difficult!!!!!!!!! We just want to get through our shift. I have no need to rob your stupid change- also nightclubs are so heavily CCTV-ed it would be impossible even if someone wanted to. Please, thank you and common courtesy for staff and other customers make working in a nightclub good Craic but that's becoming less and less common.


  • #20
    Degag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,158 ✭✭✭✭Degag


    It's a pretty tough job physically too which alot of people don't realise - having to lug kegs and drink crates around. Also spending hours upon hours on your feet is no fun. Plenty of times i used to wake up in the morning unable to walk after a long weekend.


  • #21
    Mickey Dazzler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 586 ✭✭✭Mickey Dazzler


    I used to work in Havanas Browns in Cork as a young man and actually punched a customer in the face at closing time who was wrecking my head.

    The second it happened I roared over to a bouncer to tell them said customer had hit me first and he got hauled out screaming that I had hit him, whilst I just stood there shaking my head trying to look traumatised. Fucking Cork people.


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  • #22
    touchwood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 ✭✭touchwood


    Eye drops are great for annoying drunks!!!!!
    :):)


  • #23
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,031 ✭✭✭Feisar


    I done it though college. Still do the odd shift when the owner gives me a call for the craic.

    I loved it. Young persons bar, I looked after the tunes etc. People used to wait to get served by me. Fecking ice down girls tops who propped their tits up to get served etc. Mental craic.

    Definitely miss the buzz.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #24
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I work in a hotel bar. In the residents bar and a busy cocktail bar. What annoys me the most to be honest is Americans talking shite. You kind of blank out the annoying drunk people after a few years!


  • #25
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    No, I did not water down your pint

    Why do people say this?
    How would I do it anyway? Inject water under pressure somehow into the pipes?
    Sounds awful complicated

    So stop telling me I watered down your pint
    It's a myth, it doesn't happen

    Probably because you're drinking Bud


  • #26
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    abouttobebanned wrote: »
    The DJ hates you too.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AlH2oYedfk


  • #27
    MonkeyTennis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭MonkeyTennis


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    No, I did not water down your pint

    Why do people say this?
    How would I do it anyway? Inject water under pressure somehow into the pipes?
    Sounds awful complicated

    So stop telling me I watered down your pint
    It's a myth, it doesn't happen

    Probably because you're drinking Bud

    Put water into the bottom of the glass before pouring. Ive seen it done. Not in Ireland i hasten to add


  • #28
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    No, I did not water down your pint

    Why do people say this?

    Maybe you're just shit at pulling pints.


  • #29
    DazMarz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    Especially when they order some complicated, time-consuming shíte... read: Latté, Cappuccino, cocktails, et al. I swear, most people only order this kinda shíte to appear 'sophisticated' and posh in front of their snooty friends. I've never actually had someone come in on their own (ie. without an audience) and order some of this stuff. It's just a sin how often a whole table of people will come in and order this kinda crap. Crap that they would never order under normal circumstances, ffs.

    Or just posh, stuck-up, middle-aged women in general and their expectations to be treated like freakin' royalty by the one member of staff who's on. Sorry, luv... But when I've a rake of other tables to serve (with people on them who are more likely to give me a nice tip), and you've "THAT" face on you all the time... haha, not a hope. G'luck... Get a clue, people...

    Drunks I can actually handle. Just nod and say "Ah yeah, sure it's all good!" at regular intervals.


  • #30
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    Lia_lia wrote: »
    Maybe you're just shit at pulling pints.

    Yes, the sober barman is wrong

    The roaring drunk is right I suppose


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  • #31
    Degag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,158 ✭✭✭✭Degag


    touchwood wrote: »
    Eye drops are great for annoying drunks!!!!!
    :):)

    Only if you don't clean the toilets too;)


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