Bar fights

minidazzler wrote: »

Since I started working in a bar I've seen more fights than I can count, and been involved in a few. I'll happily walk into the middle of two guys about to fight, look the aggressor in the eye and radio security. It almost always makes them try to run.. (too bad I'm good with call outs in my club )

I am calm as fook almost all the time, I don't get angry, saw a guy just about to punch a girl before stepped in the way took the punch (he was drunk and couldn't aim straight anyway) and called security.... I wished at that moment that the back stairs didn't have camera's.

I'm tempted to get a PSA licence just so I can remove people when it comes to it, but I love my own job too much for that :pac:


The reason Middle-class types generally seem worse for fights in bars and clubs, is likely because if you have switched on doormen the traditionally scummy types won't get in.

I don't live in dreamland, so I know fights are always going to happen to some degree, but surely if there is constant fighting in a bar, such as the one you're working in, there should be a review of procedures? You're talking about classes but a drunken asshole is a drunken asshole in my opinion.

suicide_circus wrote: »

I was in a bar fight once. With one punch, i killed everyone in the place.

Trent?

Has this been mentioned yet?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=81659720

Actually, OP has to have the highest character to thanks ratio ever...

Anne Short Lubrication wrote: »

As you know I work the door alone, and mostly I prefer it like that. But I'm good with people, I'm a good talker but confident and not afraid to assert myself when needed.

To be fair, if someone was trying to start on you they are either very drunk, very stupid or a mixture of both :pac:

Pug160 wrote: »

I don't live in dreamland, so I know fights are always going to happen to some degree, but surely if there is constant fighting in a bar, such as the one you're working in, there should be a review of procedures? You're talking about classes but a drunken asshole is a drunken asshole in my opinion.

It's a nightclub, it's just part of what happens in them, and it's not overall that bad, security are very very quick and switched on, and so are the bar supervisors and floor staff, if we see something happening or about to happen we'll call in security.

Basically for me, since I'm not security I will see something about to happen or happen and I'll radio one of three things; No Panic, Security to x Bar. Security to x Bar. Security to X Bar, X Bar, X Bar.

The first one gets one guy over to me to monitor the situation and maybe tell whoever it is to cool it, also used for people who puke etc. The Second is if a fight is imminent between just two people, it'll bring 3-4 security up and the third is for a big fight, a go at the tills or anything highly serious, and will have 10+ security rushing to us.

It works well enough, fights and other security issues are expected in a night club, it's why there is such a visible presence. Overall, there have only been two very serious incidents in the time I've been working here and the second one wasn't so much a security incident; one of our staff had a seizure while working.