1. You're a bartender. Shut the fuck up and get me my drink

12/16/2011 11:42:02 AM

2. You're a bartender. Shut the fuck up and get me my drink

12/16/2011 11:42:18 AM

tits or gtfo

12/16/2011 11:44:11 AM

ibtl

ntlb

12/16/2011 11:44:25 AM

Took you 12 hours to come up with this

I at least expected some funny when I clicked...

12/16/2011 11:54:56 AM

I wasn't trying to be funny.

Youre a bartender. Guess what. It's your fucking job to serve drinks. It you want to be an asshole. Guess what. Your customers will find another place to go. Your friends can only order so many drinks. It's your customers that keep your ass employed. S T F U and do your job.

12/16/2011 8:14:40 PM

U mad?

12/16/2011 8:15:35 PM

No. I love my bartenders at my bar. I hate uppity whinnying ass punch bitch faggot bartenders.

12/16/2011 8:18:14 PM

12/16/2011 8:18:15 PM

worst bartenders ever was pi bar/maanjri lounge

12/16/2011 11:26:54 PM

MORE WINE VIKING!

12/16/2011 11:27:37 PM

The bartender thing that was posted really was smug as hell though.

12/16/2011 11:28:27 PM

oh was IT?? got a problem?? what

12/16/2011 11:29:35 PM

1. If I'm ignoring you, you're probably paying me less than the customer I'm paying attention to.

2. You're cute when you're mad.

12/17/2011 12:09:37 AM

3. If you ignore my drink order, and I walk to the other side of the bar and order from the other bar tender, don't follow me over and try to steal the order. You had your shot, and you failed. And yes, I would have been a big tipper.

12/17/2011 12:22:45 AM

dammit I ordered that drink like an hour ago..... wtf

12/17/2011 12:24:17 AM

4: Have at least a BASIC KNOWLEDGE of ingredients and drinks.

Seriously. College dives are one thing, where the bartenders are expected to do nothing more than open beers or maybe mix vodka and red bull or rum and coke. But I've been to NICE places where the guy behind the bar doesn't know how to make a regular old Martini. And instead of being cool about it has told me that I don't know what I'm talking about.

I can understand if you don't know how to make something like a Gimlet or even an Old Fashioned. But seriously, I had a bartender tell me that there's no such THING as Vermouth ("What's that, we don't even HAVE that, is it even a real thing?"), and that all martinis are made with vodka (and that a "dry martini" is just a glass of vodka because I didn't ask for a flavor). This older guy sitting next to me busted out laughing (he had an awesome hat too, reminded me of Clint Eastwood, props).

12/17/2011 1:00:36 AM

Some of you motherfuckers are missing the point of the earlier thread. You'll get service whether or not you're a dick to them. You'll get much, much better service if you follow the rules that were listed in the OP.

I realized this long before my brief stint as a bartender. Tip well, help things go smoothly, and treat them like a human being instead of your goddamn servant, and the folks behind the bar remember it. They serve you more often. They give you the occasional freebie or discount. If some shit goes down and you get dragged in, they'll have your back (read: the other guy gets thrown out or arrested, you get to stay and drink) If there's a dispute over your tab, it will more likely be resolved in your favor.

Or you can tip poorly, make the process more difficult than it has to be, and be an asshole. You will get slower service. You will not get freebies. You will not have support in disputes with other customers or management. This ain't fucking rocket science, people.

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Which is not to say that bartenders can't be shitty, too. But I've been a bar customer for a long time and had few shitty bartenders. I was a bar tender for a couple of months and had lots of shitty customers.

[Edited on December 17, 2011 at 1:09 AM. Reason : ]

12/17/2011 1:08:18 AM

Really? Lots of shitty customers? OMG plz tell us more!!!1

That shit just sounds trite to me.

The real world is basically saying "if you can't hack it in a bar I feel bad for you."
You think people are pissed when they stand there for five minutes trying to spend their hard earned money on a drink and the bartenders seem to be ignoring them? That shit doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Making a scene or trying to derive vengeance on someone who is slightly rude or doesn't share your thoughts on tipping does nothing but show a lack of maturity on your part.

Plenty of people on TWW have done IT tech support. They deal with customers who spend $millions per year with their company...Customers who are paying thousands of dollars per hour to employees who are unable to work because their network, e-mail server, storage, or some other critical system is down. Plenty of TWWers have done sales in nearly every genre imaginable. We have builders, plumbers, and electricians who have to deal with people who want massive amounts of work done for next to nothing. We have mechanics on board as well. I assure you that people are far more anal about their vehicles than they are about their bottle of Curs Light. Social services, armed forces, cops... The real world is very, ummmm....Real.

But yeah, $4 Newcastle Ales are serious business!!!!!1
You have to prove your tipping prowess early on or I ignore you!!!!
MY SERVICE IS BASED ON YOUR TIP; NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!!!!!!!`



A very small, immature, portion of the service industry that can't see the big picture makes the rest of it look bad. Pretty much everybody deals with immature and/or annoying people in their day-to-day. Shit happens. Keep on truckin'.

[Edited on December 17, 2011 at 3:18 AM. Reason : s]

12/17/2011 3:03:48 AM

You're a bartender. Shut the fuck up and get me my drink

12/17/2011 3:14:12 AM

I can't afford to tip because I already spent more than I can afford at Beasleys.

12/17/2011 3:21:50 AM

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"3. If you ignore my drink order, and I walk to the other side of the bar and order from the other bar tender, don't follow me over and try to steal the order. You had your shot, and you failed. And yes, I would have been a big tipper. "

Almost every bar does tip-sharing so the only way to make a difference is to leave and go somewhere else.

12/17/2011 3:23:13 AM

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"I can understand if you don't know how to make something like a Gimlet"

The only time I can understand a bartender not knowing or screwing up a drink is if it's one of the many generic fruity drinks (baybreeze, seabreeze, mai tai, etc). Bartender not knowing gin + lime juice would be like a cab driver needing directions to get downtown

12/17/2011 3:55:11 AM

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"I can understand if you don't know how to make something like a Gimlet or even an Old Fashioned."

What a shitty bartender if they can't do an Old Fashioned.

12/17/2011 4:55:03 AM

I realize this thread is about rules to follow if you're a bartender.... though I'm not a bartender. Hear me out, maybe I can offer some insight.

I am in outside sales, which is currently salary+commission, but will move into straight commission starting at the beginning of July 2010. I have been in this position since July 2009. I have competition from several direct manufacturing sales reps, large distributors, and local distributors. Here are the advantages and disadvantages of each:

Direct Advantages: Immediate knowledge of new technology, no middle man mark up, one shipping bill (paid by manufacturer or buyer of goods), access to larger range of non-commodity items, control inventory, have access to many distributors that can effectively sell their goods which increases market share, and set prices of commodity they manufacture.

Direct disadvantages: Typically have 1-3 sales reps per region (i.e. southeast, mid-atlantic, northeast, etc.) limiting the number of accounts they can successfully manage/cold-call, lack physical customer service or physical technical service available to or affordable for smaller users or altogether, are sometimes not trustworthy because they will go in behind their distributors that sell their commodity to one account in large quantities (i.e. they missed a big account, and have found out about it through a distributor selling their particular product) which leads to the distributor not selling their product anymore, have too many distributors selling the product ultimately driving the set price down through deviations, possibly rely on distributors to actually sell the product, and competition from other direct sources.

Large distributor advantages: have access to other commodities that go hand in hand with other manufacturers (poor example- grocery stores sell milk as well as cereal), get direct pricing, many locations regionally or nationally easing the shipping burden of buyers with multiple locations, personal service either customer or technical, many sales reps that are able to cover a broader territory, access to multiple manufacturers of the same commodity allowing to keep prices in check, service programs that smaller companies can't offer and direct providers can't match in price or value, and experts of many many commodities as opposed to one or a few.

Large distributor disadvantages: smaller local distributors creating price wars (think Michael Scott Paper Co vs Dunder-Mifflin), direct mfg's going in behind and stealing business, limited access to all of the mfg's (you won't find Harris Teeter name brands in Food Lion and visa versa), can't truly set prices because it's based on both supply and demand, territory management, and tough growth prospects in slower economies (this is true for direct as well really)

Local distributor advantages: Typically a good ol' boy setting where the seller and the buyer know each other for years (this does happen at all levels, but mostly at the local level), local folks are right down the street and can be used in emergencies, if the local guy buys at high enough volumes then there is no shipping charge to the end user, and access to both direct mfg's and large distributors.

Local distributor disadvantages: easily beaten in price, array of commodities, array of technology, lack of trained staff, low cash flow, etc etc etc.

This is what I have noticed in my six months, I am sure there are plenty more that need mentioning. The way I am setting myself apart as a sales person is this: I go after the big accounts right now while I am new. The big accounts, if I land them, will take care of me while I am new and building a customer base. The money made off of those allows me to focus free time on smaller accounts that get me higher margins. I build up big accounts, I would like to have 5-10 of these, then get 20-30 medium accounts. If I lose 1 or 2 big accounts, the 20-30 medium accounts keep me afloat while I go after new big accounts. I don't really waste time on small accounts simply because they basically pay for breakfast or something really small.

I will say this, if you can't get a big account in the first 6-8 months (assuming you have cash flow that you can ride this long) you could be in a world of trouble. If you can get one, it will really make going after the others a lot more enjoyable and less stressful. It's simply just very exhausting wasting any time on anything other than big accounts in the very beginning. You work just as hard on the medium sized accounts and see 1/3 to 1/36 of the money in my situation.

If you have any other questions, you can PM me. I hope this helps in the slightest!

12/17/2011 5:20:08 AM

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"stfup and let me lie about my rep on tww later"

12/17/2011 5:23:48 AM

1) Bring my drink, fast.

12/18/2011 5:43:36 PM