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This is a guy who tips like shit https://twitter.com/stephenking/status/1351581412743393280
If your method of insulting people you don’t respect is to wish jobs on them that you also don’t respect, then just say you think hospitality work is shit, and go.
She’ll get an NRA or John Birch job. She’ll marry a grifter’s kid. She’ll be fine.
Let’s talk cocktail waitresses:
She’ll get an NRA or John Birch job. She’ll marry a grifter’s kid. She’ll be fine.
Let’s talk cocktail waitresses:
I worked at a cocktail bar very close to North Station in Boston. Tons of after work briefcase types waiting on their trains to Marblehead.
They generally tipped about a dollar a drink.
Two hours at my table, on the Palm Pilots (1), three drinks.
$3 I’d make in 2 hours.
They generally tipped about a dollar a drink.
Two hours at my table, on the Palm Pilots (1), three drinks.
$3 I’d make in 2 hours.
I had five or six regulars who did this every day. One guy was a venture capitalist named Courtney who worked upstairs, but used a corner booth in the bar as his office because he’d get DTs the minute he sobered up.
Told me stories about Hunter Thompson.
Told me stories about Hunter Thompson.
All day he’d sit there drinking. Half a bottle of Knob Creek I’d bring him every day.
And every day he’d tip me $5, and suggest I should blow him if I wanted to make REAL money.
A venture capitalist. Real money. For a blowjob. Do I look THAT stupid?
And every day he’d tip me $5, and suggest I should blow him if I wanted to make REAL money.
A venture capitalist. Real money. For a blowjob. Do I look THAT stupid?
One of the things about old-fashioned cocktail waitressing in places that don’t use cash drawers is that at the end of your shift, the server pays out the bar for every drink.
It’s a weird system if you’ve never done it:
It’s a weird system if you’ve never done it:
You’re a server, your shift is over. You close out for the night and the POS system prints your tally. Say you got $1000 worth of drinks from the bar that night. You pay the bar that $1k. Whatever is left in your big fat cash stack is yours.
In theory.
In theory.
It is REALLY easy to end the night owing the bar, though.
Another server rings a drink on your code (these were old machines before RFID). Your money gets lifted out of your apron. Someone at a large party gets a drink from the bar snd charges it to the table.
Another server rings a drink on your code (these were old machines before RFID). Your money gets lifted out of your apron. Someone at a large party gets a drink from the bar snd charges it to the table.
I ended more than a few nights owing the bar money. I slept on a sofa in the private party room in the back of the bar a few times because I couldn’t afford cab fare home at the end of my shift.
Cocktail waitressing is hard. And that’s before the sexual harassment and assault.
Cocktail waitressing is hard. And that’s before the sexual harassment and assault.
We have GOT to stop treating hospitality and custodial workers with such unmitigated disdain.
It’s waitstaff, hotel housekeeping, the mall food court sweepers, theme park employees.
We know those jobs are hard, and we know that because WE CONSUMERS MAKE THEM MISERABLE. Stop it.
It’s waitstaff, hotel housekeeping, the mall food court sweepers, theme park employees.
We know those jobs are hard, and we know that because WE CONSUMERS MAKE THEM MISERABLE. Stop it.
Quick fun bar fact:
The speed rack (shelves of liquor behind the bar) is arranged in a specific order, based on frequency of use, like keyboard letters.
From left to right, most speed racks go: vodka, rum, gin, tequila, and triple sec. The 5 liquors of a Long Island iced tea.
The speed rack (shelves of liquor behind the bar) is arranged in a specific order, based on frequency of use, like keyboard letters.
From left to right, most speed racks go: vodka, rum, gin, tequila, and triple sec. The 5 liquors of a Long Island iced tea.
