Can You Hear Me Now?
Tonight before my shift started we had a work meeting with all the employees, the owners, and the managers. Honestly, I never pay attention during these silly meetings. I have been tending bar at my...
View ArticleFart Wars
Lets face it, farting is great fun. A nice loud and stinky fart shared among your fellow workers is a great source of entertainment. I remember years ago as a waiter, before I moved on to bartending, I...
View ArticleFuck Karma
If you read my story, Can You Hear Me Now?, you are well aware that we are not allowed to use our cell phones at work, and that I have some bad karma coming my way for fucking with my bar-back during...
View ArticleThe Riddler
Tonight was another agonizingly slow and torturous shift. I am looking forward to the holiday season when we will be busy enough so I don’t have to actually have conversations with my customers and can...
View ArticleShenanigans
Our slow season is over and beginning tomorrow, we should be consistently busy over the next several months. I am ready as I will ever be to weather this upcoming shitstorm of ridiculous holiday crap....
View ArticleThe Cup Of Shame
The busy season has finally arrived at my bar which is great because I am currently broker than a crack smoker. I have been scheduled twelve shifts in a row, the last one being New Years Eve....
View ArticleGuerilla Tactics
One of the more enjoyable aspects of bartending for me is engaging in practical jokes and various pranks with other employees in the service industry. It’s important to incorporate a bit of fun into...
View ArticleThe Habanero Cocktail
An enjoyable part of tending bar are the relationships and friendships built with my fellow employees. Five long nights a week we join forces in an attempt to scrape out a living. From the dishwasher...
View ArticleHalf Cooked
I believe engaging in practical jokes…or simply just fucking with fellow employees…is an essential aspect of bartending. Pranks…no matter how silly and immature…act as fleeting oases of comic relief...
View ArticleThe Soy Straw
I am a 40-year-old virgin when it comes to popping the cherry of social maturity. My body is aging, however my mind refuses to keep pace. I look in the mirror and can see clearly where I am slowly...
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