trouble at work

**stunner5000pt** · 05-23-2006, 09:02 PM

I work as a barback in a bar. I take glassware, beer and ice to the bar while it is in operation. I also help the bartenders collect the tips they get and clear the bartop so the bartender can go faster.

At the club on mine there is a hierarchy of bars. The lowest is small bar, then raised bar and ultimately main bar. Small bar has the least volume and main bar the most volume of sales.I inherited small bar from a guy who left our place becuase of a very similar situation to the one i am about to describe.

Before christmas time the hierarchy of people in line for the bars was Rick, then me, and Mike. Rick was at main bar during the christmas time because of the absence of the guy who usually does main bar. I was given raised bar. The first night of this predicament i screwed up... i ran out of a kind of beer and ultimately out of glassware as well. The bartender at raised bar, Tom, was pissed, to say the least. I knew i had to improve and i started to do things more efficiently rather than go super fast all the time.

However the very next weekend, on friday, a dumbbell fell on my foot and i couldnt walk, nor run. The raised bar was handed over to Mike, my junior. I am not completly certain of his performances while im my absence. When my foo was good and wel, a week later, i was given my raised bar again. And on friday i screwed up royally, again. On saturday i was stunned when Mike was given raised bar and i was given Small Bar! I was shocked. I didnt say anything, though. The next week the guy who was originally at main bar, Amit, returned and rick was back to raised bar and miek to small bar. Usually i get small bar... i was confused.

A few weeks passed this way and finally i sumemd up teh guts to talk to the manager about this. He said that he would give me anotehr chance at raised bar. He even scheduled a 'training session' with Rick and I so that Rick could show me the ropes and improve my skills. However, whenever Amit is absent from work, i am not given raised bar anymore. It 's bascially a demotion

Now the problem is i would just say c'est la vie and move on, but i attach a lot of myself to this job. This demotion eats me up inside. I have actually lost the will to work and i dont know what to do look forward to anymore. In teh past when i was just a busser, i worked hard and made a name for myself as a hard working person with a strong work ethic. But then i had the barback jo to look forward to. Now i dont have anything to look forward.

If you have had the patience to read all of this.. i thank you. What would you do in situation like this?

**lucabratzi** · 05-23-2006, 09:37 PM

well to be honest the manager prob just thinks u are goin to mess up again...they cant have that...its money out of there pocket and they could care less if u have the job or the next guy...i think u should just put time in there and earn ur respect...by the way what do u make there...im barbackin again this summer and i usually made over 200 a night..

**stunner5000pt** · 05-23-2006, 09:42 PM

Originally Posted by lucabratzi

well to be honest the manager prob just thinks u are goin to mess up again...they cant have that...its money out of there pocket and they could care less if u have the job or the next guy...i think u should just put time in there and earn ur respect...by the way what do u make there...im barbackin again this summer and i usually made over 200 a night..

at small bar i ll make $50 a night
at raised about $100 a night
and at main potentially over 200 a night
they will be increase the % tipout eventually

the problem is i have been working there for 3 years... shouldnt i have enoguh respect already?? Thats a rhetorical question though...
it eats me up inside that i lost my job... and this guy i go the jo for comes and takes my job in 2 months of him working there

**lucabratzi** · 05-23-2006, 09:49 PM

Originally Posted by stunner5000pt

at small bar i ll make $50 a night
at raised about $100 a night
and at main potentially over 200 a night
they will be increase the % tipout eventually

the problem is i have been working there for 3 years... shouldnt i have enoguh respect already?? Thats a rhetorical question though...
it eats me up inside that i lost my job... and this guy i go the jo for comes and takes my job in 2 months of him working there

wow, **** that...if ur workin there for 3 years and makin that money **** that...the first day i barbacked i made close to 3 hundo...i had heat rashes on my chest and shoulders and was dehydrated but it was worth it...find a dif. bar to work at...or become a bartender...go to the classes, i took the classes last summer, i loved goin to them...i looked for bartending jobs in florida but they basically hire only girls....but like i said try to find another place...

**J.S.N.** · 05-23-2006, 09:50 PM

kick someone's ass. you do take roids do you not?

**stunner5000pt** · 05-23-2006, 09:51 PM

Originally Posted by lucabratzi

wow, **** that...if ur workin there for 3 years and makin that money **** that...the first day i barbacked i made close to 3 hundo...i had heat rashes on my chest and shoulders and was dehydrated but it was worth it...find a dif. bar to work at...or become a bartender...go to the classes, i took the classes last summer, i loved goin to them...i looked for bartending jobs in florida but they basically hire only girls....but like i said try to find another place...

it is almost impossible to find a bartender's job unless i have amazing references (hard to lie about them) and they almost always hire women. I went to the classes and found out a week before hte classes themslves that the classes only help you at the job, but not to get a job. I dont know if in other places, the barbakcs get paid more... i d have to find one like that

**stunner5000pt** · 05-23-2006, 09:52 PM

Originally Posted by J.S.N.

kick someone's ass. you do take roids do you not?

not until maybe the end of next year

**stayinstacked** · 05-23-2006, 09:54 PM

it doesnt really sound to me like your screwing up the drink mixtures as much as inventory, am I right? When you say screw up, be more specific. If it's the drinks, then yeah, go take some classes or something

**stunner5000pt** · 05-23-2006, 09:57 PM

Originally Posted by stayinstacked

it doesnt really sound to me like your screwing up the drink mixtures as much as inventory, am I right? When you say screw up, be more specific. If it's the drinks, then yeah, go take some classes or something

im the barback, not hte bartender

screwing up here means running out of beer, or glassware, or ice or a combination of them

**lucabratzi** · 05-23-2006, 10:14 PM

Originally Posted by stunner5000pt

im the barback, not hte bartender

screwing up here means running out of beer, or glassware, or ice or a combination of them

yeah the shit is harder then it seems if ur at busy place...at the bar im at i take care of 2 bars so thats 3 bartenders tellin me to get shit...but if i was makin 50 dollars a night i would quit and get a reg. job...i wouldnt do it for less then 150....

**~fuelforfire~** · 05-23-2006, 10:18 PM

Originally Posted by lucabratzi

yeah the shit is harder then it seems if ur at busy place...at the bar im at i take care of 2 bars so thats 3 bartenders tellin me to get shit...but if i was makin 50 dollars a night i would quit and get a reg. job...i wouldnt do it for less then 150....

yeah man, not good enough money for the type of work it is.