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OK, new bar is NOT working out, I'm going back to my old one. I was only temporary at the new one, just so I could be a bit closer to family and straighten some things out. Things are going OK now, especially now my best friend is a lot better.
But I am not liking the new bar. The staff and managers have been brilliant and welcoming, but the customers are EVIL. They aren't like the SC's I am used to, the ones I am used to were crazy, but they are the kind where I could walk off and laugh about them, but these new SC's take it to another level...
1. Well, when I started, a couple of regulars said that I stole someones job, seeing as I was a supervisor and there had been people that had been there longer than me that weren't. I was OK with it at first, but today...
Me: What can I get you mate?
SC: YOU aren't fucking serving me! You are nothing but a dirty rotten thief! You stole someone else's job, people have been waiting to get promoted here for years, and you swan in and take the job! You ought to be fucking ashamed of yourself.
I didn't know what to say, I was completely shaken.
2. This might just be a little quibble, but it's doing my head in. I'm in the middle of serving a customer, when one standing next to him barks:
SC: Get my a pint of lager when you are done with that order!
Me: I will get it when I am finished and it is your turn.
SC: Just get me the god damn drink.
Now, if it was ONE customer, I would be OK with it, but I am not exagerating when I say it is EVERY OTHER customer that talks to me like this. After working an eight hour shift of that, you get really worn down.
3. I am in the glasswash room, when a customer walks in!
SC: I'd like a drink please!
Me: Get out! You're not allowed in here!
SC: But your job is to get me drinks! You're not making any drinks!
Me: There are people serving on the bar, they will get you a drink!
SC: Why aren't you making drinks??
This has also happened more than once.
4. An old lady walked into the bar.
OL: Hello, I'd like to book Christmas dinner.
Me: Christmas dinner?
OL: Yes, Christmas dinner, can I book it? And can you get me a Christmas menu?
Me: We aren't open on Christmas day, so we don't have a Christmas dinner.
OL: You're...not...open?
Me: No.
OL: I have 36 people coming here on Christmas Day! What am I supposed to do now?
Me: .....
OL: They are all really picky eaters as well, I was hoping you could help me!
Me: I'm sorry, but we are not open on Christmas day.
OL: What about my family? What are they going to do for Christmas?
Me: I don't know.
OL: YOU HAVE RUINED CHRISTMAS FOR 36 PEOPLE!
5. A group of hags came up to the bar. They believed they were to good to wait in line.
Hag: HELLO?? HELLO?? WOMEN WAITING HERE! ARE WE INVISABLE? ARE YOU NOT SERVING US BECAUSE WE'RE WOMEN? YOU SEXIST BASTARD! OR IS IT BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE WOMEN? YOU FUCKING FAG!
I told them to leave, and was met by more screaming of the word "Fag"
6. I finally left work, me and a co-worker grabbed a drink. A customer came up and started yelling.
SC: WHY AM I WAITING TO BE SERVED WHEN YOU TWO BASTARDS ARE SAT DRINKING?
Stunned, is the only word.
7. We left to go to another bar...the customer FOLLOWED us, snarling under his breath.
8. My ride home arrived. Customer FOLLOWED me to the car.
All of this happened in one day, some of the stories (people yelling things at me while I'm with a customer, being called a job stealer) have happened several times. This is why I want to leave. At my old bar, OK, the hours were long, it was stressful at times, but it was also really fun at times. I have been nothing but depressed in the short time I have been there.
I saw the manager and told her I had "found" somewhere to live, and was moving back to my old bar ASAP. She said that's fine, and I've decided to be nice and give her four weeks notice, rather than two.
I haven't found anywhere to live. I'm going to be crashing at a co-workers, I'm that desperate to get away.
But I am not liking the new bar. The staff and managers have been brilliant and welcoming, but the customers are EVIL. They aren't like the SC's I am used to, the ones I am used to were crazy, but they are the kind where I could walk off and laugh about them, but these new SC's take it to another level...
1. Well, when I started, a couple of regulars said that I stole someones job, seeing as I was a supervisor and there had been people that had been there longer than me that weren't. I was OK with it at first, but today...
Me: What can I get you mate?
SC: YOU aren't fucking serving me! You are nothing but a dirty rotten thief! You stole someone else's job, people have been waiting to get promoted here for years, and you swan in and take the job! You ought to be fucking ashamed of yourself.
I didn't know what to say, I was completely shaken.
2. This might just be a little quibble, but it's doing my head in. I'm in the middle of serving a customer, when one standing next to him barks:
SC: Get my a pint of lager when you are done with that order!
Me: I will get it when I am finished and it is your turn.
SC: Just get me the god damn drink.
Now, if it was ONE customer, I would be OK with it, but I am not exagerating when I say it is EVERY OTHER customer that talks to me like this. After working an eight hour shift of that, you get really worn down.
3. I am in the glasswash room, when a customer walks in!
SC: I'd like a drink please!
Me: Get out! You're not allowed in here!
SC: But your job is to get me drinks! You're not making any drinks!
Me: There are people serving on the bar, they will get you a drink!
SC: Why aren't you making drinks??
This has also happened more than once.
4. An old lady walked into the bar.
OL: Hello, I'd like to book Christmas dinner.
Me: Christmas dinner?
OL: Yes, Christmas dinner, can I book it? And can you get me a Christmas menu?
Me: We aren't open on Christmas day, so we don't have a Christmas dinner.
OL: You're...not...open?
Me: No.
OL: I have 36 people coming here on Christmas Day! What am I supposed to do now?
Me: .....
OL: They are all really picky eaters as well, I was hoping you could help me!
Me: I'm sorry, but we are not open on Christmas day.
OL: What about my family? What are they going to do for Christmas?
Me: I don't know.
OL: YOU HAVE RUINED CHRISTMAS FOR 36 PEOPLE!
5. A group of hags came up to the bar. They believed they were to good to wait in line.
Hag: HELLO?? HELLO?? WOMEN WAITING HERE! ARE WE INVISABLE? ARE YOU NOT SERVING US BECAUSE WE'RE WOMEN? YOU SEXIST BASTARD! OR IS IT BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE WOMEN? YOU FUCKING FAG!
I told them to leave, and was met by more screaming of the word "Fag"
6. I finally left work, me and a co-worker grabbed a drink. A customer came up and started yelling.
SC: WHY AM I WAITING TO BE SERVED WHEN YOU TWO BASTARDS ARE SAT DRINKING?
Stunned, is the only word.
7. We left to go to another bar...the customer FOLLOWED us, snarling under his breath.
8. My ride home arrived. Customer FOLLOWED me to the car.
All of this happened in one day, some of the stories (people yelling things at me while I'm with a customer, being called a job stealer) have happened several times. This is why I want to leave. At my old bar, OK, the hours were long, it was stressful at times, but it was also really fun at times. I have been nothing but depressed in the short time I have been there.
I saw the manager and told her I had "found" somewhere to live, and was moving back to my old bar ASAP. She said that's fine, and I've decided to be nice and give her four weeks notice, rather than two.
I haven't found anywhere to live. I'm going to be crashing at a co-workers, I'm that desperate to get away.
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