Joe Btfsplk’s
Damn this working! Who wants jobs? Busy busy busy. I’ll describe a typical day in the life…
Wake up to Andy’s alarm. Turn it off.
Wake up to Andy’s second alarm. Turn it off.
Wake up to Jackson telling me I need to get up and go to work. Attempt to turn him off, fail, get up. Someone’s probably playing Knights of the Old Republic as I leave the house.
At work, I attempt to spend most of my time behind the bar. It’s much more simple and straightforward than seating people, and you’re less likely to offend servers doing it. Though there are some that seem to think that the only orders that come to the bar are theirs.
The place is long and thin, with booths that everyone likes to sit in and tables which they don’t so much. Most things are rather overpriced. Andy, Jackson and I have wandered over and had a burger, a beer, a milkshake and a dessert each and reached the $80 mark quite easily.
Get home after I’m let off. I may get to play Knights at this point. At 9-10 o’clock, Matt will come home and we’ll start dinner. After dinner, sit around, play games, realise I should be asleep if I’m to be up tomorrow, and that I need to go to the post office some time soon. This salient fact will be forgotten until the same time tomorrow.
It’s actually been vaguely enjoyable though. 2003 had a good start and a good end. Let’s hope I can stretch this out a bit more for 2004.
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James
January 8th, 2004 at 11:49 am
Ahh, reminds me of when I was starting out in the bar at Colonial Stadium… Never mind, son, you’ll get the hang of dealing with those pesky customers!
My advice is (apart from get the hell out of hospitality as soon as possible): the pushier someone is, the more people you serve ahead of them (within reason, don’t just go to the other side of the bar if you run out of people nearby), and then be REALLY REALLY polite to them and smile as much as possible. It drives them absolutely nuts. This works particularly well with Sydney Swans supporters, but I don’t suppose you’ll come across many of them in Canada. I only saw a few of them myself in Melbourne.