The Bartender Hates You

[@JaeJayJ.]

I absolutely love this guy

[@roodkapje349]

I watched this over and over again, translated it in Dutch, 'till I memorized every single word. I went to work, and halfway the evening I performed this standing on the bar. After a short silence I was applauded by my employer, and 12 drunks who shaked my hand, thanked me, and went home. Thank you!

[@mr.speyside5240]

Being the guy he describes at the end and almost shedding a tear as if to say, "he likes me, he really likes me!" So good to get recognized as a quality customer who doesn't start shit at a bar lol.

[@browsebot]

Regardless of whether I walk up to the bar and order 5 drinks for myself and my party, or 5 different people walk up to the bar and order 1 drink each, you still spend the same amount of time to make 5 drinks, and aren't doing anything extra that isn't within the scope of your normal job duties. Making drinks all night is your job. So in either case, I don't see how doing your job entitles someone to a gratuitous donation. Your employer is obligated to pay your salary for the work you perform.

[@rayne68]

OMFG!! This was amazing! I've been a bartender for 25 yrs and this guy NAILED IT!!!

[@aperson22222]

I like to think I fit the "I know where I am" mold. The only difference from what you describe is, while I do stop right before I get sloppy, I don't get up and leave right away. After closing my tab and tipping generously, I'll ask for an ice water and sit there drinking it. Then I'll read the room: If they need my stool and/or the bartender looks like he or she is ready for the night to end, I'll thank them and say good night. But if it's quiet and they look like they wouldn't mind the company (or if I'm a regular; I don't demand free drinks every other round or exemption from last call or that they drop everything the moment they see me drain my glass, but this is one perk I do insist on), I'll ask them to keep the water coming till I'm sure I'm good to drive home, and will leave them an extra dollar or two for their troubles.

[@mariyad6652]

I agree with below posters who pointed out that waiters should be tipped per U.S. law. However, I will only tip for adequate service. A bartender who is courteous, welcoming, asks what I would like, because I may just ask for a club soda on an off day, and gives me the beer bottle together with the glass or ask "would you like a glass", also ask about my day, will get a handsome tip. Bad service would be either slapping the usual beer in front of me without saying a word and walking away, or having the bus boy do it. This beer that you're charging 7.00 plus for, is 2.00 at the liquor store across the street and I'll have a better experience just picking it up there. That would get me walking out, with the unrequested beer open on the bar.

[@browsebot]

You are correct. I have never, would never, and will never work at any type of a service job whatsoever. That's a personal choice, because I choose to create better options in my life for myself. I do not look down on people that do menial labor or unskilled labor jobs, because I know those jobs are necessary functions within society. However, a waitress taking a grand total of 5 minutes taking my order and bringing food doesn't justify me paying her a full hour's wages. I'm not her employer.

[@msmilano7091]

browsebot: I can't possibly imagine why you're still single!! ....and if you think bartending is "unskilled" then you're hanging out in the wrong bars. Although, please stay there - that means the rest of man(and woman)kind is spared from your "wisdom"

[@RopeTrickPro]

Anyone who has commented and has worked behind the bar, tell me about a tab that is 83 bucks. The group says, here's 40 cash, put the rest on a credit card. What happens to your tip?

[@finneganswake3080]

"without tips"..a phrase i included. i am aware there is law protecting those in the service industry. i have been involved the service industry in one way or another for the past 8 years.

[@titansbaby985]

ooooh the magical world of working in a bar. don't forget the amped up post UFC fight guys, the guys whose livers check out once they walk in the door, the fighting couples, the baby momma/daddy drama, and etc....

[@bttruman]

Yes! I'm the last kind! I always tip $1 per beer, and usually $2 for shots or mixed drinks. More if it requires more than just mixing Jack and Coke in a glass. Last night I got ignored for 10 straight minutes, and when she turned to me to take my, she just walks away from the bar. She comes back a couple minutes later with another bartender, sees her friends at the other end, and proceeds to get their drinks before mine. I tipped the other one $11 on 4 drinks to rub it in.

[@EightAsterisk]

I have to say to browsebot: As a single female, one of the top things that I very deliberately take notice of on first dates (or subsequent dates following said first date) is the way that a man treats the servers at the establishment we are frequenting. How he treats these people very often determines whether or not I will have any kind of relationship with them. What I'm saying here is: be nice to your employee, it shows characters and will get you further with your dates (female or male).

[@mjphoto45]

Very good!...and true. Im a DJ and Probation Officer...go figure. You should hear what I hear as a Probation Officer

[@browsebot]

Life is all about choices. If you choose to become complacent, content with working an unskilled, menial labor job, then you will reap what you sow in life based upon the effort you put forth to better yourself. Personally, I only go to bars to meet women. I don't go because I am stressed and need to drink alcohol to relieve my mental and emotional burdens and unwind, because I have created a wonderful life for myself by choosing to get off my ass and work hard for what I want in life.

[@beamerball666]

I usually tip well I drink Guinness unless it's a bar with a bunch of different craft brews so generally at $6.00 a piece I tip between $2-$3 a beer and generally end up with a $25-30 total tip

[@viippeerr29]

I just read your comment and have to say well done! I'm a bartender too and i get that shit all the time! But getting him to shake a shaker will lemonade in it is genius, I wish i was there.

[@elizabethdowless1988]

The worst is when people say to me, "I used to be a bartender". This usually means that they don't have as much daily income and will result in three thousand questions to test my knowledge, a lesson on how to make their signature drink (normally a bar standard) and a below average tip.

[@browsebot]

I was not being arrogant.I was simply stating facts.The service industry largely employs people performing menial, unskilled labor. There is no debating that.I don't look down on people doing that type of work, because I realize that they not only perform functions that are necessary within society, but also work that I would never choose to do. Without being condescending, as anyone's life can be full and rich, I wouldn't trade my life for that of an unskilled, menial laborer.

[@glennroye]

We like our jobs,that is why we are standing up for ourselves.Servers & bartenders are MY people,funny,smart on their feet,hard working.The system of our culture is one reason we chose this path,tip system is an honor system of which WE are NOT the ones who broke that honor.

[@henrikbull7708]

I work in a nightclub, 60-70% of the bartenders we employ including myself have a daytime job or going to school. We aren't unskilled, we look after you and we give you a good time. And all we want in return is that you respect the job we are doing. Not to be bullied or having you rant on about how pathetic we are, but if you would like I can come to your job and behave like you do at my job. Good luck buddy boy, I hope I will see you soon.

[@SnakeladyGreta]

Cape Cod: Vodka, Cranberry, & lime.... at least in NC. No soda water in it (at least, here). :)

[@aleasiaromero2443]

Awesome

[@fouleckuk]

first when u have red label on your back bar don't talk about bartending every good bartender hide this or put it on the speed rack

[@omnidye]

"This will be a man, or a woman. Usually alone, sometimes with people."

[@BigOlDipshit]

I never said anyone involved was content. You don't know their story. Perhaps they're working harder than you ever have, multiple jobs to pay for school, etc. You don't know that. Just because you're happy with the choices you've made doesn't mean everyone else has had the same opportunities that you've had to make such choices.

[@browsebot]

That's great. So since all tipped employees are guaranteed minimum wage no matter what, then they should do the job that they are paid for, and not look for income supplementation from customers. Tipped employees are not employed by customers, so customers are under no legal obligation to pay their wages. If waiters are unsatisfied with their wages, they should take it up with their employer, and not think they are in any way entitled to a tip for doing their job, because they aren't.

[@ronaldminnaard]

Two girls walk up to the bar. One orders a frozen daiquiri. They wait for you to finish and clean the damn blender, and then the other one says "I'll have one too". And being a bartender in Holland 9 out of ten people never tip at all, not even on an 80 euro round of all different drinks made in record time and served with a smile, because "I don't get a tip for treating you when you come to the hospital, do I?"

[@meg9able]

Best video ever

[@browsebot]

Actually, all tipped employees are GUARANTEED minimum wage if their tips plus their pre-tip salary does not exceed minimum wage. This is US Federal Law under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Please educate yourself and stop believing that waitresses and bartenders and locked into a wage of $2.13 simply because their employer chooses to use the Tip Credit. I have owned and operated businesses that have had tipped employees, and I know the law. Most people are told lies and they believe it.

[@MEATSOMBRERO]

I Thought I was alone. Thanks Bro!

[@michaelmcgarry3997]

that bit about chick bartenders is spot on.

[@valerietaylor2682]

"barf out" made me giggle, lol

[@teamheard]

You should try tending bar in the UK if you want to experience the worst customers in the world a magical country where everyone is rude and nobody tips.

[@Caligula42]

sound like a real winner to me

[@browsebot]

People that serve me food and drinks are not my employees, and I am not legally or morally obligated to pay their salaries. Stop looking for handouts from strangers, and ask your employer where your paycheck is...oh wait, the actual employer is paying slave wages because they use the federal tip credit.

[@Anna-wd8ox]

Currently a server training to be a bartender @ my job lol all of this is true but @ least you made it funny

[@browsebot]

I don't understand why bartenders think that taking 10 seconds to hand you a few bottles of beer constitutes "taking care of you" and that you owe them something for that.

[@browsebot]

You've entirely missed the point of the entire discussion. The amount of salary someone makes or how many friends you have was not in debate...nor is it really relevant to anyone but yourself.

[@FinnRHarg]

Yes and we would like to be treated with respect like most of us will give to you... We don't want to have people shouting they have been waiting for an hour or some bullshit. About the tipping I tend to agree I am from England not a massive tipping culture here, but if someone orders a bottle of champagne or a massive order on a manic night and I have to then spend time making that while loads of other people wait, it would be nice to get a little sorry for the trouble ->

[@Tpowers1525]

You get no or very little tip.. very irritating when people do this haha I have had 50+ dollar tabs with a full night of drinking and tip 1 or 2 dollars...

[@gpimlott]

10-20% Maybe., on the Credit amount always

[@RyanMcGillMiddleton]

Don't worry I'm a bar tender guy!!TO FUCKING DAMN RIGHT! One night the upstairs bar was hired out by another bar company to hold their annual managers awards night. I Spent the whole night hearing lines like: "I've been on bars since you were a kid" "I've studied mixology for 10 years, I know what I'm talking about". I actually invited this guy behind the bar to show me how you shake a drink after you've added lemonade to it. The Boston shaker promptly pop'd open and coverd the idiot in drink.

[@MGSkelly]

Your tip gets cut in half. I always thought that's why they do that shit.

[@EightAsterisk]

I'm betting that you hear that someone FORCED them to take the drugs that resulted in a positive test!

[@pmc220]

you know i never begrudge the dollar i give the bartender to open my bottle of beer, but jesus, cry me a river... it's not the siberian coal mines, guy

[@RopeTrickPro]

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[@mariyad6652]

I'm the last type, but I do make the bartenders engage in ridiculous conversations and listen to my stories.

[@yicancu56]

Shit. I'm a bartender and a stare into the distance guy. but I do tip so i guess silver lining?

[@TheHotdiamond]

The worst thing was when drunk people would freaking spraye in my ear their drink order screaming over the super loud music. Oh and the college kids that would say Hey give me 4!! I'm like what kind? He goes COLD ONES!! I go what kind? LOL he goes Beer! I'm like what kind? :) Hes like TAP! I'm like what kind? THEY would always go the cheapest!! Then his like let me get a pitcher instead! Crazy...

[@FinnRHarg]

I enjoy the job, hate some of the customers. If no one can tell this is after a shift... And another annoying thing I have got, I don't know if any other bartenders have, is (usually) a girl who says to me... "SMILE!" FUCK OFF! I have been here for several hours I am not in the mood.

[@natabelousko]

True freaking story...lol

[@tthomasmpfaff]

They share the money anyway

[@punkrockpub]

YUPPIES are the WORLD'S WORST!!!! EVER!!!!! I'm trying to open an "aLL pUNk" bar and that way, the yupps won't come around it!!!

[@tehmalacoda]

Well said, sir. Thanks for the public service to the assholes that think they rule the bar because they paid full price for a drink.

[@jessiepolana800]

You sound mad, lol. Maybe bartending isn't for you. I'm a bartender and I love my job, sure there's assholes out there and bad nights, but that's everywhere. I don't mind demanding customers as long as they tip well.

[@Gibson17]

You do not have the right to treat customers badly at all even if they dont tip. Thats the risk you take being a bartender ;) Alot of bartenders these days are unfriendly and have no people skills at all. Its almost if they think you owe them something. Not all though...there are still some great ones out there but very few. Oh and i tip very well.

[@ylcn77ylcn]

nibiru music

[@y35n00b5]

I generally tip 3......unless its busy...then I do 5 :3

[@browsebot]

I fail to see how you construe doing your job, and serving drinks, constitutes you "taking care of me" or "giving me a good time". My only expectation of you is to serve drinks, not take care of me, and not to give me a good time. I am responsible for taking care of myself, and ensuring I have a good time. That's not your function. When I enter a venue that serves alcohol, I do not bully the employees or rant. I don't even interact with them other than for their actual function. Serve us drinks.

[@jartman84]

why is he so angry? like "Clerks" but "Bartenders"?

[@joshua50845]

Nothing makes me as a bartender more pissed than the burn it i tip well guy and the hey round for the house then accuse me of padding his bill guy. Oh or the well the other girl makes it stronger. Fine let her serve ya ya douche bag. We need a customer bartender swap week. Yes yes

[@johnnydiva]

If you ask for a "vodka cranberry" at a gay bar, they will laugh at you for not calling it a "Cape Cod."

[@9875117a]

I understand you, BUT I want you to remember you were the one chose this job and I guess you knew at the beginning that you had to work with public, your attitude says to me you don't like this people but you'll have to live with it if you want to be bartender, if you don't then quit... So do you like your job or not?

[@bgarbacz]

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[@dieselmac]

My wife and I go out.I always drink more.every trip to the bar for me is a 1 buck.If your good you get more I drink at least 10 beers and the wife 3 or four drinks.1 couple 13 or 14 bucks x the amount of couples all night and you cant make more than me at my shity factory job?please.buck a beer thats it!.beer is already $3 or $4 bucks.thats $4 or $5 for me now.any bar tender not worth there salt doesn't make money.lets get REAL.

[@scruffles09]

Maybe if you weren't so rude you'd get tipped more... Just a thought.

[@lordofdarkdudes]

I managed to get some free beers frome a bartender

[@browsebot]

Not tipping is "theft of services"? You obviously have no understanding of US Law, which is what I would expect from someone not educated enough to know the difference between "fare" and "fair". As wait staff, you are not employed by the customer, and they are under no legal compulsion to give you a handout. Read the US Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and understand that your employer MUST guarantee you a wage of at least minimum wage. Hence customers owe you nothing. Stop being a beggar.

[@hectormerc350]

Bitterass

[@good2freelance1]

I don't like the tipping culture. You already paid for your drink. Let the owner of the bar pay you properly for your labor.

[@groverreediii6487]

If it only was the case my friend.

[@sisbrawny]

Grover Reed III It's still not the customer's responsibility to make up for a shit pay check.

[@groverreediii6487]

sisbrawny no one is saying it is.

[@ashleyruark7893]

+sisbrawny I always enjoy this argument. And I could even empathize with its rationale at corporate restaurant chains. Those places have plenty of money. But the fact of the matter is that drinking and dining out is a fiscal and social luxury. So if you can afford to buy $12 cocktails, why wouldn't you want to invest your money in locally owned establishments that employs local people when no one seems to have a problem with their tax dollars paying for corporate bailouts to the richest people on the fucking planet.... "Yes Mr. Tax Man, spend my money any way you see fit, but FUCK these guys who are trying to pay their sable bill..."

[@ashleyruark7893]

+Ashley Ruark Cable***

[@finneganswake3080]

this guy makes $2.13 an hour without tips. Just sayin'.

[@sadorange]

Quit whining and do your job.