Workplace Honesty

<h2>Working behind a bar can be an extreme test of endurance, patience, and how long you can stand on your feet while fake-smiling at a customer who thinks they&#39;re the first to ask, &quot;what&#39;s your favorite cocktail to make?&quot;</h2><p>So, when a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2i2n5x/bartenders_of_reddit_what_is_something_that_we_do/" target="_blank">Reddit </a>user asked bartenders everywhere, &quot;what is something that we do at bars that pisses you off?&quot; people who work in the service industry were ready to vent about the &quot;just surprise me&quot; Karens of nightlife.</p><h2>1.</h2><blockquote> <p>Good for you, you know my name, please stop yelling it out from across the bar as I am serving other guests! This includes my best friends, my hugest pet peeve! - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/IT_Bartender/">IT_Bartender</a></p> </blockquote><h2>2.</h2><blockquote> <p>Haggle. Seriously, I don&#39;t own the bar and I&#39;m not in any position to give you discounts without taking it from my tips. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Phr4gG3r/">Phr4gG3r</a></p> </blockquote><h2>3.</h2><blockquote> <p>If you know the bartender don&#39;t be a d*ck and expect to be served first and get free drinks etc. if you&#39;re a real mate and don&#39;t pressure me i&#39;ll give you all the sh*t I can get away with, if you ask I&#39;ll say no (probably because I have to because asking outright is just a dumb way to get caught anyway) - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/qwertylaura123/">qwertylaura123</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>4.</h2><blockquote> <p>In the middle of making many shots, pouring multiple drinks - &quot;heyyyyyyy do you have a charger back there, can you plug my phone in please. Hurry it&#39;s going to die&quot; - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/cinderellaponygirl/">cinderellaponygirl</a></p> </blockquote><h2>5.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;I&#39;ll have a bud light.&quot;</p> <p>&quot;Sorry, but we&#39;re a brewery. We only serve our own beer.&quot;</p> <p>&quot;Oh, okay. I guess a regular bud is fine then.&quot; - [deleted]</p> </blockquote><h2>6.</h2><blockquote> <p>Don&#39;t hit on me. I&#39;m here to work, not date. Besides in a bar full of drunk and available people, why would you want to hit on the only sober one? - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/NoPhilosophy/">NoPhilosophy</a></p> </blockquote><h2>7.</h2><blockquote> <p>Throw your f*cking money/ID on the fucking bar when I have my f*cking hand out for it. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/pork_police/">pork_police</a></p> </blockquote><h2>9.</h2><blockquote> <p>When someone sits at the bar and immediately introduces themselves and reaches to shake my hand I know that they are going to be trouble. These people tend to think that by introducing themselves to the bartender that they are on a first name basis and they are therefore exempt from getting into trouble.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>This is most often observed in patrons who have been drinking too much before they even got to the bar. If you want to get to know the bartender, then you have to put in your time and earn their trust and respect. We are used to dealing with low-lifes and derelicts so you need to prove that you are someone who is genuinely interested in building a bartender-patron relationship. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/CobraCornelius/">CobraCornelius</a></p> </blockquote><h2>10.</h2><blockquote> <p>Me: &quot;Hi, what would you like?&quot; Customer: &quot;you&quot; - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/xxCLJ/">xxCLJ</a></p> </blockquote><h2>11.</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;I want two vodka sodas and we are gonna split it on two cards, run the cards because I don&#39;t wanna forget the cards, and charge my phone for me because the other bartender did it last time for me and I come here ALL the time how do you not know me, are you new? Ugh. It&#39;s my friends birthday, can we have some strong but sweet, cheap shots for her? Wait, I have to PAY for them?! This place has changed.&quot; - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Milkusa/">Milkusa</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>12.</h2><blockquote> <p>Plead for another drink after closing time.</p> <p>Drunk: Just one more, please mate. I&#39;ll buy you one too...</p> <p>Me: I can&#39;t, I have no till. Our till has been taken away for cashing up.</p> <p>Drunk: Just leave the money by the till then? You can keep the change.</p> <p>Me: I can&#39;t do that, our license is only until 11 and it&#39;s 11.20.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Drunk: Pleeeeeease! There&#39;s this girl I&#39;m trying to chat up and I need one more drink to give me courage...</p> <p>Me: I. Can&#39;t. I&#39;ll lose my job.</p> <p>Drunk: But I&#39;ll make it worth your while!! I&#39;ll pay you...</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>This goes on for the whole time I am closing down the bar. I have no till. Go the fuck home.</p> <p>(I&#39;m a part-time bartender in Scotland. Denying people alcohol here is as much of an insult to them as punching their child in the face.) - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/wagamamalullaby/">wagamamalullaby</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>13.</h2><blockquote> <p>While working the concession stand at a movie theater for a summer, this one teenage girl with her friend were extra annoying, obviously trying to flirt and get on my good side during a busy night. She asked how much nacho cheese on the side would be. After I tell her it&#39;s $1.75, she bends over the counter, tries to show off her cleavage, and asks &quot;how about for me?&quot; It was pretty satisfying looking her in the eye and saying, more clearly, <em>&quot;$1.75&quot; - </em><a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/DayDreaminBoy/">DayDreaminBoy</a></p> </blockquote><h2>14.</h2><blockquote> <p>Ripping up coasters and labels and if by then, you haven&#39;t caused enough misery for the night, throw it on the floor or squish it in the gap of something. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/showmebevelle/">showmebevelle</a></p> </blockquote><h2>15.</h2><blockquote> <p>We have a certain type of clientele that always sends their drinks back for not being strong enough. This means you get the tiniest drop of alcohol right in the straw. When I bring the drink back their reaction is amazing. It&#39;s always something like &quot;wow, that&#39;s a strong drink!&quot; - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/jtemperance/">jtemperance</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>16.</h2><blockquote> <p>Snap your fingers at me, yeah...you&#39;re not getting that drink anytime soon. - [deleted]</p> </blockquote><h2>17.</h2><blockquote> <p>When people say &#39;I&#39;ll have a beer please&#39;&quot; as if there&#39;s only one kind. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/foxsweater/">foxsweater</a></p> </blockquote><h2>18.</h2><blockquote> <p>Next summer we&#39;re gong to have three special cocktails called &quot;What&#39;s Good Here,&quot; &quot;When You Have A Minute,&quot; and &quot;I Need A Second.&quot; - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/jonnielaw/">jonnielaw</a></p> </blockquote><h2>19.</h2><blockquote> <p>Don&#39;t f*cking eat out of the f*cking fruit tray. That fruit is meant for drinks, not for your grubby fingers. - <a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/RaoulZDuke/">RaoulZDuke</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

19 bartenders reveal the most annoying things that customers always do.

Working behind a bar can be an extreme test of endurance, patience, and how long you can stand on your feet while fake-smiling at a customer who thinks they&#39;re the first to ask, &quot;what&#39;s your favorite cocktail to make?&quot;So, when a Reddit user asked bartenders everywhere, &quot;what is something that we do at bars that pisses you off?&quot; people who work in the service industry were ready to vent about the &quot;just surprise me&quot; Karens of nightlife.1. Good for you, you know my name, please stop yelling it out from across the bar as I am serving other guests! This includes my best friends, my hugest pet peeve! - IT_Bartender 2. Haggle. Seriously, I don&#39;t own the bar and I&#39;m not in any position to give you discounts without taking it from my tips. - Phr4gG3r 3. If you know the bartender don&#39;t be a d*ck and expect to be served first and get free drinks etc. if you&#39;re a real mate and don&#39;t pressure me i&#39;ll give you all the sh*t I can get away with, if you ask I&#39;ll say no (probably because I have to because asking outright is just a dumb way to get caught anyway) - qwertylaura123 4. In the middle of making many shots, pouring multiple drinks - &quot;heyyyyyyy do you have a charger back there, can you plug my phone in please. Hurry it&#39;s going to die&quot; - cinderellaponygirl 5. &quot;I&#39;ll have a bud light.&quot; &quot;Sorry, but we&#39;re a brewery. We only serve our own beer.&quot; &quot;Oh, okay. I guess a regular bud is fine then.&quot; - [deleted] 6. Don&#39;t hit on me. I&#39;m here to work, not date. Besides in a bar full of drunk and available people, why would you want to hit on the only sober one? - NoPhilosophy 7. Throw your f*cking money/ID on the fucking bar when I have my f*cking hand out for it. - pork_police 9. When someone sits at the bar and immediately introduces themselves and reaches to shake my hand I know that they are going to be trouble. These people tend to think that by introducing themselves to the bartender that they are on a first name basis and they are therefore exempt from getting into trouble.  This is most often observed in patrons who have been drinking too much before they even got to the bar. If you want to get to know the bartender, then you have to put in your time and earn their trust and respect. We are used to dealing with low-lifes and derelicts so you need to prove that you are someone who is genuinely interested in building a bartender-patron relationship. - CobraCornelius 10. Me: &quot;Hi, what would you like?&quot; Customer: &quot;you&quot; - xxCLJ 11. &quot;I want two vodka sodas and we are gonna split it on two cards, run the cards because I don&#39;t wanna forget the cards, and charge my phone for me because the other bartender did it last time for me and I come here ALL the time how do you not know me, are you new? Ugh. It&#39;s my friends birthday, can we have some strong but sweet, cheap shots for her? Wait, I have to PAY for them?! This place has changed.&quot; - Milkusa 12. Plead for another drink after closing time. Drunk: Just one more, please mate. I&#39;ll buy you one too... Me: I can&#39;t, I have no till. Our till has been taken away for cashing up. Drunk: Just leave the money by the till then? You can keep the change. Me: I can&#39;t do that, our license is only until 11 and it&#39;s 11.20.  Drunk: Pleeeeeease! There&#39;s this girl I&#39;m trying to chat up and I need one more drink to give me courage... Me: I. Can&#39;t. I&#39;ll lose my job. Drunk: But I&#39;ll make it worth your while!! I&#39;ll pay you...  This goes on for the whole time I am closing down the bar. I have no till. Go the fuck home. (I&#39;m a part-time bartender in Scotland. Denying people alcohol here is as much of an insult to them as punching their child in the face.) - wagamamalullaby 13. While working the concession stand at a movie theater for a summer, this one teenage girl with her friend were extra annoying, obviously trying to flirt and get on my good side during a busy night. She asked how much nacho cheese on the side would be. After I tell her it&#39;s $1.75, she bends over the counter, tries to show off her cleavage, and asks &quot;how about for me?&quot; It was pretty satisfying looking her in the eye and saying, more clearly, &quot;$1.75&quot; - DayDreaminBoy 14. Ripping up coasters and labels and if by then, you haven&#39;t caused enough misery for the night, throw it on the floor or squish it in the gap of something. - showmebevelle 15. We have a certain type of clientele that always sends their drinks back for not being strong enough. This means you get the tiniest drop of alcohol right in the straw. When I bring the drink back their reaction is amazing. It&#39;s always something like &quot;wow, that&#39;s a strong drink!&quot; - jtemperance 16. Snap your fingers at me, yeah...you&#39;re not getting that drink anytime soon. - [deleted] 17. When people say &#39;I&#39;ll have a beer please&#39;&quot; as if there&#39;s only one kind. - foxsweater 18. Next summer we&#39;re gong to have three special cocktails called &quot;What&#39;s Good Here,&quot; &quot;When You Have A Minute,&quot; and &quot;I Need A Second.&quot; - jonnielaw 19. Don&#39;t f*cking eat out of the f*cking fruit tray. That fruit is meant for drinks, not for your grubby fingers. - RaoulZDuke 

Working behind a bar can be an extreme test of endurance, patience, and how long you can stand on your feet while fake-smiling at a customer who thinks they&#39;re the first to ask, &quot;what&#39;s your favorite cocktail to make?&quot; ...