In Videos: The Bartender Hates You
OK, I work as a bartender, so I can see how some in my field might feel the need to throw a beverage in an obnoxious guy's face or tell that high-maintenance drinker to take a hike. But, pour salt into a perfectly good cocktail? No way.
Generation Awesome's video series, The Bartender Hates You, amusingly highlights annoying people and a bartender who likes to overreact. These videos had me laughing out loud, but I can't say I have ever done anything portrayed in them.
I have definitely thought of it, though, especially the first video, where our hero throws ice at a customer after she complains there is just a little too much of it in her glass. The award of Most Accurate Video goes to the third episode, where a top-heavy woman flirtatiously leans over the bar and asks if they have mixed drinks. After the bartender looks at the line of bottles behind him, he tells her no.
'The Bartender Hates You,' Episode 3
Have you ever had a bartender this rude? Or, if you are in the service industry like me, what was the worst customer you have ever dealt with?
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Priceless....who doesnt love this series?
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TheUE at 1:48PM on 12/03/08
good idea, but videos are annoying.. ehhhhh
jeffsayyes at 2:03PM on 12/03/08
Ok, not a bartender story...a pizza delivery story. May I share?
On Sunday BF and I ordered pizza and wings. Total came to $23.06. I had a $10 and a $20. When delivery came, I handed the $30 to the driver. He asked if I wanted change. I said yes. He said the pizza joint doesn't give them change to carry on deliveries. I said that was really too bad, and took back the $10 and closed the door. I called the pizza place, and the woman who answered could not imagine what made the driver say such a stupid thing. She drove to my house to collect the money and bring my change. I made sure to tip her.
Kerosena at 2:15PM on 12/03/08
About 2 weeks ago my BF and I went to a bar near our house that we go to fairly regularly. It's a fairly midscale bar - not just a beer and Jagerbombs kind of place. It was a weeknight (only 5 or 6 other people there - they already had their orders) and there was a new bartender. BF ordered a Campari and soda. After checking the beer fridge (!) she told us they were out of that kind of beer and maybe we'd like a Sierra Nevada instead. After we very nicely explained that Campari wasn't a beer and that there was an entire bottle on the shelf behind her, she then poured straight Campari into a shot glass. When BF reminded her that he wanted club soda to go with the Campari, she looked around for a couple of minutes and then said she didn't have any soda. We pointed out that there might be some in the gun right next to her. Her response - "I don't know how to use that thing!" We got up and left. I talked to the manager a couple of days later and he was very apologetic, said he'd had tons of other complaints, but was trying to help out a friend. A nice sentiment, but we now check to see who's working the bar before we go there for drinks.
I also once spent 5 minutes trying to convince a waiter that pinot grigio and pinot noir were not the same thing and that he had, in fact, brought me the wrong glass of wine.
lefawn at 2:52PM on 12/03/08
my boyfriend once ordered a desert sunrise at a bar in town, and when the waitress told him she didnt know what it was he described it to her: like a tequila sunrise but with vodka, just vodka, pineapple juice, oj, and grenadine. she said, "we dont make those kind of drinks around here." wtf does that mean? basically, if its not a screwdriver or a jag bomb, they cant make it? i think its a pretty simple drink, and they have all the ingredients. oh, the downside of living in a college town.
redzerostar at 3:39PM on 12/03/08
I've never really had too much trouble with bartenders. But I rarely go to bars, and I'm related to a bartender, maybe two good reasons they're nice to me when I go.
jaywarner at 7:22PM on 12/03/08
WARNING!
Not to be a Debbie Downer but I went to this website to see the rest of these videos and somehow got my computer infected with a horrific virus/spyware pop-up ad something or other! Possibly my own fault but proceed with caution!!
ReneeRobinson at 7:45PM on 12/03/08
I was a bartender for years, so I thought that video was pretty damn funny.
My worst customer experience that fell far outside the run-of-the-mill-bar-annoyances-norm was when a customer who had been ordering at the bar and taking the drinks to his table in the dining room returned to argue about his bill. He was furious about having been charged for a margarita that he swore he didn't order.
Being as there were only two or three tables occupied, I knew damn well he had come to the bar and ordered that second drink. I knew it in my bones.
He flew off the handle, accused me of being a racist-- he was black, as am I -- playing the "do we all look alike to you" card insisting the drink belonged to someone else's check.
I took it off the bill because I wanted him to go away, fighting back tears because he was still harassing me as I swiped his credit card.
Then his margarita-drinking *identical twin* came to the bar to calm him down and apologise to me profusely.
The big jerk never did apologise himself. He just skulked off.
His twin tipped me $50 and I quit that job a week later.
missbhavens at 9:21PM on 12/03/08
@missbhavens what a great story!
bobbob at 12:19PM on 12/04/08
Ok, I work at a local bar in a town of about 8,000 people in Maine. We, being the only bar in the area, generally collect all types of people from locals to tourists to very rich summer house owners passing through. I have learned in my line of work that patience is simply a necessity for the job. However in the dark back corner of my mind I've wanted to do practically everything shown in those videos, I laughed untill I cried on, That's Annoying!" because, trust me, when you have eight drink orders running through your head at one time your disposition towards distraction isn't very pleasant
.
Anyway, one of my favorite bar tending stories; I had this guy around twenty-four come up to the bar. He ordered a long Island Iced Tea which for some reason alot of people, who don't work in a bar just considers to be the best strong drink ever. I served him he's drink, he sips, looks up at me and claims this drink isn't strong enough. It's pretty hard to make a weak Long Island and I'm definetly not known for being a bartender that makes weak drinks. Trust me buddy it's plenty strong.
Apparently to prove his point he sucked his Long Island down in about fifteen minuets and came back up, in a slightly disoriented manner, to order another. Twenty more minuets pass and the same guy comes back up to the bar with a Allens, (Coffee Brandy) Sombrero, (With Milk.)
"This Long Island Iced Tea tastes just like coffee brandy," He states now rather intoxicated.
"That would be because it is, in fact, a coffee brandy. Would you like for me to dump that out and get you another Long Island?" I ask.
"Nope, I paid for it and I'm gonna drink it" He says stumbling away from the bar.
Shortly after someone came up and told me they lost their coffee brandy, I made them a new one, no charge.
namrats at 8:02PM on 12/08/08