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susan - 2005-07-01 08:15:47
first??
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Katie - 2005-07-01 08:38:09
A bar that I was at shut down @ 11:00 one night and it was PACKED... I don't think I'll ever understand turning people away when you're about to make a killing. *shrug*
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Courtney - 2005-07-01 08:48:37
I am so glad we had a city-enforced closing time when I worked at the bar. The people we worked for would have had us open around the clock with only two shifts--lunch and everything else.
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Erika - 2005-07-01 10:53:46
Like the new Uncle Bob moniker.
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stella - 2005-07-01 11:01:25
found this... http://msn.careerbuilder.com/Custom/MSN/CareerAdvice/573.htm?siteid=cbmsnhp4462&sc_extcmp=JS_wi3_july05_home1&cbRecursionCnt=1&cbsid=71efc6bd0d894549a29c7381331366fa-173530431-wg-2
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Barb - 2005-07-01 11:17:20
So... the guy that fired you from your last job has been bumped?
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The Boy - 2005-07-01 11:33:45
I've had the ass. manager send waitstaff home early, unaware that MOST of the bar-hoppers hit at 11pm, then you are slammed, which is good for tips if the bartender is good, but sucks if the ass. manager thinks he can do it. we almost lost 3 bartenders that night because going home early = no tips. Perhaps the "y'know Timmy" that you gave Wally will help the next time...
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Blue Meany - 2005-07-01 12:04:21
Wow. That guy is possibly a bigger hunk of stupid than all of my evil bosses put together.
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Divaah46 - 2005-07-01 12:16:59
I don't do the bar scene myself, but to throw out a full house, and more people coming? Height of stupidity. And if the manager was tired--duh, that's what Red Bull is for.
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Notorious B.I.N.G.O. - 2005-07-01 12:32:16
I'm on to you. Distracting us with an interesting story about Wally, The Bad Manager but not me. I noticed the new header graphic. It actually looks quite decent. Obviously you didn't do it Bob. I wish I were famous and someone would do graphics for me but I'm not so I'll just go sit in the corner and cry.
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tracy - 2005-07-01 12:34:15
Yeah, that was pretty stupid, but I have worked for plenty of stupid people, and almost always expect it. That's why I work for myself now.
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Dawn (webmiztris) - 2005-07-01 13:09:06
what an idiot!! and you know those people aren't going to come back to that bar in the future either after that bullshit.
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Northstar - 2005-07-01 13:27:42
I'm just a kid, so the only managers I've really had to deal with were at a restaurant, a catering company, and a fast food joint, where I'm currently employed. Our managers aren't bad in the sense of sending away customers; they're bad in the sense of "What, sir? You think that's too much money? Well have another two for free. Come back tomorrow and we'll give you a bunch of other free shit, too." I can't imagine that's good for business, either.
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Erica - 2005-07-01 13:30:10
I had a boss once who was a former grade school teacher and apparently, someone forgot to tell her we were, you know, ADULTS. She found a hundred ways every day to treat us all like crap, to micromanage every minute of the day, and to get some really talented people to quit.
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Traumatized for Life - 2005-07-01 15:39:35
I went to apply for a job with a nationally recognized parcel carrier (think "brown"). After filling out the form and waiting in the lunch room for about 2 hours with a bunch of other applicants. the manager led me and another guy through a warehouse filled with whining conveyor belts to his microscopic office. The manager was a tall, wiry guy in a short-sleeved shirt and tie. After we sat down he told me and the other guy that the jobs had all been filled, but that he'd bet us $100 apiece that we couldn't wrestle him to the floor and hold him down. I thought, "Huh?" I looked at the other guy -- we were both six feet tall and about 185 lbs. I looked at the office and the walls were lined with stacks of computer printouts. I thought of the carnage that three of us wrestling around the office would create. I thought of the 2 hours I had spent waiting for a job that didn't exist and told the manager, "I tell you what: I'll kick your ass if you'll give me the job." I didn't get to kick his ass or have the job. It was the strangest job interview I have ever had.
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Kay - 2005-07-01 20:07:43
Wow, that was unbelievably bad management, now if you would of said the owner was like that, it would of really been freaky, but I am guessing he (the manager) doesn't get paid any extra $$ for having a dead club as a wild one? So, ok, now it is not so unbelievable but he apparently is too "tired" to care about having a job once the owner gets wind of this.
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sara - 2005-07-01 20:23:19
My first job was working at a frozen custard shop. The owner/general manager was a genuinely nice guy, but three of his kids worked there as well. The oldest was almost my age, and a Junior Assistant Manager from the day he was hired. He was the only one who took the job seriously at all. The other 2 spent almost all their time at work sitting in the office talking on the phone, playing computer games, eating ice cream or fast food they'd ordered, or playing cards. They didn't clean, they didn't serve customers. They had a watch-out for whenever their dad may come in, so they could scramble from the office and look busy. Despite complaints that they were leaving everyone else to do ALL the work, my manager refused to believe that his perfect kids weren't behaving, and instead blamed the rest of us for being lazy. Now my little brother works there, and it's the exact same situation, with another generation of spoiled rich kids.
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erin - 2005-07-01 23:12:58
My manager at work came in the other day stinking of gin, to which one of my co-workers said, "What's the matter, Joe, you got a fruit buzz?" He also dips Rooster non-stop.
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Joe - 2005-07-02 12:38:06
I was part of a large group of new hires for the tech support department in a large company. Our first week's schedule was 8am - 5pm. All 10 of us showed up at least fifteen minutes early every day that week, and we stayed until after 5pm. I got a phone call from my manager on Saturday that I and the rest of the people in my hiring class had been fired. The reason? Records showed that we all clocked in an hour late and stayed and hour late every day. All of us. I brought up the possibility that perhaps their records showed this because of the recent time change. As evidence, I cited the fact that they had not yet reset the clocks in the office. My manager called me back twenty minutes later to say that the discrepency had been as I described it, but she didn't apologize for firing me. She said that I had better watch my clock in times from now on, becaue I had already used my warning with this incident. I informed her that I had, in fact, clocked in early every day, and that any blame for the situation should be placed on her. She re-iterated her previous statement and threatened to fire me ... again ... if I continued. So I quit. So, in case you were wondering, don't ever work for Krogers/Ralphs/Fred Meyer.
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sweatsuithaven - 2005-07-03 03:56:46
Heyyy...it's UB! WOOT! I'm so glad to have found your blog. To this day I tell people to check out your recaps of MTV's Fraternity Life on TWoP, because your recaps (and a few of Stee's on Sorority Life) were the only thing keeping me from going insane from that show. Seriously. Those recaps are funny funny shit. And for those who wonder , YES the show was every bit of torture the recaps made it out to be. Just thank God you don't have to watch it...UB suffered so you wouldn't have to.
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vitamin c - 2005-07-03 12:43:03
sweatsuithaven~ If you liked the Frat Life recaps, check out the Surreal Life recaps from ol bobby! Awesome! Sniff. I tell you every chance I get UB, I miss you at TWOP! You kicked everyones ass. Happy 4th all......
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E - 2005-07-03 16:28:23
sweatsuit? uh. you "didn't have to watch" it either. there are other channels. turn the channel dumbass.
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ballerinababe - 2005-07-04 01:52:36
It's so funny...I read this yesterday, then my friends and I went to a pub before 10 pm and they said they were closing cause they didn't want us all there(a fair-sized crowd of young people, the only people in the pub). Why would they turn away that business? In a neighborhood pub that probably needs it, that early on a Saturday night, too? Silly people.
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