Update on me as a bartender.
Sep. 16th, 2003 01:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xiphiasOkay, I've been holding off on saying stuff, because I'm really superstitious, and I believe that I'll jinx myself if I say stuff too soon. But. . .
I interviewed at the Harvard Club, the new bar manager liked me fine, and said he'd ask around to see if people remembered me, and, if I got a good reccomendation from my former co-workers, I'd be hired. I got a call back a couple days later saying that everybody who'd been with the Harvard club in 1999 remembered me, liked me, and said I was honest and a hard worker, but I had only worked functions, and not the full bar. So, he said,he was going to give me a chance to see how I did behind a full bar, and, if I couldn't handle it, he'd put me on functions and barbacking, which everybody said I was fine at. And, if I could handle it, I'd get the Commonwealth Lounge 33 hours a week.
My first training shift is Thursday. I called up the club today just to check things out; Orlando answered the phone.
Orlando's the guy who taught me everything I know about barbacking. He's one of the most hard-working people I've ever met. I hope he's gotten more responsibility than he had four years ago; he was a barback then, but I hope he's at least a room manager now. He's smart, honest, hard-working, organized, and responsible.
So, I have to shave my beard off for the job. I'm a little annoyed by that; I like my beard, and think I look goofy without it, but this is the job I want, and it leads to the skills I want. Maybe, if I do well, I could eventually become an assistant beverage manager myself, which would give me more skills. Maybe even eventually a beverage manager.
And. . . once I have the skillset of a beverage manager, I can look at opening my own bar.
I interviewed at the Harvard Club, the new bar manager liked me fine, and said he'd ask around to see if people remembered me, and, if I got a good reccomendation from my former co-workers, I'd be hired. I got a call back a couple days later saying that everybody who'd been with the Harvard club in 1999 remembered me, liked me, and said I was honest and a hard worker, but I had only worked functions, and not the full bar. So, he said,he was going to give me a chance to see how I did behind a full bar, and, if I couldn't handle it, he'd put me on functions and barbacking, which everybody said I was fine at. And, if I could handle it, I'd get the Commonwealth Lounge 33 hours a week.
My first training shift is Thursday. I called up the club today just to check things out; Orlando answered the phone.
Orlando's the guy who taught me everything I know about barbacking. He's one of the most hard-working people I've ever met. I hope he's gotten more responsibility than he had four years ago; he was a barback then, but I hope he's at least a room manager now. He's smart, honest, hard-working, organized, and responsible.
So, I have to shave my beard off for the job. I'm a little annoyed by that; I like my beard, and think I look goofy without it, but this is the job I want, and it leads to the skills I want. Maybe, if I do well, I could eventually become an assistant beverage manager myself, which would give me more skills. Maybe even eventually a beverage manager.
And. . . once I have the skillset of a beverage manager, I can look at opening my own bar.
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Date: 2003-09-16 10:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2003-09-16 11:24 am (UTC)But. . . you won't be able to get into the Harvard club unless you're a Harvard grad, which I don't remember if you are or not. . .
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Date: 2003-09-16 11:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-16 01:56 pm (UTC)So, Serene, since you're friends with both of us, you're covered. :)
A.
(Should probably check on how much doing so would cost her...)
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Date: 2003-09-16 02:13 pm (UTC)If it increases
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Date: 2003-09-16 11:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2003-09-16 11:20 am (UTC)But if it's a private club, we non-Harvardians don't get to come drink there and cheer you on, is that it? Alas.
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Date: 2003-09-16 11:20 am (UTC)i thought about becoming a bartender when i was unemployed but didn't how to get started after a bartending course ...
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Date: 2003-09-16 11:28 am (UTC)I will mention this: when I went to work for Domino's o so many years back, my willingness to cut my hair (which was long at the time) helped get me the job. Very minor cosmetic-only reversible mutilations are about as much as I can stomach though.
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Date: 2003-09-16 11:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-16 11:29 am (UTC)And yes, it's a pity about the beard.
Great, Ian!
Date: 2003-09-16 12:15 pm (UTC)I have to lose my beard regularly now for parts, so I understand not wanting to lose it (I feel like I look goofy without mine as well), but facial hair is a renewable resource.
And I'm almost embarassed to admit my brain first parsed that as "he'd put me on functions and barebacking..." which concerned me until I realized I'd read it wrong.
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Date: 2003-09-16 12:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-16 12:36 pm (UTC)What is their problem with the beard??? I don't get it.
Yay / Ah Shucks
Date: 2003-09-16 12:42 pm (UTC)What! Not even a little goatee /Van Dyke /french beard, to make you look sophisticated? This is after all, a club bar, not such neighborhood beer dive ? Do they have a reason why other than appearance?
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Date: 2003-09-16 12:51 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-16 01:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-09-16 01:34 pm (UTC)(And how nice for the rest of us to have a handy resource when we need to know the ingredients for that special drink ...)
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Date: 2003-09-16 01:42 pm (UTC)Shaved Beard
Date: 2003-09-16 01:50 pm (UTC)shave my beard I can sympathize with you.
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Date: 2003-09-16 01:51 pm (UTC)Sorry to hear about the beard; while I'm not the biggest beard enthusiast (to understate it quite a bit), I know that it's often a very important part of someone's self-image.
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Date: 2003-09-16 01:58 pm (UTC)I will miss the beard, though. I like your chin, but I like your beard, and more importantly, you and
*pats the beard gently*
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Date: 2003-09-16 02:57 pm (UTC)to dreams being fulfilled...
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Date: 2003-09-16 08:39 pm (UTC)One question: "Barback"? What's that?
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Date: 2003-09-16 10:40 pm (UTC)It's a good way to start learning about bartending.
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Date: 2003-09-17 06:59 am (UTC)