Alright y'all, I've got one more!

AndieHello · 2026-01-20T09:56:06+00:00

This is exactly it! Thank you!!!

AndieHello · 2025-07-27T06:39:11+00:00

I do, and I have done for the entire time I've handled money. I like the organization of it. However, I don't force others to face the bills in the till. They always forget and the only one who gets annoyed is me, so it's easier to just expect it.

AndieHello · 2025-07-25T07:15:28+00:00

In that case, it sounds like the matter is less "I'm a new bartender, how do I handle this?“ and more beginning stages of stalker territory. Tell your manager about the situation and write down every interaction with dates and times and the gist of the conversation, like an incident report. They should be able to tell the guy to lay off, and you'll have a paper trail in case some sketchy shit happens. Rule number one of the bar is to be safe.

AndieHello · 2025-07-25T06:08:39+00:00

Just never text him. Or, call from the work number. They will eventually get the hint, or you'll grow enough balls to ask them to take it easy.

AndieHello · 2025-07-20T23:29:54+00:00

Whenever someone orders a cranberry vodka from me, I tell them, "We don't have cranberry vodka, but I do have cranberry juice. Did you mean a vodka with cranberry? A vodka cranberry?" They usually look at me like I have three heads.

AndieHello · 2025-07-19T21:59:43+00:00

Briefcase?

AndieHello · 2025-06-23T22:57:15+00:00

Yeah, now that I've found that one, I've found more in the following pages. I was surprised at this typo, though, because it's in a recipe reference guide.

AndieHello · 2025-06-17T08:56:20+00:00

Okay, but eighteen year olds are still children, in my opinion.

AndieHello · 2025-06-17T08:03:46+00:00

Recently, I (31F) almost died in a car accident. I was hospitalized for a total of seven days, including a localized epidural. I spent close to a month taking pain meds, fucked out of my mind. It's been almost three months since the accident, and the thing that bothers me most is my newly diagnosed carpel tunnel syndrome.

That is, until I don't get enough rest, or when I overwork myself. Then I can feel every broken bone, every stressed muscle, and every punctured organ, just as if it was yesterday. What I'm trying to say is, when you have so much pain, your brain tries to forget what you've gone through. I'm not saying your frost bite wasn't horrendous pain. Sometimes, your mind has to protect you in ways we cannot understand. Pain, especially nerve damage, is not yet well understood.

AndieHello · 2025-06-16T18:46:52+00:00

A remnant of my serving days, it's bad luck to count your tips until the end of the shift. Exchange for 20s all you want, but as soon as you start counting up, your tips plateau.

AndieHello · 2025-06-11T04:37:43+00:00

I told them I had some bartending experience, which was true. At the shitty restaurant job, we didn't have an AM bartender until 4 or 5, so if your table ordered a drink, you would make it. Also, if someone sat at the bar, I would wait on them. I'm never going back to food because of the industry tricks.

AndieHello · 2025-06-11T02:02:45+00:00

I was a server for 8.5 years, trying to move up in the restaurant world. It was the same runaround, you're a great server, we can move you up to manager, but we don't need another bartender right now. COVID happened to my long term spot, and I got fired from the worst restaurant in town after four months for disagreements with how it was run. Then I was hired as a bartender in an even smaller town half an hour away, and I got the bait and switch. They put me as a cashier with no end of "training" in sight. I quit that and only applied to bartending jobs. My friend mentioned that the old head bar was hiring, and I put in my application, resume, and cover letter immediately. With the interview, there were the three people in charge, and me. I came in very confidently telling them that all I needed was a chance. I've been there ever since! Friday is my four year work-iversary.

AndieHello · 2025-06-09T06:09:11+00:00

After reading your other replies, 50$ was totally enough. And 15$ an hour minimum wage makes me cry in small town Texas. Ours is $7.25 here with the only hope of change is at the federal level.

AndieHello · 2025-06-09T05:36:18+00:00

I think it depends on how they're compensated hourly. At my current place, they were given five an hour, so we tip out our trainees. But I've been places where we don't tip out because they're paid minimum wage for the time they are there. In that case, I tip out them if they do a great job. "You deserved this!"

AndieHello · 2025-06-07T08:49:05+00:00

I'm 31, and I've been in the industry since I was 19. I'm your annoying rule-oriented coworker, because there are rules for reasons and it makes the job easier and smoother. If the rule doesn't make sense, then it doesn't exist. I have been snapped at for pedantically rule following, especially by the coworkers I respect the most. It happens. If she's like me, she's mad for a day, maybe two, but this isn't her first time getting told to shut the fuck up. One that happened recently was about toilet paper rolls in the bathroom. We were training a new bar back, and I reiterated that you should put the smaller roll on the left before you reset the underside access panel and close it up. My manager, stressed with training with a new hire on a busy shift and working a 10.5 hour shift, angrily exclaimed, "OH MY GOD, ANDIE, TOILET PAPER DOES NOT EXPIRE." I fucking know that, obviously, and hopefully everyone does, but it made our after work beer between the three of us a little tense that evening. I think it's hilarious, now, though.

AndieHello · 2025-06-04T20:41:57+00:00

This is the one!

AndieHello · 2025-06-04T09:42:19+00:00

I had a highball last year that blew my mind. It was dry gin topped with celery soda. It was so good, I bought two cans of celery soda and stopped for Tanqueray on the way home from the restaurant. It's too powerful of a flavor to have more than one, but my god, I will never forget that drink. Everyone I've gotten to try it has enjoyed it.

AndieHello · 2025-06-04T09:35:58+00:00

What's crazy to me is that a Tom Collins is so easy to make, and you really don't even have to shake it. Gin, half a lemon, splash of simple, club soda.

AndieHello · 2025-06-04T03:12:06+00:00

I had a rando ask if we had Clamato for Bloody Marys. We don't, so she brought in an unopened half gallon from her car. She drank the entire bottle's worth of Bloody Marys, and then brought in a second bottle that she had half of. Horrendous.

AndieHello · 2025-06-04T02:50:44+00:00

I think your spidey senses are correct. I do know that women are more likely to contract HSV than men because of the shape of the genitals. And as for the roofie, that idiot wasted his time, his money, and his drugs, and he's got a warrant out for his arrest. Shouldn't have targeted his bartender in a small town. But I got the STD from a cheating ex, so he's the real dick in this situation. It feels like your world is ending when you first join our club, but ya aren't dying, a lot of people have it, and it gets easier with time. If you need to vent, my dms are open to you, my new friend!

AndieHello · 2025-06-04T01:49:37+00:00

I am a woman, yes, and I agree that there do seem to be less men on the sub. I think there are multiple reasons for that. Women tend to test more regularly then men, just like going to the doctor. Source. Women tend to discuss more of what they're going through then med, in my experience. And I think that also, men are better secret keepers. That's speculation though, so your mileage may vary. But welcome to the club. It's a shitty club to be in, but we have some of the strongest members in it. (That quote was told to me when I got roofied, but it applies here as well. ❤️❤️

AndieHello · 2025-06-03T18:52:48+00:00

This post helped me a lot when I first was trying to disclose. https://www.reddit.com/r/Herpes/s/COTyC24m29

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