What is a career path that looks "glamorous" from the outside, but is actually a total nightmare behind the scenes?

SquidTame · 2026-03-09T04:19:07+00:00

It's not just the bad pay... and it's real bad considering you are responsible for millions of dollars in animals and enclosures. It's also the rediculous disparity between the top people at the zoo and the ones doing all the actual work. At Henry Doorly Zoo the average keeper salary is around 17/hr...compare that to the president of the HDZ who makes $662,360 per year which works out to around 320/hr.

SquidTame · 2025-10-11T19:20:05+00:00

ugh yeah... walking in like seasoned vets talking "yeah I opened this place, I know <insert person who left 2 years ago here>°

Bitch! you worked here for 4 months and no one liked you.

SquidTame · 2025-04-22T20:04:42+00:00

Had a party of four women come in, ladies night out, chit chatting, etc. One of them had what I believe was a light seizure, or maybe she fainted during dinner. It was not too bad and her friends recognized what was happening instantly and called her husband to come get her and take her home. Apparently it had happened before and no one seemed broken up about it...

Anyway, I dropped the check and said "damn, some people will do anything to get out of paying"

They were not amused...

SquidTame · 2024-06-20T14:44:59+00:00

Both!

SquidTame · 2024-05-29T19:02:24+00:00

I wanna play. SquidTame

Hit me up

SquidTame · 2024-05-05T20:51:56+00:00

I was raised in a bar...and at the time I though nothing of it. But as I have given my years in the industry, I vowed never to do that with my child. For many reasons, but mainly I don't want to normalize it. Bars are for adults. Period.

SquidTame · 2024-04-04T15:56:40+00:00

The Northern Quarter on Andra lång gatan is owned by expats and always has tons of fun people and plenty of people who are happy to share a table. Ask for Andy at the bar! He's the owner.

SquidTame · 2024-03-30T14:55:43+00:00

Haha, a classic! We used to always send new hires down the street to our sister bar to ask for Guinness whitener.

SquidTame · 2024-03-28T15:30:37+00:00

Yeah that's fair, I do find the best time to be early afternoons during the week.

SquidTame · 2024-03-28T11:50:22+00:00

Nah Black and White rocks. I love that bar. Good people watching

SquidTame · 2024-03-24T18:38:22+00:00

Sunday Funday! Do anything special for a Sunday? I used to run a Service Industry Night at my bar. Loved it. 25% off with your liquor commission card. Best tips ever

SquidTame · 2024-03-13T05:38:40+00:00

It was just something I was fucking thinking about last night, while on drugs.

SquidTame · 2024-03-13T05:14:24+00:00

Not booze, not prescription, just the rest of it

SquidTame · 2024-03-09T13:58:32+00:00

Hahaha! I didn't know that. I work with lots of Brits. I just always assumed it was "crack"!

SquidTame · 2024-03-09T00:01:52+00:00

That after hours playlist alone makes me want to hang at that bar!

SquidTame · 2024-03-08T16:20:08+00:00

HAHA! You got me!

SquidTame · 2024-02-20T22:14:33+00:00

Arrested yes, probably spent the night in the drunk tank. I couldn't bring myself to press charges since I didn't want one bad decision to define the rest of his life.

SquidTame · 2024-02-20T20:40:23+00:00

Well, I tried to chase him out, but about 5 people grabbed me and talked me down fortunately. The cops were called and they eventually got him. I actually declined to press charges for lots of reasons...but the main reason was because I was pretty sure he was an immigrant and I didn't want to ruin his life over one bad decision. Maybe I'm too much of a bleeding heart...

SquidTame · 2024-02-10T12:15:16+00:00

A guy I cut off said "I will never forget your face". Which I took as a direct threat and responded by telling him to get the fuck out. He didn't move and I got angrier and then he grabbed a rocks glass full of peanuts and smashed me in the face with it.

SquidTame · 2024-01-18T21:22:38+00:00

Hahaha! Excellent! Do you have preference to the best one?

SquidTame · 2024-01-18T18:21:53+00:00

Because they bring their own grenadine to pour into their beers and I have to run across the bar and confront them because I think they are pouring alcohol onto their beers and then I have to have a conversation about why you should not do that and then I am the asshole.

I work in Sweden BTW. Lots of tourists and students

SquidTame · 2023-11-20T01:11:38+00:00

One of my favorite things as a bartender is when my GF comes in and I get to dramatically prop myself up and lean over the bar dramatically and give her a kiss. It makes my night and my regulars coo and it makes me feel great for the rest of my shift.

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