20 Things Only Bartenders Will Understand

By Brydie Lee Kennedy /

9. That One Manager

Chances are, most of your colleagues are working in the bar while they plan for other stuff. They're students, actors, backpackers, actors, writer, actors, dancers, actors. But managers are a different breed.They actually care about this business staying open and while you sympathise with that, they can be kind of a drag about it. You're just serving drinks and cleaning tables- is it really necessary to suffer through yet another lecture about "sales-oriented service" or whatever buzz word they've discovered this week?