11. Getting Overly Excited When New Promotional T-Shirts Come In
St Patricks Day. We used to like it, before we started working in a bar. Now it just means impending doom. There's one small pleasure we can derive from the Paddy's Day hell, though. It comes in the form of green novelty hats and the internal pleasure of having GUINNESS written across your chest.
10. Complaining Of Boredom When The Place Is Dead Then Having A Breakdown When Everyone Comes In At Once
Life's greatest mystery - the astonishing speed an hour can pass when we're at home waiting to go to work, and the eye-gouging drag of an hour behind the bar. What is this wizardry? Whatever it is, we don't like it. Home-time seems lightyears away when the bar is dead. You must to look busy, spraying the bar down for the 3449857395 time when the manager walks through. Then, suddenly, a crowd of students crash through the door demanding a cocktail for the entirety of the campus. Aaaaand you're off. That lone tumbleweed rolling through the place 30 minutes ago suddenly seems massively appealing now.
9. "What Drinks Do You Sell?"
Get out.
8. Spending All Your Wages At Work
We can't wait to get out the place... and then we finish work, thirsty of course, and suddenly find ourselves on the other side of the bar finishing off a barrel. It's bloody preposterous paying full price elsewhere, so what do we do? Keep our colleagues company while they work. What. Is. Our. Life.
