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Anyone who is sick of it, this is another story influenced by my ex coworker, Drunken Victim. Before he quit his job last week, he had already been doing this, and I'm starting to really wonder some of the moral values of some bartenders and bar owners.
Now, this bar is a hole in the wall....a dive bar.....an inbreed version of Cheers if you will. Small, owned by a woman and her husband helps her run it. Almost everyone there is a regular who works at the nearby factories and comes there after work in the morning or on the weekends for their various themed parties.
DV of course has been broke as a joke for quite some time, but it was discovered that he was still able to go to the bar multiple days a week, Fridays he'd go there right after work at 7 am and be there until he was either kicked out by the owner/her husband or if he made it all the way to barclose, and he ALWAYS drove home, or I should say always does because he's still going there.
How does he afford it, other than by not buying food or paying bills? Because he's considered the "mascot" of this bar, the owner will give him free drinks/shots if he comes. Other patrons (usually people from the factory or his other factory drinking buddies) will also spot him drinks as long as he's there. So he's kind of like a cute girl, doesn't have to pay for hardly any of his drinks.
And to keep him on their dart and pool league against other bars, the owner pays his way for him (whatever it is they charge per person to play and whatever he drinks) so that he'll keep coming.
Now, my only experience selling alcohol was a Class B Liquor License at a small gas station, so I never really had to deal with denying sales to drunks or sloppy people, and no one underaged really tried anything with me.
In my opinion, you have two responsibilities if you sell liquor as a bartender or if you own the bar and run it. You have a legal responsibility (not to sell to someone too drunk and not to sell to underagers) and moral responsibility (not to let people drive drunk, not to serve customers that you know are on probation/parole, not to serve someone who has an out of control drinking problem).
*DV is not on probation, that's an example from a different bar, where they knowingly allow in and serve people on probation as long as they don't cause any problems. Unfortunately, these people on probation are on it because of alcohol related problems and they eventually DO cause problems and they end up banned or gone for a while*
Also for the record, I don't know the legality of bartenders/bouncers knowingly allowing in or serving customers on probation, or the legality of serving to someone with an alcohol problem so bad that their health is failing.
It may be resentment and hatred for him, but at the same time my moral superiority complex I seem to have just tells me that it's beyond wrong as a business owner and an employee in the liquor business to be doing stuff like that. It's unprofessional and even questionable business practice.
Now, this bar is a hole in the wall....a dive bar.....an inbreed version of Cheers if you will. Small, owned by a woman and her husband helps her run it. Almost everyone there is a regular who works at the nearby factories and comes there after work in the morning or on the weekends for their various themed parties.
DV of course has been broke as a joke for quite some time, but it was discovered that he was still able to go to the bar multiple days a week, Fridays he'd go there right after work at 7 am and be there until he was either kicked out by the owner/her husband or if he made it all the way to barclose, and he ALWAYS drove home, or I should say always does because he's still going there.
How does he afford it, other than by not buying food or paying bills? Because he's considered the "mascot" of this bar, the owner will give him free drinks/shots if he comes. Other patrons (usually people from the factory or his other factory drinking buddies) will also spot him drinks as long as he's there. So he's kind of like a cute girl, doesn't have to pay for hardly any of his drinks.
And to keep him on their dart and pool league against other bars, the owner pays his way for him (whatever it is they charge per person to play and whatever he drinks) so that he'll keep coming.
Now, my only experience selling alcohol was a Class B Liquor License at a small gas station, so I never really had to deal with denying sales to drunks or sloppy people, and no one underaged really tried anything with me.
In my opinion, you have two responsibilities if you sell liquor as a bartender or if you own the bar and run it. You have a legal responsibility (not to sell to someone too drunk and not to sell to underagers) and moral responsibility (not to let people drive drunk, not to serve customers that you know are on probation/parole, not to serve someone who has an out of control drinking problem).
*DV is not on probation, that's an example from a different bar, where they knowingly allow in and serve people on probation as long as they don't cause any problems. Unfortunately, these people on probation are on it because of alcohol related problems and they eventually DO cause problems and they end up banned or gone for a while*
Also for the record, I don't know the legality of bartenders/bouncers knowingly allowing in or serving customers on probation, or the legality of serving to someone with an alcohol problem so bad that their health is failing.
It may be resentment and hatred for him, but at the same time my moral superiority complex I seem to have just tells me that it's beyond wrong as a business owner and an employee in the liquor business to be doing stuff like that. It's unprofessional and even questionable business practice.
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