"Get yourself fired for me! Come on, help a friend out!"

[veniteangeli]

Manager tells waitress to serve them. She refuses. Manager serves the girls.

So what happened to the waitress? Was she rewarded in any way for sticking to her guns? You can PM me if you don't want to threadjack any more than we already have! :P

[eltf177]

So what happened to the waitress? Was she rewarded in any way for sticking to her guns? You can PM me if you don't want to threadjack any more than we already have! :P

I don't have too many more details, my cousins finished their drinks and left. This is what they heard from friends who stuck around and the owner later:

1) The ATF agent made a call and a lot of people were showing up as the crowd left. The owner came by after my cousins left and the agent explained the situation. The waitress apparently got a "thank you" from the owner just before the MOD got ripped a new one and fired on the spot.
2) As I said the place was closed for about a month. The MOD probably got a fine of his own but the owner was hit _hard_ with fines as well as loss of income; getting his liquor license back alone cost a small fortune. Among other things every employee had to attend several alcohol awareness classes, the owner had to pay for the classes as well as pay his people to attend, and they weren't cheap. Even so several of his best workers had to leave as they couldn't afford to be unemployed (there was no guarantee the bar would reopen).
3) After he got his liquor license back the owner was warned he would be watched and tested for some time.

The place is still open but I don't think this will ever happen again. My cousins and I don't think it was a sting as this happened around 9:30pm. We think it was just the agent in the wrong place at the wrong time (or right place at the right time). Nobody knows why the MOD did what he did, speculation is he was going to hit on one or more of the girls later on (he was a well-known player).

[tropicsgoddess]

SC: Well, we’re going somewhere else then. And do you know how much money I have in my wallet?
Me: I don’t-

I was actually going to say “I don’t care” rather than “I don’t know” but he cut me off.

SC: I have £300. And I was going to spend every last penny of it in here. We didn’t have any plans to go somewhere else. Now we’re going to have to go down to *rival pub* and they are going to get our money.
Me: *complete and utter blank stare*
SC: So I bet you will make employee of the month once the boss finds out you lost this place £300. Really smart move there.

-----<SNIP!!>------

SC: You don’t seem to realise how much money I was willing to spend in here.
Me: I don’t make commission, I get paid by the hour regardless of how much customers spend in here. It doesn’t affect me at all.
SC: *frozen to the spot*
Me: If that’s everything...
SC: We’re going to *rival bar*!

They left. I got on the phone and called rival bar to let them know they were coming.

The I have so much money line...yeah I call bullshit. Bet this guy had far less than what he said. CRML, you handled it well and you really served him up some pwnage!

[Fudgethatkay]

If you expect me to serve you boozeahol, I expect you to carry proper ID for that purpose, just like every other place on the planet that serves the stuff...

Only amusement/water-park friendly solution to that I can think of is to have the ticket-takers require ID, and give anyone who is of legal age a different-colored wristband from what the younger people get. Of course, this only works if they don't swap wristbands, and we know teenagers who want booze would never stoop to dishonesty like that, just to get their fix...

I am going to do that too. Letting my boss know. I'm tiny and people think they can weasel or intimidate me easily, but no....

It is time for a whole new safety campaign. Here are a few slogans to get you started.

Don't drink and swim.

If you drink and swim, you'll sink.

Alcohol and water slides don't mix.

I know...right? Seriously. Thank goodness our water is alwats below five feet in the wave pool and below three in the slides but...come on...an idiot can do so much damage

But, its a job for me.

[earl colby pottinger]

I know what I would do

1) The ATF agent made a call and a lot of people were showing up as the crowd left. The owner came by after my cousins left and the agent explained the situation. The waitress apparently got a "thank you" from the owner just before the MOD got ripped a new one and fired on the spot.
2) As I said the place was closed for about a month. The MOD probably got a fine of his own but the owner was hit _hard_ with fines as well as loss of income; getting his liquor license back alone cost a small fortune. Among other things every employee had to attend several alcohol awareness classes, the owner had to pay for the classes as well as pay his people to attend, and they weren't cheap. Even so several of his best workers had to leave as they couldn't afford to be unemployed (there was no guarantee the bar would reopen).
3) After he got his liquor license back the owner was warned he would be watched and tested for some time.

The place is still open but I don't think this will ever happen again. My cousins and I don't think it was a sting as this happened around 9:30pm. We think it was just the agent in the wrong place at the wrong time (or right place at the right time). Nobody knows why the MOD did what he did, speculation is he was going to hit on one or more of the girls later on (he was a well-known player).

I know what I would if I was the owner, make that waitress the new MOD with a big fat raise.

GOD himself would not be able to buy booze with her on duty if he does not have valid ID on him!

[cinema guy]

I went mad once in one of my local pubs. I walked in and it was filled with 16 year olds. I knew this because I worked with them in the school!

On 6th form trips, our teachers used to tell us, we know you'll be drinking, just don't drink in the same pubs as us.

[EricKei]

, just don't drink in the same pubs as us.

Hell, at my HS graduation party -- which was held in a bar -- the chaperoning teachers/priests were drinking the alleged "near beer" right alongside the students...just at the far table, all facing away from the bar >_>

I don't drink, but sheesh. Didn't stay at that party very long

[Shalom]

I am willing to bet I'm going to get a lot of idiots going, "but I'm in swimwear!!! you can't expect me to carry my card/money!!!"

OK. I can understand someone trying to bluff their way past the ID requirement, but just what kind of a failed apprentice moron does someone have to be to think they're gonna serve him booze without getting paid for it...?

[Skeksin]

It is time for a whole new safety campaign. Here are a few slogans to get you started.

Don't drink and swim.

If you drink and swim, you'll sink.

Alcohol and water slides don't mix.

With the instructional videos:
Water on Fire
and
Blood in the water

[fireheart]

Hell, at my HS graduation party -- which was held in a bar -- the chaperoning teachers/priests were drinking the alleged "near beer" right alongside the students...just at the far table, all facing away from the bar >_>

I don't drink, but sheesh. Didn't stay at that party very long

For my Year 12 formal, while there were some people who were 18, others weren't quite 18. They instituted a blanket "no alcohol" rule for the students, but the teachers got quite drunk...

According to my Year 13 friends (people who might split Year 12 over 2 years for certain reasons...I almost contemplated doing this), it sort of became a tradition for the teachers to get quite tipsy at the formal...apparently during THEIR year 12 formal, they went to the casino afterwards and my English teacher had trouble standing up

[MoonCat]

So, in the OP, this idiot "customer" thinks that his spending £300 (assuming he really spent it all there, which I doubt he was going to) would make up for the thousands the pub would have to spend on a fine? Not to mention the business they would lose while the place was closed for the violation? Yeahhhh, he's not too good at math, is he?

[Pixilated]

Just out of curiosity ... the post title includes the phrase " ... help a friend out!"
Was this person actually a friend -- or at least a vague acquaintance?

[customersruinmylife]

Just out of curiosity ... the post title includes the phrase " ... help a friend out!"
Was this person actually a friend -- or at least a vague acquaintance?

No I didn't know him at all. But he did say "one friend to another" which is why I put it in the title.

[Jay 2K Winger]

No I didn't know him at all. But he did say "one friend to another" which is why I put it in the title.

And besides which, they don't have friends there, right?

[MrsEclipse]

SC: Come on. One friend to another.

Oh, so we're friends? Really? What's my favorite color? What's my favorite movie? What's my dearest ambition? You don't know. Some friend you are. You don't know anything about me but you want me to risk my neck for you. You're the worst friend I ever had.