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Subject: Re: Just landed a Bar-backing job... semi-nervous for first day!
From: jason
Posted: Mon Jan 24. 2005, 06:24 UTC
Followup to: "Just landed a Bar-backing job... semi-nervous for first day!"  by krazeezx  (Mon Jan 24. 2005, 06:01 UTC)
Congrats! It is hard work, but it's a great job. The best advice I can give is 
stay busy, there is almost always something that needs to be done. When I 
bar-backed (and I still do sometimes) I always liked to think of it as putting 
out fires before they even started. I am sure most bars have different 
expectations of their bar-backs. But here, they stock beer, keep juices full, 
keep coolers full, keep ice filled, clear tables (we don't have cocktail 
waitresses), replace empty liquor bottles, swap out kegs, and a lot of other 
miscellaneous things that come up. 

As a bar manager, when I hire a new bar-back, I always try to put them with a 
bartender that I trust to teach them the right way to do things. There is 
nothing worse than someone learning bad habits from the get-go. Hopefully the 
person that hired you does the same thing. 

Just try and be as aware as possible the whole time. The first few days will 
be a little crazy, especially if you haven't got experience. But once you get 
in the groove, it's generally smooth.

Again, congrats on the job.

Jason 


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