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Subject: Re: Recent Bartending School Grad Here...
From: apetail
Posted: Sun Feb 24. 2008, 22:28 UTC
Followup to: "Recent Bartending School Grad Here..."  by gemini67  (Sat Feb 23. 2008, 15:13 UTC)
> Therefore my question to you who have difficulties with bartending 
> school grads - what do you want to see in us? Help me to understand 
> aside from the obvious rookie mistakes why recent bartending grads do 
> not appeal to you?

I think it needs no discussion that bartending schools generally offer bad 
education. A lot of debates are misunderstandings. There can be bartendings 
schools offering proper education and there can be bartending schools offering 
bad education which still can be helpfull. These examples are often wrongly 
used to counter the statement 'bartending schools are generally bad 
education'. I think it is important to see a difference in 'bartending schools 
offering good education' and 'bartending schools can be helpfull' (like a fake 
diploma is not good education but it may help you). I hope most people agree 
that bartending schools are not good education. In that case we could have at 
least one statement which all would agree to be seen as a fact,

It mustn't be difficult to think of many scenarios how bad education makes 
rookies with a "grade" in bartending less good bartenders (or less easy people 
to live with behind the wood).

BTW I have no experience with American bartending schools of my own but I have 
seen enough trough the internet goggles. I did not mean to say that bartending 
schools can't be good. I say (most) bartending schools aren't good. Things 
shouldn't be taken personally. I can imagine many bartending school rookies 
feel personally attacked reading some posts on these forums but if they are 
about people in general they do not need to mean 'you' in specific. And if 
they are about specific people than they do not need to be generalized to mean 
'you' as well.


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