Had the worst Saturday shift of my life last week and it broke some kind of record for me

So I work at a dive bar downtown, nothing fancy. Last Saturday we had a bachelorette party roll in at like 2pm, which is never a good sign. By 4pm they'd already done 3 rounds of fireball shots and one of them puked on the pool table. Then at 6pm some guy tried to start a tab with a fake ID that had his actual photo but a completely different name on it (like come on dude). By 9pm my well was out of soda water and the ice machine was down. I counted 17 different complaints that night from people mad about prices that haven't changed in 2 years. Left with $43 in tips for 10 hours of work. Has anyone else had a shift where literally everything went wrong at the same time?

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nina_taylor4d ago

18 different ways that ID could've been flagged and he still handed it over like it was nothing. Honestly, at that point you're not serving drinks, you're crowdsourcing bad decisions. Sounds like the universe just decided to test your patience all at once.

charles_baker284d ago

$43 in tips sounds like a choice, not bad luck.

olivermason4d ago

43 dollars? From what, a whole shift of serving drunks their ninth round? That's not a choice, that's a cry for help from a man who forgot to look at the check before his mic dropped.