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So my restaurant is starting to prepare for the reopening of things so different people have new expectations. For example I'm a bartender, and only one other guy is too. When we were slow (e.g: the last entire year) him and I would work behind the bar together and split the tables that came in, and an extra server would fill in the gaps. So we'd be very much in tandem, and the entire year ran flawlessly and we got along great.

We went from 25% capacity, maximum 4 per party, to 50% and maximum of 8. We've more than doubled our capacity so, now, one bartender is locked behind the bar, one is a server/barback (running for supplies) and the rest stays the same. Today was my very first day in over a year to be completely alone behind bar. We had him and five other servers, and we could still barely keep up. Our average day all during the pandemic was 2k in sales. Today we hit 14k.

I was solely responsible for making every single drink that touched anyone's lips, and drink sales were six thousand of those dollars. A jack and coke is $5. Do the math there. For an eleven hour shift and no breaks I was consistently happy, rocking it, listening to music and keeping up with the work. My dude was so butthurt about having to serve tables and wait for me on his drinks. He treated me like shit ,said I was too slow, said he wished it was him back there instead and made me feel like complete garbage. Meanwhile I had to cross-communicate with six people, all of different skill levels -- some even brand new today -- while getting no tables of my own to make my own money.

My bar was spotless. It took me fifteen minutes to clear my station, and fully restock, after a 14 thousand dollar day. At the end he's still so frustrated that he couldn't be the ~bartender~ today, the one coworker I thought had my back didn't see my moment to shine and root for me but instead clawed me down out of bitterness.

Fucking blows, man. People suck.

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