Work - The pros and the cons... - The Bear and Badger

poprock

Advantages of working in a big chain pub: Actual training, actual guidelines/rules, HR procedures if things go wrong, genuinely good experience that’s of value to other pubs in future.

No’ a bad thing, all round. And a few quid in your pocket.

davyK

The bonus of working in a bar is the money you don't spend on a Fri/Sat night in the pub.

poprock

And tips, depending on the bar. (I wouldn’t expect there’ll be any in the kind of pub we’re talking about here though.)

Oh! And staff drinks after the shift.

davyK

I really enjoyed the couple of years I did bar work. It feels really weird to be that side of the bar at first but you soon get used to it.

afgavinstan

I broke my bartending cherry at the goddamn Cathouse. Absolutely shite most of the time but the staff drinks afterwards were legendary.

regmcfly

I've already written a solid 3000 words on my time in a hotel bar on the oldrum. Best people I've met, some I'm still solid pals with bow, but by fuck was that a draining job .

Of course the differences between that and a big pub were - 1) entitled wee pricks on £45 offer price rooms shouting "DICK TURPIN WORE A MASK" when I rang them up drinks at a 4 star hotel. Call the fucking banter police.

2) there was no set closing time due to it being a hotel bar. This could mean 4 or even 5 am finishes on a 5;30pm start.

Again tho, the staff drinks were legendary
"You're allowed one"
*Fills pint glass with Macallan"*

WorKid

I did bar work at a working men's social club. Amazing times.

Proper 70s throwback with blue comedians, no women in the bar, that sort of thing. Cribbage, dominoes, pool and darts.

Loved it. Down times chatting with the oldies was great. Also fun on a Friday/Saturday when it got properly heaving and you were flat out so the time just flew by.

davyK

Yeah - I did working men's club work too (aircraft factory in Belfast built a club for its workforce). Though women were allowed in that establishment. Actually one of the rowdiest nights we had was the East Belfast Ladies' Darts Team annual dinner. The waiters ended up refusing to go out on the floor....One guy's arse was black and blue.

Normal Saturday nights had bingo at 9pm when you couldn't even wash a glass without getting a killer look. Ballroom dancing, dodgy singers and bands.

We had the Sunday Sport topless Roadshow for 2 nights. That was a different crowd!

Also worked in an English pub ('89-90) - The Unicorn in Great Malvern. Mixed crowd but tending to be younger. Was packed at weekends and I was a bit of a novelty with my NI accent. Good times.

Gamermike

Gamermike wrote:

Looks like I maybe bartering my way to a significant payrise by potentially leaving my current role and joining someone I currently freelance for.

I would be leaving a dream job, like literally best place I’ve worked at, but as I said before I don’t feel like I’m going anywhere fast where I am. Meeting the boss of the new company next week to discuss terms before making any hasty decisions but it’s all sounding very promising... they are opening a position for me based on the work I’ve done for them over the last 3 months.

It will all fall through now lol.

Holy shit this might be happening. Met up with them last week, everything went really well, showed them a few things they weren’t aware I could do, talked about ways I could improve what they do currently etc. All went cool.

Today I’ve been offered a head of design and marketing role! Starting salary is a significant boost, meaning I probably won’t need to freelance/graft in the evenings (I probably will still). Just asked them to send a contract in writing before I officially accept but I’m bloody chuffed, the hard work seems to be paying off... finally!!

Yossarian

Congrats.

g.man

Ooooh! Well done mate.

Syph79

Noice

three1ne

Great stuff. Well done.

poprock

Brilliant! Great news Mike.

Diluted Dante

So in September, we're going to be switching to supporting Smart TV's.

Anyone know about them? Any online resources I can look at?

tigersgogrrr

I used to do tech support for LG. No idea if there are online resources but the main thing people do wrong is they are divheads.

g.man

Just memorise the entire contents of this website Dante.
https://www.devicemanuals.eu/tag/tv/

cosmicjellybean

I used to support the Samsung smart TV app for our company, it was the 2010-2012 models. They were awful back then.

Got a new one a couple of years ago and it’s always been fine, they’re fairly self explanatory, and as with all these things, will mostly depend on your broadband anyway.

I used to get things like ‘I’m trying to 3G from my hut in Finland to the iPad which I’m using this unofficial Samsung app to mirror your app and it’s a little stuttery, why is your app so shit?’

GooberTheHat

Turn it off and on again.

Have you updated it to the latest firmware?

Is it plugged in?

yourfavouriteuncle

You’ll just get loads of 60 year olds calling up and asking you why Netflix won’t work despite there being a Netflix button on the screen. You’ll exhaust all possibilities to help them until it becomes apparent that they don’t actually subscribe to Netflix at all, and won’t want to provide any information to anyone on the phone or internet anymore anyway because Sue, at the end of the street, well her husband once told a man from talk talk his password and now they’ve lost the retirement fund and he’s still got to work even at his age and with his knees.

g.man

hahaha

The Daddy

Some friends of my folks were convinced they had Netflix cos there was a Netflix button on their remote.

g.man

Doesn't seem unreasonable

ShabbyMcCrabby

Was like when I was a wee lad and there was the Internet Explorer shortcut on Windows 3.11 on our 486. I watched that little world symbol turn way too many times. Each time expecting "the internet" to just work. Took me a long time to learn the truth.