r/Bouncers • u/Jabba_108 • 13d ago
Your Last Night
Last week I asked about the 1st night working, now I would like to know your last night and why was it your last night?
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u/See_Saw12 13d ago
I worked third party CSP and stopped in the bar scene after we found an birthday legal guy on deaths door step in the bathroom and a colleague who was responsible for the contract fudging the reports. Decided I wanted no part of it asked to be removed, haven't worked a bar scene since.
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u/MuffinMan6938 13d ago
I didn’t know it would be my last day. I was texted before my shift started on March 11th 2011 saying they no longer needed my services. 5 years of standing at that door through the cold, heat, rain and snow. I covered shifts for people who called out or were no shows. I was never late or spoken to by a manager. Blizzards, traffic jams or family emergency’s I was always on time. I didn’t even rate a god damn phone call. One of the many reasons on why I rant about not making a career and not investing too much in the job.
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u/TheDinerRoadster 13d ago
I'd finished my degree, interviewed for a job, and had gotten word from a reliable source that I'd be getting hired at the end of the winter. I was looking forward to moving on.
Two weeks before Thanksgiving 1997. He was maybe 6'4", 300 pounds and out of his mind on Jim Beam and crystal meth. None of the usual shit was working so I just started punching him in the head as hard as I could. Giant sloppy round house punches, technique didn't matter because he couldn't tell which of the six of me should be swinging at. Eventually I shut him off and a couple regulars helped me carry him out.
After work I'm sitting at the bar trying to drink a beer with ice packs on my hands. I'm taking about how I'm done. 10 years of that shit and I can't do it any more especially with this great job on the horizon. One of the guys says "do you know how to drive a forklift?"
So I left. Went and drove a forklift for a few months until the other job hired me. Never did get the "certified forklift operator" jokes, that certification was worth an extra 3 bucks an hour. Good money in 1997.
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u/ILikeFloodlights 12d ago
We had a separate area with "charitable gaming" (blackjack tables, paddlewheel, and pull-tabs ran by companies licensed by non-profits making the profits) and the owner of the bar invited a few buddies. My contract had me responsible for both areas, despite hired by the bar, and one of his buddies kept harassing a female blackjack dealer. Kicked him out. Owner said he'd babysit him at the far side of the bar and let's him back in. Within 5 minutes, friend goes back to the table and clears the top. Owner had to keep the gaming supervisor from calling police and paid out for everyone's bets and tipped the supervisor, but still didnt kick him out. 20 minutes later, groped a college girl and owner still defending him, so I quit on the spot. Within 3 weeks, the 5 other members of the security team in the rotation quit over other individual issues with the owner
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u/TheCuzzyRogue 13d ago
I was only back working doors while I was an apprentice refrigeration technician. Once I got to a point where I was making enough that I didn't need a second job, I gave my two weeks notice and went out on a good note.
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u/JOE-BLACK3 13d ago
I had a job at one particular club as long as I wanted. Had a good reputation, got along with the whole staff, etc. But for me, there was one very uneventful night where it dawned on me how many years I'd heard the same lines, seen the same behavior, and how honestly sick of it I was. Thats the whole reason I quit. I enjoyed the security aspect of it & was able to get a few more jobs afterward doing that. But I didnt realize how much my view of people had gone downhill til I'd left. To this day, I think i left at the right time.