Tonight I had to deal with something that most resteraunt managers never really come face to face with...my bartender got hauled away in handcuffs. I'm depressed. Because I have vented and vented and still feel awful, I'm now going to tell you a few reasons why this sucks. First of all, it's cruel. The Bixby police sent an underage girl into my restaurant to carry out a "sting" operation and first hit up one of my servers. She laughed when she saw the girl was born in 1990 and said with a strong Oklahoman accent, "Honey, you're not old enough," and handed the girl's ID back to her. She responded in a bitchy high school girl tone, "Whatever!" and shoved her ID back into her purse. The server (we were EXTREMELY busy) went about going about her business while the underage approached our bartender and attempted the same routine. Now she did ID her, but served her anyway. Do I think she made the connection the girl was underage? No. Absolutely not. The poor girl and her fiance have both decided to take up second jobs on top of their day jobs to pay for their upcoming wedding. They both must work 70 hours a week. The poor girl was probably too tired to do the math. This girl saves people's lives during the day! I feel like I let her down. Did I tell her enough how dangerous not I.D.-ing can be? Did I tell her enough?
It gets worse. While their hauling her off, I notice news crews chasing after her to get their money shot. Really?! You're luring people to do something against the law and then ruining their lives for it! At this moment I hate the po-lice. I don't always, I usually think they're pretty good people, but tonight I do, and blogging is all about being honest, right?
Sunday, September 21, 2008
ABLE Mishaps
Posted by TTownDiva at 12:45 AM
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After reading this drama I am feeling a lil diappointed with the police too!! Dont they have better things to do - like go and catch criminals, meth labs or drunk drivers. I mean really com on, trying to bust a reataurant for underage drinking is ridicuous. Yes the bartender had to learn the hard way this time and I dont even know the girl and my heart goes out to her. Sara, dont fel like you let her down - it was an honest mistake on her part. And a scheme from the lil donought-eatin, YMCA gayish, piggies that had to ruin the day when they are suppose to be hero fighting crime! Whatever, Tulsa has homicides almost everyday and casino's that has corrupted that city and their are far more problems than catching a poor girl bartender with underage drinking - they need to go and do a real job and feel like they accomlished somethng in a day rahter than hitting the local restaurants with a sting operation!
Shitballs, this one blows.
I bet you didn't know that I was fired from a bartending job for this very thing. Luckily, the "red card" was from a company hired by the restaurant and not the 5-0s, but it still sucked balls. I was really busy, and the manager had left the store to go pick up his mom at the airport that afternoon. Lucky me got to bartend a full bar AND cover the boss's ass. It turned out to be too much, and the kid didn't even look THAT young. The stupid restaurant *COUGH BENNIGANS COUGH* hired me back 6 months later because they knew it was their fault, but I'm still resentful 8 years later!
The bar sting op is a horrible one. God bless that bartender. I really feel for her. But YOU didn't do anything wrong. It was one of those 1 in a million type of freak shows. At the same time, lesson learned. Be tougher on your staff, ya know? (HUG)
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