Recent Entries

• December 21st, 2018 {SB}

  April 22, 2018

  Well, all good things come to an end, as they say. No, not like that. I'm still gainfully employed and nothing's occured to make that be otherwise. But as we come to the latter quarter of the month of April, all the vacancy in the schedule is reversing itself and soon the hours will diminish…

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• April 20th, 2018 {SB}

  April 21, 2018

  Over to the service bar for Friday night. I arrive about on time, go collect my cash drawer with my usual weekend addition on top of it, and get set up for the evening's work. True to her word, Charon has seen to it that I am much more stocked and ready to roll than…

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• April 19th, 2018

  April 20, 2018

  So I'm about halfway through the FMLA extra-shift coverage I'm doing for the month.  Probably 2, mabye 3 more four-day runs to milk for all they're worth, assuming that Cherry is back on her feet and doctor-cleared to return to barkeep duties.  No further news about Jerry the Older, either, at pr...

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• April 15th, 2018

  April 16, 2018

  The parking lot looked a bit empty as I drove in.  I put it down to a combination of unseasonally snowy nonsense on the ground and the threat of more to come.  Nonetheless, I clocked in on time, picked up my Sunday money, walked over to the Lounge and found our day bartender getting packed…

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• April 14th, 2018

  April 15, 2018

  Back to the Lounge for the Saturday night shift. Behind the bar : myself, and Abby.  Charon has the supervisory wheel. Mary and Haley are our sole cocktail girls.  (I'll note for posterity here that we are extremely short-staffed.  We are not in a teensy casino. We've seen 6/7 at top capacity for...

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• April 13th, 2018 {SB}

  April 14, 2018

  Ah, service bar, my old friend. How I've missed you. That probably needs a little explanation. In our establishment (a casino) we have two bars.  The primary dispensary of booze is known simply as The Lounge.  There was in its past a contest to give it a proper name, but nothing ever came of it&h...

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• April 12th, 2018

  April 13, 2018

  It was with some reluctance that I entered the Lounge this evening. Not just because the parking lot looked like things were dreadfully slow, and not just because I knew I had a trainee bartender in my space, meaning I'd make less overall money. The main thing was that it was Granny Nobs' last ev...

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• April 8th, 2018

  April 9, 2018

  Finally, it's the last day of the run, and it's blissfully quiet. Slow days really aren't that bad, honestly, particularly after the last couple of nights. It's quite nice to be able to simply move around the bar casually and not have to be constantly moving at 100 mph. We had a surprising number...

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• April 7th, 2018

  April 8, 2018

  I was told once by one of our original bartenders at the casino (like all the others I was hired with, gone to the winds of time by now) that Friday night was your amateur party-goers. The main event happens on Saturday. While there are certainly exceptions to that rule, it was definitely in play...

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