u/imlostinboston

Apparently, last night, at the 4th of July event, what used to be seating if you came early enough previous years. was blocked off for V.I.P for the first time. So residents (who pay more and more in property taxes, etc. to accomadate these events) were turned away without any warning.

This isn't a huge deal but it is getting crazy, the way the money that goes INTO Broadway (that COMES from the residents) does not go into the city at all. It just goes right into Broadway. And into the pockets of the owners, and post malone, etc.

Are we gonna have another winter like last? Icy sidewalks, not even any salt for them while old people go .01 miles an hour to not slip and people have to walk on the street, trees everywhere for weeks, no electricity for weeks...

Im not from here so maybe I'm missing something, but isn't this a big problem?

There was a night, about 3 weeks into my job (about a month ago) that my drawer was short $70.

I thought it must be my mistake OR one of the servers (specifically a girl named Ashley) might've taken it. I apologized profusely and said take it out of my pay. They didn't.

They apparently did an investigation and concluded they don't know where it disappeared from.

The next day it was short $10. I knew it was because of one of slthe servers doing something strange, not on purpose, but I knew it had to be that.

Anyway, then one day my drawer was OVER by 86$.

I was called into the office. The boss said my drawer was short $400 so I'll need to be careful. I said understood, but... Where did $409 come from? -70, -10, and +86. That's like 160 if you count it all as negative. He said it doesn't matter the numbers I saidundestood but the $400... Was that just a random number you made up? He said "correct"... He said he would if I made enough that night, and that I am close to being fired.

I ended up having to sign a warning stating that like I was instructed, and I forgot what it all said but I read it anit didn't seem weird to me.

Another night, the drawer was short again. I was so confused. But the server from that night came back, and said she made a mistake and that she by mistake miscounted $70 from the drawer.

Which made my think maybe that night, it really was a mistake by Ashley. So that server who came back that night and admitted, I asked her about it and she said that Ashley had all this extra money that night she didn't know what to do with. She said she told the manager this, and the other server did too, when they ran the investigation. But he still decided to HAVE ME fill out the warning.

Now, one thing to know, is the manager is a tall big guy. Ashley is a beautiful stunning curvy girl with green eyes and is really charming. I saw them flirt a lot. All the girls he hires are pretty mixed girls pretty much. Except for one white guy who was hired before he came, and he drove to quit last week. The first day I arrived as the bartender, she was in the kitchen talking with him right in front of me about her bartending skills. Saying that she used to be a bartender and she's good at it. Anyway,

I don't flirt with the boss ever, in fact I am just so curt and professional and rational but nice at the same time.

I was talking with one of the servers one day, (this is at a skyebar. The manager was on the first floor" and as we were talking about things wrong, we heard a noise. I look around the corner and it's the manager listening in, hearing me walk over and pretending to walk into the bathroom.

So I said to the server, okay we need to include him in on the conversation now or he will feel cornered.

So I said, I believe it was Ashley who had extra money she didn't report that day, and if two servers confirmed that, I shouldn't be had to fill out the warning. He said it wasn't Ashley, it was my mistake. I said how do you know and he couldn't confirm that. He said either way it's my responsibility.

So my question is... (And if you read this than wow. Thank you)

Is there anything I can or should do at this point?

I come in everyday early (they told me to at first it then said stop doing that so I did), I do my job with no drama or complaining, open close, make so many drinks at just a 3% tip out for the whole restaurant, (and get 5 tables myself to serve and get 100% tips from).

This is the Sheraton so it's extremely corporate.

Again thank you if you can respond.

EDIT:::::

Some of y'all don't know what a drop is. This is what's happening. No one's going into the drawer but me. They are giving me money, and I am giving them the change.

THE EXTRA MONEY IS THEIR DROP.

so I can be doing EVERYTHING CORRECTLY, as in, giving them the correct change, and if they miscalculate their drop, it's ON ME.

So I think clearly after all this. I am not going to allow anyone to get any change or leave their drops from my drawer.

I worked as a bartender at 2 places: 1 with other people. But honestly I was oblivious to any drama and literally kept my head down and away from it. And it was a place where the manager appreciated that and didn't mind that. And it was all pooled tips.

Now I work in place, in a Nashville, a hotel. I work upstairs by myself and there's a busier bar downstairs with like 3-4 bartenders working. And I can tell they are... filled with drama. They hide it well, but I can tell.

I'm a w k w a r d but still funny, and do my job extremely well. But now that I've got the... Reliability, objective work proven to them, id like to master the social side.

Can you tell me how to get along with other bartenders?

I am going to be so honest about what I'm truly asking. It may seem crazy, and if it is please let me know. Here we go.

Where I work, theres a reauraunt and a side room that is "mine". I'm the only bartender, and in this room they're 8 tables.duting the week, I go in every day and make about $60 in tips with the idea that on the weekend it'll even everything out.

I was first told it's my room. Then I was told I'll have a server helping me at first and then when I'm ready I'll do it by myself.

This last weekend, the manager put two servers in the room. They were too busy in the restaurant to do any work in the room, do I did 90% of the work if not more. I asked how were diving the tips, if it's into thirds or something that makes more sense based on all the work I did. He said "did someone understand how the tip pool works? let me give you a paper or something so you understand how tips work".obviously rhatdiesntanswer the question. So I said "okay, so are we dividing it into thirds?" He said yeah.

I later talked to him about it and he said it's because I don't know the food menu.... Which seems like a cop out, but I will learnthemenu so it's not a reason.

I asked another manager how much I made yesterday... I'm afraid that it's less than $200, for 9 hours of grueling, I mean grueling, busy,work. Because I had to give66% of the tips away.

It's not that the two servers are. Malicious, they're the best most professional nicest people. It's just that they didn't have time. Isked before confirming with the boss the ratios, if they were cool with me 5p and then 25 and they said they'd beokaywithwayless than that dtheyre on my side.

A customer even came in and said that they got sichslow service.

Let me just back up here. The manager is a tall man,black,maybe31. He is very... Cold. Like he's beeninthearmy. He has tattoos on his arm and isfromhere in Nashville. I'm from Massachusetts. I am quiet, and I don't talk much because I'm observing. Sometimes another server flirts with the manager, and that server does not like me.

1. Do you think he is trying to sight me so I will quit because I don't flirt with him?based on being in this industry, is that possible?

2. Could I get fired for being quiet? I show up every single day early for work, clean the bar to a t and get paid about $60 Tuesday through Thursday in tips. I don't complain, and do my job well.i make beautiful cocktails.

3. Its hard for me to get a job. I want to keep this one because all this work makes me better bartender.... But I also don't want to be treated poorly. What should I do?