Most of my memories of bar/nightclub work can be covered under the
"what happens in the club, stays in the club" mafia stylee thing... but.. some of them I shall mention anyway ;-)

One place I worked in, I would be in early (as i usually had some programming to do on the lighting and video computers) and walking in the back doors, I used to wonder why I never actually saw any empty smirnoff bottles in the bottle skips in the back yards.... plenty of the cheap stuff though... strange, as they had rows of smirnoff vodka bottles and optics behind the bars...

yup you guessed right... they were decanting the cheap vodka into the smirnoff bottles. and quite openly as well... the bars had a high turnaround of staff, quite a few leaving under a cloud (caught drinking/fiddling etc) so why none of them ever reported them for doing it was beyond me.. oh.. hang on.. i rememember now, the door staff were all from south armagh. ;-)

One night we had 3 new girls start as glass lifters/cleaners and usually these girls were aged around 16 or so, doing part time work to earn a few quid in the summer before heading off to Uni, and one of them took a shine to the head barman (who was 48)
they were caught shagging out the back by the chef, who just happended to be the girls uncle, and who mentioned the fact that she had lied about her age to get the job, and she was in fact 14.
the look on the bar managers face was a picture... and for some reason neither of them came back to work.

more later....... :-)
( TBL I posted this on, Fri 21 Jul 2006, 19:28, Reply)