Messing with bartenders really isn’t a good idea…

Because, believe it or not, they have a lot of power!

It’s true!

And if you’re someone who likes to have a few drinks in your local pub now and then, you better mind your manners…

Or else something like this might happen.

Let’s take a look…

Rude to a server? Enjoy your ‘stronger’ drink.

“A while ago I was working for a popular restaurant-chain.

I was a bartender there, but frequently picked up serving shifts. Often, I was responsible for training our new employees, and honestly I preferred training them so they knew how to do the job properly.

As such, I pretty much was responsible for training the majority of our new hires, and because I spent their first few weeks at their side, I felt responsible for them.

Anyway, one particular server that I had was this sweet boy who was great with customers and would literally bend over backwards to please someone. I don’t know if I’ve met anyone who cared about others like this since. As such, I felt particularly protective over this boy.

One particular shift, I was bartending and he was serving a larger party that had been sat near my bar. I could overhear everything that was happening while he served them.

They were giving this nice kid a hard time…

The lady who I assumed was the head of the party would not give this kid a break and was constantly talking over him, asking for things that we have never had on the menu (of course claiming she’d had it last time), giving him attitude for these non-existent items, basic entitled customer nonsense.

I could see this server was visibly becoming flustered with the table, but unfortunately in food, that’s what you have to learn to deal with.

The turning point for me was when she snapped at the server over a birthday song. Our establishment does not sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to tables, however we do offer a free sundae. The server explained this, but she was not having it.

What a lunatic!

He even (very politely) offered to sing, but warned her it would only be him singing as the other servers likely wouldn’t join in.

She was incredibly rude to him about this and I was behind the bar fuming.

As he finally goes to ring in their entree order, she (rudely) asks him for another mojito, saying that I hadn’t made it properly. Another thing to note is that our location is next to a hockey stadium, so based off whether we have a game or not, we’ll prepare drinks in different glasses.

I hadn’t been thinking, and had made the drink in the wrong glass, so of course I was fine remaking it in the proper glass. She might’ve been a jerk, but I did use the wrong glass for a non-game day.

Apparently, she thought she deserved more alcohol since I made a “mistake”. She sent the drink back and ordered my server to tell me to give her more liquor.

Here you go!

One thing you never tell a bartender? Make my drink stronger. So, of course, I remade her mojito with zero alcohol, except for two drops of rum down her sip straw.

She certainly enjoyed her “stronger” drink, and even ordered two more.

Hope you enjoyed paying almost $30 for three drinks with maybe a quarter ounce of liquor all together. Don’t mess with my servers (or insult my drinks).”

That customer was really rude, and the bartender knew how to get even.

And here’s what folks had to say on Reddit.

This person chimed in.

Another reader was impressed.

This Reddit user spoke up.

Another individual dropped some knowledge.

And she didn’t even notice…

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