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Pouring $18 Superbowl beers for $14.25 an hour: "I work three jobs and I still qualify for Medicaid" (www.motherjones.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

While those little stands aren't really bars, the people working there are generally bartenders doing some work on the side.

Not even close, and I know because I've worked those stands. The people that work those stands get one single 4 hour training at the beginning of the season to be "certified enough" to not get the stadium (or whoever owns the concession stands) sued. If you wanna pour or hand out beers, you take an extra 2 hour training on how to pour a nice big head on that Miller Lite and how to card everyone who looks under 60. If 2 hours of training makes me a bartender then I guess I'm incorrect, but I don't think that's the case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That's not been my experience. I submitted my state liquor cert to the staffing company and got some rudimentary training, but I was a bartender at a local place downtown, and the people I worked with were either current or former bartenders. Many were people who had the skills but were between jobs.