Anybody notice there’s a large number of bartenders who are reflexively hostile and aggro?
I’ve been thinking about this recently because of some negative interactions with bartenders, but you almost never get wait staff or anybody in hospitality who are hostile dickheads, but there’s a sizable minority of bartenders who will just talk to you like absolute shit or act aggro with no provocation whatsoever.
I was out last night and I went to order something at the bar and this male bartender looked at me like I was human dogshit on approach. I ask him for a beer and he looks at me like I’m a total idiot and goes “ID” in this hostile tone. Then I hand it to him and he slowly turns it over unnecessarily like 6 times as if it could be fake. Obviously just giving me a hard time for no reason.
I swear this happens like 25% of the time I interact with a male bartenders. I don’t know if it’s because I’m a man. Some of these guys have a crazy complex that they seem to take out on customers. It almost never happens with women bartenders in my experience as well, it’s almost always a man.