Changing Jobs, Personal Styles

Now for the good part: everyday is New Year's Eve, if you genuinely enjoy people and enjoy seeing people have a good time. If you can feel empathy, sympathy, and compassion towards people, you'll love it! If you follow the recipes in this book, your employers net profit will be up at the end of 6 months, and you can ask for a raise and expect to get one, or a promotion, and get one.

There are some rules of etiquette concerning your boss. Don't disturb your boss at home for any reason, unless he has told you explicitly what to disturb him there about. If you can't handle a situation, whatever may arise, you are in the wrong profession. Secondly, only say nice thing about your employer to your customers, because it will get back to him, and lastly, if you want a change of scenery, level with your boss, tell him you are sending out resumes or looking for another job, and do give him 2 weeks notice, because you may want to work for him again in a year or two, or may need some parttime work in the future. Bar owners, who have been in the business for any length of time, understand that bartenders are transient and change jobs often. He will understand your boredom of the moment, and may call you to go to work for him again at some future date when another opening arises. It's always nice to imply, whether you mean it or not, that you would like to work for him again sometime, If you have raised his net profits, he will love having you work for him again. Don't tell his customers that you are leaving, unless your boss brings it up in from of his customers. Don't tell his customers where you will be working next, until your last working day. Your following will find out where you are if they really like you, and it is in poor taste to try to steal your employers customers away from him in his own place of business. If you're worth your salt as a bartender, you'll make a good impression in a short amount of time in your new job, and have a following that will be begging to find out where you're working at your old job.

Every bartender has his own style. Some try never to give a customer too much knowledge of their personal lives, feeling that the more the public knows about them, the easier they are to emotionally be hurt. Some feel that their boss shouldn't have too much of a knowledge of their personal lives. Some bartenders are very open about their private lives, and there are as many right ways to keep the bartender-customer relationship as there are bartenders. What is comfortable for one bartender is not comfortable for another one. It is advisable to make customers think they know you, even if they only know you by what you tell them, which may or may not be you and your lifestyle at all. One way you can build your image is to take pictures of selected material to work to show your customers, and is a good ploy when starting a new job. You can take pictures of your home, kids, pets, spouse, or anything that will make the customers identify with you, and the public image you wish to convey.