Bouncers acting like hard-asses

[WinterSoldier]

tough words coming from a nurse......

You can bet your last dollar on that one and not go home broke.

 

[igordog]

One of my best friends has been a bouncer at a popular dive here for the past 5-6 years and has never been in a fight...I think he's actually lost his cool and picked someone up and physically thrown them out (almost resulting in a fight he would have won), but the dude decided it was better to get up off the sidewalk and leave.

Obviously it's like any other profession where there's good people and bad, and generally you only hear the stories about the bad ones.

 

[Pupi]

Haha! Zing!

Poopy sounds like he's/has been on the job. You even bounce bro?

Who gives a shit what the bouncers have to deal with. That's their job. If you're an asshole, you're an asshole and you're just using your work as an excuse for your curmudgeonly behavior.



Uh....lol.

I've worked security at a couple events and although the chicks dig you, the guys look at you with contempt (most of them). Your excuse is fucking weak, dude. Do you go to public bathrooms and shit on the floor simply because there's a janitor there who's supposed to clean up the bathrooms? No, you don't, because you would be complicating his job for no reason and I assume that you have manners. Do you treat waiters and bar boys like slaves or in a disrespectful manner simply because they're taking your order at a restaurant and serving you your meals? No, you don't, because that would be rude. The same thing applies to going to a bar, getting trashed, and starting problems. The only difference is that there's someone at the bar that is paid to maintain the order and bounce you if you start shit.

Yes of course it is. It's just that theres an alarmingly high number (that i've seen) that are just itching to start something. I've seen a pair of bouncers follow some guy down the street and they were just kicking lumps out of him, despite the fact that the man wasn't doing anything back or even being remotely hostile.

Most are good guys sure, but like with any job there are going to be idiots who abuse their position.

Dude, I live in Miami and I've lived in Tallahassee (big college town), as well. I'm pretty confident that I've seen more bouncers than the majority of the posters in this forum have and I can honestly say that the bouncers don't have the problem...the people at the clubs/bars do. Don't start no problems, there won't be no problems. Have you ever heard of that saying?

 

[Unknown Pleasures]

My two cents:

- It's a shit job with shit pay, so you're not likely to attract stellar human capital for it. Of course you're going to have some assholes

- Unless someone is doing something outrageous, a professional employee of an establishment should always speak respectably the first time they need to speak with someone. So for instance, if a guy carries a drink out when he shouldn't, or puts his feet up on a chair, or blocking traffic the bouncer should say "Could you please take your drink back, bringing drinks on the patio is not allowed", "could you please be sure to make room for staff to pass" etc. However, to often give a tough guy enforcer image poor bouncers can cause problems by being brash

- When bouncers lose it and go violent, I think they sometimes go over the top because the pent up frustration of the 50 idiots they wanted to punch but couldn't

- Never underestimate how bad the clientele can be and the shit that people pull. From my observation, 95% of the times I've seen real scuffles I wanted the bouncer to smack around the out of line customer. So while I"m not a fan of bouncers for the minor reasons (like making me wait in line too long), they have the difficult task of dealing with people that are even more useless and fucked in the head than they are on a regular basis

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

obviously attracts some assholes - like any positions in which a positions of power is part of the job.

I'd also say it is a reaction and result of having to deal with douchebag patrons - lets be honest douchebag patrons out number douchbag bouncers on any given weekend.

 

[Kevin Rudd]

The only time I have had issues with bouncers was when I was in New Zealand and Australia. They have different standards than we have in North America. There, if you seem drunk, you are thrown out. If you are completely wasted, you have to act sober. If you don't seem sober, expect to be thrown out on your ass.

There is a reason for that. Those countries have laws around the responsible service of alcohol. In other words they can't sell booze to people who are visibly drunk and if they are caught doing so, they can cop of $10,000 fine and risk losing their liquor licence.

So they have a choice, throw your drunk ass out or risk a $10,000 fine. Not much of a choice really huh?

any industry has it's good and bad eggs, not sure why anyone would thinking bouncing is any different.

 

[kuromusha]

tough words coming from a nurse......

Nurse >>>>>>>>> Bouncer

 

[wbubbles]

The only time I had a problem was years ago. Me and my friends went into a downtown Orlando pizza joint after all the clubs closed. Now the thing is, these food places don't want drunk people just swarming in to use the bathrooms without getting food. So they hire bouncers to guard the bathrooms I guess. Well my friends (4 or 5 people) wait in line for food and I head to the bathroom. Also keep in mind none of my friends are the loud and rowdy type. We're all pretty reserved and no one drank very much aka no sloppiness.

Bouncer stops puts his hand out to stop me in the middle of the restaurant.
"Hey buddy - where are you going?"
I said, "I'm going to the bathroom."
He says, "Can't do that without ordering food."
I said, "Oh.. Well my friends are in line." *points to friends*

(Keep in mind I was talking very casually. Not antagonistic. I'm not a big drinker so I wasn't drunk either.)

He says, "What's with the attitude?"
Me: "Wait.. what?"
Bouncer: "The attitude, man. What's with that?!"
Me: I just wanna piss! There's no attitude here!!"

Now I start to get mad just because I know what's going on here. Guy was basically trying to pick a fight with me. We start yelling back and forth about attitude/lack of attitude or w/e until my friends got out of line and got me and we just left. The place lost our business for basically no reason so good for them.

The only other time I saw something I thought was unfair was at sky sixty in orlando. I think a young kid was going out through an emergency exit or something to smoke. He was pretty out of it. Well he comes back in and the bouncer starts giving him hell for going out and coming back in through the door. This bouncer was a mountain of a man. 300 lb+ mucular black guy and the kid was some 150 tiny white kid. The bouncer starts screaming at the kid and then pushes/slams him hard into the wall a few times for no reason. The kid wasn't threatening at all. He was a confused, meek drunk. Then the bouncer grabs him by the back of his neck and hauls him off. When bouncer returned I saw him bragging to the other bouncers about what he did to this kid. Lame bully shit.

I think the profession of bouncing is similar to that of police officer - It attracts people that like to have control over others. And I guess to be an effective bouncer or PO, it would be advantageous to have such personality traits. So yeah, people with say there's good and bad people in any job setting and that's true... But I think the nature of bouncing attracts dbags to it.

 

[Frank23]

The GOAT.

 

[Kevin Rudd]

^^^ I honestly thought he'd be bigger

 

[Frank23]

^^^ I honestly thought he'd be bigger

Dalton: Take the biggest guy in the world, shatter his knee and he'll drop like a stone.

 

[Bob Gray]

Personally Ive never had any bad experiences with a bouncer. I follow the rules of the establishment and I don't try to cause a big scene or commotion. Oddly, the bouncers tend to like me and we get along.

Now a buddy of mine hates bouncers and all the time after a few drinks he just gets stupid. The next day in his mind he thinks that he was just calmly offering his opinion of disagreement on a bouncers assessment of the situation. He doesn't tend to remember that he was loud and almost right in the bouncers face talking about how bad everything in this bar is. I tend to have to intervene and lead him away. Every time, he always thinks the bar, bouncer or establishment in general were "being dicks".

I've also done it myself part time for a wee bit at a local bar. Not a big place or anything. Even after a few weekends you learn to not give people the benefit of the doubt. because if you don't give them that benefit you'll be right 99 times out of 100.

 

[dog y]

They deal with intoxicated douches every night, all night. They don't really know that you're special, and won't cause shit. Their guard is up constantly, sometimes it's not exactly a safe job

Couple weeks ago a bouncer got into my face because I accidentally stepped on his shoe. Douchey? Yeah. Did I want to touch him with teh jab? Fuck yeah. But you gotta think, I'm probably the 4656765958678'th person to step on his shoe - I probably caught him at a terrible time. It's whatever

All day!

 

[dittohead84]

Yeah at a work party I was just joking with a girl and lifted her up. Bouncer comes over and says "If you drop her I will be annoyed". So I said "Dont worry I wont drop her", then he says "and if you dont drop her I'll be annoyed" while having this smug look on his face. Felt sorry for him not realising I watched UFC for years, couldve K'd him TFO

 

[TrueBias]

yeah i think its needed to the job, if you deal with retarded drunk pricks every single night you just have to adapt to all the shit you get from people

No it is not needed. Bouncers are usually the first and last thing you see when entering establishments. The bouncer still represents the business and who wants a smug prick infected their image because they deal with drunks.

"Be nice until its time to not be nice."

 

[Gavster]

Who becomes a bouncer?

 

[Kevin Rudd]

Who becomes a bouncer?

wannabe bouncers?

 

[Madmick]

No you didn't. Just because you're a moderator doesn't automatically make you right. A little drunk is different from very drunk, or 'pissed' as we'd call it here in Aus. If it was a club crime to get a little drunk, then why the hell do clubs serve drinks?

He was sober, you were drunk. I'd reckon his judgment was more likely to be accurate than yours. Nobody who is over-served ever thinks he/she has been over-served. Also, I didn't imply that I was right because I was a moderator. I implied I was right because I assumed you had a little story where you were emasculated, and indeed, I was every bit as correct as you were about me being a former bouncer.

As I said, not slurring words, and no not harassing anyone. Just talking to a chick at the bar. By the way, she left the venue immediately when I was booted out and took me back to her place. Maybe she felt sorry for me. Sympathy fucks are awesome, no?

I wouldn't know since I was the guy who was always on the other end of the thrashings. I suspect you don't know, either. Sounds like bullshit.

Either way, I figure she wasn't feeling terribly harassed. And that was the first sliver of payback that was coming for said bouncer.

OMFG

How long is your D in this Hollywood script, btw?

And how do you justify the other account I mentioned? A guy accidently drops a drink. gets smashed to the face, lands on his head, gets brain damage. Justice in your world? Or was he just a douche that you'd have zero sympathy for? Bouncer went to jail by the way, so even if you do try and justify it, his lawyers could not.

Listen, I don't care if you Googled and found one incident where the bouncer was in the wrong. Coincidentally, if this is true, unlike your little personal anecdote, the bouncer went to jail, yeah? Hardly a scathing incrimination reinforcing the sentiment of all the beta males in this thread who allege that all the bouncers of the world are hyper-aggressive douchebags who never get their just desserts for their unprovoked bullying. Bouncer was wrong; he does time. Sounds about right.

Are there probably a few bad bouncers out there? I'm sure there are. A small number. On the other hand, the number of butthurt douchebags out there who can't get over being rightfully put in their place for their bad behavior (that in their eyes was perfectly okay) are legion. Legion.

 

[bcordova]

Bouncers are cool if you are cool with them. A few have attitudes but I sorta get it. They deal with drunk people all night.

 

[Diablo Ryu**]

Once me and a buddy ran into some girls we knew outside of a club. We talked to them while they were either on the line or in the smoking area (can't remember).

What I do remember is the bouncer telling me and my buddy that we needed to get off the sidewalk if we weren't going into the club. We just ignored him until the third time I got in his face and told him that the club began once people walked through the door and that they didn't own the sidewalk. I wasn't blocking anyone or anything so I told him to fuck off.

I don't believe you. You told him to fuck off while walking away. I know your type.