The Shrine

<div style='font: 10pt Impact; text-align: left; '>...I'm about half-way through my drink and the manager comes out and says "You can't sit at the bar, employees are not allowed to." I was like "WTF?" so I replied "Even if I'm off the clock and my shirt is covered?" and she replied "Yep." I'm totally blown away by this. Why the fuck can't I drink at the bar, the bar that I WORK FOR for chrissake? Who gives a flying fuck if I sit at the bar? Or is there really a logical reason why I can't sit at the bar at the restaurant I work at? If not, then I'll be damned if I ever go in there and tell people to eat there.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Because then people say "there goes that drunken bastard that works here."</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Impact; text-align: left; '>Then they'll say it when I'm sitting at a bar table not 3 feet away from the fucking bar.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>It's more discreet at a table though. If someone's at the bar, you KNOW they're drinking.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Well we wouldn't want people to think a bar patron was drinking. Personally, I don't get it. I knew a bartender, her place had no problem if she wanted to stick around and have a beer.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Corporate chain or local bar?</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Impact; text-align: left; '>Really? I thought the glass full of BEER did.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Impact; text-align: left; '>I've sold out to the man...corporate.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Impact; text-align: left; '>Oh, they don't have a problem with me drinking there, just that I can't sit at the bar and do it. That's the part that irks me.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Ah, they probably don't want you taking up valuable real estate. They're still pricks, though.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>All the more reason to try harder in school so that you don't END UP WORKING IN BARS FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE! *ahem*, 'scuse me.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>We used to be able to drink after shift... but one of the newer managers got wasted and made a scene in front of the whole restaurant.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Impact; text-align: left; '>Pretty valuable real-estate when there was no one else sitting at the bar.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt Impact; text-align: left; '>Why? I'd still have to deal with idiots and their pointless rules that they pull out of their asses. No offense to my manager, but the least she could do was explain why I couldn't be there. I'm an English major, I'm open for reasoning.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>True, but let me shed some truth on you, you get a LOT more respect, freedom, & reasonable treatment, when you have a white-collar job.</div>

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>too bad it sucks, though. I liked accounting in college, but being at the bottom of the pole in the work force is killing me. The tasks i get assigned are the most rediculously boring i almost die every day at my desk. Wish i could be up and moving. I do like auditing at a client site, however.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I doubt he's going to college so he can be a bartender.</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>That explains it then. It's a corporate policy that was established 20 years ago when one stupid fuck did something to ban drinking off the job in the bar. Now, because of that one man, it's a policy.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: justify; '>That was pretty patronizing and unsolicited.</div>

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>it's barret. we all love him. We all patronize him about his working in bar and thinking his blues are the greatest thing since sliced bread.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: justify; '>okay, i retract my statement</div>