I have been here for four years, and the owners randomly promoted our barback to bar manager, who proceeded to give me multiple write-ups within the same week and suspend me for giving guests cocktail napkins and chilling my martini glasses.
When I asked why these were deserving of writeups, she said that guests need to get their own napkins, because if I set one down when they don't want one, it is wasting napkin inventory. Additionally, chilling my martini glasses was deserving of an additional writeup, which led to a suspension, because "none of the other bartenders chill the stemware and it makes the rest of the bartenders look bad."
I signed the write-ups, was told I was suspended for not listening to management, and then went to CVS and bought a "sorry for your loss" card and brought it back to the barback-turned-manager who suspended me.
Not sure what I will do now, but wasn't about to put up with that nonsense. Now out of a job and looking at this as the push to do something else after ten years behind the bar.
Happy Cinco de Mayo, everyone.