Side Work Podcast

We are back with part one of a two-parter talking about the check, the bill, the tab, the damage. Why does this final step of service seem to be so hard for customers and servers alike? Why can't anyone do math? Why can't someone just be a hero and put down a credit card for the table? UGH. We read your always hilarious and infuriating Server Submitted Stories and then our pal Georgia Hardstark drops by the pod den to talk about her decorated career in the service industry and her time as a lunch lady!

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Today we talk voluntary torture: DOUBLES, and discuss the logic behind agreeing to live in the restaurant from morning to night. It's a special sort of exhaustion that only servers can relate to. We read some more Server Submitted Stories and then Jelloyd Spencer stops by the pod den to talk about his "hospitality industry" skills and the correct outlook on life when you bartend at an Austin Powers themed night club. Yeah, baby.

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Today we talk voluntary torture: DOUBLES, and discuss the logic behind agreeing to live in the restaurant from morning to night. It's a special sort of exhaustion that only servers can relate to. We read some more Server Submitted Stories and then Jelloyd Spencer stops by the pod den to talk about his "hospitality industry" skills and the correct outlook on life when you bartend at an Austin Powers themed night club. Yeah, baby.

Today's topic of discussion: the myriad of ways you embarrass yourself on the job. Whether it's your fault, a customer making you feel like an idiot, or your fellow co-workers piling on, the nature of the job makes you feel like a real ding-a-ling.  Past guest James Dunn sits in for Joselyn and we read some more of your Server Submitted Stories. Then, long time server now turned "Song-tender", Julian Velard joins us to talk about all the ways being a piano karaoke accompanist at a NYC club is like being put right back behind the bar again.

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Our resident environmentalist and co-host Joselyn Hughes leads the topic of conversation today! We discuss the jaw dropping statistics regarding the disgusting amount of food and plastic waste restaurants generate in the United States each year. We go over habits we can all incorporate into our personal lives to reduce waste and highlight (small) steps the service industry is taking to do better. Servers, let's save the planet! Then Amber Nelson joins us to speak about years of bartending experience, working reception at a Hollywood gym, and her solo adventures taking herself on dates.

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In today's episode we discuss the one thing that makes the service industry bearable: friends. This soul-sucking profession can become an absolute blast when you've got a crew that gets you. On the flip side we talk about the jobs we had where we didn't fit in, how hard it was, and how other servers can go out of their way to make you feel like sh*t, especially when you're the new hire. But once you find your tribe, server buddies are homies for life and they have your back on the job and out in the streets. 

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Working on and around the Fourth of July is pretty much a guaranteed dead time in the service industry which sparked today's conversation about what servers do when it's slooooooowwwwww. We discuss how the attitude and energy of the job quickly shifts into a hostage situation when no one shows up to dine and how it's utter BS that you're forced to clean the restaurant while you're making negative dollars. Then, Drennon Davis drops by the pod den to discuss being a server at a famous comedy club thus launching an ill-fated string of jobs combining comedy with bartending. 

You can catch Drennon on NBC's "Bring The Funny" on 7/23 and on his upcoming new podcast with Mike Phirman called BANDTASTIC on Himalaya. Listen to the preview here! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bandtastic-trailer/id1470629744?i=1000443498942

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We spend a lot of time hating on the job, so today we are clearing our energy as Andrea convinces us of the many perks of having a serving job. A few epic disagreements ensue, but ultimately we all bond over a rat that fell through a Buffalo Wild Wings ceiling onto a diner's table. Then, Mitch Bisschop comes through the pod den to discuss bartending burnout, years of serving the daytime weirdos and how being a late bloomer is not a bad thing when it comes to chasing your dreams.

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We continue our conversation about managing tip based wages and in this episode give you some serious mama-bear love and advice about money. You can trust us because we've all set our lives on fire financially and got it back together! Some of us are managing money *so* well it makes us horny. Then, lovable scamps and real life sister act Danielle and Tiffany Puterbaugh drop by the pod den to tell glorious tales of "Ohio drinking", bartending at sixteen, and all of the jobs they've been fired from together.

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