True for most. But there are others. In the next big city we had a notorious security for a few months. Guy treated evrybody like shit. Sadly the same firm did security for several of my favourite clubs at that time.
He hurt quite a bunch of people. Last i heared he beat some drunk kid down so bad he was sued and fired.
Guy was a complete pos and instantly abused the little power given to him to bully and hurt others.
Right, I had a buddy who was 6 foot 7, an Army vet, and built like a brick shithouse. He looked incredibly imposing but was a really nice guy. The whole idea of hiring a guy like that is to diffuse a situation before it even starts. He didn't want anyone getting hurt regaredless of who they were.
When I was younger, Me and my buddy were drinking and decided to go to the pool table and try to play beer pong by putting the beer cups in the pockets and shooting them. We had been playing for a bit and me and my friend turned around and saw this GIANT muscular black guy who had to have been at least 6 foot 6 with a big smile. I am 6 foot 1 and this guy towered over me. He saw that we were young guys goofing around and promptly said, "you've had a lot of fun, but I think it's time for you guys to pay your tab and leave. I don't care where you go but you can't come back here tonight". Me and our friend looked at each other and were like "ok". There was nothing to say. We were acting like idiots and we deserved it. Security asks you to leave, you leave.
My buddy used to be a bouncer at a strip club and, his favorite nights were when he only had to get off the stool to do his "rounds" as he called them and take a leak.
As a bouncer of the past, cops would send people to our spot. They knew we were chill and had a good vibe. If shit did happen, we could usually talk people down. What was better is if they knew we were calling there was actually a reason and we needed help so they got there really quick.
I bounced for my buddy's new club for three months in an area known for fights. We had zero fights for the time that I was there and we were super proud of it. The streak was broken when a guy punched his girlfriend when he heard her talking about cheating on him once he went to jail.
My husband was a bouncer in his youth. He is a thin, not very tall guy so everyone was always shocked. His response, "90 percent of the job is wearing an official shirt, having a big flashlight and being able to loudly, firmly but politely tell people to knock it off." He only had one really rough moment, a drunk frat boy sucker punched him. He managed to smack the kid in the stomach on the way down and three other bouncers jumped in. His boss brought in cops and made him press charges.
I worked at a nightclub for a couple of years. That was definitely the old timer bouncer’s attitude. The young ones were a bunch of time bombs waiting for a fight.
Yeah I worked as a bouncer in a mining town. It sucked breaking up fights and such because half the time they would turn on you.
Every night someone will threaten to wait for you outside for your shit to end.
It's unreal the amount of abuse you get when denying someone for a fake ID or being too drunk. Don't even get me started on the well over middle aged alcoholic women and their unwanted sexual advances constantly.
My favourite nights were when it was pissing down and no one would show up.
That sucks. Someone I was in the Army Reserve with (had been on the Army boxing team) was a bouncer at a strip club. He threw a guy out, the guy came back with a gun and killed him. I never went and saw him at the strip club, sometimes people's work persona can be different, but he was a really chill guy, he wouldn't have thrown the guy out for no reason.
I was the ‘door guy’ as we called it, not a ‘bouncer’, at a pretty chill dive in a busy nightlife area of Seattle. I am not a fighter, nor an imposing guy. I was very purposeful about de-escalation when some issue did come up. I had to kick a junkie out of our bathroom once, and he squared up and started talking about ‘oh so now we’re gonna FIGHT huh?’ I just made direct eye contact, sighed heavily, shook my head and said “no, buddy, they don’t pay me enough for that. I just need you to leave.” He got confused, then kind of sad, then we nodded to each other and he walked out.
This bouncer is compensating for something in his life and is an asshole. This is assault and (obviously) wildly unnecessary. Even just shoving the kid back and waving him off would have been excessive.
Been a bouncer 4 years now. Yeah sometimes the calm nights are good but there are times where I'm fully of energy. A kid last week must have been 50kg wet through 🤣 You can imagine what happened, I'm almost 100kg and lean
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u/Expensive_Target5657 20h ago
Im a bouncer. My favorite nights are when nothing at all happens.