living for sunday

why am i having more fun on sunday that on the rest of the week?

is it the not having all the pressure to perform or the drunk-ass karaoke or just the fact that its my friday and dont have to work the next 2 days? probably a little of each combined with the fact that it means 4 days without some idiot chasing off more customers.

todays rant - customer relations. customer relations doesnt stop with being friendly and courteous when you're in this line of work. when a customer asks for a song and you have been announcing that you're playing requests (kinda odd since the only songs you announce as requested are ones you wanted to play - and its amazing how many people leave the dance floor EVERY DAMN TIME YOU PLAY THIS NON-COUNTRY BOY BAND CRAP- but i digress) where was i?.. oh yeah. requests. play them. period. if you dont know the song, then used the headphones to find out what it sounds like or, and i know this is a hard one, just ask. we lost a group of 15 customers on a night we really couldnt afford to cause they didnt hear their song.

lets do the math:

1. 15 customers x 4-5 drinks per hour@ a low end average of 2.75 (beer only not mixed drinks)
2. the 2.5 hours of time they asked for the song.
3. the approximate $400 plus dollars they would have spent not including tip
4. the chances of them ever coming back because you wont play their song

i dont know what your math says, but mine says you just cost the bar some steady customers, and about $800+ dollars for one night. figure in the nights that they wont be back and then add in all the other customers you've managed to chase off in the last few months and you come up with a staggering amount of money...

i'm surprised you havent noticed this already but... YOU ARE JUST PLAIN BAD FOR BUSINESS YOU IGNORANT IN-BRED HICK. no scratch that i wouldnt want to insult them. i actually know some in-bred hicks.

and while i'm at it...

why oh why, do you have to be "That Guy" every cheesy 70's & 80's club move in the book, every lame dj trick and schtick you ever heard and you use them ev

ery night. dude.. its embarassing to be seen in the booth.

by the way kids... ITS CONCERT TIME AGAIN!

SATURDAY AUGUST 5TH -

BRYAN WHITE, WADE HAYES,

AND OPENING ACT GREG CALDWELL AND CODE WEST.

i'll let ya know how it goes. or doesnt.

rumors..

rumors of the good old days...

apparently we still have that problem.

pardon me while i start job hunting again.

Houston, we have gotten rid of a problem...

in the words of Kool & The Gang - CELEBRATION TIME COME ON!

they finally took that idiots name off the schedule. i may just have me a drink today. sure now there's more pressure on me to perform... oh.. wait. WHO CARES! I CAN GO BACK TO HAVING FUN IN THAT BUILDING!!!!

And dont tell anyone... but next concert is august 5th

stay tuned

seems like old times...

so after many years, we've done our first concert in the club since rebuilding. Craig Morgan put on an excellent show for us, and after talking with the owner, apparently it wont be the last. the general idea is to do a concert every month.

in the last month, people who do the hiring and firing are finally starting to realize that they done made a couple of bad decisions. we're gonna try some new things, some old things, and some things that i'm really not too sure about. we'll see.

other than that, its been a stressful and hectic month. lots of stuff goin on at work that was aggravating, and some personal stuff that i had to take care of. feeling a bit better now, but still have some way to go.

stay tuned