To the owner of the pub: You should be ashamed of yourself. It’s bad enough that you hang around and get drunk at the bar and make the customers uncomfortable to the point that they have to go somewhere else. But you took the cake when you stole your bartenders’ tip money, on New Year’s Eve no less, and both of the bartenders are single mothers. What is this, a game of limbo? How low can you go? And then the next day you pretended like it was a practical joke and brought some of the money back. You’re not fooling anyone. Most people just tolerate you because you own the bar, but no one likes you. If the bar isn’t making you enough money, please be more resourceful than stealing from your employees. Do you know why the till was a little short that night? It’s not because your employees were stealing from you. It’s because most of your customers were on mushrooms instead of alcohol. You will not be getting any more of my money that I do pay taxes on.
—Anonymous
yawn
first?
Oh man! DEFINATLY an issue of TOO FUCKING MUCH COCAIN AND MALT LIQUOR!
Man, if I owned a bar, I wouldn’t have a liver anymore… Or a septum.
“You will not be getting any more of my money that I do pay taxes on.”
But you are willing to go to the pub and spend the money you make turning tricks, or selling drugs, or playing rock shows, or having garage sales, or whatever? Plasma funds are OK for this guy’s pub!
This is one I, Anonymous I wish weren’t anonymous. I’d like to know which pub this is so I can be sure to never set foot in there.
And I hope those bartenders are able to find new employment soon.
#4: I’m with ya on this…Anon, if you’re reading these comments, please tell us the name of this pub so that everybody can avoid giving this scumbag even a penny in profit. There’s NO excuse for ever stealing tips from your employees…none, ever, no matter what. They actually don’t take tips at any Starbucks anymore because some of the managers were emptying the tip jars into their own pockets.
Come on folks, there are enough bar flies here, let’s get some SPECULATION going here! It can’t be that hard to narrow it down!
Why is everyone saying this is boring? If it was your NYE tip money you would be PISSED.
Drunks do dumb things. The owner might be less of an ass if he weren’t, you know, afflicted with blindingly, mindlessly poor judgment? I kinda feel sorry for everyone involved.
I wish I was drunk.
those bartenders should hide the tip jar. but where? hmm… maybe behind a bottle?
I wish the Storeroom was still around.
The writer should’ve mentioned the neighborhood (Queen Anne pub, Capital Hill pub, whatever) so the pub owner could be sure this was directed at him.
@4: I agree, too!
@6: Arrrgh! I’m sorry to hear that! Which Starbucks?
I’ll make sure not to go there.
@3: I kind of think this was written by one of the bartenders, or else why mention the taxes? I think anon is saying that it’s extra shitty to steal tips because they’re taxable income and anon’s witholdings are based on an estimate of earnings that now won’t be reached this month, meaning she has overpaid and will be out of pocket until refund time?
Come on people, who’s up for some COCAINE and MALT LIQUOR?
Single mothers should not be working behind the bar, they should be working on the dance pole.
This once great nation is going down the tubes.
I think this is the harbour public house on bainbridge island. Everyone in kitsap calls it ‘the pub’. I saw somebody in there one time who was drunk and being a little lechy and I think someone said he was the owner. (open and shut case, johnson.)
I desperately hope it’s not the Harbor Public House. It’s a wonderful spot for a date. Include a sunset ferry ride over and you’ve got yourself a lovely romantic evening. And we got great service there. No word on whether our waitress was a single mom.
I don’t mean to be casting aspersions. I’m certainly not the IA author here, and I don’t know any of the people who work at the pub at all.
All I know is that it’s the only place I know of in Seattle or kitsap that is called ‘The Pub’.
I’m semi-regular at the Harbour Public House – chalk this up to the defensiveness of a local, but nothing in the rant sounds anything like my pub. Keep guessing. 🙂
Personally, I know all involved. I find it amusing everyone assumes the owner is a man. I know both bartenders. I consider them friends of mine. They are fine hard working women who deserve much more respect than some of you are giving them.
Being a good bartender is not an easy job because they have to deal with idiots like some of you. I wonder how many of you are willing to bust your butt on one of your busiest nights of the year only to have something you worked hard for taken away from you.
There are a lot of sacrifices a single mom has to make in order to put food on their table. Not being able to spend time with your child or tuck them in at night is one of them in this case.
Are you so lonely and in need of attention that you forgot what it it’s like to be a human? What if this happened to you.
I know this bar and the bartender. She is constantly drinking on shift and getting drunk. Not a reliable source. Drinking on shift is stealing from the bar, so she is no better! I don’t think a bar owner would steal a couple hundred dollars from a tip jar in front of people
IT IS THE OULD TRIANGLE ON GREENWOOD AVE N IN SEATTLE
Its not my fault that these two chicks couldnt properly plan on keeping their legs closed… you shouldn’t get a reward for having a kid and working “hard” to support it by yourself.
I seriously doubt it’s the OT. I go there on occasion, and the owners are pretty cool. The whole situation sounds a little sketchy….its a ‘rant’ dudes….obviously not the entire story. ‘manonamission’….what happened? did they cut ya off in the middle of your ‘mission’? lol