Here's one of the worst kept secrets in the service industry. The stories are true, everybody is fucking eachother.
When I was in my mid-20s I worked behind the stick at a fancy martini bar in a small-ish midwestern city. I was in a mildly dark place in my life. I drank too much and spent too many late nights getting up to all kinds of mischief. The unintended consequence of this was that, when thrust into a high-pressure, lots of alcohol situation like a high volume, fancy bar with a bunch of other people with similar attitudes, we got up to a lot of mischief together.
