More states are letting teenagers serve alcohol at bars and restaurants, part of a growing rollback of child labor protection laws across the United States.
As a former bartender, this is a terrible idea. You do not want your kids involved in bar culture until they are old enough to have at least some clue how to determine how savvy the people around them actually are. Otherwise you’re a lot more likely to end up with an addiction problem, as there’s a whole shitload of drugs in that environment.
21+ for bartenders, 18+ for barbacks. If anything they should be higher, not lower, but those numbers are probably fine. By 21 you’ve usually gotten fucked over a couple times by random people and become a little more discerning.
I was a line cook in college. The absolutely mind blowing amount of drugs and booze both the front of house and back of house staff had at their personal disposal was unbelievable.
Teenagers getting introduced to heroin and developing an addiction isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. How can they grow up and see the bigger picture if their mind is dominated by drugs? How can they organise when they are too busy spending every waking moment acquiring more drugs?
Eh, I’d be surprised if any grand plan is at work. Humans just aren’t that able to cooperate with each other, to make something like that function smoothly.
It’s much more likely an emergent phenomenon from a wide array of different factors, starting with our basic human nature.
Never wise to suspect malice when simple stupidity or laziness could be the reason. They’re vastly more common.
As a former bartender, this is a terrible idea. You do not want your kids involved in bar culture until they are old enough to have at least some clue how to determine how savvy the people around them actually are. Otherwise you’re a lot more likely to end up with an addiction problem, as there’s a whole shitload of drugs in that environment.
21+ for bartenders, 18+ for barbacks. If anything they should be higher, not lower, but those numbers are probably fine. By 21 you’ve usually gotten fucked over a couple times by random people and become a little more discerning.
I was a line cook in college. The absolutely mind blowing amount of drugs and booze both the front of house and back of house staff had at their personal disposal was unbelievable.
Teenagers getting introduced to heroin and developing an addiction isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. How can they grow up and see the bigger picture if their mind is dominated by drugs? How can they organise when they are too busy spending every waking moment acquiring more drugs?
Eh, I’d be surprised if any grand plan is at work. Humans just aren’t that able to cooperate with each other, to make something like that function smoothly.
It’s much more likely an emergent phenomenon from a wide array of different factors, starting with our basic human nature.
Never wise to suspect malice when simple stupidity or laziness could be the reason. They’re vastly more common.