"If you think your job is scary on Halloween, try being a bartender in Boston. Not only do they have to serve drinks to ghosts, ghouls, witches, and devils, but they have to deal with the scariest, most unpredictable form of human: inebriated. And on a night like Halloween - or the weekends around the holiday - drinking-age adults are on their most frightening behavior. Sure, it's not the worst holiday to work (that belongs to Mother's Day and Thanksgiving, according to restaurant employees)."
"Then I'm stopping by Tedeschi's [now the 7/11] before I go into work, and I see this shadow lurking way back, and it's huge. And it looks like they have something in their hand. I get to work, and somebody's like 'There's someone at the door.' And I say 'Absolutely do not let them in.' It's this figure I had been seeing all night long."
Boston bartenders work hectic Halloween shifts serving costumed crowds while managing heavily intoxicated patrons. Drinking-age adults often display unpredictable, frightening behavior on Halloween and surrounding weekends. Employees report that Mother's Day and Thanksgiving rank worse for restaurant work, but Halloween brings high volume and odd costumes such as evil clowns and a "Storrowed" truck. One bartender described confronting an eight-foot Grim Reaper in a real scythe who attempted to enter a bar and later appeared at the bartender's boyfriend's house, leaving staff on edge. The combination of crowds, costumes, and alcohol increases stress and safety concerns for bar staff.
Read at Boston.com
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