I'm back!

The beer man is back!
That's right folks...get thirsty, cause I'm back. Aside from Opening Day & that concert thing in July, I'll be working Friday & Saturday games this season.

Raise your hands high, open your wallets, take out a second mortgage on your home, buy a few $8 bottles of gold & don't forget to tip the man carrying that hefty tub of cold ones.

Oh yeah, I'll be getting paid to be at the U2 concert in July....as if working Cardinals games wasn't awesome enough, i'll get to work at an awesome concert. Now, honestly, I'm not a huge U2 fan. I'm just not. Get over it. But I am excited to see an amazing production that evening.

If you happen to be in the Red Bird Club sections, flag me down & buy a few cold ones from me or just say hi.

PLAY BALL!

A much needed update

So it’s been awhile…actually it’s been too long.

I’ve worked a few games on the weekends from time-to-time when the Cardinals are in town, but it feels like I’m never there compared to working nearly every home game last season.

Life has been busy…in fact since my last blog post:
-I got married
-took an amazing honeymoon to Mexico
-nearly got fired from my job as a beerman (story explaining below)
-I received a message from a fellow beerman from Florida who stumbled across my blog. (blog entry about that in near future).

Okay, so I didn’t list out much, but the main one, “I got married” is sort of a big deal and has consumed a lot of my time, in a good way.

So I nearly got fired. How you may ask?...well let me tell you.

I was traveling to see my future wife graduate from college & received a phone call from the office at Sports Services. They asked me if I was still working for them and why I had not been showing up for my scheduled shifts. I explained how I had been showing up for the shifts I’ve been scheduled. I was told that I had been missing all weekday games. I reminded them of how I was only available to work Fri & Sat games. Somehow they never got the memo even after I took the proper steps in letting them know my availability. Anyways, I was told that this was news to them and that they needed to discuss this and get back to me.

Now this is in late-May….nearly 2 months into the season. It took them nearly 2 months to realize I hadn’t been showing up for weekday games that I was scheduled for (even though I had told them I wasn’t available to work week-day games). Kudos to them for keeping track of the hundreds of employees they do have, but seriously…it’s crazy to know that someone could go 2 months ‘missing’ before an employer wonders where they are at. While waiting to hear back from them, I was weighing the fact of if I would get fired. I mean, I don’t need to work at the stadium. Not anymore. I did last season when at times it became my only source of income…but now I have a full-time job that pays well…I concluded that I purely work at the stadium for the enjoyment of it all…and the extra cash isn’t bad at all…and the stories are amazing…and I get to witness history being made every AB Pujols has.

About an hour later I received a phone call, saying that they would allow me to continue to work there and changed my availability to only working Friday & Saturday games.

So moral of this story…over-communicate….and marriage is awesome!!!

Also, I’ll try to update more frequently…