The Men of Commissary 240: A Quitter & Making the Cut.

Majority of the jobs I've held, the co-wrorkers work together as a team...some of the teams have been very strong, well knit groups and worked well together...some of them have been the worst team to work with and couldn't communicate worth crap.

As a beer man, both commissaries I've worked in, the beer men work together as an amazing team. We are supportive of each other when making large sales during a game. We communicate to each other about where people are buying or where people aren't buying. We help each other make sales. For example: if one beer man ran out of Bud Select, he'll ask a passing beer man if he has any and if so, he'd tell him where to make a sale where someone asked specifically for Bud Select. Sometimes it feels like it is cut-throat too since it is every-man for himself as for commission and making money, but overall everyone works together as a team.

Sometimes a team has to make some cuts and sometimes people quit the team...

Last Wednesday night's game that took place during the last home-stand, a beer man quit and walked out during the middle of the game.

Come to find out he was an ex-Marine. He walked into out commissary and yelled, "I never worked this hard in the Marines and I am not going to work this hard as a beer man."

This ex-Marine had just started the day before and I didn't even get to know his name. Most of the guys around when the ex-Marine quit laughed and was glad to see him go because fewer beer men means more money for the rest of the beer men working.

I still don't know what to think about the ex-Marine quitting...I mean, yes, being a beer man is very manual-labor intensive, but I never thought someone would compare it to being harder work than anything the US Marines do. I've known several people who have gone into the military and I have every reason to believe that this ex-Marine beer man who quit was simply a wimp (to lightly put it).

This last weekend during the Card/Cubs series, it was final-cut-weekend...if someone was unable to make at least an average of $25/day in sales...they were going to be cut from working at Busch. I've had a few tough nights working, but it'd be tough to not sell at least 4 beers a game...needless to say, I've mad the cut and looking forward to the rest of the season making sales...even if the work is "harder than anything the Marines do"...ha...I know that my work is tough, but it's nothing in comparison to what Marines do...