Do you move people ?

[mindonstrike]

Everything is for sale, it's jsut a matter of whether the money offered is worth the headache it might create. If he was being bumped 5 or 6 people for $100 I'd probably take it but buy a drink for everyone that got bumped. If it were more people than that I probably wouldn't do it.
Now, $500 or $1000 would buy drinks for a lot more singers

[capnvic]

Originally Posted by mindonstrike

Everything is for sale, it's jsut a matter of whether the money offered is worth the headache it might create. If he was being bumped 5 or 6 people for $100 I'd probably take it but buy a drink for everyone that got bumped. If it were more people than that I probably wouldn't do it.
Now, $500 or $1000 would buy drinks for a lot more singers

I don't believe its worth it at all, in the long run. You still have to deal with the client you work for at night.
I wouldn't do it for 100 or 500 smackers. We still have to be conscious of the rest of the crowd. They really pay us, don't they...

If the person in question has to go to the restroom then ok, I make exceptions for that, I have been offered as high as 200 dollars, but I refused it.

To each his own. I just won't do it for money..

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by capnvic

I don't believe its worth it at all, in the long run. You still have to deal with the client you work for at night.
I wouldn't do it for 100 or 500 smackers. We still have to be conscious of the rest of the crowd. They really pay us, don't they...

If the person in question has to go to the restroom then ok, I make exceptions for that, I have been offered as high as 200 dollars, but I refused it.

To each his own. I just won't do it for money..

That's why I would buy anyone who got bummped a drink.
If the singers that were bumped were mostly regulars who I know would wait an extra 4 minutes for a free drink, I would have no problem with it.
If they were strangers or people I know to be pissy, I might not. There's a number of variables involved.

Sam

[George]

The old saying goes some thing like:

If it looks like a duck, moves lika a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck...

One could safely surmise the same holds true for a bribe.

[laddie]

In my shows, duets count as a song for both singers. The list is displayed on the screen and everyone knows the order of rotation. If I move anyone, I move them down the list, never up.
For example someone may be in the bathroom or on the phone when I call their name. I move them down one and call them after the next song. I do this three times. After the third time I move them to bottom of the list. Sometimes people will ask me to move them down because they are waiting on someone to show up. I occasionally get people coming in an hour before closing wanting me to let them sing next. I explain the rules and tell them to come in earlier next time. Most people are OK with that. For those that don’t like it, I tell them to go back to the bar where they have been spending money all night. Other than the few drunks I get no complaints about the rotation. I am often complemented for running a fair rotation.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by George

The old saying goes some thing like:

If it looks like a duck, moves lika a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck...

One could safely surmise the same holds true for a bribe.

Not necessarily, as a bribe is a man-made word to help others convey a meaning of a number of actions related to such, and has also developed a number of connotations and interpretations over 100's of years across 100's of languages, but,

A duck is one word that specifically names a specific number of species that have a specific number of anatomical features, and is not truly subject to much interpretation at all.

[George]

Originally Posted by bryant

Not necessarily, as a bribe is a man-made word to help others convey a meaning of a number of actions related to such, and has also developed a number of connotations and interpretations over 100's of years across 100's of languages, but,

A duck is one word that specifically names a specific number of species that have a specific number of anatomical features, and is not truly subject to much interpretation at all.

What you say would only be true if one were saying a bribe was a duck.

It's an analogy.

What it is saying is if it looks like a bribe and has all the earmarks of a bribe then it probably is a bribe.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by George

What it is saying is if it looks like a bribe and has all the earmarks of a bribe then it probably is a bribe.

I understand the saying as being an analogy.

What I was saying that the above would easily and clearly apply to a duck, but could not to a word such as "bribe", because of all the connatations, interpretations, and language cross-overs with such a word that already contains to many variables to define properly.