Developments at my Bar Job (3 of 4): The Mexican Machiavelli.

So, among the servers there’s this one (mid-40s) (fat) (gay) (Mexican-American) guy who’s very manipulative.

During the long week-plus of training he had people over after the brewery tour, but I couldn’t go since I had to be up early the next morning for my library job.

He invited me several times which I interpreted as nice, but then the next time I saw him he told me with an edge that I was “the only one not there”, which I believe simply isn’t true, and is my guess is what he is saving as something to say about me to people when he needs to.

That was the first hint I got of something that was wrong, and then on the last day of training, when everything broke up, a bunch of us went to another bar down the block and had multiple drinks.

At the time of the night when suddenly everyone both men and women were hovering around this (masculine) (slightly goateed) (ghetto-accented) (21 year old) (hispanic) busser in order to try to do him – I look over at one point, and honestly there were 2 people a man and a leggy woman touching him simultaneously and he was just oblivious since he’s so young – suddenly the Mexican Machiavelli comes over and tells me that I’m drunk and should go home, since I’m just standing there looking off and not talking to anyone.

I was a bit drunk but not like that, and I could immediately tell that he was taking one detail and trying to twist reality just plausibly enough where if I was drunk I would think he was true and leave, probably so there’d be less competition for the bus boy (I had noticed him trying to joke around and call out to him to get his attention and be the sexy life of the party for him, so it's obvious he wanted some of that).

He also might be gathering that detail as something to use against me later, along with me not coming to his party.

My first day, too, he tried to make it seem like he was helping everyone out by taking over the manager’s duty and carving up evening sections, but he gave himself 3 of the 5 booths that get the most diners (there’s no host usually but there are assigned sections, so it’s shaping up where people are fighting over the best sections).  I'm guessing he knew that people would call him out if he took all 5 booths, so he kept it at the most where he could to make it look natural.

I wonder how this is going to develop.

I’m interested and not that invested, since I have other work and just need a part-time minimum ten dollar an hour job to supplement my income.

I was telling my one (half British) (half Sudanese) friend about this guy and the stuff that he was doing with the sections, and then he asked me more about the guy.

When I said that he was one of the full-time workers, he immediately was like, “That’s why he’s doing it, this isn’t a luxury to him like it is to you,” which I think is partially correct.

Somehow, though, I feel like this is not shaping up as smoothly as this guy thinks it is, if it’s already noticing.

When me and another server were standing in front of the map and she had asked about sections, I already rolled my eyes and briefly and neutrally mentioned that the Mexican Machiavelli had divided it up and a little bit in his own favor, though I promised myself I'd stay out of restaurant drama.