»

[The Slave]

I do find it quite interesting a handful of people are slating the doorstaff at Exodus. Going from past experiences, student bars are one of the hardest places to work in due to the clientele. Of course it can be different to a rough bar with fights always going on but the biggest difference with students and non students is that students have the skill in winding people up. Imagine yourself as a doorman. night after night you receive abuse and patronising comments from the sutdents coming in or leaving. Students obviuosly like to drink in excessive amounts and that makes it very difficult to deal with. If you have to deal with that night after night, it does make you seem you are a misserable person.

Now like I said, a handful of people have been complaining here but on the whole whenever I am in Aberdeen, I always hear great things about the club. Being the suspicious person I am, I believe half the posters here are not telling us the whole truth. PErhaps you were kicked out of the place for being too drunk, too boisterous or whatever, but you want to take it out on the bouncers.

A great trick that bouncers have to learn to do the job is to tell little white lies. Refusing someone for being too drunk may not be the only reason they are getting knock backed, it could be for another reason but if they were to say that reason, it could trigger aggression. The job of a doormen is a very difficult job an dI could honestly say from experience of night outs ni Exodus, they are doing a good a job as possible. But people do tend to bend the truth for why they were thrown out of a place and find this very suspicious.

They would not drag you out like that. Especially with the CCTV available there and the number of witnesses. Believe it or not, but if this did happen, the police would be straight there and have the doorman arrested.

[Alkaline]

Originally Posted by The Slave

They would not drag you out like that. Especially with the CCTV available there and the number of witnesses. Believe it or not, but if this did happen, the police would be straight there and have the doorman arrested.

I wasn't actually personally involved in the incident i saw, but yes they did remove the guy in a violent manner and he was dragged down the stairs by his head/neck.

The person involved was thrown out for being very drunk but he wasn't being violent towards the bouncers when they manhandled him down the stairs.

[Flash@TMB]

Originally Posted by Spoonie

i think flash is overrated!!

/x

So by inference I have a rating. Therefore what you are saying is that I AM in fact rated.

Cool!

Music Fans Have Forums

aberdeen music

Belmont street fans have forums

Belmont-street.com :: Index

Doormen from Aberdeen have forums

Door Network :: Index

[Cloud]

Originally Posted by inc18457

having worked in exodus and tk's for over a year a few years ago and never having seen anything of that sort happen, ever. i'm entitled to think what i like thank you.

Erm, "a few years ago"?

We're talking about today, not last century.

[pogofish]

Originally Posted by The Slave

Imagine yourself as a doorman. night after night you receive abuse and patronising comments from the sutdents coming in or leaving.

Being the suspicious person I am, I believe half the posters here are not telling us the whole truth. PErhaps you were kicked out of the place for being too drunk, too boisterous or whatever, but you want to take it out on the bouncers.

A great trick that bouncers have to learn to do the job is to tell little white lies.

They would not drag you out like that. Especially with the CCTV available there and the number of witnesses.

Simple. You put-on a thick skin & you dont let it bug you. I've worked in jobs where you take at least as much shit from people & not found it a great problem. I also doubt most folk are expecting happy lads either, just proffessional & who apply a degree of fairness. If you can't manage that, you simply shouldn't be on the door, end-of.

Except that some of us have have taken shit from them when dead sober & behaving in a restrained manner.

Nope, doorstaff can be held accountable for anything they say & should not be telling any sort of "white-lie." They can however decline to give a reason, which is perfectly reasonable/legal.

Sorry, you are talking shite here. I'm afraid I've seen/been on the edge of, all too many incidents similar to the ones described - Some I'd say the response was proportionate, others, most emphatically not & been dead sober the vast majority of the times I've been in there. Some of their bouncers have indeed been excellent but there have been others who are far too full-on/confrontational/violent. I doubt CCTV makes a lot of difference if they are not monitoring/learning from it.

[daveofficer]

Originally Posted by The Slave

I do find it quite interesting a handful of people are slating the doorstaff at Exodus. Going from past experiences, student bars are one of the hardest places to work in due to the clientele. Of course it can be different to a rough bar with fights always going on but the biggest difference with students and non students is that students have the skill in winding people up. Imagine yourself as a doorman. night after night you receive abuse and patronising comments from the sutdents coming in or leaving. Students obviuosly like to drink in excessive amounts and that makes it very difficult to deal with. If you have to deal with that night after night, it does make you seem you are a misserable person.

Now like I said, a handful of people have been complaining here but on the whole whenever I am in Aberdeen, I always hear great things about the club. Being the suspicious person I am, I believe half the posters here are not telling us the whole truth. PErhaps you were kicked out of the place for being too drunk, too boisterous or whatever, but you want to take it out on the bouncers.

A great trick that bouncers have to learn to do the job is to tell little white lies. Refusing someone for being too drunk may not be the only reason they are getting knock backed, it could be for another reason but if they were to say that reason, it could trigger aggression. The job of a doormen is a very difficult job an dI could honestly say from experience of night outs ni Exodus, they are doing a good a job as possible. But people do tend to bend the truth for why they were thrown out of a place and find this very suspicious.

They would not drag you out like that. Especially with the CCTV available there and the number of witnesses. Believe it or not, but if this did happen, the police would be straight there and have the doorman arrested.

what a load of rubbish. i freely admit when i was ejected from the premises they had every right to ask me to leave and those who know me would agree that had they done so i'd have accepted that and grabbed my coat. instead the bouncer stubbed a cigarette out on my forehead and physically ejected me from the club. so don't try and say people are just exaggerating to cover up their own drunken behaviour.

i appreciate a doormans job is difficult but that's their problem and they should maintain a professional approach and attitude despite any hassle they get. i'm sure they knew what they were getting into.

the police will only act if there's a complaint or if they see it. they have a hard enough time most nights dealing with the general public without having to police the bouncers as well.

[dougfast]

i over heard them chatting last week and they kicked someone out for what they said on this board. haha

[Stuart]

A few months ago, I was wondering up to the door and a doorman said to me "Are you a bit more sober today?" I was afa perplexed. I turned round to him and said "What?" and he "reminded" me that I got kicked out on Friday for being far too drunk. So I said to him "Nah, wasn't me, I wasn't here on Friday" to which he replied "You had far too much to drink, I'm not surprised you don't remember". So, again, I told him that wasn't me and that he had the wrong person. His attitude went slightly more aggressive when he told me he "never forgets the face of people he kicks out". He didn't seem too impressed when I told him that I was working at Moshulu all of Friday night, so couldn't physicaly be in 2 places at once. He never took it back, but did immediately say "I'm not knocking you back, but just take it easy tonight".

I think mistaken identity might be a reason for some bouncers behaviour. Anyway, that's that only bad experience I've had with the bouncers there, and it wasn't even bad. Generally I'd say "Sometimes not the friendliest people, just get on with their job".

Also, I'm sure most of the bouncers are perfectly nice people when they aren't working.

Originally Posted by The Slave

I do find it quite interesting a handful of people are slating the doorstaff at Exodus.

Compared to the club going population of Aberdeen there's only a handful of people on these boards, but what's being said here isn't something that I haven't heard out-with these forums. I'm naturally a suspicious person too but then, there's a good ol' saying about suspicion: there's no smoke without fire.