I manage the bar and bartend at an event venue. The money is excellent (bartending, not managing) and since I've been doing it a while, I'm good at it.
The only problem is the flips. During wedding season, we have events every Friday and Saturday, and on occasion Fri/Sat/Sun. This requires flipping the room where you take everything down, clean up and set it back up again after the event ends at 12:30. (vacuuming, moving stages, stacking chairs, moving tables, mopping, bathrooms). Keep in mind our venue seats 400, it takes an hour for one person to just vacuum and it's usually only 3-4 people flipping. I've been doing this for about 5 years and it's exhausting. My body is shot from it. Every year at the end of the season, I always second guess my choice working here because the flips are so intense I have regular back and knee pain from it. It takes all my energy that on Sundays after flips, I can't muster any energy to do anything and I lay in bed all day. For a regular event (usually weddings), prep starts at 4, bartending 5-12, then flipping for around 3-4 hours. That's 11-12 hours of work then we have to come back the next day for our shifts, sometimes twice for double flips (there are not many of us, we usually work every weekend). Me, the banquet manager, and all my bartenders are exhausted from it. The servers are all teens so they don't have to flip.
I and the rest of middle management purposed the idea of bringing in a separate flip team (2-3 people) to flip the ballroom and clean the venue so we didn't have to break our backs to do 3-4 hours of manual labor after working a full shift. When the venue first opened, this is how it was done so it's not anything new. The owner shut it down immediately and the idea was met with anger. “It's not that hard. I've done it before (once 6 years ago when they had 8 people flipping). I'm not hiring people just to clean and set up the venue. When you bartend at a regular bar have to stay and clean and leaving at 4 isn't that bad“. He's that kind of owner that stops in maybe once a month to hear the numbers and keeps his distance. He won't budge on this. No compromising.
We have some leverage here because the bartenders are unanimously against it. Even my male bartender who lifts and runs marathons says he can't do it anymore. I'm at the point where I am just flat-out refusing.