by Justine 
A press release I got this week:
Hello,
I am working to open Brooklyn’s first Bartending school. We hope to begin classes within the next week and would really love to work with you in this endeavor. I am attaching our press release and the website is in the signature of this e-mail. I really look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for your time.Best,
Brooklyn Bartending Academy
573 Metropolitan Ave, Suite 200
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ewww total vomit in my mouth. hopefully no one signs up and these fools go out of business…not they’re even really in business.
It almost seems like a joke, especially the image of the clearly drunk girl on their website with boobs hanging out. Not that I have anything against drinking or boobs, but a questionable image for a professional business site. CLASSY.
Also, their web designer should have browser tested that site in different resolutions and browsers. I’m trapped on a work laptop with a lower resolution and no room to expand the browser and I can’t even read the “About” section as the text gets cut off by the top and bottom graphics and there is no scrolling room. Poor deal all around it seems.
You know, part of me thinks it’s a joke, too. It’s that bad.
hahahahahahah
love it.
It MUST be a joke. It just can’t be serious. It’s a very cleverly written piece of satire.
I really wanted it to be a joke, but when I went to the web site and clicked ‘enroll’ – it linked to a pay pall account: enrollment fee was $300.00, so if its a joke, its a scam too.
Awesome! Sign me up! Thank you so much for posting this, it really did make my day.
“immersing our students in the society in wish they wish to work”
BRILLIANT!!
don’t bartending schools usually cost like 2000 dollars?
i don’t know, i mean, i don’t want to go there, but the press release has a point. bartending schools in manhattan that say they help get you jobs when you’re done, they get you jobs with caterers and stuff, not cool bars where you’ll take home 500 dollars in tips a night.
i don’t think you need to go there to learn to make drinks, but it’s not easy to get a bartending job in the ‘cool’ parts of brooklyn if you don’t already know people who work in bars in the ‘cool’ parts of brooklyn.
to quote Rodney Dangerfield… “now I know why tigers eat their young”. If they teach the forgotten art of the buy-back, this might have potential. otherwise, goodnight and i can open my own can of beer.
Most definitely not a joke– I hear the teaching is not bad. But clearly the organizers have no idea what they're doing.