Last night, myself and several members of my party were inappropriately grabbed and cussed out by…read morean employee who was so drunk he could neither speak nor stand straight.
When we first came in he was sitting at the bar in a Farrell's Lounge shirt and clearly drunk beyond description, so I assumed him to be a regular and didn't think any more about him until one of my friends returned from ordering, and was uncomfortable because he had been grabbing her shoulders. Looking over at him again throughout the night, it was clear he was more than comfortable to continue to do this to the other women at the bar. The bartenders seem unbothered by this obnoxious, drunk behavior. There is no way they didn't see this drunk man invading the personal space of the other patrons.
Around 1:30, he stumbles to our table, and in a drunken slur, makes sure we're all tabbed out. He'd gotten some glasses earlier, but again due to his incredible drunkenness and inappropriate behavior, I thought maybe he just grabbed glasses and checked with patrons to help the bartenders. Anyway, while asking if we've tabbed out, he had some kind of grabbing tool and said if we weren't tabbed out we'd get, "a butt grab," and he then proceeded to use the grabber to grab at my chest, trying for my nipple based on where it landed. I gently pushed the tool away and said, "Don't do that."
He laughed and tried to squeeze my nipple again, at which point my brother intervened and said, "He said don't do that." This belligerent drunk laughed and stared trying to grab my brother's nipple with it, so my brother tried to take the grabber from this drunk, telling him to, "respect other people's personal space." (I'm not paraphrasing here - my brother was angry, but could tell this man was wasted, so he was being neither harsh nor callous.) At this point, the drunk with the Farrell's Lounge shirt and the ponytail started to scream (and slur) at all of us, telling us over and over again to, "GET THE FUCK OUT." Again, because we didn't think he should be molesting us.
We left but waited outside since we had one last party member in the bathroom while all this happened. The drunk opened the door and told us to go away. I finally asked, "Man, do you even work here?" The drunk in the Farrell's Lounge shirt with the ponytail responded very proudly (but not clearly), "Yes I do."
While I was initially hoping for the "best", that this man who molested and cussed out my party was just a drunk that the bartenders irresponsibly overserved and refused to handle, that wasn't the case. The indescribably drunk man who ran his hands on one of my group, threatened us with a butt grab while grabbing for my nipple, and cussed at us for having a problem with that behavior is loudly and proudly an employee of this establishment.
I've never had a staff member of any bar I've been to at any time in any city be so drunk, perverted, and rude. What a disgusting man. What a disgusting business to allow someone like this to work for it. It's clear from how emboldened he felt to behave this way, and how the bartenders refused any intervention, that this is just how Sideways operates. Obviously, I'll never be back and will make sure everyone I know who enjoys Dickson never comes here again