“I didn’t sign up to get glasses thrown at my head,” local bartender David Elrod said. “But I know I signed up to deal with people who aren’t always in their best state of mind. I don’t know how much consolation that’s supposed to give me.”
David Elrod is a software engineer, but several nights a week you’ll find him at the Crystal Saloon in Juneau, where he enjoys fixing the vintage pinball machines in the upstairs game room.
“I didn’t sign up to get glasses thrown at my head,” Elrod said. “But I know I signed up to deal with people who aren’t always in their best state of mind. I don’t know how much consolation that’s supposed to give me.” She has a no-nonsense demeanor and says she feels like that protects her a bit, but she hears about harassment from the women she works with.
“Sometimes lately, it seems like people are very out of line,” she said. “And then they’re not sorry for it later, or sober.”
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