The point in a bouncer isn't to intimidate. It's to protect customers from people that are being twats. If the OP did a lot of unneccessary punching where he could have restrained then he should have been fired. and that's assuming the people he was violent with and intimodated were being twats.

And you know this how Dr. Tawt?

23: it's sad to see the Internet turn stupider with your every comment.

Great bra pic. Goes well with this fml

"A person hired by an establishment to prevent troublemakers from entering or to eject them from the premises." There is no need for bouncers to use violence.

They're supposed to intimidate so the troublemakers shut their goddamn mouths and don't cause any trouble in the first place.

*doesn't I'm sorry. It's worse than a you're/your mistake.

63, While that's great in theory, try not using violence on a drunken jackass who is threatening or acting out physically toward yourself or anyone else. Find someone and ask them to attack you on the street, then when you get out of the hospital you can let me know how you went with not using violence. With the bullshit people pull these days I'd be surprised to find any bouncer who hasn't once had to do this on some jackass who seriously had it coming.

I don't think there will be a next time since, you know, he's now fired.

Well, the first go should be, "I'm sorry sir, I'm going to have to ask you to leave," and if the twat won't leave voluntarily *then* use physical force to remove him from the premises. More and more bouncers are being asked to use negotiating and "people" skills rather than physical force to defuse situations. People who've been forcibly ejected from places have successfully sued the establishments in question for their injuries, alleging excessive use of force, and have won. And I can see their point--the bouncer should use no more force than necessary to remove the person from the premises and to ensure the safety of the staff and the other patrons. The job at hand is to keep everybody safe--including the person who's causing problems. Increasingly, especially in Australia, apparently, places are employing *female* bouncers because women tend to be better at the "soft skills" than men, and both men and women are more likely to comply with verbal requests from women, lessening the need for physical force in the first place.