Are all bar attendants crap nowadays?

I love this photo. Pondy looks partially deranged. Plus, the way his glasses are positioned atop his head makes him look like he has an itty bitty head horn.

A small rant: What the hell has happened to bar attendants nowadays? Why does it take so long to get a freaking drink? I used to be a bar attendant, and I was bloody good at it. I served three to four customers simultaneously, was always nice (ie: SMILED) and could - oh wonder of wonders - ADD UP IN MY HEAD!!

Nowadays you wait roughly 200 years for service only to be asked several times during said service to repeat your order. Here is - verbatim, a conversation between yours truly and a young bar man recently:

ME: A pint of Rattler and a vodka and soda please

HIM: A pint of what?

ME: Rattler

HIM: A pint?

ME: (exhaling heavily) YES

HIM: And what else?

ME: A vodka and soda.

HIM: (starts pouring pint): Rattler, yes?

ME: FOR THE LOVE OF F***ING GOD YES!!!!

ME: (my last retort happened in my head. My actual answer was: Yes)

HIM: And a house white?

ME: No - a vodka and soda

HIM: Just soda?

ME: NO - I LIED! I'D LIKE A VODKA AND SODA, WITH SNIPS AND SNAILS AND PUPPY DOG'S TAILS!!!!

ME: (again - that happened in my head)

ME: Yes - just soda.

Stage direction: Bar attendant uses post mix gun to dispense soda in roughly 8 - 10 'bursts' of the gun. Why does he not dispense in a single stream, thus avoiding the 'fizzing up' of said mixer and the inevitable need to re-squirt??? For the love of God, WHY????

HIM: (after 60 seconds of squirting) Eight pounds thirty thanks

ME: It's actually five pounds thirty.

HIM: Oops. Sorry.

What the hell is happening?? Sure, there are a few good bar attendants around, but they are all 30 and upwards. I defy anyone to find a good bar attendant, in all of Cornwall, nay - the WORLD, who is under the age of 30. They don't exist! I believe this may be a universal problem.