I was once fired from a bar-tending job; essentially for NOT beating somebody up.

A guy pushed my manager when he had a bunch of empty pint glasses and he fell in a pile of broken glass and hurt pride (luckily the glass broke around him rather than under him).

I escorted the man out of the premises immediately, but I didn't strike him.

The manager felt I should have pounded the living daylights out of him, and was pissed that I didn't. I was then shunned for almost two weeks before a trumped up "no-call/no-show" was manufactured and I was fired.

It was a violent bar with its own rules/regulations... and I enjoyed that aspect, but I wasn't paid to be an attack dog. Every other bar I have worked they don't even want you coming from behind the bar during an altercation, but that bar was a little different.

--Gekokujo