When a guy at the tip rail isn't tipping and you stop and point at him and yell ARE YOU GONNA TIP ME!!!??? to make him feel uncomfortable.
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When a guy at the tip rail isn't tipping and you stop and point at him and yell ARE YOU GONNA TIP ME!!!??? to make him feel uncomfortable.
When you tell the DJ repeatly you may endanger the customers if you have to utter one more syllable to them.
He refuses to let you go home so you spend your next stage in a t-shirt, jeans, and stripper heels smiling sweetly at the owner who shows up twice a year and it happens to be on your night to throw a stripper tantrum.
Damn, they didn't even talk about firing me. I want to go home.
You know you have stripper burn-out when...
...the sale is practically closing itself and instead of seeing it through, you excuse yourself to go "mingle for a bit". -And by "mingle", you really mean "sit in the bathroom for the next half hour, counting down the minutes on your cellphone".
...you start asking the DJ on a regular basis how much money it would take to get him to skip you on rotation. When he does, you don't use the extra floor time to your advantage. You just take longer breaks.
Damn. I'm really fucking burnt out. :guilty:
...When slapping the crap out customers who grope/rip u off you becomes commonplace.
That was something i became known for at the end of my dancing career, lol.
When you find yourself telling customers the truth about your real life for no apparent reason. Because making small talk within the confines of your awesome stripper persona that you've perfected over the years is just too much work.
Wow all of thesse I am feeling right now, my stupid full of whores club won't give me a week holiday even tho they have been letting new girls time off, im fed up of working 4 days and only making money 2 or even 1 day!, im going back to my dive 2 days a week fuck this shit!
When you hit a dude in the face with your shoe. Or shake him until his teeth rattle. Or drag him across the floor in his chair by his collar.
When you look at yourself in the dressing room mirror and think "what am I doing here?"
When you start going to work just to see your girls essentially for social hour.
Guilty as charged.
when you go off at a guy for not wanting a dance after a 5 minute conversation and just generally act like a total psycho
-When you go to work in your pajamas. You also leave work in same pajamas and go right to bed.
-When you get on stage, lay down on it and do a whole stage set with lay-down dance moves. (but no hands and knees moves because your knees are so bruised from doing knee moves on the stage)
-When your eyes have eyeliner on them around the clock
-When you pull into your home parking spot and sleep in your car because you are too tired to walk to your house and into your bed.
When you tell the manager to take you off the schedule "for a few weeks" and then realize that a year has gone by.
Is any of this fixable? :( I love dancing on stage and dancing for a guy, but everything in between is so hard to deal with lately. I don't want to feel bitter and jaded, and it's just getting worse. :( I know I should be in control of these emotions... But god damn :(
yes you just have to change your attitude. we get burnt out because we LET ourselves get burnt out. if you convince yourself you love your job and you love money and you go into work everyday determined and upbeat you'll feel less burnt out. also, when you figure out a good hustling strategy that works consistently for you, you'll never feel burnt out. you'll rarely see a top earner experiencing burnout. all the top earners I've ever met come to work consistently in a cheerful mood and can keep their emotions in check.
You know you have stripper burnout when...
...You start convincing yourself that the money you'd make that night (hopefully $400+) isn't worth getting dressed and talking to customers.
...when you've lost a bunch of weight due to working nine days in a row.
I've lost almost ten pounds, and almost two bra sizes! :'(
When you find more interest in how cute your DJ is and start fretting over him seeing you topless...
When your sitting there shaking your leg incessantly mind going crazy over your not making money, then thinking about people whos seeing you in a tiz and stressing they won't want to talk to you because of this, thus creating a vicious cycle - I do this every shift.. Need to get in the zone!
When you realize slowly but surely you are losing pretty much every 1 or your regular guests to a particular person that does otc things with guys
when you are hugely annoyed by just by your not so regular guests soon as they walk thru the door because they just want to take up your time "chatting"
when your whore radar is constantly on.. no longer do u see extras go on in the dance area... its chicks sitting across guys laps at bar letting them finger them on main floor in hopes of getting a dance... or your friends admit the chick that was just over practically tried to masturbate their dicks under the table as they talked....smh...
wait...i think thats just club burnout...lol
See, I took a month off to be with my boyfriend in Boston. I managed to make over 1400 in a week and a half or two week period to live off of. It was a rare lucky week for me, summertime wise
I get frustrated so easily at work that when I get the surge of determination i'm like a sales beast. I could travel but that doesn't sound appealing to me at the moment. I MIGHT try Rhode Island.
Burnout sucks
When you go on stage and HOPE no one tips you because you don't want to talk to them. When someone does come to your tip rail, you're like "uugghhh" and do the bare minimum and don't talk to them at all.
When you stop trying to sell VIPs because you don't want to spend that much time with one customer.
When you're more excited about customers buying you drinks than dances.
When you're sober you sit with a customer and just stare at them
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^ I was about to bump this too! Ahahaha
When you hope nobody comes in, or that those who do are someone's regular, bc you can't be arsed to hustle them
When you don't drink at work, but the idea of drinking with your favorite regular all afternoon becomes appealing, because you don't intend to leave and hustle "the common folk" as he calls them
You take absurd amounts of breaks, with rules like "After every $30 I make, I can sit in the back for 10 minutes."
You're aware of your higher octave 'stripper voice' and how silly it sounds to be saying the same "Hi, how are you, need some company?" 20x a shift, and as you're making small talk all you can think about it how asinine and stupid it is.
You lie about everything, or else give super sassy responses to questions. I am 22, 26 and 18, I normally work in Vegas but sometimes work here, I'm from New Orleans, "That's a rude question, don't ask a lady how old she is", etc etc etc.
When lying gets boring, you drop the stripper voice and answer their questions with one word, and they don't pursue the subject bc you're so disinterested.
When a regular comes in towards the end of your shift, and you leave anyway (especially if they're the type that wants a conversation before VIP)
When you bring extra money to buy drinks at the beginning of your shift.
When you would rather talk to the other dancers/bouncers/bartender than customers..and start treating the club as your neighborhood bar. You also get annoyed if a customer approaches and interrupts your "social time."
When you stop putting any effort into lap dances...no smiling, no talking, no upselling. You get irritated if they want more than one dance or a VIP. It just feels like too much work. haha