Manager kept insisting...
I finally mustered up the courage to audition and much to my dismay, in the meeting with the manager afterwards, he kept insisting that I must have or am currently dancing some where else based off of my stage audition (I'm unsure if that was/is an insult) but I felt as if he was insinuating that I was lying when I informed him that I had never danced before. I mean, I've been fortunate to have found SW and the plethora of info that is available here, not to mention this thing known as YouTube, coupled with my waitress & bartending experience in SCs -- you watch girls day and night perform on stage and give lap dances, you can pick up a thing or two. In short, I was given a minimal and slow schedule. I can't help but feel as if i'm being punished some how, some way. I was given the "we have so many girls and business is slow'' speech, yet I was placed on the weekend day shift schedule only. I'm a bit confused... If I was that "good" why wouldn't I be allowed to work the busy shifts?? or any shift of MY choosing for that matter?? I had/have a MUCH different look than the other girls who were present at the club. Was I 'low key' rejected? I apologize in advance for the rant..
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Sorry to hear you didn't get the shift you wanted. Perhaps you could have asked what shift were available to work beforehand but I guess it wouldn't do any good to focus on what you can't go back and undo.
Could be possible he thought you were lying to him and was put off. But if you told him you had experience in the clubs then he should be understanding.
Could also be possible he is passive aggressive and if he really believed you were lying, he would get back at you by lying about what shifts are available to work.
Or maybe he is telling the truth. If business is really that slow, and lots of girls work prime night shifts, do you really want to compete with all those girls for small number of customers? When the number of girls highly outnumbers the amount of customers, the claws come out! And work becomes stressful as the competition increases.
Also some clubs require new dancers to work the dayshift first to get their feet wet so to speak and to gain experience first before going to nightshift.
Besides. You never know, dayshift could turn out to be profitable. However I am concerned he told you business was slow. I am assuming if its slow on nightshift then it will probably be slow on dayshift as well.
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What do you mean by, no one looks like you? It could be that.
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It's probably a mixture of business being slow -- good clubs try and limit how many dancers work the few busy shifts during the lulls so as not to lose their consistent dancers to dancers who just want to work the busy shifts -- and you being new -- IME most managers start newbies on the day shift, especially if that's when they auditioned -- but there's no sense in trying to figure it out.
Go in for your weekend day shift -- FWIW I used to always work Saturday day shifts because they didn't have a lot of other dancers but were good money for a hustler -- and then ask the manager on duty about a different schedule for the following week. If he says no and the shift was a dud, well, maybe consider a different club.
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My personal advice:
First TRY the weekend day shift. You never know. I would imagine it could be okay. Better than week day day shift...now THAT would be being rejected!
If it sucks, just go in at night. Clubs do that a lot--try to get new girls to work the day shift. Part of it is to "get their feet wet", part of it is that many of the older or more seasoned dancers know that it can be slow and would rather work nights so they try to tell the new girls that they HAVE to work days. But guess what? You're an independent contractor and legally, they can't tell you when you can and cannot work. There also is probably a "night" manager who hires for nights so it may be worth going to speak to him instead. Worst thing that can happen you get fired and end up going to a better club--and would you want to work for a club that doesn't respect your rights fully as an independent contractor in the first place? A major perk of stripping is working when you want and being your own boss.
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Also you can always stay over onto the night shift. Once I got a handle on the club and also due to slow business on dAy shift I would just come in during the day and stay on the floor till night shift dancers come on and hustle with the night shift. If you don't start sh*t, you can easily assimilate into the culture of the night shift, and the managers like you then there should be no problems.
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Does your club give new dancers a break on their house fees?
Some clubs do this and girls are known to lie in order to not pay house for a few days.
Maybe you looked too experienced and the manager thought you were trying to 'get over'. (Even though you were truthful).
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Strop club managers never make sense lol