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Drug Problems
I have been a semi regular at a small neighborhood club for about a year. I normally come in after work 2 or 3 time per month. I know the day shift pretty well, but only some on the night shift. About 2 weeks ago the club gossip was that one of the night shift girls had overdosed in the club the night before and was found with a needle still in her arm. I do not have proof this actually happened, but several of the dancers were talking about, and it was said that she was fired.
This weekend I went to another area club, owned by the company, and she was working there. She recognized me and came over and started talking. I spent about an hour with her and bought a few dances from her. Unfortunately track marks were very visible on both arms. She seemed pleasant a little stoned, but also a little melancholy. I did not say anything about what I heard about her. I left the club feeling sad and wondering what the drugs had already done to her and what else they will do to her.
My questions
1. A Corporation that owns about 15 clubs owns the club she works for. Do these organizations typically offer any help for people with drug problems.
2. If the answer to number 1 is no, did the manger of one club not talk to the other or did he not care.
My hope is that she is getting help and was just moved to the other club to get away from the talk. I know she is probably not the only person that I have met with a bad drug problem, but it is the first time I have seen the evidence up close. Sorry for taking so much board space, but that experience effected me, I guess that I am too much of a bleeding heart
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I can't speak to this chain of clubs in particular, but in general here's my take on "corporate club management values" ...
A. as long as the club itself won't be busted they care more about dancers' income contributions and less about dancers personal problems or dancers individual violations of the law - from that standpoint a dancer with a drug problem might even be perceived as a positive thing. She's much more likely to show up for work regularly! She's much more likely to "deliver the goods" in the VIP room to maximize her earnings (and the club's cut of those earnings). She's much less likely to complain about high stage fees or private dance splits with the club or bad treatment by club management in general.
B. corporate club management can replace any dancer in a New York minute with one phone call to a sister club or simply by calling the next girl on the dancer's waiting list. They have absolutely no interest in SPENDING club money to straighten out/retain a dancer who isn't producing her share of income for the club, or God forbid out of simple human regard.
C. as long as the club has "plausible deniability" in regard to dancers individual activities concerning drug use or "extras" or anything else illegal, having such a dancer in the club serves as a "safety valve" for club management. If legal heat should come down on the club, management can easily give up this dancer to the local cops and DA - in essence "throwing them a juicy bone" of a drug and/or prostitution bust to deflect legal attention away from the club itself.
Club management taking advantage of dancers with drug problems really pisses me off - primarily because it allows club management to institute financially or personally abusive policies which negatively affect ALL dancers in the club.
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I only wonder why undercover was/is not in the club, security even. Most clubs these days in just about any state has them frequently inside checking out the scene. You know how they feel about strip clubs.
And if she gets popped inside the club shooting up, the club goes down. Also other dancers may likely be subjected to problems from her behaviour.
Sad for her, and how some clubs are setting themselves up for a potential bust. Pamela
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it all boils down to "plausible deniability" - unless it can be PROVEN that the club had advance knowledge of illegal activities taking place on their premisis and failed to take action, the club will come out of any bust squeaky clean - particularly true for corporate clubs with attorneys on retainer only a phone call away (and not to mention the "police benevolent fund" and "mayor's re-election campaign" contributions usually made by the corporate clubs *wink* making a bust of the club itself very unlikely!).
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Understand completely Melonie, however clubs have security people who are hired to watch for "junkies, prostitution, ect. inside their clubs so there is not any illegal activity. I see were some can slip through loop holes at times, but these days lots of clubs are getting busted for everything and anything, along with girls who are innocent and have to clear their names. Corporate clubs or not, no club is exempt from a bust. Strip clubs have to be responsible for the activity inside the establishment. How can they deny knowing, when there are people walking around seeing a needle hanging out of her arm. They can fight it yes, but this behaviour makes the rest of the "better clubs" have tighter security measures too. It's like a loaded gun, and a formula made for a bust. That is my opinion. And i feel for all who work and see this activity in a job where they are trying to make legal money.
Thanks for your input. Always nice reading others messages.
Pamela ;)
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I have work in a club that was suppose to be upscale. In the dressing room the girls would smoke weed which I can stand the smell of. I had to dress in the bathroom which wasn't fair to me or whoever else dont do drug. I spoke to the house mom about it, I did not want to be a snititch so I did not tell her who they were.She said that she would check it out. But I end up quitting.
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Also I think it's a very bad problem and we as women and men could help some of these people. I help 3 people to quit smoking weed cause of an illness that I have. It helps. Some people just need others to people's help.
And I hate the stereo type that some people think of strippers that all we do is drink, get high and party hardy. We need to take a stand. :-*
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at club i worked in there was a gut there and his JOB was to sit in the bar from noon to 2 am and sell drugs...mostly cocaine and E...i thought it was pretty sad considering a lot of girls were spending every dime they made on the shit
management did not care as they were the ones who put the guy there in the first place
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Yeah, I know of several girls who would blow all of their dancing money on coke. I just can't see how anyone would work hard all night to make that money, then spend it all on drugs and have nothing to show for it the next day. My one friend works at a club where all of the girls go around wiping their dripping noses all night. I seriously doubt ANY club management cares if all their girls are drug addicts, the only thing they would care about is the club getting shut down for drugs. It's sad, but that's just the way things are in this industry. :-/
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My personal take?
No, the company handling her club most likely does not provide any sort of help towards drug rehab. I've only ever worked at one that did, and all they did was offer a loan to pay for your first rehab bout. Some clubs not only do not help the girls come clean, but some clubs even will provide girls with drugs. These are usually more low end "dive" places....
As for the second half of the question, the previousmanager probably did not give a rat's ass less about whether the new manager knows about this girl's habits. So long as the old manage r is no longer in any legal position of liability because of her actions, why should he care?
McCain
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Thanks for your input. It seems that there is a consensus, and that consensus is management does not care and may even profit from the from the easy availability of drugs. I can't honestly say I am suprised, but I did hope it was better. I guess for a person to kick a drug habit they must first help themself, but it would be nice if a helping hand was avalible.
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Skewer you have met her and talked. Yes? Why not be a helping hand if she responds to wanting to get into a rehab? That certainly can't hurt. And if you do not want to get involved i understand. Just a thought, since you met her, and know about the habit some. Pamela ???