Ok, once again..the club I worked at is giving away FREE lapdances from 4-10 pm?!?!?!? Anyone else see a problem with this? They are not paying girls for their lost money on this either.
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Ok, once again..the club I worked at is giving away FREE lapdances from 4-10 pm?!?!?!? Anyone else see a problem with this? They are not paying girls for their lost money on this either.
Gee, there is some incentive for the girls to want to be there eh? NOT!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by RetiredDancer
Sounds like a stupid idea to me, yeah it could get more people in the door but what dancer wants to give lapdances for free? And the people who will be really attracted to this are cheapskates who won't come back to pay for dances during regular days.
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are you serious?! is it all lap dances are free, or is it just the first one?
worst. idea. ever.
No, its actually ALL lapdances, FREE, no charge, you dont get a damn cent for anything. I remember now why I quit there :)
Are dancers allowed to charge for extras? Where's the income stream?
Holy crap! This just confirms my suspicion regarding the massive stupidity of the guys running that place! No wonder my club has been seeing so many new girls lately >:(
Now I know I'll NEVER work there. What a bunch of idiots.
Heh! Right now Id say McDoogals is a pretty good place to work, that or Ritz Cabaret. And no Sports, there is no charging extra anything, its just free from 4-10pm January 19th. I would be pissed as hell if they had me working that night (if I still worked there that is!) There MIGHT be some kind of thing, like, if you work that night maybe you dont have to sell drinks or pay house fees, but with those money hungry people, who knows.
AWFUL.. Simply AWFUL... Ummm.. where is this club? ;)
Wow ! They must want their dancers to quit. It's a job not slave labor for goodness sake.
It's one thing to offer a discount but FREE. I don't think so.
They are only doing it for one day, but one day is too much! The club is in baltimore. In my few years as a dancer I have never heard of anything as silly as this.
One day of slave labor is one day too many ;)
Let me guess they plan to fire any dancer who doesn't show up for this free for all, right?
Is this a Deja Vu club by chance ? Worst club chain in the country. I hear there a few scattered across the country that aren't too bad but that would be due to local managers, not company policy.
I'd quit dancing before I'd work at another Vu club !
Once again??Quote:
Originally Posted by RetiredDancer
Has the club done this promotion before??Did it work and thats why they are doing it again??
If this was a promotion that worked out for the glub and the entertainers,i see no problem with it,but it sounds like there is more to the story imo.
How do the girls make the money??
As in every promotion,whats the upsale items where they make the profit to pay for the giveaway?
Another Q i would ask is,does this clubs "top"entertainers work that shift??
I would imagine- since the dances are free the customers would top at least $10-$15 a song. At least I would hope that would be the case.
Some maybe. But all dancers see alot of freeloaders at our stages as is, so I think the number of customers who came in especially for the "free" dances that would tip after the dance would be slim to none.
Yeah, I would imagine that this would attract a whole lot of cheapskates and freeloaders--exactly the type of people you don't want in clubs. what a bad idea....Quote:
Originally Posted by LauraLove
As far as I know, nothing has been done like this before, free lap dances that is. But you KNOW all the cheapasses will come in, because it is free. the word free attracts them like bugs to a bug zapper. As far as the girls they promote on their website, it depends on the day of the week, which I dont know what day Jan 19th is. Unless it is a Thurs, fri, or sat, probably none of the girls pictured on their website will show. Hell, I sure wouldnt. Why waste my time doing that!? Free lapdances are like something the git er done guy once said...its like wiping your ass before you shit. Pointless!
I can only imagine how many of those lapdances will be airdances for that day. LOL
Stupid, moronic idea.
Why not just have a two-for-one day, instead?
They have probably never heard of a two for one day. These people charge girls 50$ a month if they dont go out and do "promotions", meaning if they dont go out to some stupid tailgating parting in skimpy shorts with their asses hanging out, as in, not in the club or around the club, out somewhere, they get fined. These people are pigs.
just click on the girls, then check out the tailgating party. Its ridiculous. I never took any part of it, I just paid the extra $ every month. No way in hell was I taking myself outside of the club in broad daylight to skimp down like that. No sir.
It is a promotion. If there are a lot of clubs around and the competition is heated, maybe mgmt thinks this will bring in some customers.
Personally, I'd only want to do it for a couple of hours during the day. Maybe one hour per shift. If it was a part of an overall plan to increase foot traffic into the club, you'd have to do it once a week or more for it to work, and advertise it heavily.
If the management has an idea of what the girls are making, they should be able to work out a reasonable compensation deal with the girls, based on whether the promotion brings in more money overall. If giving away dances for a few hours a week means an additional 500-1000 customers per week or longer visits when they do come in, there should be an uptick in the income of the girls and the bar that MORE than offsets the lost lapdances.
In short, if giving away $200 makes you $2,000 additional in the next month, that is an investment that I think is worth taking.
However: this particular promotion sounds like it offers benefits to the bar and very little for the dancers. Why?
It is a one-time event. Promos and freebies don't really even show up on customers' radar until they've been done three or four times in a 4-6 week period of time. This means that the bar will likely get more liquor money because the dances are free. In short, the bar wants your income for a day.
Maybe this bar is not making budget on the sales side and hopes to make some last-minute cash by taking $$$ from the dancers.
Odds are that they don't want the girls who are independent enough to complain about this around anyway. Some managers like to cultivate a subservient stable of women just because they think they can control them easier. Not good for long term profitability, but hey, not my club either.
Sorry they are trying to do this to ya.
Isn't slavery supposed to be illegal?
I worked for a club that gave out free lap dance cards that we were supposed to honor with out getting reimbersed by the club. They also advertised $10 dances everyday always. I did not work there for very long. It will attract really sleezy cheap guys. The dancers will be really naiive girls who have never danced before and fuglies who can't get a job in a decent club. If a club is hiring dancers that are not able to sell $20 dances, there is something very wrong.
Problem is, it will drive away the decent dancers. In the long run, it's a lose-lose situation (or penny-wise, pound-foolish, depending on how you want to think about it). Yeah, the club might make a bit more in bar returns for the "free LD" evening, but in doing so they 1] attact cheapskates to the club; 2] drive away those dancers with better prospects elsewhere (presumably the best dancers); 3] hence driving away the best spending customers. The result is a cascading decline. The club finds that it is losing the best spending customers, so what do they do? Why, schedule more "promotions"--and the unstable decline continues.Quote:
Originally Posted by jccbin
If I were a dancer and had to show up, and moreover had to give free dances, I would call a decent regular and spend the entire evening "dancing" for him/her. At least then you wouldn't have to deal with the cheap-asses, and the regular might go out of his or her way to compensate you later on, or tip really well for the evening. Just a thought if one has no choice in the matter.... Of course, the real answer is to find a decent club....
If I were an entertainer at this establishment and they pretty much gave away my livelihood without any compensation, I would find a way not to show up to work, call in sick or some other good excuse. It's a hard enough job when there are paying customers, I could just imagine how much worst it would be if they weren't getting paid. The right way to do this is maybe have them free for an hour, then once guys find out they like it, start charging for them again, or something similar to that.
Free Lap Dances?I'd say later and tell the management that they should do the lap dances themselves,That's craziness! >:(
At the Gentlemen's Gold Club? Are you shitting me? Christ, the SC scene in Baltimore is even more fucked than I thought!