I SO Need To Vent- Stupid Cocktail Waitress
So at my club, apparently a particular cocktail waitress does not know her job. I posted about a month ago when this happened, but once before, a newer cocktail waitress basically took a customer from me.. a guy was there specifically to see me, he even told the cocktail waitress that, then he went up to VIP. She asked if she could sit with us, & being new at the time, I said ohkay. The customer was drunk, & he had gotten up to go get something. She told me she'd come get me when he was back, & then I saw her nod at me a couple of minutes later while I was with a customer. I waited a few minutes, then looked back up to where he was, & she was freaking sitting in his lap wearing his hat!!
So anyways, tonight was rather slow as well.. I happened to glance up to the VIP area, & there was this guy sitting by himself. I asked the DJ if any of the dancers were with him, & he said no, that the SAME cocktail waitress had been sitting with him all night. WTF? I'm sorry ohkay, but us dancers bust our asses to make our income, & it IS NOT the cocktail waitresses job to sit down with customers & get money out of them, besides their tip. I'm soo heated about this, I went & talked to the manager, & he said he'd say something to her. But the fact that it's happened twice, & she is taking money away from the dancers pisses me off.
Has anything like this happened to any of y'all before? Thoughts/Suggestions
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Yep, I worked at a club that had a cocktail waitress like this. To add insult to injury, she also got a percentage of our lap dance money and mandatory tip out just like security and dj's.
To make matters worse, she would lie to the owner about the dancers "breaking the rules". It was her job to communicate with the owner how she felt the dancers were doing (ie; good attitude or not, good hustling or camping in the dressing room, on time to stage etc.).
This same cocktail waitress almost got a dancer fired from a modeling job (this dancer is now a feature) with a well known men's magazine. Unfortunately for the cocktail waitress, she told the wrong lie- She told the agency that the dancer was always strung out on drugs, and that was why she was so thin. This dancer paid for her own drug test to prove to the agent that she was not on drugs.
This same woman looked down on dancers and felt that to be a stripper was about the lowest occupation on the planet, and really resented that the girls made so much money for "just" dancing.
Sounds like biting the hand that feeds you.
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Many of the waitresses I've come in contact with wish they had the looks/attitude/body/confidence to dance. They're jealous of dancers because we make more money and possess what they do not. This on at my old club talked SO much sh*t about the dancers, but she was giving BJ's in the VIP room. The only difference was that she kept her title of "waitress". She was in the VIP so much, they had to have 2 working evenon slower nights because she was always busy. She even dressed like dancer, wore 6 inch heels and everything.
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Heres my lil waitress horror story...
At the last club I worked at, the waitresses were allowed to dance there as well. Although dancers weren't allowed to waitress.
At any rate I had a customer there that I saw about every 3 weeks. He was an out of towner and reguarly spent upwards to 2500 and never under a grand.
We had a waitress that he tended to like, thought was honest and good looking. So she helped the hustle to keep him in VIP.
That's until she got his phone # , while I was in the dressing room and got his schedule. She started dancing the nights he was due to fly in and visit.
The last time he was there he spent almost 3 grand on her in a lil under 5 hours.
I was working that night. and it sucked. I also quit that night.
To top it all off I was referred to as Ice Bitch and Ice crotch by her and him since apparently im not as " nice " as she is in the VIP room.
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To top it all off I was referred to as Ice Bitch and Ice crotch by her and him since apparently im not as " nice " as she is in the VIP room.
I have worked with would-be dancers as well. I used to help them out sice they werte so shy and sweet.. ha ha.. SOme were, but many just watched what we did and then did it better if you will. One ex-watiress would allow guys to touch her inappropriately, make out with the customer and shove her hands down his pants... I LVOED being told how much she loved her job..
I guess I just don't love it enough to do those things for twenty bucks a dance.
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My 2 cents.. Don't ever work at club G-Spot in Guam. They have "hostesses" (not the waitresses, they are Korean) that dress like dancers, never go on stage, get paid a salary of $75 a night just like the dancers, make money off of drinks sold, private dances, and sell hella champagne rooms!!! It really sucks because when the club is busy/ or slow we dancers spend an enourmous amount of time on stage for the Japanese to gawk at for basically free, while the HO-stesses, get to stay fresh/sweat-free, and make all the money on the floor. BTW, most of the hostesses are Canadian, If I were meaner,l I would have called customs!!!!
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Not only is that waitress running a dirty hustle, she is running a stupid one. If she would have played her cards right, you would have helped her get tips from the customer in an honest way.
Ya know? My friend is a waitress, and we hook each other up. I tell my customers, "look how pretty she is!! Let's give her a BIG tip" and she encourages them to tip me as well. So, you know.....
That girl who is waitressing is plenty evil. She could have worked it to where you could have gotten two grand off him and he would have given her a four hundred dollar tip.