I got to thinking about how things are done & handled at our club. It seems to be (at least was my perception) that the dancers are supposed to help hustle tips for the waitresses and funny money girls from the customers. Like when it's time to close out the tab and it's time for the customer to put the tip in, it's been my perception that we dancers are also supposed to also reiterate to the customer the tipping procedure. Like when the waitress/ funny money girl says something about a tip "this is where the tip for me goes as I only work off of tips......", we're supposed to then say "it's customary to leave anywhere from 10-20%, however, whatever you're comfortable is always appreciated". That's what I've ALWAYS done for them. I've always chimed in and really encouraged a tip for them, which I've never totally felt comfortable doing because I felt like I was sounding greedy considering the customer just spent $300+ per hour on me.
Well, tonight I got to thinking and realized, they don't do that for me! There's 1-2 funny money girls who do that for me but never once has a waitress EVER encouraged a tip for me and the rest of the funny money girls don't ever suggest adding a tip on top of it for me. So, if they don't do that for me, why should I do that for them? It's like the "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine". Why should I hustle even more than I already did when you don't return the favor? I've let it go and let it go I guess kinda hoping that things would change and they'd eventually see what I'm doing for them and hope they'd do the same for me. I'm thinking that maybe I should try not saying anything at all to the customer for the ones who don't try to help me make extra money. (this situation excludes if someone sent me to a customer, which hasn't happened in MONTHS!!!)
Have any of you had similar situations? How did you handle and how did you feel about it? Did you finally say to yourself, "I'm done, enough is enough, I'm tired of not getting the favor returned to me". Please give me your thoughts on this and if I'm being a total bitch about this situation and how I feel about it, please don't hesitate to put it out there. Please let me know if this is just how the business is and that we dancers are supposed to hustle tips for them regardless if they do it for us or not, I'd really like to know. There's some dancers that will "chip in" on the tip to the waitress/ funny money girl if the customer didn't tip them at minimum 10%. Well, I got to thinking about that as well, I know damn well that if the shoes were on the other foot, if the dancer got stiffed by the customer like if she didn't get paid at all for her VIP or got paid half or something like that, the waitress/ funny money girl wouldn't "chip in" and help compensate the dancer for her lost money, even if they received a huge tip from the customer.
Please give me your thoughts & feelings on this as I'd like to know if I'm being unreasonable about my feelings on this. I'm almost to the point that I'm only going to help who helps me and all other situations going to worry about myself only (w/o stepping on anyone's toes of course).




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