rant: I apologize for the unorganized and slightly insane sounding rant ahead... i'm really upset.
Money sucks for me right now, I don't know if everyone else in the Portland area is experiencing the same slump in money as me , but I have barely topped $200 since October 6th. It's a struggle to make 100 dollars half the time, and when I make almost 200 it's a miracle. I REALLY need money right now, it's difficult. I go in with a positive attitude, I'm better on pole and stage performance than I've ever been, I've got my makeup/hair/outfits down to a science- I feel like I'm at the top of my game regarding the things I can control at the moment.
However, last night, a thursday night, the ducks lost the football game. It was super slow when I arrived at 8:30. I was on stage by 9, made 4 dollars my first set. made 7 my second. my third set, no one was tipping me at all, my dancer friend tipped me because she felt bad for me- she's awesome. my fourth set, no one was tipping again- no one at my rack, BUT there was a group of 3 guys who were sitting at the closest possible table to the stage with their chairs turned out from the table facing the stage and WATCHING me. I do my set completely by the rules the first song, dance, put 100 percent effort, remove my top. The second set, they hadn't tipped- so I spun around the pole flicking them off (only them). This made the guy sitting next to them laugh so he came up and gave me 5 dollars because i guess he thought I was funny. The guys at the table were still sitting there, watching, laughing at me - so I threw an ashtray at the guy closest to me's head and continued my set. The guy at the table next to them who tipped before (stephen spielberg look alike) got out of his seat and put another dollar on my rack, I guess trying to encourage the guys to tip. They still didn't tip. I kept dancing. The song ended, and I went to go collect my tips from the guy who did tip me, and then when I faced the assholes who weren't tipping- the pole-cleaner spray bottle was conveniently within reach of my arm- so I grabbed it- sprayed them and said thank you for tipping.
All the dancers in the back thought it was hilarious and were complaining about that group watching for free and not tipping as well but didn't do anything about it- so they thought it was pretty cool I did something about it- but the manager didn't. I admit it wasn't really effective to get them to tip- but it was very justifying for me and the other girls thought it was well deserved and hilarious as well. So the manager told me off and i told him I was pmsing and wasn't in a good mood to work and wanted to go home blah blah blah (I only had 18 dollars or something like that at this point and it was midnight), he made me keep dancing another set. So I went in the back to wait until my set came up , and when I wasn't up for 30 minutes I went to go check with the DJ and the DJ said that the manager told him to take me off rotation-- so I was waiting for nothing. So the DJ put me up as soon as I told him I was waiting to do my last set- I went up, did my set.. got like 2 bucks and then got the manager to ask him to go home. He said I had to do ANOTHER one. At this point, I knew that there was no point in even being there- I had already paid 20 dollars for the taxi there ( it was raining and freezing and windy and I didn't feel like walking to the bus stop, waiting for 15 minutes to connect to theh next bus, and then walking down beaverton hillsdale hwy), so the manager took 20 dollars house fee from me. He told me I could do one more set an the go home- i told him that the entire time I was waiting to go on stage I was waiting for nothing because he told the dj to take me off rotation ( it was 1 AM by now) so I told him I was going home, I quit, and called a cab.
The manager is a fucking asshole. I should be able to decide when I go home, especially if I'm not making any money. It's pointless to work when I'm not even breaking EVEN!! I had to use my debit card for the taxi home, I spent 20 dollars on the taxi there, 20 dollar house fee, and 23 dollar taxi home, so I PAID SIXTY THREE DOLLARS TO GET NAKED AND TREATED LIKE SHIT FOR FREE.
FUCK THIS SHIT. I FUCKING HATE THE DOLPHIN GREG IS A FUCKING ASSHOLE .
EVERYONE SHOULD GO On STRIKE AND SOTP FILLING DEANS POCKETS. HE IS A SELFISH ASSHOLE.
UGHGHGAHDKLSgjklaejfklajl
I'm so sick of this shit. It's not fair. I PAID to get fucked over. fuck that.


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Not that it makes it something you *should* do but, shit happens. 


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