So two not wonderful things happened last night:
1) I got to my favourite club, and started working. Talking to one guy, he says "is something burning?". I smelled it too, but assumed it was the kitchen from the pub upstairs. We went to the dance room. While waiting for the next song, I noticed the lights were turned on in the main area. Sure enough, we got the call to evacuate the building. The girls were allowed to grab our stuff first, put clothes on, etc (it's -20C outside). At this point the room LOOKED smokey. We dancers are so comforted by the fact that the building evidently does not have working smoke detectors. Thanks, management!! Outside there are literally four large fire trucks and whatnot. So I take my car and bounce to the second favourite club....
2) Things are going okay here, and I'm lucky to run into some army guys who know me from before. They are cool and the two of them tell me they only get dances from me. As I am dancing for one of them, a manager guy walks by (one I'm not as familiar with), and snaps "Excuse me?!". I look at him, ask what I'm doing wrong (the rules here are strict and weird--- no grinding, no butt-on-guy's lap, no contact with his head/ face, but we can sit on the knee, do front-ways bodyslides, and the guys are are allowed to touch everywhere but the crotch).
Guy says "G-string must come off!!". I say "uhm, I know, but I was just waiting to tease it out, wait until the second song...". The manager says "No, g-string has to come off FIRST SONG". WTF?! The guy I'm dancing for gets really pissed off about the interruption, and the insanity of the request. It totally killed the mood. He told me he PREFERRED me to keep the g-string on, which I knew he did because he loved the contrast of the white thong in the black light against my skin. I took it off anyway though, because I didn't want to get kicked out before I'd made much money. Anyway, the whole thing totally killed the mood, and he didn't get any more songs after that second one. Fuck. These are good customers.
So afterward, I track down the manager. I say "Uhm, what you were saying about the g-string? Can you clarify?" Him "G-string has to come off right away...mumble mumble...I mean, it's $20!"
What the Hell?! How fucking insulting! Grabbing my ass and tits is not worth twenty dollars if I'm not flashing vag right up in his nose too?! Jesus Christ. I was PISSED at that remark. That is ridiculous.
In response to his logic that the customer might be getting screwed by my wayward insistence of stripping slowly, I say "Well, the customer actually preferred me to keep it on, so..."
He snaps "Well, yeah, I've heard that before." Then he turns away and marches off dismissively.
I had to go upstairs at that point for our mandatory free table dance. I love a club that takes us away from customers for three songs in the middle of the night so that we can offer non-spending jack asses a free nude dance on the floor...and THEN tells us not to rip-off these dearly paying jackasses by screwing them out of INSTANT nudity in the danceroom. That does not even make SENSE. I was pissed...I still am. It's just...it doesn't make sense! I've been dancing for going on three years, and I know what works. Whipping off every article of clothing the second our song starts is just not seductive. The customers DO NOT like that, generally speaking. Especially not the customers who tend to be GOOD customers. And then to imply that my dances are totally shit and unworthy if I'm not offering a gyno-show? Like, fuck off. Argh.
Before my stage the nicer manager walks by, so I ask him about this rule. Again, this guy is nice. But he says the same thing..."Yeah, it's gotta..come off...first...song". I ask "what if the customer prefers it to stay on?" He says something along the lines of that would be okay if I cleared it with him first, but that wouldn't work because then everyone would do that...I gave up. These guys clearly have no idea what customers actually want...I mean, many customers really DO ask me to keep it on. It's a bit classier. Goddammit.
Does anyone understand their logic? What am I missing here? I won't lie, I was insulted. I hope my other club has not burned down, because it's way better.
ETA-- To clarify, I have no problem dancing nude. I DO dance nude. I just tend to take my time during the first two songs in order to attempt what I consider strip-teasing...slowly getting naked to make it interesting. If the customer makes it clear he wants me naked right away, I do oblige. But otherwise I do it my way, and I have not gotten complaints until now.



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