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    Well I got to audition at another club about 20 minutes from my house and actually got the job. The problem though...I got fired! Here's how it went.

    I auditioned on April 27 and according to the manager Liz I'm "f**king awesome!" Liz tells me to come in on Tuesday to make my schedule and I said okay. I'm already starting to get sicker so I'm taking sinus stuff and trying to feel better. Tuesday night after I finish coaching I'm so sick that all I do is go home, take sinus pills and spend the rest of the night drifting in and out of sleep. The next day I drive all the way out to the club to talk to the girl doing the schedule. At that point she is not there so they tell me to come back in an hour. I get their number and I call back in an hour. the girl still isn't there so they tell me to call in about a half hour. I call back and they tell me that she isn't coming in that day because someone close to her had died. At this point I decide to drive back home

    I decided to call on Thursday to see if the girl was going to be there instead of wasting gas and driving up there. Both times I called she wasn't there so I gave up. On Friday I had my wisdom teeth pulled so I really didn't feel like calling (although it didn't hurt bad I just didn't want to deal with anyone). I decided to skip calling till last Tuesday when I knew she would be in.

    When I called on the 6th to make my schedule I end up talking to Liz since the schedule girl isn't there (I'm starting to see a pattern). Liz's first response to me is "we haven't heard from you in 2 weeks!" Funny, I auditioned on the 27th which was a week before that. I told her I had come up on Wednesday and asked if anyone had told her and she said no. I told her everything and that I had gotten my wisdom teeth pulled that friday. I told her how I had gotten sick on Tuesday and that I didn't want to come up and get other people sick. She said again "you didn't come in on Tuesday" and I told her again that I was sick. She kept going on and on about how I didn't call or talk to anyone and I kept saying I had (she had not been told). She also kept going on about how I didn't show up on Tuesday

    Liz finally said that I could have called and I said that I probably should have. She asked me why I didn't call the schedule girl and I said I didn't have her number. I said I saw it on the application but did not know at that point if I would need it. Liz was really starting to get an attitude and I nearly told her that if this was the way she was going to run the club then I wanted no part or her or her f-ing club but I stayed calm. She finally said "well I don't think this is going to work out" and I told her Okay then thank you and hung up.

    I talked to my dj and told him and he said it was probably a good thing this happened now. This past Saturday I talked to a guy who used to manage out there and told him what happened. He said things are really getting f**ked up out there and the head manager just quit 2 days before that. He also told me that Liz had been a bar manager at one of our popular gay clubs here in Little Rock and had really no experience with being a strip club manager. I felt quite a bit better after hearing that.

    Sorry this was so long. It's kind of been a venting thing. Oh and I think I've figured out one of the reasons I haven't been doing well. I'm thinking the same chick who told me I needed to start dancing like a white girl to make money has been talking behind my back to customers. When she was there friday night I didn't make anything but $30. When she wasn't there saturday I made quite a bit more (nearly $100 but the club had been dead for a couple hours because of the storms). Coincidence? I don't know but what goes around comes around.

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    Obviously she knows nothing about how SCs are run... girls are always coming and going and not showing up for weeks at a time. Its just how the business is!

    Good riddance... bad place to work.

    About the girl talking shit - honestly - when girls talk shit to guys about you it typically makes THEM look bad so dont use that as an excuse. Its probably more than that - like when shes there your mood goes down or something like that. Just ignore the bitch... shell stop as long as you dont let her know shes getting to you.

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    i dont know i think she has a right to be pissed you didnt show up on tuesday to make your schedule. i know girls come and go, but you also have to realise that staff hardly ever communicates with other staff. so calling one didnt make up for the fact you were a no show when you were supposed to be doing a schedule.
    i mean if you were a new hire at a regular job and they asked you to come in and fill out paper work and you didnt show. what would you expect? other than to be fired as a no show.
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    Yeah I think this all depends on what kind of club you're working in.

    My club is so small (about 9 girls on every night), that if someone doesn't call in, it can be a very big deal. Even the girls are pissed about it, b/c it means we have to spend that much more time on stage and less time in LD's just because someone decided not to show.

    If you're working in a Vegas club, 60 girls on a night, it probably wouldn't be as big of a deal.

    Then again, this would still depend on your club's policy about cancelling scheduled nights, etc.

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    ^^ True. My club doesnt even have schedules... so Im going to assume if they do then theyre a smaller club that needs to maintain a certain amount of girls (not too many, not too few) In that case I can see her being upset - but not giving a second chance in stripperworld is odd.

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    Good point! The second chance probably should've been given out there...

    Then again, I'm all about treating my job like a "real" job. If I were working in a law firm, you'd bet your ass I'd be at work on time, or calling in with valid excuses, etc.

    Some managers are really into this mindset too--they think like "If we're already having problems with you this early in the game, we should just drop you before it gets worse."

    To me, this is understandable...

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    Quote Originally Posted by charlie61 View Post
    Good point! The second chance probably should've been given out there...

    Then again, I'm all about treating my job like a "real" job. If I were working in a law firm, you'd bet your ass I'd be at work on time, or calling in with valid excuses, etc.
    But she did go there and call over and over. The manager just doesnt believe her. Shes taking that into account for her character which is unfair. I mean you obviously saw SOMEONE on Wednesday, right? You said you went there and the schedule girl was not there? Find out who you spoke to in person on Wednesday and give that name to the manager. They probably just didnt care enough to tell the manager you were there because they dont know you and really dont care... which is the sad reality of this business.

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    I told her who I saw and she still didn't really give a care. That manager, whose name is Larry, happened to quit the day after I called up there. Larry didn't know how to handle the girls and let them walk all over him is what I've been told. The club does run a small number of girls from 7-8 a shift with 2 shifts a night. Unlike that club, when a girl at my club calls who is actually on schedule and is sick or someone wants to come in who isn't on schedule, the managers communicate to each other. We tend to run about 12-15 girls on 3 stages on weekends.

    The girl who does the schedule there is a former dancer who is married to the owner of the club. It says on a piece of paper in the dressing room that she will be there on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and that's what I was also told by Liz. I did think to call but in my sinus/allergy medicine drugged up trying to feel better haze I just didn't think too hard about it. Oh well.

    What I realize too is that if I could work our day shifts on thursday and friday afternoons I would make so much more. The afternoons are very slow or dead but you can still walk out (with only a couple custies there at a time) with at least $120 not even doing anything. If I didn't have my day job I would do it again.

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    I'd be pretty fucking upset if I waited around all day Tuesday for someone and they called me Wednesday to tell me. Even if someone else picked up and I didn't get the message, who the hell says "Oh btw, I won't make it...yesterday."


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    another thing I did not say was that Liz is not the manager on Tuesdays. Larry was the manager on Tuesdays and he didn't know I was even supposed to show up. That club does not have good communication. Liz only happened to be there on that tuesday because the schedule girl didn't show up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lysondra View Post
    I'd be pretty fucking upset if I waited around all day Tuesday for someone and they called me Wednesday to tell me. Even if someone else picked up and I didn't get the message, who the hell says "Oh btw, I won't make it...yesterday."
    Oh come on. It's a strip club! This is sort of thing happens ALL the time. It's not like the manager or anyone else at the club was "waiting around" all day being like "gee, I wonder when that new girl will show up!" The show must go on. I think it sounds like management here is just badly organized.
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    Quote Originally Posted by noelle View Post
    Oh come on. It's a strip club! This is sort of thing happens ALL the time. It's not like the manager or anyone else at the club was "waiting around" all day being like "gee, I wonder when that new girl will show up!" The show must go on. I think it sounds like management here is just badly organized.
    Maybe if I want to be treated like a professional in the industry, I try my best to act like one.


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    I totally agree, it's best to be a professional at all times. But it sounds like the club has poor communication and issues with management. So I was just saying, no matter how professional you are or are not, sometimes they suck. That's just how I read the situation.

    To the OP, I bet if you called back a month later you could try again.
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    I treat my dancing job as any other...I always call in when I'm sick, even though I still get fined for it anyways. Its a courtesy that takes 3 seconds to extend.

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    i have no plans to call back in a month...especially if Liz is still the manager. I really don't want to deal with her bullshit. Especially since a customer who comes in (who is a former manager) said to wait till they weren't so screwed up and had better management.

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