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    Default Sigh....doorman to manager?

    So one of our managers got fired a few weeks back and the club has promoted yet another doorman to the position. I don't understand why they can't see the importance of having a little managerial experience. And how they expect us to respect the former doorman as a boss figure. It's ridiculous.

    They did this with one of our other managers and while he turned out ok he still gets really frazzled by the job. It's painfully obvious that he's never managed anyone before. He's too nice a guy, and puts his foot down at all the wrong times. I never get the sense that he's in charge.

    And now we are going through it again.

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    Default Re: Sigh....doorman to manager?

    wow. I thought my club was the only one to do that.

    My club has even gone a little further lately. They put an ad up on Stripclub list for managers....i shudder to think what we are going to get off that one.
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    Default Re: Sigh....doorman to manager?

    my first club does that. i don't get it.

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    Because managing a strip club isn't like managing another organization and someone used to managing something else would likely find standard business practices of harassment, abuse and extortion pretty disgusting. Plus, of course, they don't generally offer good enough pay to attract good talent.
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    a club i worked at did this. i will never, ever, ever go back there. it takes a lot for me to be that sure i'd never go back. there are places i'd work at again even with a LOT of shit that happened, but the club where 2 of the floormen became managers? never. there is nothing, NOTHING that could make me want to work there. not even a guarantee of a grand a night would do it.

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    I can't stand it when I don't go into a club for a while, the barback is a manager now. It's a good old boy's club, and they'd rather promote their friends than hire some qualified from the outside.
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    when i found out how much managers made (the low rung ones) i was like... why?? why do you work here???

    1500 a month for a 6 day workweek?? no thanks!!

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    Default Re: Sigh....doorman to manager?

    This must be pretty common. At my club, the bartenders switch over to management. I don't get why they do it either. They don't pay them shit-I'm sure bartending pays a hell of a lot more.

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    Default Re: Sigh....doorman to manager?

    Sounds like the Peter Principle is alive and well in the strip club industry.

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    Eh, my husband is a combo doorman and shift manager... he manages but is also the second doorman when he's in the club. His situation is a little different since he still gets tips as well as a salary and he has a ridiculous amount of club management expierience- 4 years managing a SC and 3+ years in high volume nightclubs.

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    Default Re: Sigh....doorman to manager?

    One of the clubs I worked at in North Jersey the DJ ended up becoming manager. He wasn't that bad and already knew how everything worked.

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    Default Re: Sigh....doorman to manager?

    Ugh I worked in one of these myself. Only it went door guy to Dj to mgmnt then drama.

    BTW how much DO managers earn? I've always been curious on this
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