I work at a local mostly-stage club. By mostly, I mean, we have a little VIP room, but most guys don't know about it and want to get the most bang for their buck. So if girls are going to show them T&A for $3 on stage, so be it. We also do 20 minute stage sets, so even if you *did* get someone to the VIP room, you could only keep them there for a few songs before you got called back up to stage or pay a $20 fine and potentially lose bookings. (But that's another rant entirely.) I wouldn't call it a dive bar, but it's a lot of the same people in there day after day who come in to "hang out"... so, definitely more of a bar than a strip club.
So here's where the fun begins. I'm going to pick on one particular guy here, but there's a lot of them that do this. This guy comes nearly every day I work (but honestly he's probably just there every day), follows me from stage to stage, and just sits there with his $1.50 Mountain Dew and doesn't tip anyone a damn dollar. When I first started, he came to the stage and said something like, "I'm saving you a seat," so unwittingly, I went and sat with him and talked for 10-15 minutes. Next time I got up on stage, nothing. NEVER AGAIN! Every time I walked past him, he would try and ask me a question. I used to entertain them, now he gets a one word response, if any. I think he's finally picked up on the fact that I don't like him (but probably not why that is).
Anyway, there are lots of dudes that will just sit there and watch and never tip anything. And trust me, I'm not just one of these bitching strippers not making eye contact or trying, but it's frustrating when no matter what anyone does, all they want to do is sit in the back with their buddies, drink beer, and watch me get naked for free. There are also dudes that sit at the bar and don't even turn around, but at least I'm not titillating them for free.
But this one has to take the cake-- dudes that tip me on stage and then ask "are you only sitting with me because I tipped you?" Well, would you prefer that I not? What are you supposed to say to that? I had a guy who was tipping everyone $2 regardless of what they did, and I had sat with him for about half an hour (it was really dead in there), and somehow alluded to the idea that since I was sitting with him I should get a better tip. He got all offended and told me he thought I was sitting with him because I wanted to and he was going to finish his beer and leave. Am I out of line here? I mean, why should I sit with someone who isn't going to give me any more than he's giving every other person that ISN'T sitting with him? Because there are plenty of guys that WILL. (Maybe not at that particular moment, but still.) I'm here to work, not socialize with fuckers who only get ass in strip clubs.
And the other "perk" of working in a locals bar-- dudes that come there all the time and think because they "know" me that I'm supposed to sit with them or something. I sat with a regular that I personally hadn't seen in a while for a few minutes, then the rest of the night I sat with people who had been tipping me, and he comes up to the stage and says "you lost interest." I straight up told him it was because he wasn't tipping me, and he looks at me like I just told him I had lost his winning lottery ticket. Apparently someone needs to say something, and I'm happy to be that person.



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