It's been "bad" for awhile, but I've grown to accept it and have made adjustments (working more shifts, spending less) to counteract. Well, this week was literally the worst week I've seen money-wise in at least years. On all but one shift this week we had more girls than the TOTAL customer count for the day. I'm talking 12 girls and 9 customers (combined over the shift).
So on one of these days, I'm sitting at the bar, staring into space. I usually try to look busy by talking to another girl, walking around, etc.. but I ran out of random shit to do and wound up just sitting. This guy, probably early 50s, comes in and sits down next to me. He asks me why I'm sitting all alone. I say something cheesey like "I was waiting for you" with an obvious "haha" or something. He smiles and seems interested.
Then we have what I'll call the "economy conversation" I wind up having with 75% of the customers right now, no matter how hard I try to avoid it. He starts asking me why it's so slow, when will it pick up, etc etc.... I try to give him non "doomsday" answers, but my patience is growing thin. At some point I hear that I'm next on stage. I tell him and he's like "oh good".
I go on stage and during my third song he finally walks over and hands me a dollar. Tells me how beautiful I am, that I'm a great dancer, etc. After my set I walk back over to his seat at the bar and thank him for the tip. He says "please sit" and I do. I'm hoping this will be the point where he buys me a drink (I don't drink a lot at work, but Its a good indicator of interest sometimes) or he will show inclination towards dances.
What happens over the next 5-10 minutes, is he starts talking about his job. Particularly the fact that he's tired of having meetings with men who just want to "talk to him" and aren't really interested in buying anything. He went on and on about how rude it is for these people to waste his time. I finally got tired of the irony and said something like "yeah I know EXACTLY how you feel". So then he starts telling me how he USED to tip well and he USED to buy dances, but he just can't "justify" the expense now. Then, OF COURSE, he starts mentioning how us girls "still do ok though, right?" .......................... he's like "oh, but you still make good money...."
are you fucking kidding me?
I finally excused myself from him and he informed me he'd "be back tomorrow". oh GOODIE. >_<
Do these people REALLY just not "get it"? or what?



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Sorry you're dealing with it too.


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