Ok so I've only been stripping for 3 weeks and last week I was off all week due to a hellish sinus infection.
I go back tomorrow but was thinking about going in for a few hours today b/c I need emergency money to pay my phone bill.
However, the last night I worked I got in a HUGE fight with a DJ there and management are such assholes about newbies that it makes me nervous to even go in! I do not mind the customers or the other dancers but management makes it so hard to work there if you are new.
There is a HARD schedule in place. I have to work five days a week Wed through Sun and it's killing me physically and emotionally. I make good money but I end up going in late or calling out b/c I am so sore or just burned out.
So last time I danced was the day before Halloween and at the end of my eight hour shift I get dressed, speak with the main manager, and walk out. It was crazy slow all night and as I'm tipping out the DJ who is standing outside he says "you're leaving? Get your ass back in there and get dressed, bitch! I don't have enough girls!"
I just snapped. I am a very nice, open person but I hate being talked to like I'm a dog. I said something along the lines of "Fuck you, I may be a stripper but I'm not YOUR stripper and nobody talks to me like that."
He backed off but asked me to go back in while he talked to the owner and I refused. I just cannot deal with being talked to like that. I have never worked at a job where I have been cursed at and I will not work at a job where I am talked to like that. All the other girls seem not to care but I will by damned find a day job if this is going to be the norm.
Also every time I ask for a later shift b/c I am in college and have morning classes I get so much attitude. I've brought in documentation and I just don't know why they make it so hard for girls to work there.
This is a dive club and they have huge turnover for a reason. Ugh. I'm just so frustrated I wish I could just go in and make money and leave instead of getting yelled at almost EVERY day.
Any tips on just letting it roll off your back? I seem to have a hard time just letting stuff go and getting over not wanting to go in b/c management is so bitchy.



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