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    Is it just me or does anyone else feel weird when their club staff act as patrons on their nights off? I swear I don't feel weird or awkward when anyone else I know comes into the club, even if they feel awkward around me, but I just can't get comfortable with my staff relaxing in the club as customers.

    I feel so weird asking a bartender that I rarely talk to if he would like to tip me, but I also don't want to be blatantly awkward and just avoid him if I'm making rounds around our tiny club. And I just feel strange when I see a doorman getting lapdances from a girl... I guess I just feel like if these are people who stand there and watch me onstage and walking around topless and even come into the dressing room all night long, those are the few people I want to think aren't looking at me as a sexual object.

    Naive, I guess, they're guys just like anyone else who comes in there, but I find it difficult to feel comfortable like we have a professional or professionally friendly relationship if the night before they were tipping me from a table and buying dances from other girls who work there. Is this just me? Do other girls not have a problem at all acting sexy and flirty with the people they work with?

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    Default Re: When club staff becomes patrons

    yea, I work at bigger club and a lot of our staff comes in to party on slow nights. Mgmt gives them cheap bottles and we all get $5 you call its whenever we go in. So, I'm kind of used to it. I never dance or accept tips from them, not that they ever ask. But, they always bring in friends and if they like you they have their friends come up to tip me or buy dances from me.

    I would say hi and be friendly if I were you but, dancing for them could make things really awkward.. so I'd rather just avoid it.. plus, I can't imagine people who work in SC's to get overly excited about naked women in general... most of the bartenders and other male staff seem to be totally indifferent about strippers in general..
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    Yeah our bartenders have come in with their friends (who are my friends) to drink. We go drink with them if its quiet, or leave them to it if there's actually money to be made.

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    Very awkward. Isn't there any other strip club they could go to??

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    We had the opposite at my club - a customer got hired as a bouncer! So now he can come into the dressing room and hang out in the kitchens and stuff and suddenly we're supposed to respect him as staff, instead of making money off him


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    Quote Originally Posted by arielbriel View Post
    Very awkward. Isn't there any other strip club they could go to??
    I mean, I guess that's the thing - there are no other strip clubs in our town. They would have to go an hour to the nearest city to go to any others... but seriously, even I don't want to be in the club on my nights off. If I wanted to go out to a SC just for fun, I would definitely make a night out of it and go elsewhere.... but I guess it's more convenient for them... still fucking awkward though lol Especially since one of my biggest peeves with this whole thing is that the DJ who works 5 days a week comes in ALL the time on his 2 nights off... it's like dude, really? Don't you have anything else you'd rather be doing on your 2 nights off from the club?

    Quote Originally Posted by Miss_McKenna View Post
    We had the opposite at my club - a customer got hired as a bouncer! So now he can come into the dressing room and hang out in the kitchens and stuff and suddenly we're supposed to respect him as staff, instead of making money off him
    Ewww that would suck. Tipping him out at the end of the night instead of him tipping you? I wouldn't like that shift in dynamic

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    Default Re: When club staff becomes patrons

    I think it's a little weird but mostly I'm going " Wow , I can't beleive they want to be here " . I work in the middle of nowhere mostly .... I don't think any of my friends would even be willing to drive up to hang out with me at the club. Haha.
    The dj at my old club would occasionally come in on his off nights and he would tip and buy dances . I didn't really offer him dances or anything but as long as they are spending, I don't care.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Miss_McKenna View Post
    We had the opposite at my club - a customer got hired as a bouncer! So now he can come into the dressing room and hang out in the kitchens and stuff and suddenly we're supposed to respect him as staff, instead of making money off him
    That would blow lol!! Especially if he was ur regular omg I would hate that

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    It never really bothers me. However, an employee recently had a birthday. Well, they put him onstage for the birthday dance deal and I was like wtf because he's acts like he's so superior and talks shit about most of the dance buying clients? The girls who got picked were like wtf also until they walked onstage and danced for him. When it was over one of them says,"I hate that mf. He always makes me fucked up drinks and I had to grind on him for points instead of money. Damn!"
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    I hate when dancers come in and sit at the stage with their boyfriends. that bugs the hell out of me. go to another club!!! especially since they all sit there and only tip their friends and don't tip other girls. as a dancer, you should know how annoying it is not to get tipped!!! I hate when dancers come in general when they aren't working. especially if they decide to jump up on stage or hang out and drink with customers. or when they're not working and they come into the dressing room to hang out.

    everyone else is fine by me though. one of the bouncers came in with a bunch of his friends and made it rain on me one night

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    it was weird when one of the day managers stayed over for night shift to drink...he and his lady friends tipped all the girls, and so it wasn't terrible...he didn't buy any dances but he did make sure to tip.
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    When you are at work, everyone is a potential source of income. The staff, the dj's, even the other dancers. If you keep this in mind and don't eliminate anyone as a potential customer, you'll make more $$ overall.

    This always kept me from acting unprofessionally while at work, whether it was drinking too much or whatever, I always had my game face on at work. If I needed a break from everyone at the club I would call my husband, mom, a dancer friend in another town etc.

    Also, sucking up to the right people in their free time can equal more income when they are working. If you leave them feeling happy when they are off work, they will send more business your way when they are working. Trust me, the bouncers and bartenders know who has money and who doesn't in the club. They can help you a lot if they like you.


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    It wouldn't be so bad if they all made sure to tip voluntarily... but the doormen and bartenders generally tip - but only if you go up and ask them after you get off stage, and I feel so awkward doing that and being all flirty asking for a tip like I would from a normal customer... but I feel shady if I purposely avoid them in my round. The DJ on the other hand... never tips. He just spends the entire night at the bar or in the pool room with his friends - who also never tip. And then he gets drunk and obnoxious. But even if they are the only people in the club, we still have to dance, even though nobody thinks of them as "real" customers I just wish they would find someplace else to be entertained on their nights off...

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