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    Hey ladies, hope every one is well. I was wondering if anyone tips generously to djs managers, floor walkers, champaign host etc. I was talkin to one of the girls and she says she gives the manager a generous tip like 60 to 100 depending on her night. But even if she makes oh idk $300 shell give the mngr 60 the dj 40 floor walkers like 30 each. Cuz I'm gonna feel bad if everyone else here tips generously I probably tip 10 to 60. I know managers don't except tips or can't but some will take it. Idk what do you guys do?
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    I tip according to what other girls tip & the service the person provides. For example, at one club I work the bouncers are supposed to be tipped $5 each. If the bouncer helps me out, I will tip triple that, otherwise I will tip about $8. If I know that dancers are tipping the DJ $50 regularly, I'll tip $75... if he does something really awesome for me I'll tip even more. It's sort of like letting them know I appreciate them, & that the more effort they do to make my job easier, the more I'll tip them. Recently I had a total dick of a DJ who I had never worked with before. He pissed me off big time by playing exactly the opposite of what I asked him to play. Half way through the night I was so irritated that I brought him a song list, which he still was a jerk about. At the end of the night I tipped him exactly what the other girls did. I was NOT happy with him to say the least & mentioned it to one of the managers... who also happens to be a DJ so he has had be "triple tip" him numerous times.
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    That's not the culture where I work. In o e club it was encouraged to tip the waitress if you had a really good VIP, and I did only twice, when I made 1k and then when I made 2k.
    In my regular club we tip if we stay overtime and someone has to wait around after closing for us to finish VIP. The biggest VIP of this year (4 girls, 3 guys, 6 hours) cans from a tip off from the cloakroom girl, so we were going to tip her bit the customer gave her 1k to flash her boobs so we just bought her flowers instead.

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    In my club, the DJ gets tipped and average of $15. $20-40 is generous. The waitresses don't have to be tipped, but if they help me out and hook me up with a good paying customer, I'll tip them. Otherwise, I won't. Same with the bartender. You don't have to tip the bouncer. All he does is walk you to your car. I tip him $3-5, which is more than most girls tip him. Most don't tip at all.

    I have a very low tipout club.
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    At my club everyone tips even though it's not mandatory. I have one manager who is always gonna get some money from me because he is fair and good at his job. He let's us do our job with minimal interference. The dj that works this manager's same shifts always gets good money from me. Our wkend dj gets between 0-10 bucks from me max. I used to tip him $15-35(more if I'm having a good nite) and he kept "forgetting" to put me up or put me up one time all night on fri and sat. Some girls were giving him $20 and were onstage repeatedly. I decided if he was gonna play the forgot game I forget his tip. He puts me up one time every fri/sat so I put myself on satellites and make my money like that. I'll tip for service, but I'm not paying to be treated like crap.
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    At my old club, the tip-out rates were ridiculously low to begin with. However, you were always supposed to give at least $6 to the DJ and the fees went up from there depending on what you made. I never tipped uber-generously - usually only $2-3 over what I was "supposed" to give the DJ/bartender/waitress, but I always made sure to give them what was expected based on my earnings. The percentages were low anyway, and most girls still bitched about how much money they were giving back and would withhold money from an already pretty low tip, so, in comparison, I was more generous than anyone else there. I always made sure to tip my favorite DJ and bartender a little extra just because we had good rapport and they always had my back, but the others only got the minimum. I often guilt-tripped myself into giving the waitresses a little extra, even if I had a bad night, because most of them were pregnant lol But the doorman never got more than $3-5 no matter how good my night was because all he ever did was walk me to my car and I even parked right by the door every night, so it's not like I really even needed him lol Unless a worker is going out of their way to make your night way more profitable or comfortable, I see no need to drain your own income to line their pockets.

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    At my old club, they had a mandatory tip for the DJ. 2$ from ever "set" of dances, 5$ from a 30 min VIP and 7$ from an hour. Usually I would tip him "time and a half", as I called it, meaning mandatory plus half... until they raised the tip out from 5 for 30 to 10, and 7 for an hour to 20..... on top of the half of my money they were already taking from me.

    Then I left.

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    I don't mind tipping co-workers at a club who deserve it and I'm definitely reallllllllllly generous if someone has helped me make money and I have a great night.

    BUT I think dancers get taken advantage of quite often by clubs with ridiculous tip out structures. I also hate tips being called tips when in fact, if X amount is mandatory to certain people it's really an additional fees and not a "tip". For instance: at the club I just left we were required to tip the DJ 10% of what we made with a $5 minimum. I don't mind "tipping" a DJ who is really cool and takes requests BUT at that club there were 7 open stages w/ 50+ girls working most nights. While it's possible to make a request, you're obviously not going to get what you want every set all night. HELL NOOOOO those guys do not deserve a mandatory 10% of what 50+ girls made on a given night!!!! We also had to tip BOTH the door beer bar girl (just for collecting our house fee at the end of a shift) AND the door guys. These people already get tipped by the customers, unless they've personally sent a customer to me or in some other way I've made money with their help, I don't feel it should be my obligation to pay them.

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    They already take a cut for bouncers and djs at my club. BUT if one of them helps me I def. tip them. Plus I always try to tip the lap dance guy a buck every dance. They are usually the most fun and easygoing ones. Plus, the let me kind of gather myself if I need to (and talk their ear off.)
    If I have an especially fab set I will tip out the DJ. We can't choose our songs, so I put it on him if I do great because his songs made me glow.
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    I found out last nite because our cool nite dj is working a full week that I am not the only girl that the dj has been doing the 1 set all weekend deal to. I knew there were 5 of us or so that complained about it, but last nite when the cool nite dj told a coworker that he would work fri she was like yes I get to go on stage on weekend. DJ replied that's what 10 or so girls told him. It's usually 30 or less girls at my club on weekend anyway so it is ridiculous to only go onstage once a nite. You see the same 10 girls onstage not even making $ 5-9 times in a nite with no tips. This is what happens sometimes when people are vetted in.
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    The fees at my club are $25 to the DJ and $2 to the door guy. I always tip the DJ $5 on top of that, and if I work with 2 DJs (like during a swing shift from 4-9pm, so half my shift is with one DJ and half with the other), I tip the second $5 as I'm leaving too. If I'm working day shift and stay late (latest we can stay is 7, and there's a new DJ at 6:30) then I won't tip the night DJ because the only thing he'll have done for me is cross me off the stage rotation as I'm leaving. If a DJ does something extra for me like let me skip my stage set because I have a customer, I'll tip him $5 (or more if I made a LOT of money because of it). I give the door guy $5. I don't tip management unless they point out/introduce a customer (except for ONCE because he let me leave early and put up a fuss about it, so I thought it'd be a good way to make it less of a big deal) and I don't tip any of the staff more if I've had a better shift than usual, unless they directly had something to do with it. More often than not, I earned that money myself and don't see any reason to tip more just because I made more. But I work in an area where many dancers don't tip at all and tipping doesn't seem to make a HUGE difference, so there's that.

    Interestingly, as much as I've tried to tip fellow dancers/waitresses who have helped me out in some way or another, they never accept it, but the DJs, door guys, and management are more than happy to take what they're offered. Guess it's a different tipping culture here than in the USA where EVERYONE seems to expect/demand tips.

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