Ive never posted here but I guess I dont know where else to ask for advice on something like this thats not gonna shun me for my job title...
This club is the only club I worked at. Happened two weeks ago this weekend....
The winter before last, the payouts were different (diff base pay & drinks bonuses) and the *actual* owners were there alot. I danced for three months then the season sucked & they closed for a few months so I didnt dance again til this winter. Basically a year.
Bouncer/bartender is in charge now since its off season & had asked a few times if I wanted to work. I said maybe later... eventually moved back & he offered to buy me a permit. I said ok.
And, well, we dont get along. But he basically runs the place this time of yr. Never really nice to me except when I first started. He wanted to hang out outside of work alot, I didnt but I didnt wanna mean cuz maintainin it for now so I say Im busy or ignore his calls/txts...
This time he was cool for about a week. Then he was up my ass to the point where hes yellin @ me for shit Im not even doing but im known as the 'nice' girl so of course I didnt say shit... til like two months ago... He had a new girl staying at his place. she told me she didnt wanna live with anymore cuz w/e.. so I told her to leave if she wanted. I didnt say anything terrible, just told her its your life, do you. she wanted to kick it with me after we closed but I just left instead cuz I didnt wana get in the middle of it...
Next day no customers were there cuz we just opened so when my first set ended I went to have a cig... he ran like a man on a mission downstairs into the dressing rm after me cuz I walked away from him ... then accused me of stealing someones cash bag when we hadnt had any customers in the damn place yet so i doubt ne of the girls had money n their bags anyways... I told him he knows I dont do shit like that & check the cameras blah blah he was pissing me off & said he'd fire me if I did sumthin like that again, threatened to call the police so I said i quit if thats how he feels & Id call em myself. He didnt know what to say for awhile then he tries to tell me I didnt quit, he fired me & wouldnt allow me to exit out the front. Didnt care, he had no grounds & i knew it... But...
I found out later from a friend he told everyone I quit, never said anything about me supposedly stealing or that he fired me. I texted the actual owner to explain situation just cuz I didnt know dude told him and he didnt say anything back. Ok, hes known him longer. What did I expect...
So... this is why Im an idiot. He apologized last weekend & asked me to work again. I said we'd have to talk & of course when we met up before bar opening he said it wont happen again... Just be on time and sign a new contract which was better than my last one. base pay, minus 5 dollars every 5 mins were late. I was 10 mins late gettin upstairs so take that off... Then there was a 5 drink mandatory sale or u dont get base pay. 10 drinks you get a bonus & every one after that is a bonus too... Ok, w/e. No prob for me even though thats kinda steep for drinks this time of year and its not always easy to sell that many for most girls including myself, esp. when its a weekday.
Well I worked all night, no problem. Its pretty slow this time of year and I just started getting in the hang of it again but I have a couple dudes from last year and just the few days Id already worked this yr I was already making regs who were comin in to see me when they saw my name on the board...
So we close. I turn in my drink chips & he tells me I only have 9 which I knew wasnt true cuz my dude just bought 5 *at least* five that last hour & half i was at 9 *then* he had said. None of the other girls made their quota supposedly... w/e I just know that *i* did. so I told him I *knew* that was wrong& he needed to recount... i said it a few times. cuz he wasnt acknoweldging me & i was pissed. Then he tells me Im stupid blah blah not listening being a bitch and if I dont stop hes not gonna pay me at all...
I told him fine, after he paid me I was gonna work somewhere else so pay me cuz it wasnt cool & i wanted what i worked for... and well, maybe i was cocky & said it seemed like a personal problem so what was his issue... Then supposedly he finds the tally for the other drinks I sold but he isnt gonna pay me anyways... the other girls leave & i go to sign out for my pay... I tell him Im sry if he thought I was rude but I knew he was wrong on my quota (and he admitted he was obviously but denied ever sayin i wasnt ugh).... So in the end, he says too bad. Hes not gonna pay me & to take it to small claims court...
Ummm.... its not stacks Im missing out on but I dont think this is fair at all and I dunno what to do.
I know I gottaa work somewhere else, but is there anything else I can do besides small claims cuz Im sure going in there as a dancer aint gonna look right anyways & ive never done something like that before? Wtf yknow...
Prob not much else I can do Im sure,
but I dont wanna ask for advice from many ppl cuz its a weird situation and I feel embarassed I dont know the legalities really to even start on, plus I know the REAL owner is gonna be on his side cuz who the hell else is gonna run the bar when hes out of state? Dudes been workin for him for yrs.
I dont wanna get the law involved but Im starting to realize that might be my only option & I really just am tired of letting this pos walk over over me.
Advice?



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