I work at a very small club in a relatively small city. I think we have maybe 40 girls on staff, total, all shifts, all nights. So everyone really kind of knows each other, and it only takes a few dancers screwing up to really change the work dynamic.
I've worked in clubs before where drugs were an issue, but I've honestly never seen it like an epidemic before. Usually the druggie girls were already druggies before they were even hired, and they just used dancing to feed their habit. But my current club isn't like that. Instead, in the past few months I've seen a lot of the young, new girls suddenly take to cocaine like nothing else. These girls are in their late teens or very early 20's and most have never danced before this club, and most have been here less than a year. And all of the sudden it seems like any given night, half the girls are high to the point where customers are noticing and asking me about it, and I've never had this before. I've never actually done coke myself--originally it was something I wanted to try, but after seeing what is happening to all of these girls, I never want to touch the stuff. Most of them were very nice, sweet, slightly naive girls, often somewhat timid, and in the span of a few months I've seen them morph into hard, angry, bitchy, entitled, volatile, cutthroat dancers. Their interactions with the customers are causing some problems--they've started trashing other dancers, demanding dances, and if a customer turns them down they ridicule and go off on him before stalking away. If it was a big club it probably wouldn't make a difference, but with a club this size it's really obvious. And what's worse, these girls aren't picky about where they're getting their coke, so we're suddenly having an influx of dealers showing up to try and sell their product to all the girls--which, of course, is just making it more available, not to mention the fact that it's bringing a very undesirable element into the club. We're way too small for that. We're also way too small for the manager to just fire all the obviously high girls--it would cut some of our night shifts in half.
What have your experiences been with drugs in your club? How do you deal with it, and how (and can) you do damage control with the customers who are bothered by it?



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