Hi, there! First time posting here, actually ever on a thread to begin with!
So I've been dancing for approximately 2 years now here in Seattle (sucky). The clubs that are available to us dancers in Seattle are Dejavu affiliated. Deja vu is known as extremely greedy and great their dancers like complete shit. (Maybe it's just Seattle, I dunno). But the particular club I work at the management is awful, none of the managers do their job on their end and hold up responsibilities, it has caused a lot of the veteran dancers to flee a d go off to dance out of state of a smaller club. (I work at the biggest club in Seattle). They currently have this backrent system where if you can't pay out in full (140 is our house) then it will be tacted on to your balance the next day, now if you schedule a "makeup day" and it happens to be an extremely slow day and you can't pay out in full again, they will try to take most of your money if not all (leaving you will 10-20%) and then tacting more onto your "back rent" balance which keeps you coming in more and more spending hours upon hours and giving them more and more money. Seattle is known for their nonalcoholic clubs and high house fees and outrageous VIP cuts. Winter is extrmemely slow, our club only attracts sports crowds since its by the sports stadium. There are no sports going on at the moment. So we are just stuck until it picks up again. The thing with the back rent is that you never actually know if its true with how much they tact on from certain days, so its like dancers are getting completely ripped off! All the surrounding seattle deja vu clubs are like that! Its frustrating. I'm almost in a sense venting because so much pent up anger,confusion and frustration. How theuy treat their staff and dancers is truly fucked up! I'm ready to take a stand against my management and tell them what's really up. Advice? What's going on here? What's up with their business model?



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