Okay, so yet another rediculous evening has passed, and I'm one big running mascara mess. Tonight was dead! As in, when I walked in all the dancers and staff were huddled by the fire and they told me there were oooh, two customers. I got dressed cuz I saw my favorite regular (he gives the best hugs!).
We chatted, and even he noticed how dead it was, and got a dance so that "I'd have something to leave with." After he left, the night continued to be like pulling teeth. All told, I think I made $40. So, the breakdown was like this:
$40 - $10 Sunday special house fee - $10 DJ tipout (who ya know, did something) - $10 tipour to bouncer, who did nothing, but ask the manager if he could leave to get pumpkin pie. Leaving me without about $10.
So, I nicely as possible ask if he'd be offended by $5, all things considered. He fucking chuckled at me at stood there staring, until I damn near cried, and dug out another five. I tried to reason, he'd been there half my shift, and hadn't watched a single dance for me. To be perfectly honest, most of bouncers leave me to fend for myself. Hmmm, harder to tip more than minimum, when I'm nervous about whether I have a bouncer or not.
Needless to say, I was pissed and got flat out bitchy. I told him I could walk my own ass out, and stormed over to the DJ booth. Morgan (the DJ) asked if I had made enough to tip him and I said no, "but everyone seems to want it, so here you go" at which point he tried his damnest to give it back. I stormed out the back door and told the bouncer to leave me the fuck alone. He told me to get in my car and drive off, and he'd leave me alone. We basically exchanged fuck yous, and I bailed.
So there went my evening, and he walked with 25% of it, plus what the other 9 girls gave him, and a fucking paycheck.
Am I the only one who deals with a club full of assholes? I know there are girls that will try and screw them, but anyone could see that dur, *no one* not even pretty little Presley is making money. I mean really, does it somehow make you more manly to take the girls for all they're worth?
This one little DJ, who plays me the same crap 4 times a night pulled the same stunt. I left with a dollar courtesy of him. And further he knows there have been instances, where I got home, realized I didn't tip enough, and gave him what I owed him the NEXT DAY!!!
Am I off base thinking if a night sucks, it oughta suck for everyone? I grew up working in restaurants, and if the servers I expoed for got shitty tips, so did I.
I used to be okay with tipping my full amount, and chalking it up to better days, but with as dead as it is lately, I really can't afford to do that.
GRRR! My boyfriend called, and wanted to spend his only day off with me, but oh no, I went and got dressed to work. *sigh*
love and cookies
-smurf
good run of bad luck



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....Tori Amos

. I sympathize with you. The only bouncers who do shit in our club are the young new ones. Us dancers joke about how the bouncers who have been there for years, do nothing but sit on their asses, watch the t.v.'s and eat the free nuts. Thank God we don't have to tip the bouncers out at my club!!
You know, there were two nights in my entire stripping career that I ever left a club with $5. -and the second night it happened, I quit for good. Holiday is right, it's understandable to have a hundred dollar night every now and then, but to leave with less than you would make at McDonalds really is wrong and insulting. If I were you, I'd honestly be thinking about making a move to another club. You're better than $5. Good luck hun!




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