I must apologize ahead of time for venting but I really need to. This has definitely been one of those frustrating awful weeks where no matter what you do, every shift represents the impossibility of making decent cash. I mean, this is just horrible. And of course, it is rent week. Does it ever feel like when you don't need the money, you tend to make good cash, but when you really need it, you fall wayyyy beneath the minumum you need to make? :-/ Anyhow, I was curious as to know how you girls deal with it when customers take the best seats in the house, watch your ENTIRE show, and don't tip a DOLLAR? Not only is this rude but I also find it downright IGNORANT and ball-sy as hell. Nothing pisses me off faster than this. I am sure I am not alone in this sentiment.Typically if this does happen, I can usually distract myself with a good tipping customer whose sitting on the other side of the stage, or thinking about the dance I might have waiting for me after the set. But last night...UGH. I lost my cool. I went up onstage after a very young, introverted dancer got offstage and gave me they eyeroll (as we all know, a dancer giving the eyeroll as she comes offstage is a clear indication of how the customers sucked up there). I had overheard other dancers commenting on the cheapness of the customers for the past hour. But I thought that maybe they'd warm up to me? Nope. I smiled, joked with them but halfway through my set I realized that from a full stage (about 20 people) I made made about $4. Stage sets at my club usually range from $20-$50. for three songs. I have worked at other clubs where customers not tipping is common, but this happens rarely at this club I've found. We do a lot of floorwork and though there is no contact, we get pretty close to customers. Anyway, halfway through my set I looked around and realized that there were no more tips up, and I'm completely naked. When the "we're not gonna tip" bullshit does happen, it's usually a customer or two who arent tipping tip, but this was the 7/8's of the entire stage! When it's just a couple of guys, it doesnt rent any space in my head, but the whole stage??? It was like all of a sudden, not tipping the dancer had become the new rage. I tried to joke around with them and encourage them to tip. I told them coyly "No Tipping, No Stripping guys" and still there is no cash going up. Not even from a group of guys who had brought in a girl. Usually the female customers have some sense and will urge others to tip. This little snot just looked at my cluelessly. I swear this crowd had the energy and intelligence of a bunch of amoebas. I didnt know if they were just major jerks or stupid or broke, or the delightful combo of all three???? I dance around by myself for a bit, thinking they would tip shortly, but 2 min later I was still stark naked, and no one was tipping. Not even a buck. Not from 20 people watching. Yet all of these morons have taken up the best seats and theyre watching my every move. I once read a post here where someone claimed it was "tacky" to put your clothes back on during your set. The majority of dancers at my club have a different take. It's like this; when we're up there exposed as one could possibly be, and the crowd doesnt have the decency to part with a few bucks, any thoughts about "tackiness" just goes right out the window. We get dressed. When the cheapskates come to the profound realization that strip clubs arent FUN without dancers taking off their clothes, it "occurs" to them that tipping might be the decent thing to do. And the clothes come back off. Needless to say, halfway through my last song, I got dressed. I couldnt wait to get away from the assholes. As I was stepping offstage, I picked up my four bucks as every eye in the place gawked as I bent over. I walked right over to the most offensive group, 6 guys and a girl all who didnt tip one solitary buck, I said "I wanted to take a minute out just to THANK YOU all for being so generous. That was really decent of you. Thanks." I walked over to the next dancer waiting to go onstage and gestured to the watching eyes, and loudly told her that they were rude and cheap. What made me even angrier is that the dj is standing right next to us and immediately tries to hush me and says, "Oh be quiet. They just didnt like YOU." That made me even angrier (this particular dj called another dancer who was 100lbs "fat ass" and I am not fat but very curvy and I weigh 115lbs so I know he makes fun of me behind my back too for not being his stick-dancer ideal). I know he was insinuating, so I told him that 2 waif-dancers went up prior to me and that they didnt tip her either. Screw him for trying to make me feel like it was my body and that I deserved it. I hate him inside just thinking of that right now. Sorry. Anway, I know that I lost my cool and risked looking like a bigger bitch than if I had just played Meek Little Stripper and sucked it up and said nothing. F*ck that. Maybe by being a bitch I helped the next girl going up, who had kids to support. She did report to us later that the cheapskates had finally spared a few dollars. We help each other out a lot like that. I feel there should be some sort of comeraderie between dancers, and that when customers are intentionally being jerks, that pointing their behavior out to them, might spare the next dancer the grief. Maybe next time, you'll be the girl who the customers are decrent for, after a previous dancer helped you out by telling the jerks off. Basically, none of us expect to make a killing everytime we go onstage. We even expect that we wont be every guy out there's "type," hence minimal tip from that customer. But is it too much to expect for a stageside sitting customer to tip a buck or two for 15 min of watching you entirely naked??? How do you girls deal with this? Do you say anything to the customers when they feel like it's kosher to just sit there and gawk while we work our naked asses off for free? Does anybody have any stories about non-tipping customers and comments you've made or things you did? Between the losers last night, what the dj said to me, and just the general lack of cash flow this week I am dreading these next two nights at work.
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Typically if this does happen, I can usually distract myself with a good tipping customer whose sitting on the other side of the stage, or thinking about the dance I might have waiting for me after the set. But last night...UGH. I lost my cool. I went up onstage after a very young, introverted dancer got offstage and gave me they eyeroll (as we all know, a dancer giving the eyeroll as she comes offstage is a clear indication of how the customers sucked up there). I had overheard other dancers commenting on the cheapness of the customers for the past hour. But I thought that maybe they'd warm up to me? Nope. I smiled, joked with them but halfway through my set I realized that from a full stage (about 20 people) I made made about $4. Stage sets at my club usually range from $20-$50. for three songs. I have worked at other clubs where customers not tipping is common, but this happens rarely at this club I've found. We do a lot of floorwork and though there is no contact, we get pretty close to customers. Anyway, halfway through my set I looked around and realized that there were no more tips up, and I'm completely naked. When the "we're not gonna tip" bullshit does happen, it's usually a customer or two who arent tipping tip, but this was the 7/8's of the entire stage! When it's just a couple of guys, it doesnt rent any space in my head, but the whole stage??? It was like all of a sudden, not tipping the dancer had become the new rage. I tried to joke around with them and encourage them to tip. I told them coyly "No Tipping, No Stripping guys" and still there is no cash going up. Not even from a group of guys who had brought in a girl. Usually the female customers have some sense and will urge others to tip. This little snot just looked at my cluelessly. I swear this crowd had the energy and intelligence of a bunch of amoebas. I didnt know if they were just major jerks or stupid or broke, or the delightful combo of all three???? I dance around by myself for a bit, thinking they would tip shortly, but 2 min later I was still stark naked, and no one was tipping. Not even a buck. Not from 20 people watching. Yet all of these morons have taken up the best seats and theyre watching my every move. I once read a post here where someone claimed it was "tacky" to put your clothes back on during your set. The majority of dancers at my club have a different take. It's like this; when we're up there exposed as one could possibly be, and the crowd doesnt have the decency to part with a few bucks, any thoughts about "tackiness" just goes right out the window. We get dressed. When the cheapskates come to the profound realization that strip clubs arent FUN without dancers taking off their clothes, it "occurs" to them that tipping might be the decent thing to do. And the clothes come back off. Needless to say, halfway through my last song, I got dressed. I couldnt wait to get away from the assholes. As I was stepping offstage, I picked up my four bucks as every eye in the place gawked as I bent over. I walked right over to the most offensive group, 6 guys and a girl all who didnt tip one solitary buck, I said "I wanted to take a minute out just to THANK YOU all for being so generous. That was really decent of you. Thanks." I walked over to the next dancer waiting to go onstage and gestured to the watching eyes, and loudly told her that they were rude and cheap. What made me even angrier is that the dj is standing right next to us and immediately tries to hush me and says, "Oh be quiet. They just didnt like YOU." That made me even angrier (this particular dj called another dancer who was 100lbs "fat ass" and I am not fat but very curvy and I weigh 115lbs so I know he makes fun of me behind my back too for not being his stick-dancer ideal). I know he was insinuating, so I told him that 2 waif-dancers went up prior to me and that they didnt tip her either. Screw him for trying to make me feel like it was my body and that I deserved it. I hate him inside just thinking of that right now. Sorry. Anway, I know that I lost my cool and risked looking like a bigger bitch than if I had just played Meek Little Stripper and sucked it up and said nothing. F*ck that. Maybe by being a bitch I helped the next girl going up, who had kids to support. She did report to us later that the cheapskates had finally spared a few dollars. We help each other out a lot like that. I feel there should be some sort of comeraderie between dancers, and that when customers are intentionally being jerks, that pointing their behavior out to them, might spare the next dancer the grief. Maybe next time, you'll be the girl who the customers are decrent for, after a previous dancer helped you out by telling the jerks off. Basically, none of us expect to make a killing everytime we go onstage. We even expect that we wont be every guy out there's "type," hence minimal tip from that customer. But is it too much to expect for a stageside sitting customer to tip a buck or two for 15 min of watching you entirely naked??? How do you girls deal with this? Do you say anything to the customers when they feel like it's kosher to just sit there and gawk while we work our naked asses off for free? Does anybody have any stories about non-tipping customers and comments you've made or things you did? Between the losers last night, what the dj said to me, and just the general lack of cash flow this week I am dreading these next two nights at work.
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) makes me feel better. I really liked the "God, you guys must be so broke" tactic. I'm all over that next time!





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