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    Ugh, I am so sick! I woke up this morning with a sore throat, which made sense since at my "real job" I have to pretty much yell to a line up of 18+ people on horses. Plus, there's been mad smoke from the forest fire, and the dust. Figured that was it.

    Wrong-o. I got home, showered, got dressed again, and kicked back on the couch. Talk about chills. So I got up to get a blanket and felt wobbly, and sore.

    This sucks!!! I can't exactly work this weekend wrapped in a blanket cuddling my stuffed Eeyeore! Last weekend I was feeling a little too secure in my new wedges, fell flat on my ass and busted up my foot. Still worked, but only Sunday.

    These are things I never really thought about before I started dancing. It's not like you have to treat yourself like a china doll, but damn close.

    Oh well, I was laying in bed and the phone rang. I wasn't gonna answer it, unless it was Peter. Sure as shit it was. He apologized for not calling last night, and said he had to work a double tomorrow, but if I wanted to kick it at his place, he'd tried to stop by and check on me. =) Daaawh.

    Ugh, I so brought this on myself. I run myself a little too ragged.

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    I hear you, sweetie. I've been running myself bonkers in the past few weeks. Work like a demon at the Aquarium from 9-6 3 days a week, dance from 11-8 3 days a week, and clean the apartment on Tuesdays. Argh.
    "Just 'cause she dances go-go, that don't make her a 'ho, no.....called up my Mama, said 'I'm in love with this stripper yo.'"
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    I know that many dancers are simply not that reliable, and call in a lot. But, I hate it when our owner gripes about girls "robbing" him of money (house fees) by calling in sick. I think that in this job, there are so many reasons that you might not be able to work; it is not like a regular job. At most jobs, I could suffer a day of fever and sniffels, etc. But here, I think we have a responsibility to not come to work if we are contagious, with the close contact we have and all. Plus, it is not very appealing to customers and not likely you will make any money if you are sneezing and coughing and snotting constantly.

    Since we are women, we are of course going to have a higher than average incedence of (female) problems that pervent us form dancing as well, like vaginal infections or ultra heavy bleeding.

    Being sick sucks. Of course you don't want to be sick and would rather be making money. But to be treated like your a wimp trying to cheat the boss makes it even worse. Sorry for the rant. Just wish I could think of a way to articulate this before our next "raising house fees because girls call in" speech.

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    When I started one of the first places I worked at was PT's in Indy and they didn't have any poles so it was all floorwork and 4 stages only 30grls. By the end of my first week I could barely walk. I had to make this huge pillow (tiger print) so my knees wouldn't hit the stage. After my 7th work day I decided to try another club b/c the pain was sooo bad . The other girls were ok I guess I too am fragile. It took like 3 months for my knees to be normal and me to be able to go from sitting to standing without grabbing the sides of the chair for assistance like an old man. What's funny is I have always compared how physically taxing this job is on women to construction work for men. My customers laugh but anyone with bruised knees, sprained ankles, or sore thighs knows it's true.

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    Yes this is definitely a very "two-faced" position on the part of clubowners regarding dancers who are truly sick, injured etc. On the one hand, the clubowners do not pay for or provide benefits of any kind in regard to paid sick days or government disability insurance, which girls who have 'normal' jobs take for granted. On the other hand, clubowners depend on having a certain number of dancers actually present and working on particular shifts in order for the club to 'put its best foot forward' in regard to customers.

    The real root of this problem is that, as we all know, a certain percentage of dancers routinely 'call in' on a regular basis for reasons totally unrelated to actual sickness or injury. We all know the real reasons for 'calling in' - being scheduled to work a shift which usually pays peanuts, partying their brains out after closing the night before and being comatose for most of the next day, taking advantage of an 'invitation' from a rich and handsome customer to spend a weekend doing something amazing etc.

    Unfortunately, as long as a club has a significant percentage of girls who routinely "call in" for these 'selfish' reasons, it's very hard to get clubowners to acknowledge that you are truly sick or injured.

    And I definitely hear you about continuing to dance when sick or injured so that you can 'do your duty' - I have danced while having a severe case of bronchitis, I have danced with broken toes and sprained ankles etc. And never once did a clubowner say 'thank you', or 'why don't you take it easy'.

    In the old days clubowners were not like this, they kept track of their regular dancers in regard to health and happiness. But today, clubowners increasingly look upon dancers as interchangeable parts in their 'machine' which can easily be replaced, leading clubowners to treat dancers with less and less basic respect and more and more club income greed (i.e. pay those house fees, sell those private dances, T-shirts etc). That same clubowner greed also often results in the clubowner saying nothing when the girl who called in for 'selfish' reasons is a '10', but jumping all over her case when the girl who called in for 'a genuine valid" reason is a '7'.

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