I've read that in some places, like vegas, the girls don't have to have a schedule because they are independant contractors, whereas us kansas/missouri girls often have to pay huge fines (like $100) if we miss a day, or a dollar a minute if we are late. anybody that's worked in enough clubs knows that a few bad moves and a greedy club owner can take half or more of your income a night. Or, if someone with influence in the club, like a manager or bouncer, decides he doesn't like you, they can just start fining you like crazy at the drop of a hat.
we have to work in clubs where they turn up the music too loud, which probably damages our hearing (anything over 80 decibles in unsafe), or too cold. Try walking into a shack in the middle of a corn field and being told you have to be (un)dressed and ready before the heater kicks on in the dead of winter. We are talking cold!
i think that enough is enough. if we here in kansas are independent contractors without pay or benefits, then we shouldn't be treated like children anymore. the truth is, we are being exploited, plain and simple. but, no one wants to stand up for themselves.
i even took advantage of a free legal service, and under the conditions that we work in, if we went to court, we would be proven to be employees...unpaid employees...because of all the restrictions that are put on us. that means that the club owners would either have to pay us or stop exploiting us if they want to maintain the independant contractor relationship.
bottom line, we can do something if we stand up for ourselves. i'm sick of greedy club owners. aren't you?


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Belieflowr I agree with u 100% I work in MO. and am having issues at my club right now because they are scheduling us 5 days a week .If we miss a day we are suspended for a week unless we have a dr. note.I'm so upset because I paid my taxes as a IC and owe about $6700 and tipped out the club last year about 6000 THat's not counting what the club got for their cut of my lapdances. This is not a big club I do not make tons of money so to pay over $12000 to wrk there makes me so mad I don't feel like an IC I don't make my own schedule and now I'm told I will work 5 days a week!!
[Sorry, I couldn't resist.]
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