I cannot believe the loser waitress working my and two other girls' table tonight. Two other dancers there have a regular who brought in a friend and I was asked to entertain the buddy. I go in around 12:30a.m. and it is agreed that guy A will pay $300 and guy B will pay $300 for the rest of my night. Guy A already has a tab running and tells the waitress to put my money on his tab. Guy B opens a tab and asks for the same.
Throughout the freaking hour and a half, one girl (who was pretty much taking care of everything) and myself checked with the waitress at least 5 times to make sure all the money - including theirs - was taken care of: A grand apiece for them, $600 for me. She kept saying "yes, I got it".
At the end of night, we checked with her one more time making sure everything was correct. Yep, got it. So we all head out of the skybox and go to the dressing room. About 10 minutes later, here comes the waitress with our money. She starts out with me and counts only three.
"Um, *insert waitress name*, I need another three. Remember, three from guy A, another three from guy B?" Her response? "Uh, what are you talking about?". Seriously. She went into a stupor like she had no idea what I was talking about. Then one of the other dancers I was with helped me jog her memory.
Do you know what this girl told me? "Oh, Guy B said he was only paying for service charges and to just tell you it was taken care of.". Yes, you read right. Me: "So wait a minute, all those times I asked you if my money from him was taken care of, why did you say "yes"?
Her: "I don't know. I didn't understand what you all were doing."
So, basically, a waitress conspired with a customer to cheat me out of money and is trying to play dumb about it. The ticket I saw him sign (for $460) was for the service charges for Guy A's funny money and champagne and her tip. I don't care if she thought he was paying me cash or what. I asked that girl so many times if she had it taken care of and her response was always: yeah, I got it.
I am so mad right now I have tears in my eyes. Guy A is a regular and the two girls I was dancing with say they can get the $300 for me (and even offered to throw in $150 and $150 to make it up to me) but the fact that it happened makes me so f*cking livid. I rarely get mad enough to where I think about hitting someone, but I swear I almost lost it tonight.
I ended up talking to management and of course, there's nothing he can do once the tab is closed, but told me he'd look into it (whatever that means).
From here on out, I will be taking care of my OWN dance tabs. No more waitress bullsh*t. I will take the card(s) myself and watch them get run myself since apparently I can't trust the waitresses to do their f*cking jobs (well, with the exception of one or two). Frankly, I think a termination is in order, but I doubt that will happen because I have to prove (even with witnesses) that the conversation happened - 5+ f*cking times!!
Not sure what else to do at this point. Hopefully, I will still get the money, but I am very angry right now. Any ideas?
WHEW!! Sorry so long. Now I'm going to go light some incense and meditate. Thank God for Tai Chi. I swear it keeps me centered and calm in the face of bullsh*t.



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