I have a couple of questions for the djs too...
If I tip you BEFORE I hit the floor, and ask you to do certian things for me (oh say waiting until the previous dancer left the stage BEFORE playing my music, allowing me to leave the stage BEFORE starting the next dancers music, and paying attention to the stage and the rotation) how much $$ would you need to keep your focus?
I work in a lot of different clubs with a lot of different djs. The biggest beef for me is djs watching TV and not paying attention to what is happening in the club. Or surfing the internet while he should be working. I have even had to track down a dj at the bar getting drunk (more then once, unfortunately). This guy had the computer set to auto and took a remote mic with him to the bar, so he could request applause and announce the next dancer at the appropriate times. I mean WTF!! This is what I get when "tipping" is manadatory??!!!
I'm sorry, but I know that I am not that difficult to please. Just play my songs when it is my turn on stage. If I don't pick my music, I don't complain about the djs choices. I know if I didn't select the songs, I haven't a leg to stand on, I don't expect the djs to be mind readers.
Or do I just not understand the role of the dj in the club? Maybe I am way off base asking for these "special" favors??
If, as I've been reading here, these djs are not doing their jobs (yet I am required to pay them anyway), how do I communicate this to management without sounding bitchy? Do you think hiring a better DJ would change the vibe of the club and increase everyone's earnings (including the owner)?
I'm sorry the djs get so much crap here, but in many many markets, the djs are very bad at their jobs. They are allowed to keep their jobs because it is nearly impossible to replace them. I've worked at clubs that have searched for djs for months without finding anyone who was smart enough to work the equipment, much less someone who could act as MC and be a good showman. When these incompitent djs are allowed to keep working, I think to myself that maybe a computer would be a better option to keep the clubs music at least consistent.
I know that a dj's job is not easy, but let's be honest here, your first loyality is to the club's management. If every single dancer in the club decided that they didn't want to do the promos, and they all paid you $5 additional to NOT do the promo, do you have the power to stonewall management in favor of the people who actually pay you? How long do you think you could keep djing at that club if you sided with the dancers (the people who pay you) on this issue?
Before you get mad at the girls here who have real issues with their djs, realise that we feel like we are being "shaken down" on a nightly basis for a bullshit service. It is like we are paying off these guys so that we aren't fucked with quite so much while we are at work. In a perfect world the djs in strip clubs would do their jobs just like radio or wedding djs, and if they screwed up they would be out of a job. But in this world, it seems like the djs took the job trying to get laid or drunk or both, and getting paid for the privledge in the process.
Maybe I will invest in a wireless mic for myself, and when dj fucks with me over the mic I will have the volume to compete??



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