Page 2 of 2 FirstFirst 12
Results 26 to 42 of 42

Thread: Yo, DJs, a couple of questions.

  1. #26
    God/dess Paris's Avatar
    Joined
    Nov 2002
    Location
    Oregon
    Posts
    6,345
    Thanks
    168
    Thanked 801 Times in 419 Posts

    Default Re: Yo, DJs, a couple of questions.

    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??


    Promote yourself and earn more money! This is a business that is owned by strippers for strippers. Let's make that money!


  2. #27
    Featured Member
    Joined
    Dec 2004
    Posts
    1,295
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default Re: Yo, DJs, a couple of questions.

    I tip the way BG says..there have been some nights when I made only $100 and the dj still thinks he should get a cut of my money..*cackles* Yea right! The most Ive ever tipped a dj is $20, and thats when I broke $1,000 that night. Even when I make good money, I dont tip the djs..the only ones Ive ever had are the ones who carry around the mic and half ass it, because the girls have to use a juke box, or the ones where your tipout of $5 is included in the house fee.

  3. #28
    Member aedj's Avatar
    Joined
    Jul 2005
    Posts
    16
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default Re: Yo, DJs, a couple of questions.

    On a couple of occasions I have had a showgirl throw me a $20 at the start of the day, and she got everything that she wanted all day long, from music, to intros, and the one that will cause my fingers to fall off, THE LIGHT SHOW.

    At my club there is no tipping minimum but I tell the girls that it is highly appriciated to tip the DJ, and allthogh tipping is not required the non tippers dont pick music, at all, the $5 gets some music as long as noboady else wants it, the $10 gets music and a semi good intro, $20 gets the Music-The intro-and alot of energy and for $30 Its the whole package Music, Lightshow, and Intro.

    The one thing that all dancers need to realize is that the DJ gets paid by the club to make sure the lights work, the music plays, and the customers know whos on the main, but they get paid by the dancers for the music they want, the cool lighting effects and the mindblowing intros.

  4. #29
    God/dess
    Joined
    Sep 2002
    Posts
    8,031
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 143 Times in 42 Posts

    Default Re: Yo, DJs, a couple of questions.

    Quote Originally Posted by aedj
    but they get paid by the dancers for the music they want, the cool lighting effects and the mindblowing intros.
    Could you give me an example of one of those mindblowing intros? For I have yet to have my mind blown by a dancer intro.

    Now, I have been made to giggle relentlessly . . .

  5. #30
    Banned BigGreenMnM's Avatar
    Joined
    May 2004
    Location
    Virginia countryside.
    Posts
    3,299
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default Re: Yo, DJs, a couple of questions.

    Quote Originally Posted by Susan Wayward

    Now, I have been made to giggle relentlessly . . .
    I dont know if you can call this "Mindblowing"

    But it can be said that you were done proper.

    To the point,you still remember it.

    Someone says 10 seconds worth of babble,hits your G spot(giggle spot),and you still remember it in the future.

    Yup
    yup

    You were done proper.

  6. #31
    Banned Katrine's Avatar
    Joined
    Nov 2003
    Posts
    13,855
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default Re: Yo, DJs, a couple of questions.

    Quote Originally Posted by BigGreenMnM
    I dont know if you can call this "Mindblowing"

    But it can be said that you were done proper.

    To the point,you still remember it.

    Someone says 10 seconds worth of babble,hits your G spot(giggle spot),and you still remember it in the future.

    Yup
    yup

    You were done proper.
    Yeah, but its usually said in a bedroom (or car, or bathroom stall, or open field, whatever) and it involves words like "slut" and "cunt" and the g-spot is actually being hit at the same time.

    None of this, obviously, is appropriate at the club. NEXT........

    "Have you ever been to American wedding? Where is the vodka, where's marinated herring?" - GB
    "And do the cats give a shit? No, they do not. Why? Because they're cats."-from The Onion

    Quote Originally Posted by Mia M
    If a cupcake was tossed at me... well, I'd only be upset if it missed my mouth

  7. #32
    Banned BigGreenMnM's Avatar
    Joined
    May 2004
    Location
    Virginia countryside.
    Posts
    3,299
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default Re: Yo, DJs, a couple of questions.

    Quote Originally Posted by Katrine
    Yeah, but its usually said in a bedroom (or car, or bathroom stall, or open field, whatever) and it involves words like "slut" and "cunt" and the g-spot is actually being hit at the same time.

    None of this, obviously, is appropriate at the club. NEXT........
    lolol
    ack!!!!!!!! Not another "NEXT"chic!!!!!!
    Look how stu-pid and wrong the last girl looked who said that to me!!!

    ROFLMAO!!!!!

    Besides,strippers should never use the word "NEXT!",it takes away all the romance from the fantasy!!!lolololol
    (Granted,if I had to guess the ONE word going thru a hustlers mind as she is comming out of the VIP room with a now broke custie,"NEXT"would be the word i bet on)

    The point im trying to make is,tho it may not be a "Mindblowing"intro,whatever this guy said made the entertainer laugh(so she was listening)and probably started her set off for her set in a great "giggle relentlessly"kinda mood.
    Fuckin perfect intro imo,and i dont even know what he said!!!!

    cmon cmon!!!!!
    tell us what he said!!!!!
    It shows no weakness in remembering a dj intro that you actually liked!!!!

    share share!!!!

  8. #33
    Member
    Joined
    Jan 2006
    Location
    New Orleans
    Posts
    22
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default Re: Yo, DJs, a couple of questions.

    You share first. ^

    Wow... A lot of dancers have negative feelings about DJ's... Is there ANYTHING that your DJ does correct?

  9. #34
    God/dess kitana's Avatar
    Joined
    Jun 2004
    Location
    kentucky
    Posts
    3,582
    Thanks
    49
    Thanked 60 Times in 43 Posts

    Default Re: Yo, DJs, a couple of questions.

    Quote Originally Posted by Susan Wayward
    I'm curious, so answer me this if you would:

    What do you think is an appropriate tip from a girl who:

    Made $100

    Made $300

    Made $600

    Made $1000

    (assume that this was made mainly from dances/VIPs, not that your sweet mellifluous tones drew someone to toss her loads of cash on stage)

    Wants to skip a round on stage

    Wants to stay off stage all night

    ATTENTION: Just give me dollar amounts, not percentages; I don't really need a long explanation or rationale (THIS MEANS YOU BG). I'm just interested in what you consider fair tipping.
    Bad dj tip out is as follows:

    $100: $5

    $300: $5-10

    $600: $10-20

    $1000: $20

    Good Dj tip out:

    $100: $10

    $300: $20-30

    $600: $40-50

    $1000: $100

    Skip a set on stage? Around $5-10.

    Stay off stage all night? Hmm, anywhere from $100-250. (If you are not on stage all night because you're back in the back, $750-1000 would be easy to do. So 410-250 seems fair.)
    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
    Quote Originally Posted by ExoticEngineer View Post
    Feel like a damn salt lick at the goats petting zoo!
    <08SM>

  10. #35
    Moderator Djoser's Avatar
    Joined
    Nov 2002
    Location
    Key West
    Posts
    16,343
    Thanks
    1,395
    Thanked 5,487 Times in 2,768 Posts

    Default Re: Yo, DJs, a couple of questions.

    Wow, I missed all this, lol...

    Damn have I worked with some bad DJs--some of them so bad they were barely fit to tie their own shoes. For those guys to demand 10% is outrageous--but so many of them do.

    Then there's the other side of the coin--I've had dancers be ridiculously picky about their music--even during special events when we all had to suffer through lots of country and ancient classic rock--demand extravagant light shows and gesture frantically or yell from the stage if I forget something, and even urgently beg me to "really talk me up".

    And then never tip more than the minimum (currently 7$, but they mostly tip at least 10-15), or walk out without tipping at all, or even say anything--on a regular basis.

    Money talks, and no money shouts most irritatingly. So does service, or the lack of it.

    10% is a good rule of thumb, if it's a middle sized club with middle sized earnings--and if the DJ really makes you 300$ more on a regular basis than the other guy, for god's sake throw him a 20, at least. But for a guy watching TV to make 100$ from your 1000$ is robbery.

    I have found ways to get them to tip well, mostly--but there's some that aren't worth the hassle. Sometimes I even give them special treatment anyway, if the show needs it, and I'm in a good mood. But not if they show disrespect or are rude, forget it...
    You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
    Friedrich Nietzsche

    Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
    George Clinton

    ______________________________________

  11. #36
    Member Bastet's Avatar
    Joined
    Dec 2005
    Location
    California
    Posts
    30
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default Re: Yo, DJs, a couple of questions.

    WOW!!! This is a subject talked about quite a bit at every club I have ever worked at!!! The last club i worked at all the DJ's were so anal retentive about getting the 10% and if the didn't the would have tell the manager and have him talk to us about it. Tipping is giving a person money for doing something for you. These guys were pricks. They played hand held video games all night and talked on the phone and never gave anybody a personal intro ever. Same thing goes for the bouncers that work there, well most of the bouncers. And they were total jerks!!! Always yelling to get out of the dressing room even if you just went in. Almost all the male employee's there are dill holes, including management. Even the managers will comment to you if you made money to "not forget about you manager." I usually go by the 10% rule for the DJ's but if they are rude to me and act like I am bothering them when I pick out my music, screw em. Tipping is a courtesy, not mandatory. Same goes for the bouncers. They all have the video games and all that stuff too to keep them occupied instead of making sure the girls aren't getting abused by a custy. I've had to yell at the top of my lungs for bouncers at the club b4. Anyway, back to the DJ thing... At my new club I totally tip out over average if he did me right. Especially if I did well. but no way am I gonna give a DJ $100 when I break a grand!!! i don't think I could go over $40, I'd feel raped of my hard earned money. But on the nights I don't make money, I just say sorry, and the DJ's at my new club are cool with that because I tip decently when I do make good $$$.... makes up for those crummy nights that I can't tip at all. Needless to say, I don't think I will ever go back to the old club unless a good spending custy makes a special request to see me there. xoxoxxx

  12. #37
    Featured Member
    Joined
    Nov 2003
    Location
    Greensboro, NC
    Posts
    804
    Thanks
    52
    Thanked 34 Times in 24 Posts

    Default Re: Yo, DJs, a couple of questions.

    Sorry; a $1000 night deserves at LEAST $50 if not $100 to the DJ. Think about it as an investment in future goodwill. He will remember you; if he is worth a shit. If not; you've made the mistake once and you will know not to make it again. However; don't expect him to kiss the ground you walk on either...a good dj still has a job to do. But the bottom line is...that $100 now will earn you a forgiven night when you've made $50 ;or you've made $500 but REALLY need to make that car payment tomorrow and can't afford to spen the extra to give the tipout that night. See what I mean?


    an aside: NO ONE SHOULD EVER HAVE TO TIP A MANAGER--DJS OR DANCERS. RIPOFF CITY. HOW LAZY AND GREEDY CAN THE OWNERS GET. STUPID STUPID STUPID. If you are a manager and the club is not paying you enough; get your experience and get out to someone else who will. Only heard of one club here on the east coast that is doing that and I think it's silly. No one who has worked at any of the clubs here is leaving to go to that one (except 2 really bad djs--no loss anyway; trust me). MY friend who had bounced back and forth from manager to bartender twice at my club finally got the owner of the chain to make him a GM at another store....so now he's getting paid most of what he's worth. Persistance with the right company pays. ANYway...

    The industry is suffering severly from a lack of DJs of ANY level of professionalisim. Most of the ones I know are on this board; or are older (I have a small group of them here; poor boys are all burned out). That's why I have great faith in my hubby..he has all the tools and the expereince (16 years) but is only 29. Yes you read that right; his dad put him in the booth at his strip club when he was 13. Most girls have not worked with a DJ worth a shit so do not know to respect them or work with them...and vice versa. We must work on a solution to this if the inustry wants to move foreward in a profitable way. Just My .02. I have lots of ideas on this....
    Grinding is for coffee and meat.
    "I want to entertain people who wish to be entertained, not be an expensive but poor substitute for someone who can't find themselves a prostitute."-Asurfel
    Those Who Hear Not The Music Think The Dancers Mad.
    “Belgian Trappist Organically Farmed Multiple Orgasm Inducing. Bed Shaking, Neighbors Complaining, Heirloom Radishes”

  13. #38
    Veteran Member ChloeTheRed's Avatar
    Joined
    Dec 2005
    Location
    Twitties
    Posts
    381
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 4 Times in 3 Posts

    Default Re: Yo, DJs, a couple of questions.

    Damn, this makes me feel lucky to have the DJs I have.

    I always always tip $10 absolute minimum, but they do shit like (1) always give us our intro, (2) praise the customers that tip on stage, (3) announce who's up next so we don't have to scurry like a freak to get to the stage on time, (4) remember and play our music preferences and requests [preferences are written on our dancer card], (5) do an at least decent light show, (6) ask us how we're doing and actually give a shit, (7) encourage us when we have a shitty night.

    So hell yeah they get decent tips. ($10 even on a $100 net night, $15 on 200, $20 on $250-300, etc.)

    Managers and bouncers only get tip-outs from me when they do me a favor (mention me to customers, get me a sale, let the house-fee slide when I've had a super-shitty night -- then they get a nice tip the next good night I have). Then again, our club seems to pay them pretty well, so they aren't hurting too much for money.

  14. #39
    Member Raven Z's Avatar
    Joined
    Dec 2005
    Location
    Texas
    Posts
    36
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 2 Times in 1 Post

    Default Re: Yo, DJs, a couple of questions.

    Is it just me or does 10% for a DJ sound high?

    Maybe it's just my club but everyone who works here gets (or should get) tipped by the dancers. The only exception being the wait staff. They're tip optional if they've done something nice for you (or if you accidently knock them over like i've been known to do )


    I hope i don't seem greedy but i can't afford to give the DJ 10% of all my earnings when i still have to tip out the bouncers, the door girl, the busboy, the managers, and the bar on top of my house fee.

    Though as an individual, i do tip him more than everyone else (ie 50-100% more than the bouncers and managers).

    On a $700 night (which has only happened once unfortunatly) I'll give the DJ 17-22 , each bouncer 12, the door girl, bar and busboy get 4 each, and 12 for each manager on top of my house fee. I end up going home with 600 which i still have to chop down to 450 - 480 that i keep after i report my taxes. Considering that i only take home in pocket 60-65% of what i actually made shaking my naked ass i don't feel bad that i gave the DJ less than 5%. I always give him at least $10-15 when i make between $100-$300 and it goes up from there depending on who it is and how he treated me that night.

    Is it really so horrible that i tip out that amount? When i spread out my earnings to everyone and give the DJ more than the rest?
    Your local vegan lover.

    Live and let live.

  15. #40
    God/dess velvet's Avatar
    Joined
    Jun 2002
    Location
    Florida
    Posts
    4,778
    Thanks
    154
    Thanked 280 Times in 146 Posts

    Default Re: Yo, DJs, a couple of questions.

    i tip a min of 20 a max of 40. i dont go on stage at all.

  16. #41
    God/dess
    Joined
    Jun 2005
    Location
    Colorado
    Posts
    2,265
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default Re: Yo, DJs, a couple of questions.

    There's a big sign in our dressing room and the DJ booth that reads "tipping is NOT required". That being said, I tip my DJ 10% of my earnings, after paying my taxes and tipping out the door person, valet, and cashier. I usually cap it at $50.

  17. #42
    Moderator Djoser's Avatar
    Joined
    Nov 2002
    Location
    Key West
    Posts
    16,343
    Thanks
    1,395
    Thanked 5,487 Times in 2,768 Posts

    Default Re: Yo, DJs, a couple of questions.

    I would think a 50$ bill would be pretty good no matter how much you made.

    It sucks when a dancer makes several hundred dollars and has to give away any large percentage of it. And having to run around tipping everyone and their brother because management is too cheap to pay them well is ridiculous.

    What's next, tipping the guys that fix the roof?

    The one place I was a hardass about tips was a place that was really slow when I started, and took forever to turn around. And it was a small club, so there were never a lot of dancers tipping at once. Even then, I was never as bad as the other (asshole) DJ, who was renowned for snatching all a dancer's money while she was figuring how much was 10%, and taking it himself.

    But after a year of working 5, 6, and even 7 nights a week suffering slow nights and keeping a policy of not accepting tips if the dancer made less than a certain amount, I wanted 10% of the 500$ she made easily on say Race Week night! Especially when I would give her the Royal Treatment every night of that year, whether she could tip me or not.
    You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
    Friedrich Nietzsche

    Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
    George Clinton

    ______________________________________

Page 2 of 2 FirstFirst 12

Similar Threads

  1. Webcam couple have a few questions
    By littlebigswallow in forum Camming Connection
    Replies: 7
    Last Post: 11-02-2011, 10:53 PM
  2. A couple more questions from a newbie
    By Vice City Vinnie in forum Customer Conversation
    Replies: 9
    Last Post: 01-20-2007, 12:19 AM
  3. A Couple of Questions
    By Chani_Fremen in forum Newbie Board
    Replies: 3
    Last Post: 10-19-2004, 02:18 PM
  4. Replies: 8
    Last Post: 01-12-2004, 01:05 PM

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •