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    Just out of curiousity, do you think that other girls will lie about their earning potential to other dancers to make them feel insecure? The reason I ask is because there are girls I do not see working at all and they will say that they made $500-$1000. (In some clubs, if another girl tells me that-I know that she gives extras.) But I also I ask because sometimes I'll tell a girl I made twice what I made 'cause I know she'll compare herself and feel bad. What u think?
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    There is no legal requirement that dancers be truthful with other dancers about their actual earnings. There are a variety of possible reasons why a dancer would choose to lie about her actual earnings, both to understate it as well as to overstate it, both to make a fellow dancer feel better as well as feel worse.

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    there's been girls that are just super snotty and i'll lie and tell them i did great even though it was a slow day. But there was a time when my best friend was having a horrible day and didn't make any money and although i had made almost $600 i told her that i had made under $100 so she wasn't more upset.

    but for the most part, i don't discuss money @ work. I don't count it either b/c i feel like it'll discourage me from going out and making more.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pimpy718
    Just out of curiousity, do you think that other girls will lie about their earning potential to other dancers to make them feel insecure? The reason I ask is because there are girls I do not see working at all and they will say that they made $500-$1000. (In some clubs, if another girl tells me that-I know that she gives extras.) But I also I ask because sometimes I'll tell a girl I made twice what I made 'cause I know she'll compare herself and feel bad. What u think?
    I think you just answered your own question.

    Yeah, it happens all the time. Usually best to just worry about yourself and not get caught up in what others may or may not be doing.
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    I don't tell other girls how much I make, period. From time to time I've had good enough friends in the club to where I'd share my glee over an exceptionally good shift, but that's not the case right now. My answers to the question "How's your night going?" are either OK, good, or kinda slow. That about covers it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Susan Wayward
    I don't tell other girls how much I make, period. From time to time I've had good enough friends in the club to where I'd share my glee over an exceptionally good shift, but that's not the case right now. My answers to the question "How's your night going?" are either OK, good, or kinda slow. That about covers it.
    This along with what Hannah said...

    but for the most part, i don't discuss money @ work. I don't count it either b/c i feel like it'll discourage me from going out and making more.
    Best combined advice for the week.

    Never fuck with the mojo by counting your money before your shift is over.
    Never tell anyone how much you make or dont make,to include a dj looking for his 10% at the end of the night or for those of you lucky ones,you dont tell an unemployed boyfriend at home either.

    The best response you can give someone is"im not sure yet,I didnt count it"
    Then describe the room,not the contents of your wallet.
    "the room is slow,the room is fast etc".

    How many girls ask this question when THEY are making money???
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    good point, if i'm having a good day i don't have time to ask other girls how their day is going. but if it's a slow day for me i tend to ask if they are doing good. Guess i just want reassurance that it's not just me that is doing horrible
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    I think girls lie..but most never answer the Q right out with a number. I dont ask how much another is making or even how their night is going. I dont care...Im worried about me and my money more than anything or anyone else.
    Besides I dont know why some girls mention they have a certain amount when it has the probability of getting stolen.
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    it's funny you should bring this up. i just found out someone at work has been lying about her earnings. why she would lie to me, doesnt make sense. (we make around the same). it's stupid. maybe she feels competitive with me as i am a top earner but then again so is she.

    as others said i dont discuss what i make, unless it's with close friends. i do however count discretly. i want to know how much or how little i have to step up my hustle the rest of the night!

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    I've lied when asked point blank to make someone else feel better, otherwise I go along with the "good/okay/sucktastic" line of answering. I don't like giving figures out to anyone.
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    I know of some one who does this where I work. I dont even ask. She so drunk she tells me she made $800 and is having a good night. Then I speak to her the next day on the phone while she is sober and she tells me she made 350-400. I guess she doesnt remember what she said the night before LOL. Then I told her...But I thought you said you did well like $800, and she said.. OH, and changed the subject. So I caught her hyping up her earnings right there. But it doesnt matter. I only really care about my money.

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    I don't like talking numbers. I generally stick with "I did ok".

    I see and hear girls at work all the time exaggerating their earnings - one in particular always seems to make 1-2k Yeah right - those $1s the wannabe pimps throw at you during your 3 nightly stage sets and the 20 or so $10 laps you do per night REALLY add up to $1-2k. She loves to have her boys change in their bills for $1s so they can stuff her g-string and make it look really phat - ugh. Other girls make little comments now and then about how I must make so much money and if I say something about business being slow someone will pipe up "yeah slow for you is probably good for most of us" blah blah

    I don't understand why anybody in this business feels the need to bullshit about what they make - we're all doing the same crap and at the end of the day NOTHING matters but what's in YOUR OWN pocket. I don't give a damn what anyone else makes - and no one should be worried about what I make.

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    Besides I dont know why some girls mention they have a certain amount when it has the probability of getting stolen.
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    i try to just say i did Ok no matter what. If they dig deeper i will tell them the truth.

    I never lie about my earnings unless it is a friend and i have done much better that night. No sense making them feel bad.

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    Yeah, i think other girls might lie about the amt of money they make. they might do this not necessarily to make other girls feel INSECURE, but moreso to make THEMSELVES feel better.

    At many of the clubs I used to work at, I didn't understand how some of the girls had as much money as they claimed to have. I figured they were lying just to seem as though they were better. At the club I currently work in, it seems as though the girls should have MORE money than they claim to have. I feel as though I see them in the lapdance area forever, then come to find out they have the same amt of $ that I have of only $100 more.

    For the most part, I don't share what I make with others...and I definetly do not ask how much someone else made. It's none of my business, really. I just catch parts of convos held by other dancers.

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    It's weird--in most professions you don't tell anyone else what you make or what your last raise was--why should dancing be any different? Just say 'That's a rather personal question!' or say 'Enough for me!'

    But for the original point--yes I think the girls are just trying to pump themselves up/tear you down when they outright lie about their night or hound you about yours...

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    i'm not sure about why girls would exaggerate their earnings.... probably to make themselves seem hot. but if they're in a club that doesn't keep strict records, they might be mattressing their money, or doing most of their purchasing in under the table transactions, so they might tell you they made less than they did......
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    Lots of girls at my club ask each other if they "are doing good", meaning, "are you making money." When they ask me that I just take it as if they are asking me if I am doing good personally and just reply "yes, i'm doing well, thank you," and leave it at that. I never discuss money with anyone, it's not only uncouth, but it's none of their business.

    But back to what the first thread mentioned, I too believe that girls often inflate their earnings to one another. I often overhear outrageous ammounts of money (for our club) being made on days when that is almost impossible due to lack of customers, the particular day, etc.

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    Many girls for some strange reason exaggerate their earnings. As slow as this business has gotten over the past few years, when I hear girls say they never have nights of $100 or less I know they are lying. One dancer I work with had her boyfriend come in and get some dances from her so she could sell the most for the week(In this club dances are tracked).

    The truth of the matter is, given the slowdown of the clubs in general, and in many cases the overabundance of dancers, the decent money is going to hit some purses one night, and different purses the next. NO ONE, I don't care how pretty or how good a salesperson she is, can walk out of a club with $300, $400, $500, or even $1000 every time she works. The majority of dancers are good at hiding their $100 nights, and only talking about their $500 ones. Sometimes there are just not enough customers and the ones who are there aren't the money spending types, right?

    Anyone can walk in a club, and over a period of time see how the money is flowing. Who do these "earnings exaggeraters" think they are fooling? They are really making themselves look like idiots.

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    I used to have a friend that no matter what said she made a few dollars more than me.
    Even on nights I knew I made more than her if I said "400" she made "410" etc.

    So I quit telling her.
    That really burned her toast!
    No one-upping me!

    We didn't stay friends long after that.


    If girls ask how I am doing, I always say "good"
    even if they are having a bad night... I'm not going to pity them.
    They need to get a better attitude and quit trying to suck me into the "money sucks" view point.

    I figure "good" doesn't always equate to making money... it just means that I am feeling good about working.
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