OK, I had talked to Millionsof_Peaches about her idiot DJ, and wrote her a PM with some advice on how to deal with it.
It seemed like it might be useful if other dancers with inferior DJs needed advice, so I thought I'd post a copy here...
So many clubs just have bad DJs, period. One question I would ask is if you have a set schedule?
Like how many nights are you absolutely required to work with this asshole?
If you are never really required to work the same nights as he does, this gives you much more leverage in the situation. Not only can you spare yourself the displeasure and bad feelings, and less earning potential you have when working with him, but you will hurt him far more than not getting one tip from you.
Tell the other DJ about the situation first. Try not to get worked up about it when you tell him--a lot of guys in this business learn to shut off sympathy for an irate dancer--even if she has a legitimate complaint. He may be able to do something about it. If he is 'head' DJ he can bust the guy's balls.
Even if he can't do that, he can probably get the guy's balls busted by management. If he dislikes the guy (this is common, since so many DJs are jerks, and even the cool ones can get tied up in 'DJ wars' with the other guys), he'll be willing to do something.
Your next step, if he can't do anything, is to go to management. They may not give a flying fuck--especially if he is friends with one of the managers or owners. If they do care, you have to be even more careful about how upset you get when you tell them.
Be cold, hard, and businesslike--but pleasant and friendly to them. Act like one of those hard-driving, but smooth and pleasant business wheeler dealers you see in movies. Be as calm as possible, even if they start defending the dipshit. In that case don't argue with them, just tell them calmly that you have great respect for them, but choose to work as little as possible with him, and end the discussion.
Even if they display contempt for their dancers, as many managers/owners do, they will understand that the guy is costing them money. Tell them you will avoid working his nights, but stress that the other DJ is great, and you will help them get more money from you (house fees and/or any percentage of dance fees they get), if you don't have to work with the guy so much.
If your managers are pricks, and especially if you are required to work his nights at all, you may be shit out of luck with this. But as I said, the cool DJ might even be able to help you even then, especially if you tell him how great he is compared to the other asshole (all us DJs like to hear how good we are, lol)!
Later...
One warning I failed to give Millionsof_Peaches, but which was less necessary in her case (since the guy was so clearly worthless and actually costing her money)....
Make damned sure there's nothing you can do by talking to the questionable DJ. Not only is this easier, but if he gets wind of your going anywhere else and trying to hurt his future employment there, he will become worse yet, lol.
I have gone to a manager or owner about a problem dancer less times in my club career than the number of years I have worked, which is 5-6. Probably 3-4 times tops. I much prefer to deal with it myself, even if it sometimes takes a while, and even if the damned woman and I are screaming at each other. I have been become very good friends with many dancers who started off as a pain in the ass or worse, lol. and I did this by handling it myself.
Also, having to go to management makes them aware that you have a problem--the less they think that, the better off you are!
But heaven help the dancer who goes running to management about me. Like the one that kept leaping off the damned stage during her songs and going to sit with guys to try to get them to tip her. I got her fired for a month after she went running to them to demand I not play so much "n***er music".



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