Alright I need more advice.... The club I'm working at has a history of violence, both with the customers and with the dancers. It's notorious for fights and the occasional stabbing. I've been working at the club for about 5 months and I've seen a lot of fights (dancers vs dancers as well as custys vs custys custys vs dancers etc) there has been one stabbing and one girl had a broken beer bottle ground into her face by a customer. I've managed to stay out of any major drama until last night. There is this one particular posse of 6 hardcore ghetto girls. I've never really even spoken to them. We have three stages at our club. If the girl following you is late on stage you have to sit there until she shows up regardless of how long she takes. If you've got a custy waiting this can seriously mess your business up so as a general rule girls get pretty pissed off when the next girl is more than a couple minutes late. A lot of girls will demand a tip from the girl who was late etc etc So last night one of these posse girls was after me on stage. We were doing 2 song sets and she didn't show up until the second song of her set. As she was walking past me on stage I said in an annoyed tone "This is your second song." She turns around and goes "I don't care." This stage is pretty high up, about 4 feet or more. I say "Well you should care because that's fucking ignorant" she says "Don't curse at me or I'll shove you down the stairs" I told her not to threaten me and I walked off stage. I was pissed off but I wasn't planning on just brushing it off. One of the bouncers that I get along with really well was working so I went over to him to bitch just because he's my buddy and I felt like bitching. So I told him what happened and this other girl comes up and says "Yeah I heard the girl on stage threaten her." Well the bouncer randomly goes up to the offending girl and gives her shit. I don't know what he said. So he came back and said everything was cool. I went back to the dressing room to freshen up and get over the incident. While I'm back there the offending girl and one of her posse members come back and confront me. The posse member demands to know why I ratted her girl out and why I was disrespecting her. I told her what happened. She goes off about me always being late on stage, which is BS. She demands I apologize to her friend. I refuse to apologize unless the other girl apologizes as well. They continue to threaten me. I tell them not to threaten me because I won't be threatened in my work place. Finally I say "I'm sorry that offended you but I think you should be a big enough person to apologize as well." So she does and the friend declares that everything is cool. I offer to shake on it with the offending girl and she gives me a fake hug. Then I shake hands with her girl. Well then her girl threatens me again so again I tell her not to threaten me. She says something to the effect of "It's not a threat it's a promise" and they leave. So I was freaking out because I wasn't sure what to do about the situation. It's 6 of these hardcore ghetto hookers vs. me We don't exactly have top notch management when it comes to issues like this so it's not like I could go tell the managers because that would just make matters worse. They aren't going to fire 6 girls who have been there 5 years vs. fire me who has been there 5 months. So anyhow I talk to one of the other dancers about it and she tells me that a year ago one of these bitches had a problem with some girl over something stupid and the next day she came back with a razor and slashed the girls face. The girl was fired for a while but she was hired back. So now I don't know if I can trust these girls that it's really over or if the next time we are at work together I'm going to get my face slashed. I'm not use to dealing with people like this. I don't have a lot of options here. There's only one other club that I could work at in the city and there's no money there. It's the type of club where $30 nights are common. The club I'm at now there's a lot of money. There are several other good clubs in the city but I'm probably still at least 10 pounds too big to get hired at them. I seriously don't know what to do. Please help! What would you do in this situation?



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if they aren't hiring why are they auditioning? It's such a piss off. That club needs to grow some balls and tell people on the spot "Yes, we want you." or "Please try to improve on ________ and come back in a month" or hell even "You don't fit what we are looking for." Is a hella lot better than the "Yeah you're great! Call us back tomorrow!" BS. Anyhow I got hired at Mickey's. It's kinda cool. It's out in the suburbs in Cumberland I think just north of Pawtucket. It's family run by a man and his wife with their 2 adult children. I met the father and the daughter and they both seemed like very friendly and warm people. The last thing you expect from strip club management! I was hired even though I think the audition was the worst I've ever done! Mickey's is unusual in that you dance on the bar. It's a huge square bar that takes up most of the room with the alcohol and the bartender in the middle. The dancing surface is about 3 feet wide give or take with a little ledge for the men to put their drinks. It's over 4 feet off the ground. Well my problem is I'm afraid of heights! I got up and tried to walk on the bar and OMG I thought I was gonna fall. I was so wobbly I must have looked like an idiot. I decided that some ground work would be much more effective so I did that. There was a group of about 6 guys sitting with the owner at a table and every single one of them got up to tip me, including the owner! That was pretty damn cool. This other guy came up and they said "Oooo you definately pass inspection, that guy never ever gets up for anyone!" They asked me to make a round around the bar and I did so, terrified. A couple of the girls were sitting the bar and they were very supportive. They said everyone is like that at first and that you get use to it. I asked if it was okay to crawl and they said that yeah a lot of the girls stick to crawling. So anyhow I chatted with the owner while I got dressed and then the daughter who acts as house mom/manager took me in the office for the paperwork etc. There's a few things at this bar that are different from what I've worked with before. You have to be on stage at a set time every hour for a 20 minute set. You work a 6 or 7 hour shift so that's 6 or 7 shows. You then have 40 mins in between to hustle lap dances. Lap dances are $20 but you only get $10 out of each dance! I've never done $10 dances before so I think that sucks. So even if the guy drops $100 I only get $50. Very bunk! I'm worried about being able to sell dances with that kind of split. Has anyone else ever worked with a similar set up? I've heard that stage tips are good at this bar so I'm expecting to make most of my money on stage and I'm guessing I'll make $70+ a night in stage tips. The lap dance factor is questionable for sure. Honestly I'm not expecting to average more than $150 a night, maybe only $100. But ya know that's enough for me for right now. At least I know that I'll be safe and well taken care of. The girls all seem very down to earth and very cool as well. There is definately no ghetto in this bar as far as I can tell. It's a blue collar bar and reminds me of the bars you see waaaaaay up north close to Alaska. Even though I'll be making less it's kind of worth it because I really won't be putting up with as much shit. The lap dances aren't high mileage like they were at my last bar and $100 a night for stage dancing really isn't that bad. This kinda reminds me of being on the circuit in Canada. So anyhow my regular took me out and bought me all new shoes that would be easier for me to dance in on the bar than the 6 inch platform stillettos I usually wear. I got 2 pairs of old school stripper pumps, 4 1/2 inchs with the strap around the ankle one pair white and one pair black as well as some black 5 inch chunky heel platform gogo boots. I already had a white pair. So with that I should be covered. So anyhow that's whats up over here! Thanks again for all the support and I'll post again after my first week to let y'all know how I'm doing.


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