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    so i worked for 7.5 hours today and made a whopping $35. last shift i made $40. what the fuck is going on?!? id be making more working at fucking mcdonalds, and to top it off someone decided today that day girls are off the schedule at 9pm instead of 10... so the one hour i could potentially make some money im no longer allowed to work. this is such bullshit. for the last month ive been okay with working days... even though theyre really hard on my body... because i was at least making okay money... but right now im just really not seeing the point. the manager has only given me one night shift a week and doesnt seem inclined to give me any more. im a good dancer, i can do pole work, i hustle like the best of them and (without trying to be a concieted bitch) im way hotter than a lot of the other girls that work there. wednesday night im going to go check out/audition at other clubs because this is ridiculous. ARRRGHHH!!!

    okay rant over... but i seriously wanted to cry out of frustration when i left today.

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    Default Re: $5.25/hr rant

    wow

    is there a reason you can't work night shift?

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    manager doesnt seem to want to give me any besides the one (tuesday night) i work. there are a lot of girls at our club and no one wants to work days so since im newish im getting relegated to them. thats the best i can figure

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    I totally hear your frustration! I'd be checking out some other clubs. Could you start working a just a few shifts at a new place, make sure it's going to be better money, and then quit your current job if the new one pans out?
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    ^^^^^^^Ditto! Get another gig and get the hell out of there!

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    some clubs do make girls work a period of day shifts before they can do nights. The flagship club in my city often does that, and girls do it because the night shifts are worth the wait.

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    Is your one night shift as bad as your day shifts? Thats' pretty bad... I'd find a new club, pronto. If anything, work both the clubs. Maybe it's just really really (really really really) slow over there right now?
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    Will you do everyone else in PDX a favor and review your club? Hope you find a better spot soon.

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    I say you shouldn't give up on the club yet.....IF the night shifts are good and you can get on them. My only complaint would be that they force you to leave for night shift. I can understand needing day girls and forcing new girls to work days, but to say the day girls can't work nights is something else.

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    yeah that really is annoying. some factors u may want to keep in mind are:

    do most people make money off of regulars?
    does managment play the favorites game?
    are nights worth it to stay during the day?
    do you do lapdances and give a cut to the club? drinks? perhaps they want u to "prove yourself?"

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    Maybe it's a Portland thing; I've also been doing REALLY bad lately. I've had a bunch of $35-$40 shifts and barely any good or even okay shifts the last few weeks. For me I think it's a combination of really slow business at my club, me being really burned out and having a bad attitude, and I've lost a lot of regulars to my co-workers (many of whom are getting naked on the first song even if they only have ONE customer at the rack tipping ONE dollar, and most do deals like three dances for $40). I'm not willing to lower my standards, even though it's costing me money. Maybe I'll have to give in and do it eventually, but I'm not ready yet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Emily
    some clubs do make girls work a period of day shifts before they can do nights. The flagship club in my city often does that, and girls do it because the night shifts are worth the wait.

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    my one night shift is generally ok... not great but okay for pdx (150-300$ range). its a tuesday though so i think that has a lot of do with it.

    regulars arent a huge thing at my club (union jacks for you pdx-ers). the regulars that do come in generally dont spend any money. they just get drunk at the bar. i tend to make the majority of my money off of business men who are in town for a couple of nights.

    management does show some favoritism but he does really like me. always commenting on how well i hustle... calls me the daytime queen

    the only money dancers give to the club is our stage fee. they dont get any portion of our private dance fee and there is no vip room.

    i think what im going to do is audition at some other places and see how well i do there and then just keep my one night shift at jacks and work wherever else the money is. i really like this club though. its so comfortable and its close to my house... but if the moneys not good i guess ill go elsewhere. ive only been there for about 5 weeks so im not going to review it yet... hopefully itll get better.

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    The culture of stripping in PDX is challenging. It's more of a "we're drunk, let's go hang out at the strip club" thing, where people just stumble in, than a "Gentlemen's Club" experience. I would recommend you try other clubs. Try Magic, Mary's or St. Nicolai's. Those clubs usually have 2-3 girls working the shift.

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    Also, Cabaret. They'll let you work whatever nights you want, I guarantee you.

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    i definitely agree with pdx being a city where people go to strip clubs to hang out. union jacks seems to get an extraordinary large amount of these folks.
    the clubs im going to look into are nicholai, lush, dolphin, acropolis, and sassys. i dont think i can hack the dolphin or acrop but im going to try anyway.
    thanks for all your support ladies.

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    ^
    Anna, I sometimes get my top off on the first song, but only if they're tipping more than a buck . . . or if it's too freakin' hot to keep it on and keep moving. (I'll only get naked early if they tip well and asks me directly.) I hope I'm not getting in your way?

    I've been taking my shoes off too. Danced a whole shift in Converse sneakers today, too tired to bother with heels if I didn't have to, and it actually got some good reactions -- ppl thought it was a stunt, and my audience seems to like attitude. Lately it seems like days have been way better than anything else that I've worked, but it's also totally a roulette. "Three customers will walk into the club in the next two hours. Spin the wheel . . . WILL they be the ones with money?" But to me that beats the hell out of a broke evening crowd that watches, so I also wind up being in a better mood, which shows up in my hustle.

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    generally if theres money on the rack my top comes off during the first song... if theres more than 10$ on the rack my underwear might come off during the second song if i feel like it. kind of depends.

    dancing barefoot or in flats is pretty normal at my club. i switch it up depending on the outfit. i noticed that doing this makes me feel less stable in my dancing heels though.

    i worked tonight and did better so im feeling more okay right now. it was really really slow though and people kept asking me for dances and then leaving before they got one which sucks. stupid drunken men... why do they always ask for a dance right as im going on stage? spoke to my manager and he put me on call for a couple more nights a week which is an improvement... we'll see how it works out though

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    If they ask you for a dance right before you go onstage, make sure you keep their attention!

    guy: Hey, I want you to dance for me.
    me: Okay, honey! Well, my name's [me]. What's your name?
    guy: Bob
    me: (shake's bob's hand, giggles) Good to meet you! Now, I need to go onstage and dance for everyone. You should sit down here at the rack with me and keep me company, and then after this set I'm going to freshen up and give you the best dance you've ever had.

    Or maybe
    (guy starts talking to me one song before my stage set. He's obviously interested)
    Me: Oh! I've got to go on up next! Now Bob, you should come keep me company here at the rack for this set, and then we can have some more fun afterward.

    I've had that problem in the past... feeling weird about talking to guys right before my stage set or feeling the sale slip away if I don't pay attention to them for four minutes. So it's important to secure a promise of more attention/company before you go on... if they're kind of wavering, then wow them with your stage show and do assumptive selling at the end... "Whew! Thanks for the tip! You look ready for our couch dance now!" Or something...

    I'm also a PDX dancer and I've worked at both stage-oriented clubs and couch oriented clubs... keeping their attention through stage sets is typically very important since you can't really be "bought out" for the night and will have to go on anywhere from every 3 to 14 songs...

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    Default Re: $5.25/hr rant

    Yeah lately at our club I've been noticing $35-$40 nights. I'm one of the top three girls to boot. =( I can feel your frustration. I'm here in Ohio working and every night I come home with diddly squat I feel terrible. But then comes the weekend, where the weekend more than makes up for it. Keep your head up.
    I'd say stick it out a little bit, see if you can get transfered to night time (if it is a new girl trial period) or try your luck at a different club. Good luck. I feel your pain!

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