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    Sorry, I just need to get this off my chest, and see if anyone else thinks this scenario is as utterly ridiculous as I do. My club has instituted a new policy that if you don't sell at least 3 drinks a night, you have to pay an additional $15 house. Anyhoo, I generally have no problem doing this on the weekend (I usually only work Friday and Saturday nights), but stupid me decided to work tonight, against my better judgement. Well, it TOTALLY sucked (the club was filled with nothing but thuggy little drugs dealers, and very few of them at that!) After paying house, the DJ and the bouncer, the bouncer comes back and tells me I owe another $15 for not selling my drinks. OK, last time I checked, it wasn't MY job to make the bar money, but to make myself money. After all, I don't get a paycheck to work there, I freakin PAY to work there! After tipout, I was leaving with $30. $30!!!!! And they wanted another $15. I pretty much told the bouncer to go f himself, that I was not leaving with $15 after walking around all night half-naked dealing with a bunch of scumbags. Then the manager (who is a major cokehead himself) starts yelling at me, saying I'm the only one who has a problem with it, blah, blah, blah, and I best bring in $15 prior to working my next shift. I said you're damn right I have a problem with it! If you can get a bunch of drugged up 18 year olds to pay you an extra $15 for not selling drinks, more power to you, but you're not getting it from me! To me, it's the principle of the the thing. I come in, I do my job, I (usually) make gobs of money, I don't drink, I don't use/deal drugs, I keep to myself and cause no drama whatsoever. So then I pretty much told HIM to go f himself, too, got my stuff out of my locker and left. I am so sick of managers tring to take advantage of the girls because they think we're a bunch of morons.
    So I guess I'll be finding somewhere new to work tomorrow night, hopefully with a more upscale clientel, because the thugs tend not to like me too much. Anyway, sorry for the loooong rant, but everyone else is asleep....
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    I love a good rant.

    Fuck them, you're better off somewhere else.

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    Thats sucks, I think it's totally ridculous too and probably would have done the same as you. Good luck!

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    That's BS! You're right, it's not your job to make the bar money! It's a good thing for everyone to work together as a team, you know "I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine" but for them to expect you to do it and if you just can't that night to force you to pay them a fee! That's absurd!!! There are some things that are not in your control. If it's a slow night, the people aren't buying dances, aren't tipping on stage, AREN'T BUYING DRINKS, it's not your responsibility to compensate them. There's no way in hell I would've paid either, because if you had, you would've walked out with $15! Tell them you make more babysitting and you get to keep your clothes on and sit around and read stories to little kids! I hope you find a better club that treats their dancers better and find one where the head manager isn't a stupid coke head. He probably came up with that rule and uses the money to buy his coke, I doubt it's to help the bar out!

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    Quote Originally Posted by leogirl876
    I hope you find a better club that treats their dancers better and find one where the head manager isn't a stupid coke head. He probably came up with that rule and uses the money to buy his coke, I doubt it's to help the bar out!
    My first manager supported a major meth habit through massive and arbitrary fines--he would especially target certain dancers who would knuckle under. It did eventually kill him, so maybe there is a God.

    I have heard of this bullshit before, though, when corporate greed and indifference was at fault, not predatory behavior on the part of a junkie.

    Good luck finding a better club, maybe this will pay off in the long run...
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    Thanks for the validation, ladies. I didn't know if I was just being a drama queen...I've been thinking about moving clubs anyway because the clientel has just been going so downhill lately...
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    you go girl, good move. staying at a club that doesn't appreciate what you do for them is pointless.

    Love it!

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    Hehe, I would've done the exact same thing, except I would've LITERALLY told them to go fuck themselves as I marched my ass right out the door. No fucken way would I have paid them another $15 in that situation. Fuckers.

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    Good for you for walking out! I have no doubt you'll find a much better place.
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    Drink sales should be left with the cocktail waitresses...if they want to fine someone, then they should fine the bartenders and cocktail waitresses for not selling more liqour.

    But, of course, that makes too much sense.

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    ^ YEA!

    Good for you! Besides that that is an utterly ridiculous fine, I can't believe they HONESTLY expected you to pay them when you had only made that much!!!!!!
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    mabye the manager wanted to use that $15 bucks to get a quick line from one of the drug dealers in the club...

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    If they want me to sell drinks then they can start paying me as well. Fuckers...what a lame idea.
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    LOL! I am so glad I'm not the only one thinking this way...so many of the girls there are just like,"Umm...OK, I'll pay it." Me, I have a big mouth, which tends to get me in trouble....
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    Bah. It's threads like this (and many others) that make me love my Phx club even more. No drink hustle, cheap house fee, no bullshit demands from mgmt, no schedule, consistent money, easy hustle, etc etc etc.

    Sometimes it takes me trying to leave to really appreciate the place. It's no wonder I always come back - and lots of other girls have done the same thing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KamrynAnne
    mabye the manager wanted to use that $15 bucks to get a quick line from one of the drug dealers in the club...
    Haha that's what I was thinking! I also agree with Djoser, that some managers will purposely grill girls for fines that are known for buckling under pressure. I've had that happen to me before, because the managers knew I was "too nice" and not assertive enough. For example, one club didn't give me fines, but constantly scheduled me dayshift all the time, even though I didn't make much money and it would mean having to stay til 2am to make the money I needed and then get like 5hrs of sleep before having to return to work again the next day(I didn't have a car then, so I relied on bullshit mass transit and would get home very, very late). Another well-known club, this time in AC, gave bullshit fine like $25 "bathroom fine" to everyone because of a clogged toilet. They also gave me a late fine one day for $35, and the next day raised it to $50, essentially meaning that I'd made "negative money" on that horribly slow day when you subtract the $50 fine and outrageously large commute costs. They refused to lower it back down to $35 even though I accused them of "usary." A week later, I got sick of that bullshit and the long commute bullshit, so I simply stopped showing up...I made sure I quit right after I was late to work one day(they'd usually make you pay your late fines the next work day), and on a Sunday, so that I wouldn't have to work my scheduled Sunday shift(I HATE working Sundays, it's my one freakin day to go to church and relax). I shoulda reacted similarly to how you did.

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    Dammit, that angers me just reading it. Hope you do well somewhere much better!

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhillyDancer1982
    I made sure I quit right after I was late to work one day(they'd usually make you pay your late fines the next work day), and on a Sunday, so that I wouldn't have to work my scheduled Sunday shift(I HATE working Sundays, it's my one freakin day to go to church and relax). I shoulda reacted similarly to how you did.
    Here's one time where I completely agree with you. If anything, the place should find a way to provide an incentive to be on time, work longer or be there during the crappy shifts.

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    good luck with finding a new club. it sounds like you have the class and skill to easily find somewhere. no dancer should have to put up the ridiculous standards that some clubs impose. some management must think we're all dumb, pathetic, drug users who can't do anything else but strip so they can treat us how they like.....Grrrr!

    that's why i love my club. they know i left a management position to come back dancing to achieve my goals quicker.
    when i've achieved those goals and am happy to go back to a 40hour week & salary, i have a position lined up with them to slide back into management. they know i'm hardworking because between my shifts as a dancer, each week i help out as the receptionist at the club.

    it makes such a difference when the management RESPECT the dancers. i don't want to work anywhere else.

    good luck mia_bella, i reallly hope you find a club that respects you for who you are!
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    You ladies have no idea how refreshing it is to me to converse with intelligent entertainers. I know it sounds mean, but all the coked-up girls at my club were like,"Just pay it!" It's the princile of the matter, dammit! Anyway, thank you all. They all thought I was nuts for telling the manager he could kiss my butt.
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    Yeah I've noticed that generally the girls on Stripperweb tend to be the "smart strippers." I.e., the girls who save/invest their dancing money, are going to school alongside stipping, enlightened about politics and current events, etc. It is a nice break from some of the drama queens and/or coke heads that I've encountered at the past in clubs!

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhillyDancer1982
    Yeah I've noticed that generally the girls on Stripperweb tend to be the "smart strippers." I.e., the girls who save/invest their dancing money, are going to school alongside stipping, enlightened about politics and current events, etc. It is a nice break from some of the drama queens and/or coke heads that I've encountered at the past in clubs!
    Yeah, like a lot of them in that club in Daytona, lol...

    The intelligence quotient is a lot higher in my new club, and very high on SW, which is why I love it.
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