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    So I worked Friday and pulled off 2 champagne rooms and a lap dance (5 hour shift). The club charges a $15 floor fee which they take out of your first lap dance and keeps a $5 cut of every one after that. Champgne rooms are $75.half hour and they keep a $25 cut, so I walked with $100 even for pay-out.

    Now Saturday I'm called in to work because some custy's had been asking for me. I work a 3.5 hour shift and pull off 3 champagne rooms. Now according to how it's been for the last six months that I've worked there, I should have gotten paid $135 pay-out. On my way to the dressing room at the end of the night, the owner pulls me aside to tell me that she's now taking $35 out for each CR. She states that it had always been that way since the old owner was there (HELLO! I worked there when he was owner!!) All I could say was "You're going to take that out TONIGHT?" When she replied "yes", I walked away from her into the dressing room. I didn't know whether I wanted to scream or cry. I walked out with $105 instead of $135.

    I will not be back until I get my money. I mean, wouldn't it have been more professional to call a meeting beforehand and let everyone know instead of just broadsiding me at the end of the night? Am I over-reacting?

    Now I hear through the grape-vine that she doesn't want me back (she had not directly told me this) because she didn't like the way I talked back to her. What? Asking her if she was taking it out tonight? I was probably very snide in my comment, but I think she was completely wrong by raising the cut without notice. What would you have done?

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    Im curious why is your club charging $75/half hour? If they dont inlcude dances thats waaaay too low.
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    If it went down the way you say, I would have done exactly the same thing. The response would be logical..."WTF???"

    A meeting, a posting in the locker room, telling you BEFORE you made them some money, any of these thing would have been nice.

    Sorry to hear that Ivory, and I hope the wench doesn't fire you for having a normal reaction to hearing you wouldn't be making the same amount as usualy.




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    Find a club that has a set house fee and you keep all your dance money.
    Most clubs in Dallas are that way. $40 house and you keep all your dance money and CR money.

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    have you been away for awhile?

    I agree $75 for 30 mins is low. Can you charge the customer more? You shouldn't be walking with $105 or $135 if you're doing three champagne rooms.

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    I don't blame you for being mad. I hate it when the club changes the rules and doesn't bother to tell us. It's happened to me a few times, the most recent one: I had talked a guy into 15 min VIP at $150, when I got back there I was told it was now $160, my guy went to the ATM luckily. I told the floor guy that a notice would have been nice, that he woouldn't want to deal with me if I had lost the VIP!

    If you can find another club I wouldn't worry about going back. And as the others said $75 is just to low for CR.

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    Girl, what city are you in? Find another club. That's way too little money for CR.

    This is what I am talking about. The management rips you poor girls blind these days. I would be pissed, too.

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    That's ridiculous. The champagne room is $75, and the club takes $35? Wtf?

    Don't work there...you're just supporting a fucked up system if you do. There is better money, um, everywhere, I think.

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    I'm with all the others. Who the [email protected]$% cares if she doesn't want you back! You shouldn't want to go back!! Go to a new club.

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    So I obviously got my t-bar in a bunch prematurely. The owner called me shortly after my post to ask if I was quitting. I told her that I very well might if my money wasn't made right. She claims that there was a meeting to inform the girls (she didn't specify when), but irocnically none of the other dancers on Saturday were aware of the change either. She said she'd put it on the books that they owe me $30 because I wasn't aware of the change. Funny thing is that I worked the week before and there was no change. I worked last week and there was no change. When did this meeting occur that I was unaware of? I asked if the club cut was now $35 and she told me no, not until they can have a(nother) meeting to make sure the dancers are aware. I'm almost positive she just tried to dupe me.

    $75 champagne? I don't make the rules unfortunately. The club is located just outside a town of less than 2000...in the bible belt at that. The next nearest club is at least a 60 mile radius, so I really don't want to travel to another club. I honestly don't think the woman has a clue as to what really goes on in a strip club (the prices were set before she took over, however), but it works, I guess. I usually make enough working 2-3 nights a week that I don't have to get a full time job, so i don't complain. My $105 is just what the club pays me after their cut - we make just about as much (sometimes more) from stage tips.

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    That's ridiculous. Hope you can find something else - or maybe you girls can rebel. Are the other girls upset with this too?? I would be.

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    If I ever did three champagne rooms and walked out with that little money, I'd tell the club to go f*ck themselves and leave. Those fees are ridiculous. I'm surprised that they have any girls working for them at all.
    I used to travel 90 miles (180 miles up and back) to a club because the money was better and the rules were not centered around ripping off the girls. In the end, it was definitely worth it.

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    You are being had! They called you in because people were looking for you! That means go somewhere else and they will find you.

    I don't know what town you're in ,but 3 cr rooms and that is no kind of $.Best of luck.

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    On a friday night!! Ouch. Sorry, but you can do way better. Seriously, check out the club forum and see if you can find a better club. If your choosing this as a fulltime job, you should go for the gusto. Try to make as much as possible while your still so young. Sometimes traveling the distance is a much smarter choice as well as rewarding.

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    Plus they called you in because "people were looking for you?" Too Effin' Bad! Unless you wanted to go in, I would have told them that you work what you are scheduled to work -no surprise shifts- and that's that.
    Jeez, some of these club owners are so fricken ballsy.

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    Wow hun, I agree, leave. I used to work in a SC where laps were $5, VIP $10, but we had a set $20 pay out and kept our money...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaiyla
    Plus they called you in because "people were looking for you?" Too Effin' Bad! Unless you wanted to go in, I would have told them that you work what you are scheduled to work -no surprise shifts- and that's that.
    Jeez, some of these club owners are so fricken ballsy.
    I guess since I knew people were there to see me, and I knew they were good spenders I went in. If I hadn't had wanted to, I definitely wouldn't have.

    ....I never even thought for a split second that if they came to my club to see me that they would travel to another. I guess I could ask them, but my club is closer to my regulars (they're all fairly local) than the rest in Wisconsin.

    I never realized that our champagne's were so low. I curious now what the average price for a CR is? I'm expecially interested in hearing from those in Wisconsin.

    I probably won't be at this club for much more than a week anyway because from the rumors I've heard, the club, starting Nov. 1st, will be taking 20% of all dancers earnings (this includes off stage). I will not have this! They take enough already.

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    Pan Dah is right that a flat 20% is not a bad deal. That is, if you are not required to pay any other fees on dances, VIP rooms and housefees.

    But if they are doing both, definitely move on.

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    You could work somewhere else and make anywhere from 2-7x the amount you're making, in some parts of the country, even more! If I made a $100, I'd be so furious, I couldn't work in a club where I did 3 champagne rooms and walked out with $100. Doing 3 champagne rooms at a half hour each should be a minimum of $450, not including all the lapdances you did that night. Drive the extra 60 miles, it'll be worth it, and get out of that club!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ivory0211
    I never realized that our champagne's were so low. I curious now what the average price for a CR is? I'm expecially interested in hearing from those in Wisconsin.
    I'm in Wisconsin and I've only worked in a couple clubs that have VIP rooms or champagne rooms. Not many clubs here have them-most just have normal lap dances.

    One club I worked at had an even worse deal than your club. The VIP room was only $50 for a half hour and the dancer got $30! That included dances. Needless to say, I didn't work there very long.

    Another club I worked at had a VIP room for $75 for a half hour (of which the dancer received $50) NOT including dances. The dancer charged whatever she wanted for dances and kept all the money from dances. However, customers rarely bought this because they also had an option of buying a 5 minute VIP dance for $40 (of which the dancer got $30), and if he wanted more time after that, it was only $10 for each additional 5 minutes. The dancer kept the whole $10. Guys usually went with the second option.

    I know Silk in Milwaukee has a champagne room and I'm pretty sure it's at least $300/hour. Not sure what the dancers' cut of that is though-I've never worked there.






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