I know all clubs have floormen/bouncers that except their cut and I understand that and am fine with that. Especially if they're doing their job of kicking out customers & keeping the customers in line and then also if they're helping me make money. At my club there's "a list" of girls that the floormen always call or help out with VIP's because those girls on "the list" tip them really well. I am one of the girls that's always tipped really well because in return I've gotten to do more of what I want (be late for stage, leave stage early, get my pick of the room, etc.) I've been working at this club for about 8 months and have been working with the floormen for about 6 months. Well lately the floormen have been getting waaaaay too greedy!!! Last night this one floorman who is someone I've worked with the most, pointed me to a table of guys which turned into 2 hour VIP. I tipped him very well (standard at our club 15-20% minimum to stay on the list) and after I did that he told me and this other girl to go to this other table. Well, the table he told us to go to didn't turn into anything but we ended up finding something on our own. Well, at the end of the night he asked me if I tipped (we'll call him John). I said "no, this ended up being a table we found on our own" and he got kind of an attitude about it. (At our club the floormen put all their money together between all 7 of them and divide it up so they'll work together on finding stuff, plus they get a salary from the club, I think like $14/hr but not 100% sure how much they get)
And last week, this other floorman introduced me to a customer in which it turned out to be a 1 hour VIP. WHile the customer was ordering funny money for me, he was only going to order the minimum and I ended up hustling a tip for this floorman, which was $100 (the customer's choice for the amount) and the funny money girl gave it directly to the floorman. At the end of that night I went up to the floorman, thanked him for the lead and asked him if he got the tip from the funnymoney girl. He said he did and that this particular customer always tips him between $100-$200 each time he comes in. So as we were checking out with the housemom and everything, the floorman from last night came up to me and was saying "aren't you going to tip him", I told him I hustled a $100 tip for him and he said "the customer always tips him" and I then said "well, the customer was going to order the minimum amount and so I said something", then he said something else, I can't remember, but it didn't make any sense, so I wasn't going to argue with him, I at that time really tried to put myself in their shoes, see where they were coming from so I tipped him more.
So, last Saturday when I worked and then last night which was the next time I worked, 2 nights in a row he's coming up to me and expecting more!!! It's really starting to piss me off!!! I'm one of about 10 girls in the club that tip them (there's about 100 girls each night) and they're going to piss me off to where I'm not going to want to deal with this. I don't like to have drama at work and I don't want to be on anyone's bad side but at the same time I'm not going to allow someone to take advantage of me and manipulate me. At my club in order to get what you want/need you have to grease a lot of hands, I understand that, but they're starting to get really carried away with it. It wasn't like this a few months ago.
Please give me some advice on how to handle this in a way that I'd pretty much let them know that they're not going to take advantage of me without pissing anyone off. I could understand if I was one of the girl's that doesn't tip very much or at all, but I'm not, I'm a good tipper! And it really makes me wonder why they're doing this to me, why not say something to the girls that don't tip or barely tip? How do I handle this in a way that keeps the peace but also letting them know that I'm not going to let them take advantage of me? I do always try to get VIP's on my own obviously but sometimes I really need their help and many nights they've really saved my night so I don't want to get on anyone's bad side. Thanks everyone!!!!



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. Leo, is there one of them that you can talk to easier than others? Or maybe the next time he sticks his hand out, politely but firmly say something to the effect of he's been tipped and taken care of, I dunno. The floor people at my club are getting this way also, and so far the best way I have delt with it is to stick to what I normally tip out, don't bend, but stay polite and nice. 


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