WARNING: this is pretty long, but i will try to condense it as much as possible. The main stuff is after the history part.
A lil history: I quit my last club, not too long ago, because they were only allowing air dances to happen, which I could not make money doing, since all of my regulars were used to my full contact lapdances. I figured that it was okay, because I like moving around to different clubs. Unfortunately, I made a ton of money (to me, at least) there when they did lapdances. I only work Thursdays and Fridays; Thurs, I could make around $500, and Fridays I would make between $600 and $900. However, the liquor board busted them, and I was getting burnt out from that place, anyhow. Even if they DO allow normal laps now, I can't go back b/c the mngr's upset with me for quitting, and even if he did allow me back, i wouldn't be able to work the specific schedule that i need, in order to fit-in with my fulltime school and internship.
I then tried another club and made $350 that night. I was lucky that a regular from an old club came in. However, that club makes you payout alot, considering that dances aren't guaranteed. It's great if you make a great deal of dances, but if you don't you're basically screwed. So, combining knowing that fact, knowing that payout is $120 plus 4 drinks on weekends, and feeling depressed in the environment, I informed that club that I was not going to return, but thank you for letting me work there.
Jump to present: I now work at a new club with a similar layout (crawling bar for ones and lapdances), but much smaller than the one in which i previously banked. However, we only get $20 for each lapdance, no matter how many we do, and I've made about $50, only, in ones for crawling the bar. However, I've only worked Thurs, so that may be why.
Tonight will be my 3rd night, so I figure if tonight doesn't go well, I will have to try somewhere else. Not only don't i make good money, but I feel as though the staff is trying to hustle me...and I'm the one who's supposed to be the hustler! Last Thurs, I only made $250 (with the help of one guy who tipped $60 for champ room), and this past Thurs I only made $150!!! I realized that my income was going to decrease, but this is depressing. Also, it's not like the other girls are doing well, either. Some of them said that they didn't even make $100 last night. I know they weren't saying that to make me feel better, as they were ranting in the dressing room, and not speaking directly to me. I guess it's okay for them to not make as much, because they work other days of the week, but I can't really fit that into my schedule, at this point![]()
Also, is it just me, do all clubs work like this, or am I overreacting?
1. One of the guys who claims that he owns the club (which I know he doesn't because I know the owner, and he's only the promotions guy), says that he needs me to promote when I come in tonight, and would it be okay for him to take me out of the club for 2 hours to Ruth Chris Steak House or somewhere else expensive. I don't like doing stuff like that anyhow, but I asked him how much I would get paid. He said that I wouldn't have to pay shift pay. Shift pay is $35!!!!!!!! For 2 hours???? Do I look that stupid??? Maybe that is a good deal, and I'm being silly????? He then said that I'd be helping with the club...right...Even if i didnt make any laps for those 2 hours, I'd still make $35 on the bar, and at least have the CHANCE to make laps. Plus I feel weird around that guy.
2. There's a guy that they hire to hustle champagne rooms on slow nights. We get 1/2 of the champ room (which I already think sucks, but I know it's common everywhere around here), and then we have to give him 10% of that 1/2. I had never done chmpgn rms before, and really didn't want to do them, but he told me I had one, and I figured that I shouldn't turn it down, because it would cost the club $$$. I took it, and he tried to claim that I had 2 champagne rooms, instead, and get more of a tip. He knew damn well I only had 1, because he has to report it to the mngr, who then gives back $$ to the girls at the end of the night.
3. I'm told to go to the champagne room FOR FREE. supposedly, the guys will pay for me and 2 other girls to dance on a table. They supposedly will tip 20s and whatnot. 1 girl's dancing on the table, and there's no room for me, unless I'm on top of her. I feel stupid just sitting there, while the guy who told me to go to the room is getting paid for selling a room, but I'm getting no $$$. I exscused myself because I told someone "I'd be back," and later looked in to see the girls dancing with each other. They WERE getting tipped, but from what I saw, at the end of the night, it was only a couple of 1s. Yes, I do not think I make much there, but I guess I'd rather not make as much than feel like I'm being played, basically, since they sold a champagne room but I didn't make anything off of it directly. Also, those girls that were dancing on each other had known each other for awhile. It's my second night, and I don't think that Id feel comfortable, nor do I think that they would appreciate, if i danced on them like that.
4. Also, I was told that I'm not allowed to take my purse around the bar when I collect my tips. Maybe I am wrong, and it looks tacky. It's small, and I have it only shoulder all of the time. I carry it around because I don't like walking up the stairs which are steep and narrow, each time that I finish a set. That gives me less time on my feet, making them hurt less, and more time on the floor. The mngr said not to do it, and I said that I was worried about leaving it while I crawl, because someone might see it. Him, and another dancer, told me that I COULD TRUST EVERYONE IN THERE. WTF?!?!?!? It's a strip club...I have $$$ in my purse...NO NO NO!!! I've heard so many girls say in various clubs "I love this club, I can leave my money out and nobody takes it." I come in a week later, and they're bitching about how someone stole their money...
5. Finally, the last thing that se tme off, that prolly wouldn't have, had the others not happened....the bouncer asks me why I passed up going to get a tip from a guy. I might be imagining things, but it sounded like he was almost accusatory. I should've told him it was none of his damn business, but instead, i told him the truth, that the guy wasn't tipping. Why does he have to know?
Anyways, yeah..



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the no purse thhing sounds like some controlling bullshit. You will have a bit of this anywhere, but combined with all the rest, I'm seeing a really bad pattern.

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