In my club there is a big nightly ordeal about who goes onstage last.
We close at 4 AM, but if the dancer doesn't have to go onstage after 3:30, she can leave then. They start bugging me to see who's last about 2:30.
If they are last, they really get mad sometimes. I have tried explaining patiently a zillion times that there is no way I could plan it out at the beginning of thenight when I make the rotation list, to make sure they are last. If it happens a few times within a short period, some will really get mad, and accuse me of making them go last every time.
There's roughly 160 songs a night, so theoretically I could just divide the number of dancers by that and know who's last. But then they will let a certain number of dancers leave at 2:30 if they pay extra, and also you never have any idea who is going to Champagne Room (and getting skipped), how long they will stay, etc.
Songs are supposed to be 3 minutes, but if there's a problem of some sort they can go over, and if the Private Dance room is full, we cut them shorter--depending on how full it is they could be really short. Plus we never know when we are going to go to two dancers onstage, which means a new dancer every song, as opposed to every two songs. Then there are different numbers of dancers every night.
There are so many variables, it is scientifically impossible to know who will be last until about an hour before the end.
So last night this one dancer comes to the booth, after seeing she and her ride/roommate dancers (they insist on being put together) are close to last onstage. She's going on and on about how since they almost always go first, they always have to go up last. They are the first ones there, and the first ones ready, so naturally I tend to put them first.
I'm trying to explain to this woman that it is scientifically impossible to have it always turn out that way, and she is adamantly insisting that it always does.
"I know it's true! We work more than you do! I know! We get fucked every time!""
"How many years have you been dancing?"
"I've worked in Miami and Atlanta!"
How many years have you been dancing?"
"Five years."
"I've been doing this eight years, and I'm telling you there's no way I can plan it ahead like that."
"NO! It happens EVERY time!"
Finally I just said I didn't want to argue about it, that I liked her so we should just drop it. Then I got another dancer to agree to go up last, an extremely attractive and spirited girl who loves to dance anyway, and looks really good onstage.
So I went tothe dressing room and told her she didn't have to go up.
"It doesn't matter! Binky's my ride and she still has to go up!" (name changed to protect the innocent).
I give up, lol...



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