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    My club has initiated a new rule:

    Every dancer must work one monday night every 5 weeks.
    This is because the club is dead on a monday and they cannot get girls to roster for mondays.

    I am really pissed off, one dancer left last monday with $20. This is for an 8 hour shift.

    Why do we have to help our club out when they cannot get patrons through the door?


    I wouldnt mind if every other night when i worked the club was busy but even on the other weeknights that I work such as wednesday its not busy.

    Dancers are leaving this club every week....I might have to join them.

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    I got that message too, and after the poker night thing Im wondering if theres any point going back?
    Its crazy to make everyone do a Monday. Much better to have only 3 or 4 dancers on a Monday and let them stand a chance of making some $ than put on too many and most make sod all. Thats how I like my Mondays if I must do one anyway.

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    Exactly can u believe it?

    There are about 4-5 girls who are willing to do mondays coz they have regulars who come in but its not fair for some of the girls. I cant really complain coz I dont have classes on tuesday but i feel sorry for some of the mums. Two girls in particular consider early week their family time and I think that really sucks when these girls work thursday, friday, saturday every week.

    I dont think I will be there much longer. I am going checking out places at the moment. I love the girls there but money has gone down significantly for everyone in the last month. Last saturday I made an all time low and saturday is usually a sure-thing for me. That along with poker on wednesdays and the monday bullshit.

    As I said if the club did more for us in the way of advertising and getting the patrons in I wouldnt complain about the mondays, I would think it was fair.

    However I also heard that they plan to increase house fees soon and also make housefee payable every night. Now they are truly going to loose girls coz that is one big advantage of the club over other king st clubs whose house fees are higher.

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    ugh. You have my sympathies. My club does something similar, only they make us work either a Sunday or Monday night every week. And you're right about it being better to have less girls on a regularly slow night! Sunday and Monday nights used to be my best nights of the week--even better than Fri and Sat! Now that they're forcing everyone to come in on those days, we're overfilled with girls and there's no hope of making the kind of money I was used to on Sun and Mon. The same thing happened when they tried to make dayshifts mandatory--there simply aren't enough customers during the day to make that work!

    On one hand, working a shitty shift once every 5 weeks isn't THAT bad (try having to work one every week! ugh!)...but I get the impression that that is just one of several things you're not liking about your club. Maybe time to move on? Then again, I'm the worst judge ever of when it's time to move on--I always find myself staying in shitty situations thinking "maybe it's just a phase".

    Maybe it IS just a phase though? Maybe give yourself a set amount of time to stick it out and see if things improve...and if they don't, then you'll know for sure and can split. On the other hand, if things really are going downhill badly, you might want to get out before the other nearby clubs are saturated with ex-Centrefolds girls knocking on their doors? Just some things to consider.

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    You also have to remember that we are going into Autumn and from my experience the money tends to drop in Melbourne when the weather starts to cool down (brrr!) until it starts to warm up again later in the year and all the sports start finishing/happening again (ie AFL Grand Final etc).

    Increasing house fees is a sure sign that the club is suffering. If they can't make money from the patrons (what patrons?) then they will try to make money off the girls.

    It would be okay if they increased the house fees because they had a good supply of patrons each and every night and thus making it a lucrative club for dancers yet by the sounds of things it isn't... they are just increasing because they are compensating.

    This is why I always always always try to re-inforce into everyone to not be loyal to any club as they won't be loyal to you (and can't wait to screw you over) ... have one foot always out the door with other options.


    Why don't they just close Sunday and Monday or even just Monday if they don't get the business? They wouldn't be the first club to cut back the hours of operation and/or days due to business starting to slow down.

    At the same time, don't be surprised that the other clubs are also a little on the slow side.

    Have they stopped training you to be a feature for the club? What were the 'perks' again for being a feature for that club ?

    I know Goldies allows you to be "free" from doing any more tables after you've done a feature show... that's the payment they offer.

    Rhino doesn't really "do" features from my experience.


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    ^ Hey, Vee, when was the last time you went to Melbourne?


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    Quote Originally Posted by GoldCoastGirl View Post
    Why don't they just close Sunday and Monday or even just Monday if they don't get the business? They wouldn't be the first club to cut back the hours of operation and/or days due to business starting to slow down.


    Have they stopped training you to be a feature for the club? What were the 'perks' again for being a feature for that club ?
    exactly why not just shut?
    i mean the club is concerned mainly about spending at the bar not what is spent on dancers so if the bar is not making money mondays why not just close? surely they would save money by not paying wages to the bar and other staff.

    as for the training, that is going ahead this monday (if it doesnt get cancelled for the 4th time by the trainer).

    I think you made some excellent points esp the one about always having one foot out the door and not being loyal to a particular club. i have felt some loyalty to this club but i am starting not to care anymore.

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    That sucks! My club tries to do that... They tell girls that they have to work this many days and this many "bad" days blah bah blah... I just go in when I want and ignore their dumb rules. I don't run around telling people that... I just do it. I don't know if they don't notice or what. But I just don't think clubs will really fire a girl (if she makes them money) for not following one of THOSE kinds of rules... Of course, I'm saying this now and someone is going to say, "Actually.... This club I worked at..." Hehe.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lilithmorrigan View Post
    ^ Hey, Vee, when was the last time you went to Melbourne?
    When I went down there for two nights for my dad's mother's funeral (my nan). I spent an extra night so I could catch up with friends and see what was happening down there... that was this year and not that long ago.

    Also my information is always relevant because i'm surrounded my melbourne girls where-ever I go to work club-wise so it is just as good as being there.

    Why do you ask? I'm planning to go back in Spring as I really detest cold weather so why would I expose myself to such by working there now that it is starting to go cold....


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    You know I always wanted to visit Melbourne. Of course I'd ask.

    But when's the last time you worked a club there? How was it?


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    Let me rant with you girls, gah!

    I have a 10am class on Tuesdays and it takes me a good hour to commute to the city by public transport, so it's going to screw up my timetabling heaps if I'm made to work an 8hr shift on Monday nights.

    That aside, I would be able to fit in Monday shifts if they were only required every five or so weeks so that's not much of a problem that I can't handle. The main issue is - as most girls have already mentioned - is that there are not enough patrons in the club! I have worked a couple of Mondays before (as a favour for my boss), and let me tell you it is DEAD. More often that not, the girls outnumber the patrons. Guys are brooding by the bar, not even at the tiprail, and all most of them want to do on a Monday night is to have a sulk and drink rather than a measly $20 dance.

    It seems like the club is at death's door and the bosses are doing nothing about it besides making it hard on us with their harsh timetabling, house rules, etc. You can't fix a problem without going to its source (which is to get more guys through the door) and unless that's addressed then the club is sure to go down the gurgler and take us girls down with it.



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    hollywoods has the same rule.

    one monday and one sunday every calander month.

    doesnt bother me, hell, i look at it as, if i help them out (working a shittier night every now and then) they help me out- letting me go home early when i just cant be fucked or whatever.

    yeah, theres been monday nights where i have left with nothing, some nights i didnt even make my door fee back, but you win some, you lose some. last monday i broke $1k- with NO regulars. luck. all luck.

    luck doesnt have a day of the week either. mondays can be just as good

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    Quote Originally Posted by lilithmorrigan View Post
    You know I always wanted to visit Melbourne. Of course I'd ask.

    But when's the last time you worked a club there? How was it?
    Awhile ago yet from the reports I have been receiving from my reliable sources (or well they have prooved to me over time they are reliable) nothing much has changed except things like rules and fees. The little things as such. Overall.. still the same pattern... as the weather cools so does the spending down there.

    As I said I really want to go back to work down there tho' not during this time of year when the weather is cool as I really detest cold weather. I would much rather go back to Darwin or even give Townville a try .. go north not south for the winter. I'm a warm weather girl.

    I'm waiting til August or September to go.


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    Quote Originally Posted by lilithmorrigan View Post
    You know I always wanted to visit Melbourne. Of course I'd ask.

    But when's the last time you worked a club there? How was it?
    Drop me a PM if you ever do come to Melbourne. I'd love to show you around.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maisumi View Post

    It seems like the club is at death's door and the bosses are doing nothing about it besides making it hard on us with their harsh timetabling, house rules, etc.
    yes yes and yes

    i can see no harm in closing on mondays!

    well this monday is my monday to roster so i will see how i go.
    all that the girls with kids were offered was an early finish so they can leave at 11pm so i cant see them making any money that early.

    IF the club would do other compromises like Mermaidnz said such as let us have early finishes i wouldnt mind so much. but doesnt happen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mermaidnz View Post
    hollywoods has the same rule.

    one monday and one sunday every calander month.
    just to thread jack for a moment....

    if you worked every monday regardless thus being a 'regular' Monday girl... does this give you 'special' previleges (sp?) such as not having to work Sundays because you work every Monday ?


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    UPDATE:

    There was not a single customer in the club until 10pm.

    Then there was one guy until about 11pm who didn't tip any girls or buy any dances.

    Some other guys came in a little later and I got a $10 tip on stage.

    My regular came in - YEAH. So I did ok.

    If he had not come in I prob would have left with $10. My friend left with $20

    I left at 145 as I was one of the first there and that was my last table.
    I think the club shut at about 230.

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