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    Yeah...this job thing didn't last long. I fucking HATE it.

    They are assholes. They always make you work overtime, just cause they can. They held all the waitresses over an hour after their shift just for the hell of it. We had 3 tables and 4 waitresses. We had to look busy tho. They were making us reclean clean tables. Fucking rediculous!!!

    Plus....they do not allow breaks. 8 hour shift, no break allowed. If you try to take a break, they kick you out of the breakroom and tell you go back to work. It's illegal, but they do it anyway. But it's not an 8 hour shift, it's 9, cause they always hold you over.

    If the money was good, I would be deal with the bullshit, but the money is not equal to the bs...the money suicks ass. I average 150-200 dollars a shift, for 9 hours of backbreaking work, with no breaks.

    I'm done. I wanted to hold off till oct. 30th....give myself a nice long rest from dancing, get my mind right again...but I can't handle this. I'm telling them I quit tomorrow....

    SO yeah, next weekend, I'm a stripper again. Hopefully, I got my hustle back.
    No matter what..I KNOW I'll make more money dancing than this shit...plus it's easier work, and fredom of schedule. No mandatory overtime. When I wanna leave, I'm fucking out!!

    So...I'm excited...scared, nervous..... Not sure how well I;'m gonna do .....


    Advice? Encouragment?
    I need reminded that I am a good stripper. I KNOW this job. I shouldn't have any trouble with it at all......but I do.....I hope I can do well.

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    well, good luck to you again.!!!! you'll do great!

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    Well THAT didn't last long. LOL.

    And yes. You ARE a good stripper. You just had some kinks you had to iron out. You'll do great.

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    I'm sure you'll be fine. I used to waitress all the time, then I started dancing, I still waitress one day a week but even thats hard for me. It's not that the managments bad like in your case, it's just that I can't stand having to grin and bear it when people are demanding and rude and talk down to you...then barley leave you a 10% tip. At least as a dancer I can tell them what I think if I want, and tell them they're being cheap when they don't tip.
    Don't be nervous, I'm sure you'll get your groove right back, maybe the little break was just what you needed.


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    This is my 3rd weekend. I like the job. I really like knowing I'll make money...and I'm damn good at upselling. But this place sucks. I could apply for other jobs, but then I'll have to stay here until I find something. I could strip until I find something else...but I miss stripper money....and stripper freedom.

    I dunno....I guess if I strip again and still hate it and suck at it, I'll find another job. It's not like it's hard to get a cocktial job in Vegas. And now I have experience cocktailing in a strip club.
    I'm so indecisive. All I know right now is this job sucks and is not for me. I'll work my ass off for good returns, but they don't even appriciate the overtime they require. They don't appriciate me busting my ass, doing a perfect job. I can upsell better than any of the other waitresses. Simple things, like when they order vodka cran, ask what kind of vodka they want. If you order vodka cran, you get house...but if I ask what kind you want, usually, you'll say graygoose...that's an upsell. Or if they have full beers, I ask if they want a shot. If they say no, I ask them to buy me a shot.( which is plain water, but you know hw that goes) If I see a table all order vodka drinks, I sell them a bottle. I'm good at this job...but the returns do not outweigh the work.

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    ^^^

    Maybe you can dance and try to find a job waitressing somewhere else? I def. had a lot of fun when I was cocktailing, so I can see how you might enjoy it.


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    Welcome back!

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    Now that you see that the grass is NOT greener, I think you now realize how good we have it. You'll be back in the game with a renewed vengeance.
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    Huh. Well, do you think you'll actually be able to go back to work or will you still be anxious and driving past the building? And $150-$200 a day isn't shitty money for a service industry job.

    I honestly hope your return goes well, but it sounded like you were having a lot of difficulties. Please take care of yourself.

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    Reading your post brought back baaaaaddd memories for me. I was in the service industry for 10 years. Finally I had it!! I'd been kicking around the idead of dancing for a while and then this last July, quit my job at a sports bar and started. The money has not been spectacular, summer was horrible and this month was the worst. But I try to keep my head up about it beacause I remind myself that no matter how bad some nights stripping might be, it will never compare to waiting tables. All the stuff you said goes on in every restaurant, I know beacuse in 10 years of doing it I worked at alot of different places. Fuck 'em all as far as I'm concerned.
    Well, WELCOME BACK! Good luck to you......

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    Default Re: Gonna be a stripper again

    you will do so good, i agree with the "grass is greener" comment.

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    Lol- sorry I haven't even read your full post. I'm just responding to the title.

    Now we know the answer: BURNOUT CURE is get another job and bust your ass for half the pay, get treated like shit and told what to do. Then you remember dancing wasn't so bad after all...

    I was just waiting for you to come back. I knew it was coming sooner or later, especially because you have a huge workload because you're going to school.

    Welcome back, hon.

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    Although, the one thing you'll miss about waitressing is burning all those calories by walking around and not drinking alcohol. Maybe you should look into being a VIP waitress... or working at a place with better earning potential. I dunno- you're good at both. Be glad that you have the option to do either. (I suck at waitressing. I have tried it twice for months and I never got the hang of it.)
    Don't you have a nursing degree too? Yeah, you'll be fine.

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    I'm going to get back to dancing too I think. I'd like to find a bit nicer place though. I need to get back into shape as well. I let myself go (a little) and want to go back in better shape than I left in anyways. Best of luck, I hope I can be just as successful.

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    Good luck, sweetie! I hope you have a better experience this time around.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Susan Wayward View Post
    Huh. Well, do you think you'll actually be able to go back to work or will you still be anxious and driving past the building? And $150-$200 a day isn't shitty money for a service industry job.

    I honestly hope your return goes well, but it sounded like you were having a lot of difficulties. Please take care of yourself.

    Honestly...I don't know if the anxiety is gone or not, and there is only 1 way to find out. I'm hoping to transfer my drink hustle into dance hustle. Ya know...when you sell drinks, you ask everybody, if they tell you they don't wanna drink, fuck em. Go ask someone else. I'm hoping I can use that mentality.

    150-200 a day isn't bad...but I only work 2 days a week cause of school, and so I'm only making 400 a week and that isn't enough. Our bills are falling behind.

    The thing is...I don't feel like I want to be done dancing forever. I really have a strong desire to do it, and always have. Even at the bottom of the burn out phase, I still wanetd to be able to dance, I just had this severe mental block preventing me from doing it. I had wanted to stop dancing long enough to figure out what that block was so I could cure it before I tried to dance again, and I haven't yet figured out what the problem was....so I'm not sure yet if it's gonne come back or not. I would try just dancing one night and see how it goes, but this job....I can't do it. it sucks ass....then again, I'll be real screwed if I quit it and disover I still can't strip.
    I don't know....
    I wish I could figure out where I went wrong dancing. What caused such anxiety, and why.

    It started when I was working at the rhino regularly. I had an incredible weekend, and made several thousand dollars. Stupidly, since I had such a good weekend, I didn't work the weekend after. Then I just stopped going for like, 3 weeks. That's when the block set it. I stopped talking to guys at work, I stopped making money cause I wasn't talking to anyone....then I started thinking I wasn't gonna make money at work, so I didn't even try...then I started fearing and hating going to work because I thought I was just gonna pay house and leave in the hole. Why did I stop talking to guys? Why did I start hating it? I couldn''t put on my fake stripper, pretend to be interested crap. Oh...and I also got pregnant right around that time, and really felt uncomfortable being a dancer, I didn't want to dance or show my breasts. It didn't feel right to me, and so I didn't dance at all when I was pregnant. That set me back even further. Then I got depressed after I had the miscarriage, and also....I figured I wasn't ever gonna dance again. I thought my time was done. I accepted it and was happy and was gonna move on to other thigns in life.....but that changed, and I had to go back.

    SO that's how my burn out happened....I just thought I could pin point an exact issue, solve it and be ok again.

    I don't know guys....
    All I know is I want to be a stripper. I just gotta get beyond this silly fear and remember that I was good at it. Maybe a dive club for a few weeks would do me good. A place whereI would easily be a top seller. Maybe that woud boost my confidance enough. When I first moved to Vegas, I still had that mentality, and that equates with no fear.


    we'll see.....hopefully tonight is better than last night.

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    Reminds me of a joke I once heard:

    What's the difference between a strip club waitress and a stripper?

    Three weeks.

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    ^ when i waitressed at hustler they always called me a stripper in training.

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    I think you should go back and read all of your awesome hustling tips. We know you've still got it in yah! Good luck!

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    I agree. the best burnout cure is definatly a shitty job with shitty money!

    come back with a vengence! and kick ass!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaylinn View Post
    I'm hoping to transfer my drink hustle into dance hustle. Ya know...when you sell drinks, you ask everybody, if they tell you they don't wanna drink, fuck em. Go ask someone else. I'm hoping I can use that mentality.
    Hah, this is exactly what I always tell new girls who don't want to be rejected. "Pretend you're a waitress. You don't take it personally when someone doesn't want a drink, do you?"

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    ^Exactly. It gets frustrating of course, but I don't take it personally at all. That's what my stripping break taught me. You'll be just fine, Kaylinn...you have added skills now.



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    well, last night at work was a little better, so I'm gonna see how next weekend goes.

    Last night I ordered food and when it came, I took my fucking break. I hid in the dressing room and ate instead of going to the nreak room...but I managed a 15 minute break in peace.

    They did hold girls over again, They held the 6am girls over till 7am...and at 7:15 I found the manager and asked him if working over was going to be expected every night.( I was due off at 7am) He said no...this was an off night. I said well, I have worked overtime every single shift, when can I expect that to change? He said it would change soon, the problem was that customers stay longer now.( They have no waitresses after8am)
    I said well, tonight and last night it has been really slow, right now we have 6 waitresses and only 4 tables, but you still held girls over an hour. I just want to know what to expect, and if this overtime is going to be a consistant thing....
    Anyway, he let me leave abotu 4 minutes after I said that.

    And I made a lot more money last night. He told me he was watchign our sales, and he told me to really try to push up my sales, so I did. Although I am learning that the boss is a dude on a power trip.

    He told me when he hired me that if a custome wants to buy me a shot, and it is an expensive shot that will make the club money, I should do the shot, but let him know first. So I sell shots all night long. If a table has full beers, I ask if they want a shot. If they say no, I say, ohh, come on, I'll do one with you! That usually gets them to buy. Usually, I will do a fake shot tho. Last night, I decided to do 1 real shot. I told the manager I was doing a shot of Patron. He said, well, ok......but tell me next time. I said, uhh...that's what I'm doing right now, isn't it?
    I sold over $200 just in Patron shots to one table that wasn't buying much of anythign else. That' what they wanted me to do, so why did he give me a hard time? This is the manager that offers me shots every night and I alwyas refuuse cause I don't drink at work....but I decided 1 shot last night would be fun.
    I also sold 2 bottles of Graygoose.



    Side note for Vegas girls in general:

    Cab wars are going on again. Going rate is about $50 a head right now.
    Sin used to be free cover for everyone, but they raised their cab price to $50 a head, and imposed a $30 cover. This hurt business last night.
    Spearmint Rhino is also paying $50 a head right now.
    This happens every single year....
    Here's how it happens:
    Cab wars begin, clubs start competing, raising what they pay out higher and higher. I've seen it get as high as $120 a head. Then it gets soo high, all the major clubs get together and say this has to stop. NO clubs will pay cabbies anymore. So all the clubs stop paying out. Business drops drasticially. A club will start paying small($20 a head) behind the backs of the other clubs. Other clubs catch wind that club A started paying out again. Cab wars begin again.
    Happens every year.

    The clubs paying the most to cabbies des help bring business in...the problem with it is higher cover charges. Th more clubs are paying, the higher the cover fee is. This can discourage customers from comming in, and of course, the customer is feelign a little hurt in the wallet after payign such a high cover and may be discoyraged into spending more at the club. Cover fees have gotten as high as $60 before.


    Just a heads up.

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    Wait, so the club pays the cab driver $20-120 per person they bring into the club? Am I getting that right?

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    yes.

    To encourage cab drivers to bring customers into their club.

    Lots of tourists at strip casinos will jop in a cab and say, " we wanna go to a strip club, what's the best one?"

    The cabbie will take them to the club paying the highest kickback.

    On the flip side, if a cuystomer gets in a cab and says, " Take me to Spearmint Rhino"
    but SR isn't payign so well, Sapphire is, The cabbie will say shit like, " Oh, you don't want to go to SR, they suck, it's slow, the girls are ugly, let me take you to Sapphire, it's much nicer there."
    UNknowing customer says ok because they don't know any better.

    Cabbies have gone as far as to say that certain strip clubs are closed, if they are paying to little.

    It's a ruthless business.

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