Shift Change
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Visited a club and the doorman apologizes that things are really slow because it was 'shift change'. Not the first time this has happened but usually it is not too bad. But this time it had to be a half hour before the first dancer appears.
Is this anything but a lame excuse for lazy and/or incompetent management? If I go to a fast food place does the counter-person say 'sorry, shift change, can't cook your burger for another fifteen minutes!' Of course not. They are open, they need to be able to serve customers.
I mean come on, how hard would it be to have a few of the day shift come and stay a half hour later or some of the night shift to come and leave a half hour early!
End of Rant.
Visited a club and the doorman apologizes that things are really slow because it was 'shift change'. Not the first time this has happened but usually it is not too bad. But this time it had to be a half hour before the first dancer appears.
Is this anything but a lame excuse for lazy and/or incompetent management? If I go to a fast food place does the counter-person say 'sorry, shift change, can't cook your burger for another fifteen minutes!' Of course not. They are open, they need to be able to serve customers.
I mean come on, how hard would it be to have a few of the day shift come and stay a half hour later or some of the night shift to come and leave a half hour early!
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Often, clubs have staggered hours when dancers arrive, or leave so that there isn't a large influx/outflux wirh a dead spot happening while incoming dancers get ready in dressing room. Those dancers who come in early get cut some slack on house fees while those coming in later pay higher house fees.
@Gatorfan...why is a mid-shift even worse? Few clubs are going to be experiencing their peak customer numbers as soon as they open or right before they close so having one or even two mid shifts spreads the supply better with the demand.
@Shadowcat...actually that would be a better solution, since some dancers would decide to do a mid-shift, but apparently in this club you either decide to be a day shift girl or a night shift girl. As I said, lazy management.
@ilbbaicni...unfortunately it becomes a vicious circle. There is nothing inherently completely dead about, in this case, the 7-8 PM hour OTHER than the customers have been trained to never come at those times (besides the customers who, like myself, took the lesson to be to never go there again). In addition in California, unless this club is breaking the law, dancers must be employees and thus must get minimum wage.
I'll bet the same situation occurs at the other club 15 minutes away.
As hard as finding non-flaky reliable dancers – they seem to be an endangered species!
Spearmint Rhino City of Industry
Synn, City of Industry
Deja Vu City of Industry
All of which I suspect you have at least heard of. And I can promise you that the only time those clubs will go a half hour without a dancer in evidence is when they are closed! When you are facing that kind of competition management can't be lazy
I feel your pain, but you have to understand 3 things:
1. Most dancers are independent contractors. They work when they feel like it. Management doesn't care when they show up because the dancers pay the club to work there. And managers have limited rules they can impose on independent contractors.
2. Most dancers get ready in the girls dressing room. They take their sweet time. I have waited an hour and a half for a hot dancer to get ready.
3. Dancers don't care if you wait or not, there will always be a PL who will come in as soon as you get pissed off and leave.
My advice is to cool your frustrations and have patience.
1. Frankly if dancers actually were allowed to pick their hours some would work the mid-shift hours on their own. Problem solved. Management rigidity is what makes them be either day shift or night shift.
2. Well, if the customers have learned never to come in between 7 and 9 then it is no surprise that the dancers wait it out, but it is just a vicious circle of bad management, bad behavior, and fewer customers.
3. No, the customers are going down the street. I can certainly promise you at DV at the same hour there were five to ten times the PLs than this club had in a building with about the same footage.
Part of the whole tip out system is that the shift managers start to think and act like pinps protecting and exploiting their stable of ho's rather than somebody managing one part of a single customer focused business.
@Alucard....indeed I shall exercise my right to choose, but part of what I am is looking at how design and management makes one club great and another the pits.
Frankly I haven't seen a doorman or dj or even a bartender give anything to me remotely worth ten percent of what I gave to the dancer.
Lets call things what they are. Having a manager demand ten percent 'to overlook' is extortion. It is "pay me or I'll rat on you and get you fired". And since we both know that what the manager is 'overlooking' in exchange for a cut of the payment is sex for money how exactly does that make said manager something besides a pimp? It's a biz, squeeze the ho's for your take for protection.
Not to mention the whole tax fraud angle of everybody being slipped cash under the table.
The DJ's job is branding. He either brands or he is not doing his job. You expect that in a radio station the DJ is going to say to the ad sales staff pay me ten percent of your commissions or I won't push your products the way you want? No, that DJ is going to be fired or told to go back to the booth and do his job. Do you think the doorman at a hotel is going to tell the manager pay me ten percent of the room rate or I will tell arrivals that the place stinks? No, that doorman is going to be either fired or told to get to the curb and do his job.
tumblingdice is not a shill for the club. He is a shill or pimp for avalons07, who he thinks is his girlfriend and only fucks him. If he ever got pussy from another female, he might realize what a fool he is.