Managers that act like A**holes
Ironcat
South Carolina
I have been going to strip joints since the early 1980's and have never had any problems with managers, bouncers, bartenders or waitresses. I am always polite and tip well for good service. So I stop by my favorite club (Platinum Plus in Greenville) in the afternoon (See my review) and I am literally the only customer in the place. I decide to walk the perimeter of the seating area to see if any dancers were sitting around since the handful sitting at he bar were substandard even by PP standards. When I get to the entry I'm approached by a manager and a bouncer and they accuse me of wandering through the VIP area - which was untrue. They start giving me the third degree, insisting that they saw me leave the room. I would think that with business being slow they would treat their customers (especially regulars like myself) a little more respectfully. Has anyone had similar experiences with Gestapo like management in their club?
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I ended up wasting a half hour talking to the jerk, a security guard, the bar manager, a floor manager and finally the general manager. The last three were very apologetic and even offered comp VIP and drinks even passes to shows. When I left the club was getting busy, but I was certainly no longer in the mood to enjoy the place.
The Strip Club Hound's blog routinely discusses incompetent strip club owners and managers. It's very good reading at:
http://stripclubhound.blogspot.com/
It requires a close attention to detail yet not micromanaging.
One of the biggest problems is that a club can get the attitude that this isn't really a real business with real customers but a giant scam where PLs are tricked out of their money. Because once that attitude takes hold everybody will be looking for their own scam, and everybody will be looking to scam the manager and club in the process.
That was some good insight – many of us have experienced clubs where they try to take as much from you as they can (forced valet or paying for self-parking; watered down drinks; forcing dancers to push/sell drinks; pushy shot girls; tip parade; etc.).
Instead of trying to offer custies good value for their $$$; they try to empty your pockets w/o offering anything/much.
I rotate among various clubs – sometimes when I am deciding on which club to go to – I will often rule out the ones with the high hustle factor even if I o/w like the club/dancers.
And IMO – clubs that try to hustle custies out of their $$$ will often times also try to hustle dancers out of theirs which in turn forces the dancers to have to hustle us.
I’ve generally have not had any issues with management/bouncers.
Can only recall one. I was in a dive in Ft. Worth, TX (while I was living in Dallas). I went w/ a dancer to the open LD room in a corner of the club – before the dancer started dancing for me, she excused herself for a minute while she went to the back (she said she’d be right back and to wait for her).
While I was sitting in the LD room; a bouncer with a large frame and a small brain starts signaling at me with his finger (as if he was asking a dog to come to him) – I made a face and hand gesture like saying what do you want to tell me – he just kept moving his finger for me to come to him.
I get up to talk to him (if he knew anything about customer service he would have come to me, no?) – and then he asks me to follow him.
The moron takes me all the way outside the club to the parking lot to tell me that the area I was sitting in was for LDs and that I couldn’t sit there. I can definitely understand that since he did not see me go to the LD area w/ a dancer nor did he know I was waiting for the dancer – but really – couldn’t you just have come up to me and told me what you needed to tell me w/o you making me walk all the way to the f’ing parking lot so you can bestow your rules on me – single-digit IQ moron.
If you go to the SC and all the staff are dead, then you know staxwell's in town.
Assistant manager, blah, blah, blah, blah blah?
me, What?
manager, blah, blah, blah blah
me, What?
Assistant manager, Do you speak Spanish?
me, I can't hear very good, it's too loud in here.
Assistant, blah blah blah blah
me, no thanks
I frequent this club as well and have never had an incident there personally. I even had a fairly long conversation with a daytime DJ who seemed to really be a cool dude. Not sure why the guys who fucked with you had their panties in a wad that day. At least you can take your $ to a couple other clubs in town.