Strippers who dislike the customers
docsavage
Indiana
What percentage of strippers in a strip club actually dislike the customers? After 15 years of strip club trips I would guess half. I feel like the half who do like me view me as someone who gives them money to help pay their bills and take care of them a little bit. I am not the handsome guy or the charming guy, just the guy who takes care of them a little bit.
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That said, the whole night club industry can really grind people down but at the same time it's sad here to that a lot of the talent is frequently jaded especially post pandemic.
I was not offended since I always assumed their feelings ran from no feelings at all to hatred. Don't care either. This is entertainment and while I understand this is different for all, I literally see the hobby as the same as poker or golf, so staring Saturday night at 6:30 and ending somewhere at 10 p.m. Sunday night it will be poker, a few hours of shut eye, golf and the club. All hobbies.
I think she just was not happy in her current place in life, but who knows. She eventually got fired, no one would say why, but the bar at that club is a much friendlier place these day.
Out of all those people there’s probably less than a dozen of them I’d want to be friends with. Even though you may like someone through contact at work, it’s hard to disconnect that work relationship and your personal life. Also, there’s a big different between coworkers and customers. Unless you’re a DJ at a strip club, you’ll always be a customer when entering a strip club to most dancers.
I don't think that's too dissimilar to how I feel about my co-workers, clients, vendors, etc. If I was asked if I like them, my answer would be no. But there's a few I'd go have a beer with from time to time. And a larger number I don't really like, but I don't mind either. They're the kind of people I wouldn't invite to anything, but if they were +1's of friends I wouldn't avoid inviting that friend because of their +1.
I will say the customer relationship you guys bring up it’s a little different. I mean are you trying bang your auto mechanic?
I would say 75% actively dislike you, 20% are lukewarm or see you as just a means to an end, and 5% actually like you as a person.
If you’re making money - a lot of money off one customer (at least for me) they become much more tolerable and their “issues” are a lot more easy to brush off, although it always seems like my customers that I don’t make great money from but I have to still conduct business with are the biggest pain in the ass.
I can only control my own behaviors and feelings. I won't tolerate outright disrespect, which tbh I haven't encountered for a very long time (at least to my face lol), but otherwise I have a very thick skin.
One thing people miss in this discussions is that it's possible to simultaneously feel two ways about the same thing. The "duality of man" thing.
This is how I honestly feel about most of my clients. They annoy the shit out of me and a bitch about them all the time, yet, I can also find common ground and enjoy a beer with most when the situation calls for it.
I don’t care about the ones I don’t interact with as long as they aren’t disrespectful. If I decline their approach just take my no. I’m fairly polite and respectful to the ones I do business with and I like to think they like me, but due to the equation above, occasionally I fall out of favor sometimes. Regrettable sometimes, but it happens.
That’s my experience for myself. The rest of you guys? Yeah, they all definitely hate you.
Not Sunshine. She likes me.
Told me that 1st time we danced.
Said I had nice hands 👋
Course she did kinda short me on time our last dance.
Hmmm . . .
I will play along and answer your question.
Q: What percentage of strippers in a strip club actually dislike the customers?
A: 100%
Strip clubs are, like most capitalist businesses, places where exploitation of workers takes place.
As part of the stripper work culture there is Hostility and abuse including verbal, physical and job-related threats, along with the “general abuse and hostility” because it is a very complicated work environment.
Strippers experience mistreatment from verbal abuse to racial or sexual harassment/assault, whether any harm was meant by the customer who many times is oblivious to his own actions.
And that's the thing, I think it really depends on the dancer. Some hate what they do, but others - they are just really open with themselves and don't mind sharing themselves with others. Those do seem to be in the minority, I go through a lot of dancers before finding those rare gems.
I've also found that you can accomplish a lot more with a kind word and a $100 bill than with a kind word alone. She may not love me, but her love of paying the rent is completely sincere, and some of that will rub off (if you'll pardon the expression) on me.
When I started traveling more, especially to podunk places, I started to think these girls really don't like their jobs and that number rose to like 90% for me. What of the things my group discussed is how many times you see girls just sitting on their phones? They must limit their customer base to like a small hand full as those few are who these girls can tolerate.
But, as I got into a more managerial and selling role, unless you're a true sociopath, you have to show earnest and likeability to your customers. In this role, I travelled more and started hitting higher end clubs, especially in Vegas where we more traveling dancers. These girls know it's a business and they treat it as such. That doesn't mean there still aren't dancer with bad situations, daddy issues and drug dependency, but those girls typically don't last long. My conversations with the Cuban invasion lead me to think they prioritize business and customer service.
TLDR, I'm more of a 50% indifferent; 35% like, and 15% hate.
I got this wisdom, largely, from a non tuscler who should be a vet tuscler.
In the end, I try to not give anyone a legitimate reason to dislike me. But I don’t control anyone else’s true opinion of me. If they choose to have an opinion, that’s on them and I don’t greatly concern myself with what they actually think.
I’m confident that the very small handful of dancers I spend time with on a recurring basis, with whom I am not only physically intimate but also have extensive conversations, like me, recognizing that they wouldn’t give me the time of day if there wasn’t money involved. I believe it because I like them personally, and it would be even more difficult for them to convincingly fake reciprocal plstonic affection over many encounters than it would be to convincingly fake orgasms. This is probably due to the fact that my core demographic tends to be single moms in their 30s who, while they may still like to party, tend to be more grounded than younger dancers. They also tend not to be skeeved out by older customers
But if you mollify your perspective a bit, and simply think in terms of other fields of sales, I think it pans out quite similarly. Car salesmen don't "like" or "dislike" most of their customers, because they don't KNOW those people in any context except the car sales floor. Similar with dancers. They like, or dislike, the small slice of each customer's life that they've seen. If he's good at being a good customer -- polite, proper level of expectations, clean and happy and hygienic, pleasant to be around, pays well, gives more and expects less (within reason, but not to the extent that she thinks she can exploit him) -- then she thinks he's an enjoyable experience AS A CUSTOMER. And that's all she'll ever know of him; she'll only ever know him AS A CUSTOMER.
The problem is what strippers take home with them. Read any of a number of stripper-discussion web-boards and you'll see, many of them have become male-haters. This is unreasonable of them. If all their customers are bad at being customers, then maybe they need to consider what the common denominator in all those experiences is. Is it her bad actions bringing out the men's bad behavior? Her attitude? Is it the club? The type of men that attend? You don't hear a lot about car salesmen deciding to hate ALL HUMANS WHO TRY TO BUY CARS. Dancers who take home a genuine hatred of ALL MEN are using a limited sample and really need to figure out why they're engaging in all-or-nothing and group-is-evil type logical fallacies. It's emotionally damaged, to think ALL HUMAN MALES must be evil, but stripping pushes more strippers that direction than, perhaps, reasonable.