Yup, I'm going to do that thing that never works on TUSCL, ask a question to dancers. Fortunately founder doesn't charge us extra for being futile?
For dancers who have worked other jobs, with direct customer contact (such as waiting tables in a restaurant), are strip club customers more or less polite to you than the customers were in that other job? (Or about the same.)
Do many customers start out polite, but become rude during tip negotiations?
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last commentAdmittedly, I have only worked at one "customer service" job - waiting tables as TwinPeaks - prior to stripping... and that wasn't for that long.
My answer is... its complicated ...
There are at least two kinds of strip club customers - the regulars and the tourists. in a regular restaurant, you pretty much only get the tourists... those people who only come in once or twice... and think it is something unusual or whatever....
Strip club regulars are you guys... the ones who don't think it is a once on my birthday or with a buddy's bachelor party... or... whatever. As a group, you guys are MUCH nicer than the ones who just want to "party"....
That said, I didn't have to argue with TwinPeaks customers over how much the tip was going to be... I could tell if I was getting a good one or a bad one pretty quickly... with club customers, I was surprised a lot... both in good ways and bad... when it came time to talk money...
so... my limited answer is... it depends.
I will say... i worked at TwinPeaks for only a couple of months... and danced for almost 10 years... never once thinking... Hey, TwinPeaks seemed better! So that tells you a lot!
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I think customers very highly overestimate their presence ...
When OP says "tip negotiations" he means haggling for a price with a hooker. Which many on here do. But theres no way that makes them liked. Just makes their money tolerable
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^ Gee Icey, wonder how strip clubs would feel about customers being overrated, I guess money is overrated as well!
That’s got to rank up there with world’s stupidest comment
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I got a vanilla job during Covid shutdowns and stayed there for 9 months. Initially, my customer service scores were excellent. Then later on towards the winter, it started to tank. I did not change—they did. There was a brief respite with customer behavior immediately after the election (Biden had won and it was a blue zone area)—but then after a couple of weeks the hostility came back.
As far as strip clubs in general and customer politeness—I would say that a decent amount of them are polite enough, maybe like 8 or 9 out of 10? But when the assholes come, even if they seemingly don’t know each other, it’s like they coordinated themselves to be there at the same time.
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From everything I've heard and read, strippers will tolerate a lot if the guy is spending. I suppose there are other sales commission and tipping jobs where women will tolerate sexual harassment and the occasional gross joke as long as they get paid.
On the other hand the worst of the worst at SC are probably worse. And the kind of behavior that would get a guy permanently 86d from a bar or restaurant will often be met with "go home... See you tomorrow!" by club management.
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So that's the trick. You say they won't answer and then they're like, nya nya, yes I will.
I was expecting different answers, from what my favs have told me about things said/done to them, and seeing dancers and waitresses getting pawed just walking past a table.
One of my former favs only started dancing after the Tilted Kilt franchise she was working at closed. She missed that job. She met her drug lord sugar daddy there. I guess different people are looking for different things out of a wait staff job. Another one of my favs had worked the register at a supermarket, she had fond memories of that job.
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If you read nicespices response I can relate so much.
I have over a 100 customers I deal with. Probably speak to 75+ of them at least once a month. 50+ at least once a week. 20+ on a daily basis.
That’s a lot of interactions, but I usually have 4 or 5 that are never happy no matter what. I could give them services for free and they’d still find a reason to complain.
People like this (at least it seems) appear to have a goal to make everyone else around them as miserable as they are. It sucks because that one bad interaction will make you quickly forget all the normal or good interactions and success you have the rest of the week.
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