Just to elaborate a little more, I think you can definitely communicate to a dancer that you are not interested without hurting her feelings or making things awkward for yourself. Gentle honesty works well. After all, she should be focusing her attention on someone who IS Interested in her so she can sell a dance.
If she really can't take a hint excuse yourself to the restroom or go sit stage side if you are not too concerned with giving up your spot. Be brave! Trust me, there are other dancers there that would like to take a stab at you. (Or should I say vice versa. LOL)
Coming from a dancer... I'm experienced so I can tell within 60 seconds or so if a customer is intrested in me or not. Are you too polite? Were you giving her signals that you were just not interested in her?
Next time try telling her that you don't have any money or that you are definitely not buying any dances that day. Or perhaps tell her you had a long day and, not to be rude, you just want to be alone. Hopefully she'll get the hint.
I can't tell you how many times a dancer has held a customer hostage who I could tell was not interested in her. Meanwhile he's making eyes at me and I myself become irritated.
Good luck!
@papichulo As you can imagine there are slow nights and busier nights. Even the most experienced dancers have slow nights where they may only sell a few dances. On a busy night where there is a lot of action almost all of the private rooms will be filled and the club is booming.
Attendance is definitely down overall and I think that is also due to the change from IC to employee. While the club used to offer a plethora of dancers for your consideration, now they have to be more mindful of the amount of girls they keep in house on any given night. Before if they had an additional 10 or 15 dancers who might have provided great stage entertainment but perhaps did not sell many dances it wasn't that big of an issue as we formally just paid the house a percentage off of all dances sold. I imagine it's a delicate dance to offer you all as many entertainers as possible while still covering their overhead and remaining a profitable business.
Happy to lend more clarity here guys.
First $150 does not go straight to our check.
We are paid SF minimum wage with taxes withheld. Additionally, all taxes that are owed from tips claimed are withheld from our check. If you have a lot of dances sold via Broadway bucks AKA " vu bucks" then you can expect your paycheck to suffer. My last pay check for the 2 week pay period was $0.00. This means that the taxes that I owed for that specific pay period based on the tips that I claimed (and Broadway bucks sold) were greater than the net of my 2 week pay check.
Us dancers are not in this business for a pay check. We would *much* prefer the old way of being an independent contractor. The company would prefer that too!
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