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ok well he is a d***...U cursing is not great but i guess it's a natural reaction...I dont understand how e is not obligated to pay u if u have been dancing????

Probably good you didn't slug him, but i'm sure your bouncer would have backed you up. And how the h*** is he not bound to pay you? Isn't there a VIP minimum that he agreed to? That's just scum-of-the-earth/giving-all-men-a-bad-name kind of bu****it behavior and should be smacked down in one way or another. [like your knee slipping ;)]

Hope the next guy made up for it! :)

Love this story, good for you the cheap bastard! There was a guy on yahoo that asked if he should feel bad that he wasted 17 dollars at a strip club and was there 3 hours, I told him you should feel bad that you were there 3 hours and only paid 17 dollars in tips, cheap bastard!

Wowee! A dancer's nighmare, second to a guy getting away with things physically and a bouncer not coming to your rescue - only happened to me once - in a very prestigious club.
Anyways, the whole theory of getting our money up front and the agreed amound must be within the limits of the law and so on and so forth. By golly we really don't have much protection without an "alliance" or a "union" and it is getting really bad. Since so many people are coming here and all other tourist cities with the idea of "everything is negotiable", and the variable variety of "entertainers" willing to comprimise, the cut throat makes it possible for customers to exploit us as well as some of the "entertainers" to muscle so many of the men. I, and I know you have seen the same group, muscle, threaten, and intimidate a man into forking up several hundred for nada. It's a bit freaky in the industry. As much as I am happy the "law" has laid off of us, another form of exploitation for fines, I feel we have no recourse for the abuse of our work priveledges as well. So, thanks for the mutual vent and sharing about the hours wasted on men like that pig so that not everyone thinks we are rich and our money comes so freely. PS - I just re read your cognitive dissonance writing and that is my favorite term in life - I think that is because that is who I am in so many areas, hence, I am excellent at what I do when my mind is focused!

Hi semi secret stripper,

For datign a dancer for many years i can def tell u that only the ignorant really think dancers are rich.

True it can be lucrative but anyone that would study this industry a bit will tell u that between the recession, more and more girls doing this job girls make 30% less than before... Of course its still good money but not many girls are good at saving,investing, handling the money properly...

Its not easy , weekends are good i guess but so many times during the week it's tough...

My gf had once borrow money fro some loan sharks ofr ehr family for various reasons and obviously she still is paying for them ...

Take care,

seb

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Mr. Brownstone {g-town}

A tip for a dance is a pure gratuity, like tipping a waitress. However, the IRS views it as income, and , as with waitresses,often imputes income to the artist.
Nonetheless, this compensation is not enforceable at law, just like a waiter can't sue a table of deadbeats.
All this is much worse now, as the 21st century dancer is considered an independent contractor, and the courts are allowing clubs to get away with it. (It does violence to the whole concept of employer-employee, which dates back to master-servant law of the 18th century and beyond). I suppose someone could say that there is an oral contract for a dance, but there isn't much jurisprudence backing you up, and in the immortal words of Sam Goldwyn, "An oral contract ain't worth the paper it's written on." Keep on dancing, keep on smiling, and kick him in the balls the next time.

Seems like if he was going to a VIP room he should have known/expected to be paying some 'minimum'. Bit different than misunderstandings over a dance, imho.