Reply #266: You must have worked with good DJ's

[TorchTheWitch]

Aside from ONE DJ I ever worked with (who was totally awesome, btw) they all sucked ass. No, we couldn't chose our own music especially if more than one stage was running a time, they'd call you by the wrong name, not realize the next dancer up to replace you was late to the stage and left you up there having to keep dancing since we couldn't have an empty stage, play obnoxious songs purposely to make you look bad if they felt you hadn't tipped them enough or just generally didn't like you or because some other dancer tipped him to do that to you, etc., etc.

As far as I know, DJ's have always been IC's, but they've never been our subcontractors and never should have been deserving of mandatory tip-outs because the only way to retaliate against them for all those times they didn't help you look good, but the biggest reason the clubs decided to establish mandatory tip-out amounts was because they weren't getting tipped as well as they used to, and the weren't because WE weren't (or because they sucked). The clubs gave THEM a way to keep from leaving a shift with nothing, but not us.

And when you consider that DJ's don't have anywhere near the overhead they used to they're even less deserving of mandatory tip-outs. They used to have to buy there own equipment and all those scads of cd's until the clubs put in permanent equipment and they can grab any songs they want online for free or the club pays for them... all they need now is a laptop.

DJ's are the only ones in the clubs not hurting from this shitty economy because of those mandatory tip-outs even when they know the dancers are giving them 50% or more of what they made or even having to go to the ATM and use their personal funds to pay them. Dancers, waitresses, bartenders... we're all being crushed while they're still doing just as well as ever and maybe even better with all the extra dancers the clubs are shoving in the clubs just so they can collect house fees.

Maybe it's somewhat different where you live, but around here the DJ's are doing BETTER in the last two years because of all those tons of extra dancers the clubs are hiring, the longer shifts they have to work to earn anything and all the mandatory tip-outs they're collecting from all that.

Other than that, I agree with everything you've said, but don't count on the clubs wising up. They won't. There will ALWAYS be plenty of woman willing to pay the clubs and the clubs' workers in order to give out $10 blowjobs all night and make $50 at the end of their shift.

A few months ago I was talking to this dancer I worked with at my last pathetic club I left who was trying to convince me to go audition at club X thinking that charging the customer $100 for a totally private half hour champagne room when the club took a $65 cut was a really good deal. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST!!! >>>THUD<<<

:* :hi:

OK, enough of my hijacking... oops.