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Mosser's Guide To Strip Club Fauna, Pt 1:Strippers. Or, Baggle-Skags, Not Much Of A Threat Alone But They Always Return, And In Greater Numbers.




  There once was a man named Dr Moebius Mosser who lived from 1906 to 2005 and who earned multiple PHD's in his often tumultuous lifetime. He was a doctor of anthropology, psychology, sociology and a chiropractor (although he admits he earned that doctorate by mail so he never took it seriously except in the mid 70's when he successfully ran "Sexual Chiroprackty"*1 for a number of years just outside of San Francisco)


  Born in Erie, Pennsylvania to first generation Austrian-Americans. Moebius, or "Mo" to his friends was the seventeenth of thirty-four children, twelve of which survived their first three years. Of those who made it through the child mortality gauntlet that was early 20th century America, he is the fourth oldest, having two older brothers, one older sister and five younger brothers with three younger sisters.


  His Father, Albert Franz Mosser was an accordion maker by trade and an alcoholic by life choice. He was a smallish man, but suffused with boundless rage and ill will when drunk, which after the move to America became all the more frequent as he was unable to find work making accordions or related bellows-powered instruments. He was forced to rely on menial labor jobs to keep a roof over his family's head and keep cabbage on the table for them. Literally cabbage, Family Brassicaceae leafy stink-lettuce. It's pretty much all they ate.*2


  Dr Mosser was a man fascinated by his fellow humans, he wanted to know everything about what made an individual tick or sometimes explode as the case may be. He become quite interested in human sexuality in the late 60's after attending a post doctorate orgy with some fellow sexuality enthusiasts. It was from this point on that the focus of his work for the next decade became human sexuality and the silly shite it makes people do to get laid.


  Chief among his interests were Go-Go bars, a thing in the 70's. Kinda like a titty bar but the girls wore bikinis, kind of. Being as this way the age of the Bush, wild and free, the bikinis were more like thongs stretched over unconscious muppets, fur all akimbo and uncontainable.


  It was in this area of research that he wrote what became regarded as his finest work, and the seminal example of the Strip Club Field Guide, the aforementioned Mosser's Guide to Strip Club Fauna.


  It's mandatory reading for anyone who either has to or wants to interact with strippers and idiot strip club patrons in a reasonably successful fashion.




  So I recommend to all my readers to find a copy of this book and read the shit out of it, it will make any strip club experience far more entertaining as you and your friends suddenly become amateur strip club biologists!


  That being said, here are some of the more interesting examples of Strip Club Wild Life as attributed by Dr. Mosser





A) Predators:





1) Rural Baggle-Skags: Always operating in packs, like hyenas, your average Baggle-Skag is about 5' tall and weighs 90 lbs. There are the goblin of the stripper races. Any group of more than three Baggle-Skags is known as a 'Trailer Park', as in a pod of whales or a murder of crows.


  Used in a sentence:


 "The other day I was at this hillbilly strip club when I got cornered by a trailer park of baggle-skags. I had no choice but to throw down my previously prepared tiny baggie of Drano crystals and tell them it was meth while I fucking ran like hell. The sounds of them fighting each other over it will haunt my dreams forever."




                          Not much of a threat alone, Baggle-Skags hunt in packs of up to 20.






2) Fright Weaved Ghetto Beak-This fierce hunter intimidates rival strippers with its medusa-like hair, wild rolling eyes and four inch long polycarbon nails. When even the slightest thing doesn't go its way it gets extremely loud and causes a scene before attacking something....anything.


  A group of three or more Fright Weaved Ghetto Beaks is known as a 'Drive By'.




3) Midwestern Trap Door Stripper: Comes out of nowhere when she senses the gait of a very drunk customer. Super attuned sensory organs in her feet can pick up staggering footsteps in even the most crowded strip club from a distance of more than 80 yards. The very best of them can tell you the age, weight and race of a man just by the vibrations his unsteady footsteps make on the stained carpet.


  There is no fun group name for Midwestern Trap Door Strippers because they are solitary hunters.




4) Gin Harpies: See also Liquor Lichs, Boozeferatu, Jerky Loins, Corduroy Titties. These are strippers who are so far past their Sell By date that Paleontologists have literally started to study their cultures which are so antiquated they have largely been lost to human record.


  As some of my longtime readers may guess, my former adversary Vodzilla is a classic example of a prematurely aged Gin Harpy*3. She looks easily 10 years older than she really is, 30 if the lights are on, which cause her skin to smoke and crackle....


  A group of three or more Gin Harpies is known as an 'Apocalypse'.





                                        "My finishing move is called the Salmon Slam"






5) Whoracuda: This example of a titty bar huntress is what's known in the real world as a fake prostitute. These are strippers who claim to be up for meeting outside the club to lay some stink on your genitals, but they are not truthful about it and are subsequently divided into two distinct subspecies:


  a) The Domesticated American False-Promising Sex Liar:Tells their prospective prey they'll do all kinds of sick shit outside of a club but require a 'retainer' because men line up to pump their shame-barrages into her. If you give a DAFPSL money up front, not only will you never see that money again, you'll never bang her either. Or maybe 10-15% of the time, to be fair. Not good odds.



  b) The Fake Crested Felony Hawk: This girl absolutely will meet you outside of the club and then at an inconvenient moment, her pimp/boyfriend/business partner will burst in and rob the living shit out of you. If you try to resist you'll probably get shot so just give up your cash and anything else of value, like your car, then pull up your pants and try to be smarter next time.


  These crimes go unreported more times than perhaps any other just for the simple fact of having to answer "So why were your there in the first place, Mr. Doe......?" when you're trying to report a robbery.



  A group of three or more Whoracudas is known as a 'Trap'.




                                              Not worth $150, much less your Ford.




6) Shark Eyed Wallet Raper: Only a really drunk spunkcrust could fail to notice the black, dead eyes of this serial predator as she closes in for some fiscal savagery.  Her smile says "let's have some fun big boy!" but her eyes say "I smell chum with a credit card."


  Don't be fooled by looks, a lot of SEWR's are still hot and rely on their sweet bods and pretty features to distract from the greed and hunger evidenced in their gazes. All hope bereft and shit.




                                                     "I smell AMEX in the water..."




  A group of three or more SEWR's is called a 'Gang Rape'.




7) The Freudian Fraulein: These strippers are rarer that albino black cats, but they do exist. I've worked with a few strippers so fucking adept at getting into a man's wallet via his mind and emotions, pushing all the right buttons to make him spend, that it's scary. The majority of the scarce critters get out of the industry early, having invested their earnings wisely because they are much smarter than your average clam club employee.*4





8) Sundance Sallys: Ugly fucking strippers who have a symbiotic relationship with a much hotter stripper and who are only able to pay the weed and pizza bills because of their partnership with the dancer who is actually desirable.


  Current example at my club:


  Saddlebags and Jumanji- Two joined-at-the-hip strippers who normally work as a duo, like Batman and Frankenstein. I don't like either one of them because neither of them tip and both are more or less garbage. Normally I can find something positive to say about a stripper, any stripper, no matter how much negative shit I could follow it up with. But Saddlebags....I don't know. Nice hair maybe?


  Saddlebag's one of those tallish girls who carries weight on top of her hips instead of to the sides or down low. Makes her look like she's got two fannypacks riding real high on her sides, probably stuffed with drugs. Her tits inspire sadness and a reflective introspection that can cause you to question why you came to look at tits in the first place. As if the joy you felt at seeing all the pretty breasts just evaporated into a fugue of discomfort at the sight of her gravity defeated milk-socks. She gets super annihilated every now and then but can't be bothered to woman up and just apologize for her actions the next shift, pretends all the heinous shit she said previously never happened.*5








                                         Beauty and the Beast, Stripper Edition.






9) Generic Pierced Nipple Dance Stackers: Comes in two variations, thick and thin, never just right. Usually drunk as fuck too. Gets a wasted Dirt-Prodder to agree to a dance and then weaves a tale of bullshit and scandal in his ear while she stacks 5 or 10 dances on him and when he's overwhelmed by how much he owes, relies on Floor Guys she won't tip to get the money for her.


  We've been teaching them, the serial ones. I've held the door open for guys some GPNDS was trying to fleece. The fact of the matter is if I control the portal and you're a habitual non tipper, I refuse to put hands on a guy for that, because that could lead to a lawsuit, no?


  Sorry hon, should've once in a while looked out for those who look after you. We're only gonna put up with your ratfink cuntery for so long. Time for a new club or a new work ethic, or possibly less alcoholism.


  And this from a guy who advocates recreational alcoholism...




                                                 Like I said, it's never JUST RIGHT...






B) Parasites


1) Sad-Breasted Twerk-Hag: Was never a top tier entertainer, just 'filler' material to make the dancer count look better. The majority of many clubs' stable of strippers of will be these garden variety strippers, nothing remarkable about them, maybe one feature that stands out in an otherwise bland package. They drift from table to table, asking customers if they would, against all reason, like a dance. These gals never land whales, they just nibble at krill and worry away at the corpses of big spenders after the real operators have bled them dry and cast them adrift.



2) Bottom Feeding Thong Carp: Just floats around in the club current, glomming drinks and every now and then doing a dance. Makes around $350 bucks a week on average with the occasional $300 night just to keep up the rent on her hotel room. Buys a new thong every time her old one gets too stiff to wear since she has no washing machine or interest in doing laundry. Chinese proverbs claim that the Dragon of Unhappiness infests her loins, but I only give that a fifty-fifty chance at best, I think it would die in there.



3) North American Opioid Sloth: This species of stripper live life on the edge of dying everyday. They are seldom aware of anything going on not immediately related to how they're getting their next fix and anything more than ten seconds of conversation with one should make that evidently plain to anyone not retarded drunk.



4) Southern Slack-Bellied Pork Goddess: Big and round all over. Perfect serf-wife material for someone who needed a ridiculously fecund wife who could dig turnips with the best of them well into her third trimester and shrug off childbirth like it was a mild rash. Someone who could fight off Saxon invaders like they were schoolchildren and still whip up a fine turnip porridge when the bodies had been cleared.*6




5) Geriatric Carpet Bomber: This is an ancient stripper whose mortal nemesis is fluorescent lighting. She can remember when variety shows were a staple on all three channels in America. 'Carpet Bombing' is a tactic frowned upon at a lot of higher end clubs, it involves just wandering up to every fucking customer in the place and asking them point blank if they want a dance. No introduction, no conversation, no warning.


  This is a strategy adopted by many strippers who really should've retired by now, but having the fiscal planning acumen of a mayfly, are still broke in their 40's and 50's despite the massive amounts of tax free money they've made in the past several decades.


  The thing about Carpet Bombing is that it works a lot of the time, even if the dancer in question is haggard as fuck.


  The reason that this practice can work is because a large percentage of strippers in this day and age have no real clue about how to close the deal. They don't know how to ASK FOR THE SALE. They're not bold enough to suggest to a guy that he spend some money, yet state it as a foregone conclusion and be confident enough in their hotness to get away with it.


 
Some girls just don't realize how hot they are, or haven't figured out how to spot spineless money guys who crave domination by an attractive, powerful valkyrie of a woman.




  This is where I'm gonna end in one of my trademarked Abrupt Endings™.



  Stop by next time when I take a look at more of the amazing Dr. Mosser's strip club denizens! Whenever that may be...




Viva Italia,
-The StripperHerder

































*1 Sexual Chiroprackty was a boutique that featured a mix of erotic self help books, mystical thingamajigs and doodads, various counter culture paraphernalia and penetration-optional spinal adjustment by appointment only. Mostly for the female clientele, but if he was getting paid......






*2 Some later Mosser biographers claim that up to ten of his other offspring could've survived childhood if they'd had a diet that consisted of more than cabbage with the occasional tiny portion of fish, rat, pigeon or cat.





*3 Although she is classified as a Gin Harpy by Mosser,  Vodzilla prefers vodka and will only drink gin if it's free, there is no other alcohol available or it's a weekday.





*4 I used to work with a gal who is now an aeronautical engineer with an additional degree in physics. Meanwhile I barely finished high school because it seemed kinda pointless at the time. That being said no matter how divergent our life paths became, at one point we both made our living in the titty business. Fuckin small world, eh?**


    **Freudian Fraulein are extremely rare nowadays. They never work in groups because all the other strippers sense their superior intellect and hate and fear them for it.






*5 As a seasoned alcoholic who has done much he needed to apologize for in the past I can tell you that pretending something didn't happen isn't the way to make it not have happened. We're all adults here so fucking nut up or vagina up or whatever and just say you're sorry for being a miserable twat. Goes a long way.





*6 To be fair, I am the male counterpart to the Southern Slack-Bellied Pork Goddess in that I am mostly desirable as a mate to a girl that expects her man to hack marauding raiders to bits, club the occasional polar bear to death and gift it's lovely pelt to her as an oversized slanket/sunggie, pillage some foreign lands for some goods, gold or slaves while she minds the farm and generally be a savage merciless cunt who nevertheless loves her in his own way but may or may not smell good while doing it.


  Or just be the guy who pumps children into her and does a reasonably good job of providing for them until they die or hit puberty. Whatever.

Italy Continues To Climb The 'Herder Fan List, Faster Than I Can Write Posts To Acknowledge It. Or, Something Terrible Is Happening To The Romans.



  Damn. I was working on a post congratulating Italy for surpassing Canada as the 4th highest readership by country for the Plight. But I haven't even got a third of the way through it and Italy has since passed the UK to take over the 3rd highest readership, trailing only Russia and the US in total pageviews.


  And all this in less than eight months no less. Apparently I'm doing something right.


  I'd like to take a moment to sincerely than Italy for the growing fanbase there and to assure you all that I will indeed post some brand new content soon. I'm more than halfway through my latest post and expect to finish it in the next few days.


   Until then, here's a classic 'Herder for all my new Italian readers:



https://plightofthestripperherder.blogspot.com/2011/09/weave-will-weave-will-rock-you-or-weave.html


  Nice job, Italy. I'm fucking impressed!



Prima Nocta.
-The StripperHerder

Tattoo Necked Scumbag Convention, Oops I Mean Our Average Tuesday Night. Or, I Remember When Drug Dealers Actually Spent Money At The Clubs They Frequented.




  I feel like there's a possibility that this post will make me seem like an angry old man shaking his fist or pointing a rifle at the damn neighborhood kids invading his tree lawn.


  And I'm OK with that. Get the FUCK off my lawn.....




                  "The sign says 'Stay Off The Grass'. Now drop the frisbee and back the fuck up."





  See, I remember when this industry was thriving. Live titties were big business and while the clubs may not have always been busy, at least there weren't tumbleweeds floating around and raccoons chasing trash across the floor.


  And back in the day we had real, proud respectable drug dealers. Old school guys. Never did business in the places they hung out in and were way too big for that level of shit any way. Tipped excessively and were so goddamn polite you forgot they could have your family murdered with a single phone call.


  I remember we used to have this guy who came into the club a lot with his bodyguard. Because I don't want to be accused by certain overzealous elements of today's society of being a racial profiler, I'll refer to them as Hans and Gustav.


  When Hans and Gustav came into the club they let us know they'd like the VIP area and a couple of bottles of something nice and then ask what it costs. When we told them they'd hand over the cost plus $500. Literally every time I came over to Hans's table to see if he needed anything he'd hand me $50 or $100 and tell me I was doing a great job, which is more than I usually got from management.


  Then there was this other pair. For the same reason noted above I will call them Pierre and Jean Paul.


  When Pierre and Jean Paul came into the club they'd order two or three modest bottles of champagne and up to $20,000 in singles which they wanted in $1000 bundles, plastic wrapped, so they could hurl them at twerking dancers *1 in a mutually agreed upon game of money-brick Dodge Ball. Yes, occasionally they would knock a bitch unconscious with a well aimed Stack, but when she came to, haloed in money, there was never an issue. It was all fun and games.


  None of these guys EVER talked about what they did. We NEVER asked what they did. There was never any bragging or boasting about how much money they made, it was what it was.


  These days people want to be known as drug dealers because what could be cooler? Wearin sunglasses in dark places, confident in your fake badness and small time cash. None of these guys ever reach that 'next level' because they are all too stupid not to get caught and are completely enamored with drug dealing as a lifestyle rather than an occupation. In some ways there are very much like the dancers I work with who despite the best of intentions, get thoroughly ensnared by the 'stripper lifestyle'. These girls too have forgotten the occupation aspect of the job. Stripping isn't just how they make their living anymore, it's what they are, what they define themselves as.


  Not even kidding. Drug dealing, stripping, it all becomes intertwined with these unfortunate dipshits' very identity.




                                                    "What you need, bro?"





  Here's some hints for all you low level or aspiring drug dealers out there. I'm giving you this advice out of a sense of fairness because I'm going to be offering advice later in this post to all would be strip club patrons who would like to avoid getting ripped off in a titty bar


  So, although this is gonna seem like some very elementary stuff here to anyone with half a brain, I personally know dozens of drug dealers who could've benefited from this extremely first grade shit.



1) Don't tell anyone you're a drug dealer.



2) Don't let anyone know where you live.



3) NEVER do business out of your home or any static location for that matter.



4) Don't wear a lot of ridiculous gold and jewelry. It looks silly as fuck and makes a target of you.



5) Unless you have some sort of money laundering set up, which at your level I highly doubt, or some way to show how you paid for it, don't drive a flashy car. Go buy an 8 year old Honda or Toyota. People with no provable income who aren't rich kids don't drive high end German sedans and new Escalades around.



6) The whole point of your life should be to avoid being noticed, not brag on social media about how much money you have. Try to NOT post pictures of yourself with guns, stacks of cash or large amount of drugs.



7) Don't get a neck tattoo. Listen I realize there are tons of good people out there who happen to have a neck tattoo, hell I know a bunch of them. But to society at large, and there's no way to say this nicely, it makes you look like a scumbag. Possibly someone immersed in a criminal lifestyle. Blame society, not me.


   Don't get me started on face tattoos....




                          Might as well wear a sandwich board that says 'I AM A CRIMINAL'




8) In general, try not to look like a drug dealer. I know, what does a drug dealer look like, right? Let's not get all into details that would just upset people, OK? Wearing pants that fit is an excellent start.



9) Don't flash cash around, talk about money or ever act like you have more than $10 on you at any given time.



10) NEVER indulge in the drug you make your money off of. For best results, don't drink or do drugs at all. Stay focused. Losing perspective is the single greatest mistake you can make. You can do all the drugs you want when you're wealthy and retired, which if you'll recall, was the whole goal of dealing drugs in the first place.



11) Try to cultivate a clientele that won't happily slay you at any given moment for the money and drugs you're carrying.



12) Never give credit. Especially to friends. Business is business, motherfucker.



13) Try not to get arrested. For anything. A clean record goes a long way....




  There, that should help you hopeful dope-slingers out there, but I doubt it!




                        Excerpt from 1970's Police Training film titled: "Shit! NECK TATTOO!!!!!"






Occupational Conversations: Strip Club Edition





  These are (mostly) actual conversations I've had during the execution of my duties. I may be paraphrasing in some of them since I don't record my interactions with fucked up people even though I should. All of these are merely variations on themes so wretchedly tedious that murder-suicide suddenly becomes understandable, possibly even admirable depending on how long you've been in the Service Industry....




(I) Broke Customer: "I want my money back. There ain't nobody here!"


Me: "So what you're saying is that there aren't enough other MALES here for you? Because I've got 25 strippers on staff right now and they're all doing not much of anything. If I was going to a strip club where the entertainers outnumbered the customers by a factor of 8, I'd say I'd just found Heaven, sir."


Broke Customer: "But there's no one here, man! There ain't no action!"


Me: "So we're still on the other dudes thing, huh? You come to a strip club to see girls, yes? So why in the fuck would it bother you if there aren't a lot of other penises in the club? You're not here to see Magic Mike, right? You are, in fact, here to see mostly naked females running around on stage, making their ample booties clap and whatnot, correct?"


Broke Customer: "Yeah, but..."


Me: "Butt nothin, sir. You have a sweet deal here. You want some action, make it happen. You'll be a fucking HERO..."


Broke Customer: *sighs* "You have called my bluff, wise Floor Beast. I intended to spend almost nothing and live vicariously through the exploits of others and am financially unable to be a HERO. I only complained because lacking a crowd to lurk within, I am afraid too many strippers will approach me for dances and after I turn down the 10th or so one of them that they'll figure out I'm all talk and no wallet which would harm my street cred.


  I can't even afford internet to watch porn on and all this gold is fake."



Me: *keying my mike* "Told you guys so. You all owe me $5."









(II) Hammered Stripper: "Gargen fargle noosh beesh mits! Seppinas noost ma fawshin schmetz!"


Me: "I get it, darlin. This is a tough industry to thrive in. All of us have made many, many bad choices to end up here, but it ain't all bad. There's a lot of earning potential, the hours are easy and we always got your back provided you're not a non-tipping piece of junkie rat shit. There, there..."


Hammered Stripper: *now crying from every orifice* "ASHEENA WAFFLENERGENS! BLYHA STABBE MAHJ MEMMMEMISHmieesrrr..."


Me: *patting her awkwardly from a distance* "There are always gonna be tough nights, sweetie. You just have to weather them like an ocean liner in a storm, ya know? Point your bow toward the waves and pound your fist at the skies and scream 'Is That All You Got?'. That's what I do.


  Oh and I also abstain from crippling drugs, sex with random and potentially dangerous people, getting so drunk on the job I'm utterly helpless, spending my money on a worthless, emotionally abusive unemployably lazy cunt and things like that.


  But, you know, each to their own and shitforth!"


Hammered Stripper: "PEBBLA SMISHEN FCHLITZ, WHOOGA DOOINOOINOIN MEHSELSHMIZ, BAKA BAKA FLABBLAMAMmmmmmm!"


Me: "I use E-Trade. Best user interface and if you deposit $2,500 or more, you get 150 free trades. It's easy, dude. If you're looking long term, get into solid state batteries or anything having to do with self driving cars. That'll be the new Amazon. What? Cock Market? Oh. Can't help you there assuming I understood you correctly...."



                                                        100% Okay to drive.*2



(III) Drunk Fuckwit: "Bro! You got the most awesome job evah! You fucking love this job, don't ya bro!"  *Manically patting my shoulder the whole time like an Red Bulled gibbon*3


Me: "You know it, Bro-hamish. Super lovin it right now."


Drunk Fuckwit: "I bet bro! You bangin all them ho's right? The fucking Master right here, bro!"


Me: "Yes, bro. I am the Master. Please stop petting me, I'm sore from fucking so many ho's."


Drunk Fuckwit: "Awwwww, FUCK YEAH BRO! FUCK YEAH!!!"


Me: "Jesus...." *Does the fake emergency radio call thing and disappears*



  If there's anything worse than talking to a wasted fuckdrip, it's talking to a wasted Floor Guy Fanboy. A dude so enamored with our jobs that he acts like we're some kind of rock stars or something. Like he just met Insert Currently Famous Person's Name Here.






       The StripperHerder Advice Column





These are actual letters from readers that I've received and not at all shit I made up to establish a premise.




Ted B from Bristol, New Maryland wrote:


Dear Herdy,


  I got wallet-raped by a seedy dancer at a strip club where the bouncers wore T shirts that said "Hired Goon". I did one dance with her but she said it was three and that the dances were only $10 when they were actually $25. The bouncers said that if I din't pay they would "Take me to the park for a nice walk and some healthy air." So I paid and they let me leave.

  Thanks to that conniving stripper, my daughter won't be getting a birthday present this year and I'm very upset about that. How can I avoid this in the future?"


-Well Ted B, you fucking scumbag, first off let me state that although I value your readership I feel like if you're the kind of person who would go to a strip club when your budget is so tight that a mere $75 unexpected expense costs your daughter a birthday present, then you're either an idiot or have no impulse control and probably aren't a great Father.


  That being said, you are a valued reader and as such deserve the best advice I can give.


A frequent problem for us Floor-illas is misunderstandings about dance prices. There are many variations on this theme so for the purposes of brevity, I'll focus on the two Root Causes:


A) Customer stupidity/drunkeness/dissatisfaction


  and...


B) Stripper Deception





                                 "I'm Ted B. I enjoy going to places I can't afford to be in."









  Let's focus on the leading cause, Customer Stupidity or Drunkeness or Dissatisfaction. Although we do deal with a fair amount of dance-spawned fuckery at this club, the majority of our quarrels over money come from the customers. I realize that some of you reading this right now will be suitably shocked or disappointed that strippers aren't indeed the number one reason for any sort of cash related shenanigans that occur, but it just ain't true.


  Goddamn, motherfookin customers are the problem at least two thirds of the time. When patrons are the source of the problem, the issue will be one of the following:


1) They are literally just too fucking stupid to grasp how a strip club works, or are phenomenal actors.


2) They are too drunk to remember or care about how a strip club works.


3) They are too drunk to really have any idea how much time has passed when getting ground on by a stripper who has no interest in his ability to grasp what's going on or how much fucking money he is "spending" without having any real clue that he's doing it.*4


4) The customer did not receive the sex act he was promised and therefore is angry with the world. If he were to express himself only in rhyme, it would go like this:


"I didn't get fucked so I ain't given no bucks."

"I got no head ain't givin no bread."

"Was at the titty club just the other day, got some dances from a bitch but she didn't give me no play, she promised me a hanjo and I said OK but my dick remains unwanked so I ain't gonna pay, I say, no way. Curd-faced ho."*5


5) The fuckstick doesn't argue how many dances he owes, but he argues that he was promised some sort of special deal that doesn't exist at our club. This kinda thing normally falls into the Stripper Deception category, but merits including here because it does happen from the fuckstick perspective. It doesn't help that like a lot of other clubs, we have different pricing for 'Day' and 'Night' shifts and most customers are too drunk when the prices change to be able to grasp the difference.

6) The customer knows perfectly well what he's doing when he tries to cheat a dancer because he's a broke cunt of a man, but tries to veil his intent with protestations that prices were never made clear to him and that he never asked for her to keep dancing etc etc. It's death by a thousand excuses.



  SO, how's does this knowledge benefit you, Ted B?  Like as in the word 'Advice'?



  Well, let me help you, former hag-prey.


  First off, and this may seem harsh to some readers, so if you're faint of heart, please skip the next paragraph.


  A) Don't believe anything a stripper says. Seriously. If even small amounts of your money, like $10-50 mean anything to you, then do some research first you tightwad asshat. See any guys in vests, tuxes, suits lounging about that seem like maybe they work there? Perhaps ask one of them what shit costs at this joint, chances are you'll get an answer more factually based than asking the some unscrupulous entertainer. Actually tip him and you may even open a whole world of possibilities...


 B) If you're planning on spending any real money, let's say for a small market's sake, at least $2-5K. In any strip club that you don't have an even chance of being killed or robbed, you're gonna have to go through a Floor Host to spend any of that money. Unless of course you're just going to get singles and throw them on the stage, for something that simple you normally don't need one of us.


C) Attempt to find a stripper who isn't visibly wasted or nodding out from heroin because they will often attempt to take advantage of you. I know, I know, who would've guessed that such wholesome examples of exotic dancers might stoop so low as to try to rip a guy off for drug money?

  Personally, I'm shocked.


D) This one may seem so basic, so fucking simple that some of you may scratch your heads as to why I'm even including it in this advice section, but trust me, it bears repeating. It goes something like this:


  It's your money, you're in charge, not the stripper.


  You'd think this would be so goddamn obvious that it didn't even need saying. Like stating that you have to drink water to stay alive or pizza tastes good or blowjobs feel nice, something like that. Yet you'd be surprised how many dudes just end up doing what a stripper tells them to do. Things like 'Tip me $500' and 'No, you want to do two hours in a VIP room with me' or 'Don't buy the cheap champagne'.


  It's gutting to watch a grown man give you permission to charge him for something he doesn't really want to do but hasn't the balls to just say 'no, we're not doing that'. I actually get embarrassed at their gutlessness, it fucking pains me sometimes.




                                 "I don't care anymore. Just do what she says. So tired......"





E) Don't bring a credit card to a strip club. Not only is the ATM both diabolically difficult to use, it's also expensive, as is any 'funny money' you can buy on your card. When going to a strip club, take as much cash as you feel comfortable spending plus $100 and leave everything else at home where your parents can keep an eye on it.



  I hope this helps you to avoid becoming stripper-prey. All I really advised is to be a semi responsible adult and not be a wasted, nutless herd animal, but I stretched it out over several paragraphs and tried to make simple, cogent points so that my slower readers could hopefully follow along too. At their own pace.


  Slow doesn't necessarily mean dull, you judgmental bastards...




  So, that's a pretty solid post, by my standards anyway. Tune in next whenever when I'll talk about Mosser's Guide to Strip Club Fauna. You'll love it.






Allergic to drunk people,
-The StripperHerder














*Back when this particular conversation happened, it wasn't even called 'twerking' yet.**


**I go back a ways, son.





*2 Relax, it's satire.





*3  Alcohol affects many different people many different ways. There are tons of subgroups and maybe some day I'll do an entire post on the topic. But for now let's focus of those people who are drunk enough that they've lost the ability to read any sort of physical or facial cues, body language, or even tone of voice. They're the type of drunk to say "hold my beer" and then maim themselves attempting something ludicrously stupid.


  These are the worst because it's like hitting a toddler or a puppy-it doesn't understand why it got hit. It's thinking hasn't reached that level yet or is temporarily sunk far below it. It doesn't know why you're annoyed.





*There are whole subspecies of Stripper that specialize in this sort of prey. They're actually more of a parasite than a predator according to according to Mosser's Guide To Strip Club Fauna**, and in my experience are seldom good tippers.


  **The definitive guide to stuff that lives in titty bar ecosystems.






*5 See, writing rap is easy. That took me a minute but only because I edit as I type and I'm becoming drunk enough to make a lot ot typing errors.









A Post Of Haikus I Put Very Little Effort Into. Or, To The Untrained Eye I May Appear To Be A Quasi-Professional Writer, But Don't Assume That. Don't Ever Assume That.




  Before I begin my poems of meaninglessness, allow me to reiterate that this blog is primarily satire. I enjoy writing about curb-stomping Uber drivers, slapping stupid strippers silly when they're being especially trying, or even head-butting a particularly dickish patron until he looks like a meatball sub that's been run over by an asphalt grader.


  However, because I value my freedom more than anything else on this Earth, I never act on my righteous impulses. Even at my angriest, I've never let slip the Dog of my War. It was made very plain to me when I was growing up that I was Too Big To Play With The Other Kids and that I had to become less assholey or that someone would end up shooting me or that I would be given a life sentence for throttling some annoying twat long past when they stopped struggling.



  SO, some of the following material MAY be considered by some readers to be offensive in some way, even if it's just a haiku. Some people SEARCH for indignation. It's a geas that's been thrust upon them by their overdeveloped sense of wrong and right and the quest to be the most offended person in their peer group. Mayhaps there's a trophy involved, I don't know.


  So, fuck them and whatnot.








  Ahem. Because they are one of the most popular facets of my blog-genius, I'll start with thirteen random topic haiku's for your enjoyment:






Joy will annoy you
Strippers named Joy don't bring joy
As a rule of thumb




Jim, the regular
Perverted scumbag lowlife
Mackin on teen girls




World's oldest dancer
Misha twerks to Abba songs
Jurassic Stripper




Useless Regular
Can't afford a dance nor drink
Breathing up our air




Shit talkin white kid
Won't last an hour in the hood

Fucking privileged twat





I drive for Uber
Clueless to my location
What are traffic laws?




I'm Millenial
Entitled but not thankful

Tipping is fascist



Gin weathered stripper
Haggard booze-medusa hunts
Stalking drunken prey



I am a Rapper
How have you not heard of me?
I have face tattoos



There's barf all over
My drunk girlfriend made a mess
Thanks for cleaning it

(NO TIP)





Deranged Foreigner
Thinks all strip clubs are brothels
Enjoys rape-cations




The Bacon Daisy:
Excessive inner lippage
Pita fulla ham



Explosive Ass-Blow
WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU EAT, BRO?
Straight missed the oval








  There, that wasn't so bad was it? I knew you could handle it, valued consumer!







  In other 'Herdin news there's a lot of stuff that's happened since my last post. If you think I might miss this opportunity for another List, then you've sadly mistaken the true nature of my writing ability, oh optimistic one.



  Since I've cleared that up, here's a bullet point List of everything noteworthy that has taken place since my last installment:




-Floor Guy: Rinaldo has been terminated. His last mistake was a scrawled in $1800 tip that a customer complained about. Don't mourn for him, he had a GOOD run.....



-Seventeen more strippers I have worked with have passed away in the last month, the oldest of which was 27.

 
  Heroin is a HELL of a drug, but to be fair I think at least 4 of them were murdered...




-Another Manager War led to the Floor Staff scurrying for the trees as hostilities were commenced. Looking down at it from the high branches we all concluded that it looked brutal and uncompromising, then we shrugged at went back to staring at our phones.


  Sir Atomize D'Lessars VI won of course, we all knew he would and refrained from taking sides. We knew from previous engagements that the forest canopy offered neutrality and plausible deniability and we took to it like lemurs and flying squirrels.


  Almost graceful in our flight.



-We have fired and rehired at least 3 strippers, God help us.


  We never fucking learn.




-Italy has surpassed Germany as the 5th highest readership of the StripperHerder on the planet Earth.


In descending order my readership looks like this


Amurrika

Russia (fuck yeah!)

UK

Canada

Italy

Germany

Australia

France

Netherlands

Poland




And in the interest of full disclosure, I get a steady supply of hits from Unknown Regions. Their words, not mine.


 I like to think of these "Unknown Regions" as pirate enclaves, or somehow lost pockets of Viking populations that have the internet but choose not to pillage with information gleaned from it.



  It keeps me warm at night. Wolverines!




  Your despotic Uncle
  -King Herdy O' Stripperson





 












































 

















2019 Is Here And With It A New List Of Pet Peeves And Gripes. Or, Fuck Your Birthday, Worthless Stranger.



  Ah the service/hospitality industry, the perfect system for transforming a mostly reasonable and somewhat happy person in a raging, misanthropic cunt in the shortest possible time frame. You can be the nicest, most generous person around, but give it three months trying to endlessly please and placate wasted twats and soon you will be the type of person who'd gladly strangle another human if you thought you could get away with it, or no longer care if you can't.


  There are large amounts of humans staggering around the planet who need to be garrotted and dumped someplace isolated and dank. Sometimes it just takes a scant few months in this job sector to fully appreciate that fact.


  That being said, I am one of those ruined by my occupation. I know that I used to be more fun to hang out with before I started back in this surreal fuckfest of a 'career'. I'm sure of this fact but try to blame it all on advancing years rather than the unstoppable erosion of my will to be around other people that this industry has bred in me.


  So, sticking with this theme, here is a list of my favorite current anger triggers*1. Longtime readers will recognize and probably be fond of some of these, but there are new ones due to the fact that humanity keeps evolving new ways to be annoying.




1) "IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!" All I said to you was 'Hi, how you doing tonight?' when you came through the club door and this was your reply. It's your fucking birthday. Lemme try to squeeze out a nugget of shit-care about that. Although I grunt and strain, sweating with rectal exertion, I can't manage even a raisin sized crap-lump of concern over the anniversary of you ruining your Mother's Va-Jay-Jay.


  I don't know you. I don't care at all about you, your well being or any circumstance whatsoever about your life, and yet you greet me with with an irrelevant fact regarding a meaningless milestone in your existence.


  Hoorah. You're one day older than yesterday. Good for you and congratulations.


  Now go fuck yourself.



2) "I seen the new Avengers movie."


  No you didn't. You saw it. It drives me yakshit when people either say or type that they seen something. It's saw, motherfucker, say it. You fucking well saw something, not seen it. What the fuck went wrong with your third grade education that you can't comprehend the difference? Seen is past tense or used in a query. Get it straight, lackwit.


  I am happy to accept people using this word incorrectly and will support their right to do so as long as they support my right to refer to them as 'shitheads' and 'morons'.



3) I greeted you or bid you goodnight and you ignored me, you impolite dangle of goat scrotum.


  When someone acknowledges your presence with a salutation of any sort, have the common human decency to fucking reply, even if it's just a grunt, a wave or a nod of the head. To ignore someone outright is a strong indicator that you're a worthless, poorly reared dickhole.



4) Phone Fucks. People completely immersed in the internet via their smartphones who occasionally surface to deal with the pesky real world before they return their scrunched up faces to their phones, much to their relief.


  Let me give you a couple of prime examples.


A) I was recently at a New Years Eve party. I was mostly hanging out in the basement where it was cool, uncrowded and all the pinball machines were located. I had been avoiding going upstairs because it was crowded, hot as hell from the kitchen and loud.


  At one point however, shortly after 2 AM, I ventured upstairs to raid the food again. As I looked into the living room, all I saw was five people lounging on various furniture, raptly staring at their phones while The Doors played vaguely in the background. Five people, in the same room, but all in their own world.


  Sad as fuck.



B) As mentioned frequently before, I work in a strip club. A titty bar. An establishment where attractive women gyrate around on stages in various states of undress.


  But even here, and in great numbers, humans will be immersed in their digital world while naked mams sway and bounce before them, where asses are twerked and poles are climbed in nothing but thongs for the entertainment of anyone who happens to look. Yet still there are lap-watchers, faces lit by screenglow in the meager illumination of a properly dim Gentlemen's Club, rapt within the interwebz when a real, live cute girl is all but naked two feet away from them.


  If you aren't here to look at primarily nude women, then why the fuck are you here at all? Surely you can stare at your phone in the privacy of your own home or, to wit, in a place much less expensive than this.


  Go Home.



5) Calling a club to ask if there's a cover charge and if so, how much is it?


  Seriously? You had to ask that?


  Sometimes I cover the portal for the Doorgirl when she has to go to the bathroom. Every now and then when I do so, the phone rings and by default I have to answer it. I enjoy every opportunity to do this that I am awarded. It's great fun.


  I always answer thusly:



  "Hi and thank you for calling The Polymer Platypus, My name is Steve. How can I help you, citizen?"



  I say it like a morning drive DJ, super happy. It almost always throws the callers off their track. Sometimes they ask what the age limit is, or slightly more often, if there's a cover and how much is it?



  Now call me old fashioned, because I surely am. But if concern over the cover charge at any given club you care to name is a good enough reason (for you) to call said club and ask how much it costs to pass  through their vestibule, then you shouldn't go there and you don't belong there. It's too expensive for you or you're too rural to not be offended by the prices.


  This is the Big City, lad. The Town™, and shit don't come cheap here. Best ye head back to the moors and/or yon hills, ya barefoot, muskrat eatin rustic.





   So, I'm content that I reached five in the above list. Most assuredly I had planned on doing more, but in this wild new reality of 2019, So futuristic....I concluded that this was adequate and further deduced that...fuck your pictures.




Gluten Nottingham,
-The StripperHerder






















*1 Anger Triggers: See also Pet Peeves. I hate the term "Pet Peeves" and so prefer "Anger Triggers" because it more accurately describes

A Slightly Tardy StripperHerder Christ-Mass Special! Or, Happy Belated 8th Anniversary, StripperHerder! Let's Celebrate With Reprinted Christmas Shit Even Though The Anniversary Was In October!




  It's that time of year again, The Holiday Season. That special time where some folks try to be slightly less assholey for a couple of weeks and where other folks become more assholey just because they hate Christmas.


  Personally I don't really enjoy Christmas, but then again, after this many years in my current job, I don't enjoy any Holidays anymore, the hospitality industry has ruined them all for me. That being said I used to love Xmas as a kid; the tree, the lights, the toys and all the cookies and whatnot.


  Really did it for me.


  Then I became an adult and realized what a pain in the ass it is.


  My family keeps it simple. Get together, have some dinner, do a hug or two and call it a night. We don't exchange gifts because we're all broke most of the time. When I can, I give a few people $50 and call it a job well done. Merry Holiday and so forth.


  I fucking love my family, we don't take anything too seriously.


  So, happy Whatever-You-Believe-In Day!





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  This past October marked my 8th anniversary of writing this pile of shit. I would've commemorated it in its own post, but I was too lazy if you can believe that. So this is the closest I'm gonna get to a self congratulatory post.


  In the very trite words of a lot of bloggers who never imagined themselves writing a blog for eight years when they first started, I can't believe I'm still writing this blog. I figured it'd be less then 10 posts and I would get bored and move on to something else I wouldn't finish. I didn't anticipate the restorative, cathartic release that writing it gave me, nor did I fully appreciate the enormity of inspiration that my occupation constantly provides me.


  Such Plight of the StripperHerder staples as: Drunk strippers, wasted strippers, drunk customers, drunk people in general, lost phones, the glory of heroin, completely unnecessary violence, The ATM, men's bathrooms, women's bathrooms, the threat of feces, the promise of blood and the reality of vomit.


  Lost phones, ripped shirts, stripper gangs, human garbage, stupid wretches, missing Ray Bans, angry girlfriends/wives, bachelor parties (shitglobs), stingy millionaires, annoying thousandaires, dipshit hundredaires, the broke, the mentally challenged yet wholly unsupervised, lost phones, complainers, criminals, rappers with over inflated egos, VIP wannabes, name droppers, hooligans, people from Quebec, hat fans, various organized crime affiliates, lost keys, misplaced phones, random discarded underwear, incredulity over our local liquor laws, prison bus riders, the cheap, day shift, the creatures that haunt day shift, Ancient Strippers, stolen phones, liquor control, non tippers, men who believe every strip club is a thinly veiled brothel, lost phones, Crimppers*1, locker babies*2, drooling smack-hooked spuzz sponges.


  Oh yeah, and lost phones.


  So thank you for continuing to read, in such numbers that the site suggested I try advertising. And while I wasn't wild about the idea, even though it could make me money, I looked into it anyway.


  Luckily for you, dear reader, I found that there aren't any advertisers even remotely comfortable with my subject matter, much less my colorful use of language to even consider running ads on my blog. Seems narrow minded to me, I could totally see some beneficial product tie ins, things like:



-Guns: I like guns without getting carried away with it. Why not read about deranged titty dancers and then download a 10% off coupon for the latest compact .45?


-Booze: I love booze. If it hadn't been for booze and booze related products, roughly 85% of this blog wouldn't exist. Booze makers should embrace me as a stunning example of alcohol's ability to entertain and create while doing minimal damage over the short term, kinda.


-Stripper Shoe Manufacturers: If you advertised on my blog, many pervy foot guys would buy shoes from your site to trade with strippers for their used shoes so they could hump those used shoes later in a Burger King parking lot while listening to the theme from Conan or a Taylor Swift song and using three packs of honey mustard sauce for lube.


-Condoms: You're desperate/wise/wealthy enough to pay for sex, you gonna do it raw dog? Endanger your trailer/health/fortune for the added pleasure of unprotected sex? Seems risky, brother. Better to wrap the rascal than have it erupt in sores/knock up a gold digger/cost you $60 more a month in child support.


-Lawyers: Yeah I hate them. I blame them for basically destroying this nation. However, it should be obvious that any dedicated reader of this blog may at one point or another require legal representation because of their blatantly troglodyte sense of humor, which is not in favor in current times.


  Thought crimes are just around the corner.


-Any company manipulated as a front for a rogue AI: My readers are of above average intelligence despite the overall quality of the content of this blog. It's catchy, yo. Ergo, if you pay me handsomely to advocate a product that's tantamount to abject slavery, I'll make it seem like a buttery dream that's totally obtainable because I'm tired of working.


  Just fucking pay me. I have no conscious anymore because of drunk people.






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    The following are Christmas carols from when I worked at Cathleen's Cooze Cathedral, a dark place where my life meant every bit as much to management and ownership as a prairie dog means to an ocean liner. When I worked there, a bottle of rum had more value to the place than I did. There were hundreds of lazy, morally malleable cunts out there who would happily punch their grandmas to have my job.


  So I let one of them have it and I think it killed him.




  Here's your fucking carols:





   1) The 12 Days of Christmas.



 On the first day of Christmas
  My true love sent to me
  A Cum Sock in a Onesie


  On the second day of Christmas
  My true love sent to me
  Two Soiled Thongs
  And a Cum Sock in a Onesie.

  
 On the third day of Christmas
 My true love sent to me
 Three Barf Piles
 Two Soiled Thongs
 And a Cum Sock in a Onesie


 On the fourth day of Christmas
 My true love sent to me
 Four Convulsing Sluts
 Three Barf Piles
 Two Soiled Thongs
 And a Cum Sock in a Onesie


 On the fifth day of Christmas
 My true love sent to me
 Five Bags of Smack
 Four Convulsing Sluts
 Three Barf Piles
 Two Soiled Thongs
 And a Cum Sock in a Onesie



 On the sixth day of Christmas
 My true love sent to me
 Six Johns' a Jizzing
 Five Bags of Smack
 Four Convulsing Sluts
 Three Barf Piles
 Two Soiled Thongs
 And a Cum Sock in a Onesie


 On the seventh day of Christmas
 My true love sent to me
 Seven Lawsuits Pending
 Six Johns' a Jizzing
 Five Bags of Smack
 Four Convulsing Sluts
 Three Barf Piles
 Two Soiled Thongs
 And a Cum Sock in a Onesie


 On the eighth day of Christmas
 My true love sent to me
 Eight Doctors Spending
 Seven Lawsuits Pending
 Six Johns' a Jizzing
 Five Bags of Smack
 Four Convulsing Sluts
 Three Barf Piles
 Two Soiled Thongs
 And a Cum Sock in a Onesie


 On the ninth day of Christmas
 My true love sent to me
 Nine Ho's Complaining
 Eight Doctors Spending
 Seven Lawsuits Pending
 Six Johns' a Jizzing
 Five Bags of Smack
 Four Convulsing Sluts
 Three Barf Piles
 Two Soiled Thongs
 And a Cum Sock in a Onesie


 On the tenth day of Christmas
 My true love sent to me
 Ten Teat's a Leaking
 Nine Ho's Complaining
 Eight Doctors Spending
 Seven Lawsuits Pending
 Six Johns' a Jizzing
 Five Bags of Smack
 Four Convulsing Sluts
 Three Barf Piles
 Two Soiled Thongs
 And a Cum Sock in a Onesie


 On the eleventh day of Christmas
 My true love sent to me
 Eleven Vice Cops Searching
 Ten Teat's a Leaking
 Nine Ho's Complaining
 Eight Doctors Spending
 Seven Lawsuits Pending
 Six Johns' a Jizzing
 Five Bags of Smack
 Four Convulsing Sluts
 Three Barf Piles
 Two Soiled Thongs
 And a Cum Sock in a Onesie


 On the twelfth day of Christmas
 My true love sent to me
 Twelve Tough Guys Swinging
 Eleven Vice Cops Searching
 Ten Teat's a Leaking
 Nine Ho's Complaining
 Eight Doctors Spending
 Seven Lawsuits Pending
 Six Johns' a Jizzing
 Five Bags of Smack
 Four Convulsing Sluts
 Three Barf Piles
 Two Soiled Thongs


And a Cum Sock in a Onesie 










Do You Hear What I Hear?*3






Said the Floor Host to the Stripper
Do you see what I see?
(do you see what I see?)
A wad of cash in that fucker's hand
Do you see what I see?
(do you see what I see?)
Some dough, some cheese
In that Douchebag's mitt
Go earn you some of it
Then tip me some of it


Said the Manager to the Stripper
Do you hear what I hear?
(do you hear what I hear?)
Ringing through the air, you deaf cunt
Do you hear what I hear?
(do you hear what I hear?)
Your name, your name
called by the DJ
Get your ass on the fucking stage
Get your fat ass on the stage


Said the Manager to the Floor Host
Do you know what I know?
(do you know what I know?)
I can destroy you with a fucking word
do you know what I know?
(do you know what I know?)
Your soul, your soul
blackens by the day
You'll be just like me some day
You'll be worse than me some day


Said the Owner to his underlings
Listen to what I say
(listen to what I say)
Pray for death people underfoot
Listen to what I say
(listen to what I say)
Your jobs, you jobs
Fucking mine to take!
Thirst for cash cannot be slaked
My thirst for cash can not be slaked



MOWWA-FAKKA.






  So, that's it.


  That's the post.


  There you have it.


  It's done now.


  That's all, folks.


  Go peruse something else.


  Thanks for reading!




  And might I say, in the most sincere spirit of Christmas, fuck your pictures.


 




Gut Notting.
-The StripperHerder


 
















  *1 A portmanteau of Criminal/Stripper: Dancers who always try to gouge their drunk prey and expect the Floor Staff to mindlessly back them up.**


 
  **See also: Stripinals (Stripper/Criminals)





*2 Locker Babies: Infants either born at, or brought into work in duffle bags due to lack of baby sittage who are stashed in a stripper's locker with a handy hamster bottle and a convenient nosebag of mashed bananas to sustain them through a six hour shift.


  There are harnesses you can buy to secure your offspring to a wall while you earn a living. These are the types of products that should be buying ad space on my blog. If I had a kid, I would totally buy a brat-sling that had built in Disney VR goggles and food/water supply for up to 3 days of absence with a self cleaning diaper.

A Post NOT ABOUT ME: A StripperHerder First. Or, Milestones In Twerkformer Relations




  I have a few friends who work in this industry and some of them I actually stay in touch with. The following story is about my buddy Berg, who I used to work with at Griselda's Gash Gallery, but who moved to Florida some years ago.


  Berg's a good dude. He's big like me, friendlier than me, complains less than me and doesn't miss shifts, which I sometimes do. All in all, any titty bar would be better off with Berg working for them than me. Probably.





                                  "I am Berg, born of ice and I greet you, titty-seeker."





   Funny though, when we talk and compare notes, there are a lot a parallels in our "career" paths. To enumerate these similarities, I'm gonna use one of my favorite literary cheats: The List.


  Ready? I knew you would be.



A) Neither one of us gets any respect. We both joined very long lived and established Floor Staffs at clubs that don't really feature a revolving door policy on new hires. Ergo, we'll never be equal to the 'senior' Floor Drubs no matter what we do or what miracles we pull squalling from our asses.


B) He gets schedule-fucked too. He cops to the fact that he and the Manager in charge of scheduling don't get along all that well, thus are some of his schedule woes created. I on the other hand thought I got along very well with my scheduling Manager, yet we have what would best be described as a multifaceted relationship. I.e., we get on well face to face, but judging by his actions, he doesn't like me very much and the moment my back is turned he work-fucks me. Shorting my days, preferring any and all Floor Grunts over me, never scheduling me on his nights, etc etc.


  Actions speak louder than words, Sir Ornery RipClaw VIII.


C) All the extra shit Berg does is taken for granted by his Mana-Jurs. Sounds vaguely fucking familiar to me. Berg is like me in his view of his job situation. He wants the club he works at to look and smell as good as possible, so therefore he knows how to use a broom and dustpan and more importantly, understands when they need to be deployed. He cheerfully mops up vomit, because it's part of the job.


  He happily refrains from beating drunk twats senseless on a nightly basis and actually gets along with the majority of the dancer herd, both of which can be hit or miss with me.


D) In three years he has watched two new hires surpass him on the Floor Guy food chain for reasons that are never articulated to him. This too is oddly reflective of my own situation because I've watched six Floor Dicks do this in my own club in five years. Also without a management 'talk' of any sort.*1


  Pretty damn consistent and similarly punitive I'd say.


E) He gets stuck working the door almost all the time. Being the largest biped on a given team frequently results in having to work the door, trust me on this. That being said, no one really wants to work the door. It's a fuckton more responsibility that any other post in a club of any sort because you are the first filter and you're gonna have to strain a lot of human garbage that the rest of your team will probably never even know about.





                                          "Dis ID is Fake. Are you sayink Imma Kunt?"



  Meanwhile the lazy bastards who always get to work the VIP rooms will enjoy an environment where they generate more money with a lot less doucheness, thanks to the guys who work the Godforsaken Portal and all the assholery, attitude and cuntiness they sieve from the potential inhabitants. Like those bristle-things a whales uses to strain krill from ocean water. We're like those things, but for fuckwits.


F) Berg's admitted to me that the rest of the Floor Shits at his club ask him to cover shifts for him all the time, which he does when he can, but then they are universally unavailable to cover one of his when he asks them to return the favor.


  Golly, that sounds completely unheard of where I work.*2



G) Berg makes more money that me. He always has since he moved down south, but his cost of living is higher and he probably has to deal with more bath salted Floridians than I do so I figure it all works out in the end. That stated, 2018 has proved to be an aberration on this theme as his 2018 has been pretty standard while mine has been a downward spiral of ever increasing financial violence.






  But enough about Berg, in another fine example of an abrupt segue,  let's talk Milestones in Stripperherding, because there are many. Some of the most important of which, don't even involve strippers, if you can believe that shit.




  So, to continue my mediocre effort in this particular post, let's do another List.




                 


                                          Fuck yeah!




  




              Milestones in the stripperherding industry:




1)  Learning to accept the fact that some people, a segment of which may or may not be titty dancers, are just going to be drug and alcohol wrecked shells of human beings and that nothing and no one can save them from themselves. Don't get attached is my advice. Never learn their real names or feed them caramels from your hand.



2) My legal team has advised me to refrain from stating publicly that I no longer care if a drunk dancer squeals away on wheels of terror in the small hours. A large, misguided missile too busy arranging a drug deal on her phone to notice the family of raccoons crossing the highway in front of her which cause her apathetically piloted car to skid on baby raccoon guts and plow into a bus full of seniors returning to Iowa after a night at the casino.


  I have agreed to their advice with the proviso that I might do it by accident if I'm drunk and that I will have very little control over it because I'm drunk. But dammit I'm gonna try my best and bunch up my lower lip in what I hope looks like a determined fashion.


3) Accumulating enough cock-control to not bang every hot skank that has made themselves available to me for the most trivial of reasons. This is a big one, folks. The banging of the wrong va-jay-jay and/or the improperly handled cessations of banging is a major termination factor in many a Floor Guy's demise. Probably the leading cause of Floor Host mortality in an industry crawling with ways for you to get yourself fired.




                                           Tame it! Ride the thunder, Floor Guy!





                                     
4) Accepting the fact that although some strippers NEVER tip you, they do in fact tip other Floor Dudes and thus, on an honest team*3, end up tipping you, if only indirectly. Sure they have nothing for the guy who may save them from a violent crime, but shit yeah, a guy who makes you ninety bucks after the club's cut? Totally worth a fiver.



5) Becoming innured to the everyday depredations that strippers indulge in with their prey. About the fifth time you see a stripper leading a dog collared, subservient regular around the club like an AKC Pomeranian, making him do tricks like sitting up and begging, rolling over, playing dead and the ever favorite making him withdraw a thousand dollars on his Amex.


  You just don't notice it anymore. It's like white noise that tips you $50 or so to not throw it out.






                     We never questioned why she led him to the dumpster, or what she did there...




  I believe I've fulfilled my contractual obligations at this point, and thus will retire with my dignity if not intact, then at least gracefully defiant.




Your Worst Uncle,
-The StripperHerder













*1 Call me crazy, but I've been Management before in a couple of other situations. There are ways you do things and there are way you don't. Bitching out an employee in front of staff, God and customers is NOT how you do it. All it does it build ill will between you and whoever you bitched out and anyone who works there who witnessed it, because if it can happen to you then it could happen to them.


  If an employee needs a dressing down, you pull them aside into an office, or in my reality, an unoccupied champagne room and yell at them. If you want anything productive to come of the interaction, try not to yell at them at all. Explain your position, list your gripes and set some fucking parameters for their improvement.


  It's ain't rocket science...




*2 This is an example of sarcasm. Look it up on the interwebz.





 *3 Which I believe I belong to, there is a lot of team camaraderie here when it comes to money and I figure I haven't been ripped off since I was brand new at the club and hadn't wormed my way into their hearts yet.