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Subject: Re: Bartender Security Deposit???/Strip Bars
From: Stardust
Posted: Sun May 14. 2006, 03:50 UTC
Followup to: "Bartender Security Deposit???"  by brandy76  (Sat May 13. 2006, 20:19 UTC)
> I just got a job at a strip club in NJ and mgmt. said that each 
> bartender has to submit a deposit of $125.00 (like an apt. rental 
> deposit/security)which stays with them until we leave.  This fee is 
> supposed to be a detterrent for the bartenders not to screw up.  For 
> example if a bartender doesn't show up & doesn't call then her 
> deposit will not be returned to her and it is given to the bartender 
> who had to be called in to cover for her.
> 
> Is this normal?  To get the 125 we have to give them $25 from our 
> tips until it's paid up.

   Strip bars for the most part operate within an 'underground economy' so to 
speak.  I've worked in strip bars all over the Northeast,  and St. Thomas.  
I've never heard of such a thing, (but that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist 
in some form).
   So what would happen if they let you go after a couple shifts, would you 
get your money back?
   Or what if you decide after two weeks that it isn't working for ya?  Could 
you get what you've paid back?
  Bartenders in strip bars don't usually 'screw up' because of the lucrative 
money to be earned in such a place.  For a place to actually tell you that you 
have to give up either X amount or percentage of your tips sends a red flag to 
me, and is illegal.  
  Ask them if you can write a check for the whole amount up front, I'm really 
curious as to what their response would be.  Either way, I'd be looking for 
some other place to work; methinks I smell a scam.


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Star


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