Speaker 1: They get a little They called me broadcasting live from Atlanta, Georgia.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the ball Alert Show. I go by and
Speaker 1: then Ferrari as soon as all you know BT is
Speaker 1: out being famous today. I have two good friends of mine,
Speaker 1: Amina in the building. How you doing, Jordan, what's up?
Speaker 1: Come a little closer to the mic, my friend. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're shooting content now, you know. And you ladies, you
Speaker 1: lovely ladies are bartender, waitress, bottle girl, kind of army swift,
Speaker 1: army Swiss snipers.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now I'll start with you. Do you where did you
Speaker 1: start in this whole area? Do you still bartend?
Speaker 3: And so I will say I started younger, but it
Speaker 3: was like strip club energy, you know, waitress in the
Speaker 3: strip club. Then I branched off to twists. If you
Speaker 3: remember twist at Phipps.
Speaker 1: I remember that dam that was the move, bro. I
Speaker 1: remember that line outside too.
Speaker 3: I did twist and then after that Twist closed and
Speaker 3: then I went to.
Speaker 1: Eleven forty five, my eleving forty five part my opera, Pottingam,
Speaker 1: my agent, entertainment party partner. We were locked in for
Speaker 1: a long time, say over ten years. Yeah, yeah, that's crazy,
Speaker 1: And go ahead.
Speaker 2: It was crazy how I started.
Speaker 4: I started at Tongue and Groove actually after doing like
Speaker 4: a black bottle Girl thing, So I started there and
Speaker 4: then I was doing like Opera antugn Groove, and then
Speaker 4: it was just opera because it was day parties, it.
Speaker 2: Was the week, it was everything.
Speaker 4: Then I got into ag World, started doing Compound, pre Ve,
Speaker 4: Gold Room, Soho Mondays, and then ended at Opium.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. I mean, I know I start I was
Speaker 1: hosting around your time, but that was DJ more so
Speaker 1: when I started seeing you. Okay, first question, man, you
Speaker 1: kind of already know, like I'm gonna ask because we're
Speaker 1: trending right now on the radio station page. Who makes
Speaker 1: the most money in the club? It was like the
Speaker 1: on a Saturday, on a.
Speaker 2: Popping Saturday night, I did see this.
Speaker 1: Who makes the most money in the club The owner,
Speaker 1: the bottle girl, the waitress, the DJ. To that, you
Speaker 1: gotta say who.
Speaker 3: I definitely would say the owner because all the money
Speaker 3: is funneling going through them, you know, but the waitress
Speaker 3: definitely makes a killing. Then you can't really be account
Speaker 3: of your your money can't be accounted for it because
Speaker 3: it's like unlimited, so you are making money here here, here, here, here,
Speaker 3: You're gonna see your friends. So I would say the owner,
Speaker 3: and then that waitress.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say the waitress, the waitress. I want to.
Speaker 4: Say the waitress and then the owner. I say that
Speaker 4: because when we're getting urgratuity, yeah, we.
Speaker 1: Take and that is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well at least it used to be. Now what
Speaker 4: they do nowadays, I don't know what that breakdown is,
Speaker 4: but yeah, getting your money off top, like she said,
Speaker 4: like you're gonna have friends or like people that like
Speaker 4: you or whatever want to give you some more, so
Speaker 4: like you make it more off of your twenty percent
Speaker 4: and then that's just that table.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: Granted, if you get a table that want more bottles
Speaker 4: than you're, you're overdoing what you expected to do anyways,
Speaker 4: So I would definitely say I would say us. I
Speaker 4: would say the bottles, bottle girls, and then the owner
Speaker 4: gonna get his at the end of the night.
Speaker 1: What's the most you've seen someone make or you've made
Speaker 1: at the end of the night, M don't sugarcoat friends,
Speaker 1: what's the most you've seen?
Speaker 3: The most I've seen is probably like somebody make like
Speaker 3: eleven grand.
Speaker 1: God damn one night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, was that at the strip club. No, this is regular.
Speaker 2: Oh we Jordan.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: Personally, I'd say four to five thousand and one night. Yeah,
Speaker 4: take me back right, I made.
Speaker 3: Eight gran in one night where I got a five
Speaker 3: thousand dollars tip and then they also tipped me in cash. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then it was like the rest of the night.
Speaker 3: And that's as a service waitress.
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, So how do you what made you guys
Speaker 1: want to get into the service industry, because we're gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lead to another question, but what made you
Speaker 1: want to get into this industry?
Speaker 2: I was low key throwing into it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I had been I had been around, Like I said,
Speaker 4: I started doing stuff for black bottle girls anyway, So
Speaker 4: I was already walking around with a bottle serving people.
Speaker 4: And then I knew people. So then it was just like, well,
Speaker 4: we're gonna do this Monday night. Why don't you just
Speaker 4: come serve with us on Monday. So really it just
Speaker 4: started from there and it just it just grew like it.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I was not.
Speaker 1: Just flew.
Speaker 4: I just flew in there, and then opportunities just kept going.
Speaker 4: I'm like, I mean I'm making money anyways, it is
Speaker 4: what it is I don't got a clock in no
Speaker 4: nine to five.
Speaker 2: I'm with it, fast money, cash, like, let's go. I'm
Speaker 2: in my twenties, why not?
Speaker 3: And mines came about like I'll say younger, but my
Speaker 3: friends were already doing it. So they're like, Amina, I
Speaker 3: work at the strip club. You know, when you're young,
Speaker 3: it's like, oh, she worked at the strip club.
Speaker 2: What's she in here doing?
Speaker 3: But we was literally just waitresses, so we was making
Speaker 3: money in it started to go from dis place to
Speaker 3: this place to this place. And once you were in
Speaker 3: the industry, all you're going to do is meet somebody
Speaker 3: else that owns the club. They'll say you don't want
Speaker 3: to work there, or come up and work over here.
Speaker 3: So now you're at this place, this place, this place,
Speaker 3: and this place.
Speaker 1: So I like the industry, okay, which leads me to
Speaker 1: my next word of the episode, customer service. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: had my share of seeing really dope. This is me Ferrari.
Speaker 1: Whenever I go djil club or djail party, I find
Speaker 1: one way, one bottle girl that I just get tight with. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, yes, you know what I'm saying. I just
Speaker 1: found one person, so I don't got to communicate with
Speaker 1: five different people, you know what I'm saying, and I find,
Speaker 1: but I always found the person that gives the best
Speaker 1: customer service. Is it taught for you guys to have
Speaker 1: great customer service? Is there training to be a waitress,
Speaker 1: a bottle girl, a bartender, because I know a bartender
Speaker 1: you have to get your mixology, yeah, license a little bit,
Speaker 1: a little bit, or or you just.
Speaker 2: Got to know how to make drinks.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: In the industry that I came from, I was trained.
Speaker 3: So at Twist, I was trained.
Speaker 1: Like customer service service.
Speaker 3: And now that I work at m c K, Mitch
Speaker 3: is there. So it's like yeah, so it's literally full circle.
Speaker 3: And so now we're training the people. But I'll say
Speaker 3: in this you will kind of like start a certain
Speaker 3: way because a lot of people do it for the money.
Speaker 3: But what's crazy is I do it to make friends,
Speaker 3: make friends that will pay me. Yeah, it's like make
Speaker 3: a friend. They gonna come back, They're gonna request you,
Speaker 3: They're gonna come and see you, and then you'll see
Speaker 3: them again and again and again and again it and
Speaker 3: then you will never know what they have going on.
Speaker 3: And then next thing you know, you know, So it's
Speaker 3: like your networking, you know. So I'm on the end
Speaker 3: where I love my job and it just pays me
Speaker 3: very well.
Speaker 2: So I train people for that.
Speaker 3: I'll be like, listen, have a personality, look nice, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, Get in their business. Ask them questions,
Speaker 3: not about how was your day?
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: But if you see them, I like your hair, who
Speaker 3: did your hair? You know? Start a conversation and I
Speaker 3: get everybody's name, and I do not know how I
Speaker 3: remember it, but.
Speaker 2: I don't forget it.
Speaker 1: That's great for one encounter.
Speaker 3: If I remember glowing up, I'd be like, oh, Jordan,
Speaker 3: hey again, and everybody'd be like you know her.
Speaker 2: I'm like, no, I'm married the last time. It's kind
Speaker 2: of weird. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4: When you go into waitressing, like at a club. I
Speaker 4: don't personally think customer service is taught.
Speaker 2: It's you get.
Speaker 4: You get what the customer acts, and you go like,
Speaker 4: make your rounds is what it is. Collect my money,
Speaker 4: not you personally as the waitress, but collect my money
Speaker 4: from the club because we did used to when they
Speaker 4: took you to a section. I need that money up front,
Speaker 4: blah blah blah blah. I gotta take it. To the
Speaker 4: back before you even get your bottles. Now they do
Speaker 4: it at the door, thankfully. But no, customer service was
Speaker 4: not taught. But lucky for me, I was in retail first.
Speaker 4: But I've always been just a personal person. I don't
Speaker 4: like bad service, so I'm not gonna give bad service.
Speaker 2: So it's you.
Speaker 4: Know, courtesy, like thank you, how you doing by black?
Speaker 4: Like just small talk, getting to know them, like you said,
Speaker 4: creating that, creating that bond, and when they come back,
Speaker 4: they're gonna ask for you. Just do good by other
Speaker 4: and they're gonna do good to you, and then they're
Speaker 4: gonna come back and may your cup runs over.
Speaker 1: In the industry where it's always you know, good, it's
Speaker 1: the good and the bad. And I feel in all industries, right,
Speaker 1: what have you guys seen like bad? Like bad customer service,
Speaker 1: bad waitresses? Bad? Do those people tend to not last long?
Speaker 1: Like is it like drama or is it you know,
Speaker 1: I be clod I mean, I mean seen a lot.
Speaker 3: Add customer service is timing, like I was taught, check
Speaker 3: back every two minutes, Like you check back so much
Speaker 3: you annoy the customer.
Speaker 2: But they never supposed to look for you like that.
Speaker 3: They're never supposed to ask somebody, hey, yeah, and if
Speaker 3: they did, like even in the two minutes they need something,
Speaker 3: if they asks that server, that server gets it. That
Speaker 3: server doesn't come say hey, a meana, your table needs
Speaker 3: No it's our table. It's no just thing, regardless if
Speaker 3: I'm getting the money from it or not. They're not
Speaker 3: supposed to even know what they server is, to be honest.
Speaker 2: They're supposed to get it.
Speaker 3: Get the whatever the person asks, or they ask for
Speaker 3: a couple of ice. Don't come find me and say
Speaker 3: they get your type a couple of ice and then
Speaker 3: I'm already doing something.
Speaker 2: They gave you the tesk do it, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 3: So that's how I learned even but that's kind of
Speaker 3: like in the household, if you see the dishes, do them.
Speaker 3: Don't complain about my sister didn't do the dishes. You know, No,
Speaker 3: do the dishes. If you see something, you do it.
Speaker 3: So that's what I was kind of taught, like, don't
Speaker 3: let somebody else do the task that was given to you.
Speaker 3: I think that's how you determine like who's on the
Speaker 3: team and who's herself. Like, granted, your table is your
Speaker 3: what you're making and We're not split depending on what
Speaker 3: club you're at, you're not splitting the tips. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take care of my table. You can take
Speaker 3: care of your table. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: like we're all in this together.
Speaker 2: We're here, we spend these hours together. We're becoming friends
Speaker 2: with becoming family.
Speaker 4: So yeah, like if my table is looking for something
Speaker 4: that's not a bottle, please go get it for them
Speaker 4: or tell me or whatever.
Speaker 2: But I do feel like.
Speaker 4: Sometimes they will keep a waitress with a bad attitude
Speaker 4: and they're just like, oh, it's okay, like she'll go
Speaker 4: get it, But like that's a nasty attitude.
Speaker 2: I don't want her back personally.
Speaker 4: And I think every woman that is at a section
Speaker 4: that has a waitress with a nasty attitude, they're gonna
Speaker 4: be like they're going to say something always because why
Speaker 4: do you have an attitude.
Speaker 2: When I'm you're taking my money? What's your Why are
Speaker 2: you un'thappy at work? Boom?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I started your night even though it started at
Speaker 3: ten o'clock at night. You just started your night off,
Speaker 3: and you have an attitude, you know. So I always
Speaker 3: like I'm very welcoming, so I always do everything with
Speaker 3: a smile, so you wouldn't even think that I was
Speaker 3: taking your money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to give me your money? Yeah, but like, yeah,
Speaker 2: we have a tab? What is your tap? Is this?
Speaker 3: We have to take it up front versus saying, hey, yeah,
Speaker 3: you're not getting no bottles?
Speaker 2: Like why are you talking to people like?
Speaker 3: You know, like come on, Like that's how you do
Speaker 3: people even if you in a rush, you have time
Speaker 3: for them, make time for them. Don't let them know
Speaker 3: you have anything else going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why it's called the service.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the service.
Speaker 1: So again, next question will be when you guys are
Speaker 1: dealing with like, you know, promoters or owners. Who hires
Speaker 1: you guys? Owners?
Speaker 2: Mmmm, well, they'll kind of use a manager.
Speaker 1: It will be the manager of the club that hires.
Speaker 3: But you know what, eleven forty five, I did get
Speaker 3: hired by a promoter who I thought was an owner.
Speaker 1: So he was doing tends to happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, so.
Speaker 3: He was doing the hiring and shout out to Luther Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, anyway, okay, So is there a criteria that you
Speaker 1: guys have to make sure you meet maintaining being a
Speaker 1: server at a nightclub, wars, strip club or lounge, meaning
Speaker 1: like physically do you have to come? Do you have
Speaker 1: to have makeup on? Do you? Because one time eleven
Speaker 1: forty five r P eleven forty five, I would see
Speaker 1: like outfits like somebody. I think one time somebody made
Speaker 1: y'all outfits.
Speaker 3: Yes, I was doing that a time I was making that.
Speaker 1: Y'all had some flare on the hard.
Speaker 3: I think the criteria is beauty period. Like you are
Speaker 3: a woman. My I would say, act like you're trying
Speaker 3: to impress a boy.
Speaker 1: Come to work somebody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, act like you're trying to impress somebody, Like what
Speaker 3: how would you look? You know you're not rolling out
Speaker 3: the bed. You are literally selling.
Speaker 2: No I can spend not like that, but you're you
Speaker 2: need to look nice.
Speaker 3: You makeup, you have your hair done, your nails done,
Speaker 3: you bringing out bottles. Your hands are going to be
Speaker 3: in pictures, you know what I mean. Your outfits there
Speaker 3: are going to be fish nets. Make sure they don't
Speaker 3: have holes in it. For you know, your shoes, your shoes,
Speaker 3: and I would say everybody's shoes need to be cohesive,
Speaker 3: like everybody didn't have on the same shoes.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: We need to look like we're on a dance squad.
Speaker 1: Is there like a leader that does that?
Speaker 4: Or well, sometimes I feel like there's like a head waitress,
Speaker 4: or they'll make themselves a head waitress.
Speaker 2: But I don't like they made We picked our uniforms.
Speaker 4: Okay, well not for ag entertainment, obviously, you know he
Speaker 4: gonna he gonna do what he want to do. But
Speaker 4: I would say for opium, like we shopped around ideas,
Speaker 4: was like, y'all like this, all right, cool, we're gonna
Speaker 4: get this, send us your sizes.
Speaker 2: This is what it is.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: We definitely said like stockings, fish nets and whatnot, but
Speaker 4: like what stocking you wanted to wear with wet outfit.
Speaker 2: It wasn't that strict. Neither were the shoes.
Speaker 4: But I would say for me, just observing people, I
Speaker 4: was thigh high.
Speaker 2: Boots with a heel. You're not gonna catch me in
Speaker 2: no flats. Plus everything set up better when you put
Speaker 2: some heels on it.
Speaker 4: But I would see people like nothing against the people
Speaker 4: that wear the Balinciaga sock shoe, but that doesn't that
Speaker 4: doesn't make you set up, That doesn't make you like
Speaker 4: roll your shoulders back and strut. So I feel like
Speaker 4: you need to be in something that you're gonna strut in,
Speaker 4: but also be comfortable because don't get me wrong, my
Speaker 4: heels weren't like stiletto's. They were definitely some comfortable shoes.
Speaker 4: But my ship was barking after that. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 4: gotsen years.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yes, but if you look at the girls
Speaker 3: in Vegas, they look like show girls for sure. Miami
Speaker 3: they look like show girls. So it's not no, you
Speaker 3: don't get to pick your outfits. They the club picked
Speaker 3: their outfits for them into them and you better fit,
Speaker 3: which means you better gym for sure, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. So it was it was definitely a Crotteriria
Speaker 3: and you know, in those cities.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm so glad you guys are here. Right. So,
Speaker 1: as a person that hosted the biggest parties in Atlanta
Speaker 1: and ej them as well, how important is the music,
Speaker 1: the DJ, the situation for you guys to do your
Speaker 1: job even better?
Speaker 2: Cuge, that's huge. They're creating the vibe.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's the biggest, like the major Yeah, if it's.
Speaker 1: I would see before we bring such and such a.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that matters so much because certain those beats when
Speaker 3: you're drinking. Certain beats, like even if you win your car,
Speaker 3: listen to them. You may drive a little faster just
Speaker 3: because those beats have you like, oh I'm feeling myself,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: So you guys make more money the better the DJ.
Speaker 2: I think so, because they said they set the vibe.
Speaker 2: So if vibing and.
Speaker 1: Your continuous, potentially yeah.
Speaker 4: And you're and you're like they're they're having a good time,
Speaker 4: they drinking, the bottles are going quicker. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 4: gonna get another bottle before because you running out. You
Speaker 4: don't want you don't want the vibe to end. So yeah,
Speaker 4: they're gonna keep vibing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Now does it Is it different? Is there a
Speaker 1: difference between you guys working and serving at a lounge
Speaker 1: versus a strip club versus a club? And I don't
Speaker 1: even know if there's any clubs left in Atlanta outside?
Speaker 1: Is there a difference between making money at these different establishments.
Speaker 1: It's all based off of that friend that you make.
Speaker 3: Yep, it's all about customer service. Like the numbers have
Speaker 3: not changed. You can be like I used to make
Speaker 3: money back in the day. No, I'm still making money today.
Speaker 3: You know, it only gets better, you know, because now
Speaker 3: in our community, it's a lot of entrepreneurs, so we've
Speaker 3: already grown to treat ourselves a certain way. So now
Speaker 3: we're going to places that treat us a certain way.
Speaker 3: So you're going to get that waitress, you know, and
Speaker 3: I will hire somebody. I'll be like, Mitch, I got somebody,
Speaker 3: but somebody that works like me. Yeah, that works just
Speaker 3: like me. So I'll say, hey, you know, this person
Speaker 3: is that, this person is that. And I'm such not
Speaker 3: a gatekeeper that even if it's somebody that requests me,
Speaker 3: I'll be like, no, go with her today, like, you
Speaker 3: know what, let me see you know, tell me how
Speaker 3: she did.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: So I have people that come solely to see me
Speaker 3: and say if I can't get to them, I'll get
Speaker 3: them the next best thing.
Speaker 2: Like I'll be like, go get your money. This person.
Speaker 2: Tip's really good. You're gonna love to wait on them. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: So the money don't change you, just you just gotta
Speaker 3: keep your personality up your you gotta want to do it.
Speaker 2: So I love the industry, so it works for me.
Speaker 1: Jordan, I'm gonna start with you on this next question.
Speaker 1: You guys are working clubs but you got to have
Speaker 1: a personal life. Ye got to have a relationship eventually. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and if that relationship grows, how does it grow? Does
Speaker 1: what you guys do intimidate someone that you could potentially
Speaker 1: be in a relationship with due to the fact that
Speaker 1: you're out until four or five in the morning, sometimes
Speaker 1: six in the morning. A person that you're in a
Speaker 1: relationship with may not like that, especially if you know
Speaker 1: you're doing an AG party and a super big A
Speaker 1: list celebrity sends you a DM because they love the
Speaker 1: way you brought those you serve them and brought those
Speaker 1: bottles and brought those bottles out there, Like, oh.
Speaker 2: My god, she's just looking great.
Speaker 1: Ye send her a DM. That could be a little
Speaker 1: intimidating to a potential, you know, person that you want
Speaker 1: to spend the rest of your life with, right or No?
Speaker 4: Definitely it has. I feel like it has caused problems.
Speaker 4: But that's why they ain't my problem no more. That
Speaker 4: person is not my problem no more. Like I need
Speaker 4: somebody that's confident in what I come with, And I
Speaker 4: think you also have to be confident in your partner.
Speaker 4: Like if you've been dating me and you know me,
Speaker 4: I would have a nigga from the club if I
Speaker 4: wanted one. Obviously I don't, So why are you concerned
Speaker 4: about who I'm serving and what I'm doing now? I
Speaker 4: do think we have to be mindful of your personal life,
Speaker 4: your self care, and your family while being in the club,
Speaker 4: because I've missed or had to leave plenty of Christmases
Speaker 4: or Thanksgiving, Halloween, I ain't spend New Year's. I didn't
Speaker 4: spend New Year's with a significant other. In years work,
Speaker 4: that's prime time to make a lot of money.
Speaker 1: Time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I mean it has cost issues and you
Speaker 4: definitely just have You just have to make time. You
Speaker 4: have to prioritize now, like do I want to go
Speaker 4: make this money or do I want off today? But
Speaker 4: you know, you might want to take that slow day
Speaker 4: before the summer come because summer you locked in.
Speaker 2: But I mean it's doable, absolutely doable. Though.
Speaker 3: Well, I've managed to have a really good schedule that
Speaker 3: works for whoever I'm dating. So I've had a good
Speaker 3: run in the industry where I am.
Speaker 2: If I am in a relationship, it works. You know,
Speaker 2: they know my schedule.
Speaker 3: I still make time and I don't have kids, so
Speaker 3: I don't know it works it works. So I haven't
Speaker 3: had a run in where somebody.
Speaker 2: Okay, I see you.
Speaker 3: Wait when that guy faced it like, hey, I'm bringing
Speaker 3: home the money, so chill.
Speaker 2: They're not.
Speaker 3: I've never met nobody's like you. I seen you and somebody.
Speaker 3: It's working.
Speaker 2: It's working. Yeah, I definitely.
Speaker 4: I definitely remember, like what are my boyfriend's looking at
Speaker 4: my going through my phone? Like when I was sleep
Speaker 4: and I got a text from a customer like it
Speaker 4: was it was only for I told him, I said,
Speaker 4: you know, thank you for tonight because you always going
Speaker 4: to a book with me, so I appreciate you for tonight.
Speaker 4: You tipped you over tip and that was all it was.
Speaker 4: I might have said, you know, babe, but it wasn't
Speaker 4: like and that's all that he read and that.
Speaker 1: I understand.
Speaker 2: Yeah he lost it his customer service. You learned the
Speaker 2: babe because you don't know their names a lot. I
Speaker 2: did know him, but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that wasn't like that fan.
Speaker 2: Yeah you said, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Now again, I've been I've been in this industry. I
Speaker 1: wanted to damn, I'm getting old, almost twenty years. I've
Speaker 1: seen some people get their bodies done to influence people
Speaker 1: to tip more. Do you guys see that too?
Speaker 4: I don't know if I can say that they did
Speaker 4: it for people to tip more they're trying to catch
Speaker 4: some or for themselves.
Speaker 3: I think they did it, and if they did it
Speaker 3: in the industry, they definitely did it because of what
Speaker 3: they saw they was next to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the other girls. Yeah, it's like a girl thing.
Speaker 1: So is it an ever that's going to be an
Speaker 1: ever going thing?
Speaker 3: Then yeah, it's a girl thing. They'll be like that
Speaker 3: you look a certain way, and then the club owners
Speaker 3: actually will hire you based off how.
Speaker 1: You look, which I understand that part because.
Speaker 3: Yeah, OK, so if they see like this person is
Speaker 3: getting this table or these particular clients because they look
Speaker 3: a certain way, girls will be like, oh, I need
Speaker 3: to look like them. So it'll kind of shift their
Speaker 3: self esteem a little bit.
Speaker 2: But you know, I don't.
Speaker 3: I was never taught that, you know, So I was
Speaker 3: taught to get money. It was never about what it
Speaker 3: looked like. It was about who you was, how fast
Speaker 3: you were, and how efficient you were, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. So people will say, oh, I'm getting the
Speaker 3: waitious because she got the fat ass, but they're not server. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because I had some girls I've worked with some girls
Speaker 3: and I will tell you the truth.
Speaker 2: This is a true story.
Speaker 3: I can't say their names, but the girl was sleeping
Speaker 3: with the guy when he came in here, he said,
Speaker 3: I want to meet him, and so she thought, oh me,
Speaker 3: he mean you suck your customer.
Speaker 2: Customer survey, you are servicing. That's not what's happening. Like, No,
Speaker 2: you no matter what, you.
Speaker 3: Going after hours to work. Yeah, you can't feel entitled
Speaker 3: just because of what you've done. You know, So I'm
Speaker 3: making what you could have, should have, would have just
Speaker 3: because I'm so.
Speaker 1: It's not a good idea to sleep with the cut.
Speaker 2: Absolutely not the customer or the boss.
Speaker 1: But these things tend to happen in this line of
Speaker 1: words by all men, and does it. I can tell
Speaker 1: that it creates a lot of issues. Man. And then
Speaker 1: you gotta go somewhere else because you probably get fired.
Speaker 4: Right liquor in late night do something to you your feelings.
Speaker 2: The girls feelings are hurt.
Speaker 3: So whatever they was performing like before they got with
Speaker 3: whoever it shifts or.
Speaker 4: He taking them tables away, I'm gonna give you them
Speaker 4: back two seaters damn.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And so in my industry, I definitely worked in a
Speaker 3: way where people would be like, oh, I mean it's
Speaker 3: talking to somebody.
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 2: No, I'm just bubbly, you know what I mean. I'm
Speaker 2: just bubbly, and I don't.
Speaker 3: I never had to do that, So I was taught
Speaker 3: when I work at the Strip club in two thousand
Speaker 3: and eight, like I've seen a girl that I work
Speaker 3: with sleep with a customer. Then he came back with
Speaker 3: somebody else the next week, and I was like.
Speaker 2: She was crushed. So now she had worked with attitude.
Speaker 3: So I swear watching her that happened to her and
Speaker 3: made me never ever want to talk to a customer.
Speaker 3: So now even now they'll say, hey, I said I
Speaker 3: don't date people that come in here, and they'll say, what,
Speaker 3: I don't got to come here.
Speaker 2: You'll never see me again. Don't matter.
Speaker 1: I met you in here, So you don't they anybody
Speaker 1: that you meet in that way.
Speaker 3: No, I'm just you just know. I'd be like, look around, it's.
Speaker 1: Where you meet somebody to Oh, I hang out, I
Speaker 1: go out and travel. I'm outside, so you have to
Speaker 1: be off the clock.
Speaker 3: Off the clock, you get to really see the real
Speaker 3: you know. But in my job, like come on, I'm working.
Speaker 1: To meet somebody at the job.
Speaker 2: Nah, No, I mean I don't think.
Speaker 4: I don't think any of us like that, at least
Speaker 4: like the real workers. I would say, because we're here,
Speaker 4: I'm here to do a job. Like you might be
Speaker 4: easy on the eyes, I'm like flur a little bit,
Speaker 4: but like it's got to be on my time. Don't
Speaker 4: you take me around this club. Don't be trying to
Speaker 4: keep me in your section because you like me. I
Speaker 4: got seven more that I need to move around to.
Speaker 2: I'll be back. I'll catch you by the end of
Speaker 2: the night, if that's what I want.
Speaker 1: How do you guys navigate through that? Because you I was.
Speaker 1: We did a DJ, a female DJ episode, and they
Speaker 1: mentioned that not only do we got to deal with guys,
Speaker 1: we got to deal with girls that holler at us too.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you guys got and women hollering at
Speaker 1: you while you're serving, while you're and the.
Speaker 3: Women make it feel like because they're girls, is now
Speaker 3: is it's really okay? So you tend to flirt because
Speaker 3: this is you know, or you tend to be warm,
Speaker 3: and they may take that as something else and they'll
Speaker 3: start stalking you, Like if you give out your ig
Speaker 3: you're done.
Speaker 2: I ain't had a girl experience.
Speaker 4: I can't say so you never had a girl two
Speaker 4: weeks ago, I'm like, hey, this girl is extremely aggressive.
Speaker 3: I made it cool, but it's not I had a
Speaker 3: girl experience.
Speaker 2: Yes, honey, damn I missing out. Yeah, it's like.
Speaker 1: I ain't don'a tee you all right? So before you wrap,
Speaker 1: two more questions. Safety. Yeah, guys getting off at four
Speaker 1: in the morning, I do see I have seen in
Speaker 1: a lot of clothes. Uh, the security will walk you,
Speaker 1: guys to your car. How important is safety in your industry?
Speaker 2: Major?
Speaker 4: Major, because you could get somebody in the club that's
Speaker 4: creeping in the bag and they waiting for you to leave,
Speaker 4: and you got all this money. You ain't getting a transaction,
Speaker 4: you're getting cash. So by all means not by yourself
Speaker 4: have something on you for sure.
Speaker 2: I don't know what. I don't know what the club
Speaker 2: policy is about. Safety for a waitress.
Speaker 4: Isn't what you can have in your bag or not
Speaker 4: have something on you, because it could be when I mean,
Speaker 4: I think security should absolutely wait till you're in your car.
Speaker 4: Started it like lock your door automatically when you get
Speaker 4: in there. But security should wait for everybody to leave
Speaker 4: before they leave, but in the case that they don't,
Speaker 4: I think it's very important that waitresses and anybody in
Speaker 4: the night life stay vigilant, all eyes open around you
Speaker 4: at all times, working and not working, because shit can
Speaker 4: happen in the club while you're working.
Speaker 3: So for me, if I had a large lumsung, I'm
Speaker 3: not taking it home.
Speaker 2: I'm letting them keep it.
Speaker 3: I'm accounted, let them keep it, and then I'll pick
Speaker 3: it up in daylight, take it to the bank somewhere.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: It's like nothing's on me, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: So getting home, I tend to get home safely. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so I don't have those thoughts. That's not my thought process,
Speaker 3: Like I'm annoyed it, you know what I mean. I
Speaker 3: feel like I have a good heart, So I'm not
Speaker 3: thinking about that field, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 3: I try not to attract it. But I will say
Speaker 3: I have people that are very concerned when I do
Speaker 3: drive home or get home, you know.
Speaker 2: And then what's crazy enough, I kind of share my
Speaker 2: location for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my mama got that best friend. Everybody everybody that
Speaker 4: needs to have it, Yeah my location. Yeah, so it'll
Speaker 4: be like on two separate phones.
Speaker 3: So I feel good about that, you know, But I
Speaker 3: totally understand the because I've seen girls getting ubers with money,
Speaker 3: and I've seen one girl the Uber driver set her up.
Speaker 3: The Uber driver. She used the same Uber driver every night.
Speaker 2: I think I saw that that was a minute ago, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: She's the same Uber driver every night. And when she
Speaker 3: got home. Yeah, apparently somebody was like bum rushing her door. Yep,
Speaker 3: that the Uber driver set up.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not safe.
Speaker 4: But I definitely used to go to the ATM, but
Speaker 4: I live in it's a different part of town, so
Speaker 4: ain't nobody checking for me at the ATM. But I'm
Speaker 4: definitely going to the ATM before I get home regardless.
Speaker 4: Get that up off me. I ain't got nothing when
Speaker 4: you when you want it, I ain't got it.
Speaker 2: Yeah off.
Speaker 1: Okay, last question, so the evolution of you as a person,
Speaker 1: You as a person like you when you're working in
Speaker 1: this industry, where do you see yourself ten years down
Speaker 1: the line? What's your plan? Oh?
Speaker 2: I'm a fashion designer, Okay, that's my real job.
Speaker 3: So I love the industry because first I get to
Speaker 3: meet people, you know, I get to sell my brand
Speaker 3: as well, and a lot of them already recognizing, which
Speaker 3: I'm so grateful for because I've made clothes for so
Speaker 3: many females.
Speaker 2: So they'll be like, Amana, oh my god, I'm one
Speaker 2: of you.
Speaker 3: Yes, and they'd be like, yes, I love this place,
Speaker 3: you know. But it just brings me like more energy
Speaker 3: and more networking. So in networks, so I'll say fashion design,
Speaker 3: You're going to see it am by Imina Jey Yeah.
Speaker 1: Who.
Speaker 4: I truly had no idea what my ten year goal
Speaker 4: was when I started waitressing. It just so happened that
Speaker 4: I got to a place where it was becoming slow.
Speaker 2: And this was probably like.
Speaker 4: Twenty seventeen eighteen ish when things were a little bit slow,
Speaker 4: that I just started in real estate, like working in
Speaker 4: different pockets of real estate until I just found what
Speaker 4: I want to do.
Speaker 2: So I'm in real estate, I have my license.
Speaker 4: I'm more so on developer properties than anything and I
Speaker 4: love it. But I definitely, I definitely attribute a lot
Speaker 4: of my growth and the skills that I have to
Speaker 4: working in the night life, and I think what comes
Speaker 4: with that as a woman and as somebody where that
Speaker 4: was not the goal to stay. I was not wanting
Speaker 4: to stay there. I wasn't looking for a husband there,
Speaker 4: but it was the connections that you made in the
Speaker 4: qualities that you picked up from the club that are
Speaker 4: always going to like help.
Speaker 2: You long term, I think so.
Speaker 1: And last last question to someone that's super young that
Speaker 1: wants to get into the service industry waitress and bartending
Speaker 1: or you know, being a potential bottle girl, what do
Speaker 1: you tell them? What's some advice you can give?
Speaker 3: I would say, acquire the knowledge first, like make sure
Speaker 3: you are trained to learn that you are serving someone else,
Speaker 3: and that you are polite, and that you actually know drinks, food, allergies,
Speaker 3: you know, more mature questions you know, and just very
Speaker 3: very pay attention to detail. So even like if you
Speaker 3: are a hostess, you know, somebody walking in and no phones,
Speaker 3: you on your phone, you need to look up, you
Speaker 3: always need to be attentive and no back towards the door.
Speaker 3: It's like, so I would say, just be just have
Speaker 3: really good awareness skills just out the gate, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean. So it's just about paying attention to
Speaker 3: who you're waiting on.
Speaker 4: So I would have to say, what is your goal
Speaker 4: and know your goal and know your worth before you
Speaker 4: get in that industry because it can diminish your self
Speaker 4: worth really quick, or it can blast it through the atmosphere.
Speaker 4: So always know what your goal is and why you're there,
Speaker 4: but definitely don't make that your only income because at
Speaker 4: one day, one day, you're going to have to get
Speaker 4: out of it. I'm not going to say an age
Speaker 4: that you should be out of it, but you should
Speaker 4: definitely have another goal. And if service industry is your thing,
Speaker 4: then find a different niche. Like you found a different
Speaker 4: niche for you within that industry. Maybe you want to
Speaker 4: be a DJ, maybe you want to own a club,
Speaker 4: Maybe you want to start your own hoo could business.
Speaker 4: Maybe you want to start your own waitress company with
Speaker 4: clothes or stockings or whatever. But like, find what you
Speaker 4: want to do in that amount of time. You're not
Speaker 4: going to be twenty forever. The money is going to money.
Speaker 4: But also I would also say, oh yes I can.
Speaker 4: I've almost forgot be have financial litter. I blew through
Speaker 4: so much money at a young age, and it's all
Speaker 4: of us. Granted, we lived, and me and my best
Speaker 4: friends just talked about this this past weekend. We lived,
Speaker 4: We have zero regrets, We traveled, we did things and
Speaker 4: we wish we had the financial literacy that we do
Speaker 4: now as adult adults.
Speaker 2: Back then. So definitely get do that and best in yourself.
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