playing_the_angel

How did you work your way into hospitality revenue management in Vegas? Kudos to you for doing so in such a competitive town in terms of that industry!

Ex strip club bartender//door girl here. I worked a summer in a popular strip club town in Carolina and I was pretty positive that a lot of the girls were victims of human trafficking. The reason why is because there were A LOT of Russians//Eastern Europeans in the town, and most of them were females who worked in the club industry. Whenever I asked one of the girls why she moved to America (and that town in particular since it had such a High concentration of them), I always got a deer-in-headlights look, and I always got weird excuses. Some didn't even make sense. But the main reason I suspected that was because a couple of the girls I got to know just randomly dissapeared. Even the girl's closest (Russian) friends had no idea why "so and so " would be M.I.A. I have no proof of the missing foreign girls being trafficked, but nothing else I can think of would just add up, ya know? On the other hand most of my time in the business was spent working a little further up north, and I didn't see any of that stuff. On top of that, most of the girls I worked with weren't like the drugged-out sex robots the OP is describing.. they were either single moms or students who just wanted some extra cash. Sure, a lot of them liked weed and champagne, but most strip club dressing rooms aren't some coked-up extravaganza you'd see on Tv (that'd be a good way for a girl to get fired on the spot). But I think in terms of trafficking and what kinds of girls work at the establishment all depends on location//ABC laws//the club in general.

I'm in management, but due to property size I do duel work at the desk. My biggest pet peeve is when I tell a guest to have a nice day and they don't say it back. I also hate when I have my hand out for credit/cash and they put it on the counter instead, as I see this as bad etiquette.

But worst of all are the ones who just walk in with a bad attitude in general. You could give them the best room in the house, but it wouldn't matter because some people just decide they don't like a certain property before even walking through the door (this is usually the result of a bad trip over here, or lack of planning on their part and ASSUMING we're on the oceanfront. All it takes is a simple phone call, or even a look at Google maps, to realize that we are not oceanfront. I'm not going to refund someone because of poor planning and lack of research on their part).

Ahahaha I see /u/Seoul_Surfer has stumbled in from /r/TalesFromTheFrontDesk!! Yes, I will TOTALLY lower your non-refundable prepaid virtual card rate when nothing went wrong and you didn't even book through me in the first place!! =p

The worst is when they leave a bad review on Trip Advisor for not giving them an early check-in. As stated on the phone, and both our site and every 3rd party site, early check-ins are requests, meaning they are not guaranteed. Of course I try my best to accommodate them, but if I don't have any clean rooms or vacant rooms at that time what in God's name are they expecting me to do? Snap my fingers and make a clean room magically appear?