FIRED!!! Are you scared of being fired. I've been fired before. I didn't do anything "bad." Mitchell Brothers fired me (who haven't they fired?). At least I'm in good company. That experience made me realize that a girl is expendable at a strip club. It's hard to feel independent as an independent contractor when you don't have anything resembling job security. Getting fired makes you feel powerless. You can't do anything about it. Period. It's an invisible process- everybody hears second hand "what happened" and you aren't allowed in the theater again to contest why you've been given the sac. Basically, you just disappear and headoff to another club. Doesn't that suck? We're all afraid of being canned- We have bills to pay. Some of us have kids to feed, loans to pay off, etc. Hell, this is our job and management feels free to tell us "don't depend on this place for your livelihood." If management knows you have a habit, they can manipulate you more, and other girls trash you. That also sucks. Not everybody is clean and sober. And it's time people stopped scapegoating people who use for bad business, grabby customers, etc. Blame it on the people who collect your stagefee.