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Posted by hernan on August 11, 2005 at 13:44:03:
In Reply to: The $10 collector at An Tua Nua on Wednesday posted by BostonIndian on August 10, 2005 at 22:15:59:
Well...you said you had made contact with the person you were looking for. why not just say yes, give the door lady her a funny look and wait outside. I think that would have been better. and save you any headaches.
On the other hand perhaps you are just hard-headed person that does not like being told what you can do or not...and got aggravated for that.
If that is case, then she was just doing her job.
hernan
Remember, person that handles the door must be able to talk, understand, listen. Sometimes that is just
: She needs a lesson in diplomacy and people management.
: The situation:
: I was returning from the Red Sox game (yeah, we won!). A friend is leaving town forever - moving to NYC - tomorrow. Since I would not have been able to see her tomorrow I figured I'd stop by and say my goodbyes. I get in there, and she's on the dance floor. We make eye contact. Meanwhile I tell the $10 lady (lady? hah!) that I am too tired to dance, and that I am just waiting for the song to get over so I can say by goodbyes to my friend and then head home. She launches into a tirade that she makes the rules and if I cannot pay I cannot stand there. I tell her nicely that it's just a couple of minutes and then we'd be out of there. She tells me to get the FU** out of the room.
: No one tells me to GET THE FU** out... let alone yells that at me in front of an entire dance floor.
: I refuse, now not only because I was waiting for my friend to get off the floor, but because she turned a completely normal request into a confrontational power struggle.
: She decided to call the bouncer (Funny, because that's the minute I needed for the song to get over!) By the time the bouncer came over, the two of us had already made our way to the door. I would not elaborate on what the bouncers had to say about her attitude except that they've seen and heard complaints about her before.
: Such a rude and ugly way to handle the simplest of situations.
: As a comparison from a few years ago:
: I am a regular on the Salsa scene at Ryles, Havana club and El Bembe... I once had to head to the upper floor to see if my friends were dancing upstairs or not. The guy downstairs held on to my ID and told me that if I do not return within a few minutes he'd have to charge me a cover to return my ID. Simple, honest and perfectly acceptable.
: If only this woman at An Tua Nua learnt some lessons from him.
: What a way to end an adrenaline charged day!
: My friend asked me if I would ever return to An Tua Nua. Hell Yeah... I go there to dance, I pay a cover to dance, not to please the $10 collector. She's just another worker with a very big head and a very little brain!