Every Saturday I work at a restaurant as a belly dancer. I’ve worked there a few weeks now and don’t really have the vibe that the owner likes my dancing that much. Last week a few family members came to watch me as it was my birthday and he told one of them ‘we’ll make her better’. Fast forward this week. Every week I change songs I dance to, and they must all be from a specific country. So this week was a really good week, I got a lot of compliments and audience seemed to really enjoy it. At the end the owner seemed pretty annoyed at me , asked me why I chose those songs, I said I chose them because I like them and can thus dance better and put on a better show and that I thought they were lively ( I asked family members advice about this too). He said they weren’t lively and weren’t good for belly dancing ( even though I’ve had worse reception to other songs that he’s chosen) and that he had friends to come to see me and he was annoyed basically that I didn’t play other songs for them. He was speaking to me about it for ages and by the end I felt like crying. He didn’t say a single good thing and rarely does. It’s just made me uncomfortable and embarrassed and I don’t feel like I want to go back. I’m really busy anyway and it’s a lot for me to even fit in the dancing. Am I being too sensitive?
Considering stopping working at a restaurant because of the owner?
