Whenever I'm contacted for a playing gig or any of my day work, I visit the venue (or business) and watch:

* How the management treats the employees.
* How the customers treat the employees.

I make my decision based on how people are treated.

Once, I was contacted by a private new "snoot" club, located at the top of a bank. The "entertainment chairman" called to ask me to work (I had been recommended by several of the founding members, whom I knew), and began to describe all the rules (come thru the back door, don't address the members unless they talk first, don't sit with members unless invited....all that junk).

I laughed, pulled out my membership card (corporate-I wouldn't have voluntarily paid money to be a part of this circus), dropped it on the table and left.

JERKS!

Russ