[ SECRET POST #2101 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2101 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Porn Watchin' Boss

[omorka]

Only very tangentially relevant, but: I spent a summer between semesters about a decade ago working at an independent video rental place that had an X-rated section (oddly enough, it wasn't the big moneymaker for the store; that was their import section). We opened at 10:00 am, and most weekdays the only people there until noon were a random selection of two out of the following three people:

1) Me - the new girl, fat and somewhat homely, in my 20s

2) Manager #1 - a cranky bearded skinny guy in his 30s who knew a ton about Westerns and happened to be gay

3) Manager #2 - a very flamboyant and fairly attractive gay guy in his 40s

Every weekday morning at about 10:45, a group of dudes in nice suits and expensive watches would show up, pretend to browse the rest of the store for five minutes, then make individual beelines for the X-rated section. They would each select one video and then come back to the counter to check out. And every single day I was there, the whole group - usually five or six of them - would line up in front of me to ring them up. The manager (whichever one was on duty) would make it a point to make it clear his register was also open, and they never, ever took him up on it. Manager #1 would even announce it in his most irritated voice.

Then whichever manager was there would go to the night dropbox and empty it again, since these guys returned each previous day's movie when they arrived but never actually brought their returns back into the store.

Once I finally asked what they did when it was the two of them on early shift. Manager #2 said they'd usually hang around to see if there were any other cashiers, then split 50/50 into two lines. However, on the very rare occasions when the owner's sister took a day shift, they'd all line up in front of her (thin, frazzled-looking Asian woman in her 40s) instead of Manager #1 or #2.

I have no idea what was up with that.

Re: Porn Watchin' Boss

[(Anonymous)]

Huh. I once overheard some people who had worked in video stores (not all the same one) commiserating about their old jobs and once woman mentioned that male customers would never go to her register when they were renting porn and, in fact, her manager would keep her away from the register nearest the porn section. One guy then suggested that was because the men renting porn were too embarrassed to bring their selections to a woman and the manager knew it was better for business to have a male employee on hand to handle the porn customers.

Sounds like you had the exact opposite experience. I don't know what was up with that, either.