I recently got asked for ID when buying a bottle of wine in the supermarket where my brother worked.
Of course, I carry no photo ID with me, because all I have is my passport. I haven't been asked for ID in six years.
To make it worse, my brother (just turned 18, six feet three tall) was standing beside me going 'I've got ID'.
As far as strippers go, I've found that you can tip coins to the ones wearing boots. However, when they start flopping around in the seizure that they call dancing the coins tend to roll out and clatter around the stage.
Or so I've heard.
I do like using dollar coins for most other purchases, though. It just seems more exotic (no pun intended) but that will eventually pass and I'll consider them inconvenient like everyone else.
X Member
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 | 07:02 AM
Some strippers have a certain talent when it comes to picking up coins, ummmmm....So I've heard.
Spoilsport. Ok, more on topic - I don't feel that I'm paid anywhere near what I think I deserve for the work I do, and I'm ugly. Coincidence? Yeah, almost certainly. While I don't think they discriminate based on looks, I do think they discriminate based on intelligence. We have several brain-dead employees (who couldn't handle a complicated job like standing on a street corner being poked with a pointed stick) who should be looking for jobs elsewhere but somebody likes them (or is afraid of being blackmailed) and so they stay on year after year.
X Member
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 | 09:36 AM
Well, I make $34K a year. Not bad for a Highschool drop out with a GED. I do plan to make more in the future.
dog
in VA
Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 | 01:23 PM
Stick to it Stephen. That HS diploma doesn't mean as much as some want you to think.
Yes, high school was a bit of a waste of time...don't know nothin' 'bout anythin'. So have most of my other studies. Except for the course which got me this job oh so long ago. And no complaints about my appearance here either. But that could be because I'm about 15-20 years younger than anyone else in an all-female firm...
X Member
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 07:16 AM
I want to work at an all female firm!!!!
Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA Member
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 11:41 AM
$30k base...$35k w/ shift differential...$42k w/ gain share...assuming profits stay up until the end of the year!
And my husband considers me GORGEOUS...but then again, he has to live with me.
Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA Member
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 11:42 AM
...There is a salary cap for my position...My base wouldn't be able to go past $40k. Minimum is $20k. So, I'm right in the middle.
X Member
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 | 11:51 AM
You little tease you!!! Gorgeous and makes more then me!!!
I actually saw a show about the importance of looks in getting a job on a T.V. show. It was from a pretty reliable show, but for the life of me I can't remember which one. Anyways, here's the gist of what they did:
For their first experiment they took two women who were actors, one who was beautiful, and one who was fairly ugly. They dressed them up in the exact same clothes and had them stand on a street corner by a "broken down" car to see if anyone would pull over. The ugly women had to wait 30 minutes before anyone stopped and was just told she was out of gas and there was a gas station a 1/2 mile away before the one man left. The pretty women had men stopping every few minutes and about 6 men even drove to the gas station and brought her back gas for her car.
For the second experiment they had the same 2 women go to a few job interviews each. They both went to interviews for the same jobs and had very similar resumes and were trained to act alike and have the same background and wore the same outfit (remember, they were actors). They also had 2 men, one good looking and one ugly, do the same thing for a different set of jobs. In all cases for the men and the women the better looking person got the job.
Really makes you think. In fact, I studied an expirement in phsycology where they showed pictures of good looking and ugly people too newborns, and what do you know? the newborns stared longer at the pictures of prettier people.
Stephen, you may think that working at an all female firm would be nice, but just think about all the downsides...And our firm, I think that we haven't been hired on looks (except for myself, maybe).
Razela, can you remeber if the people who conducted the interviews were male or female? I wonder if that makes a difference?
I remember one story when I was in secretarial college about one girl who had a nose ring. Nobody would hire her when she turned up at interviews with the ring in. When she took it out, she landed a job.
Interviewers were both male and female. It made a difference in that it turned out that the males cared more about the looks in other males they hired while the females were harder on the looks of the females they hired. All in all though, every interviewer hired the better looking person.
Actually Smerk. You are right. I work with mostly females, and the hormones are crazy at times. I just sit back and laugh though.
Maegan
in Tampa, FL - USA Member
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 | 07:28 AM
...I don't know that the broken down car scenario is very helpful. I've been in that situation & I had someone stop as soon as they saw my hood go up (husband & wife)...another time I had to hoof it a mile to a gas station. Someone THERE gave me a ride back, but it was a mom w/ a van full of kids. Sometimes I've told people I'm okay, b/c they look creepy and/or weird...just to get them to go away. "It's okay. I see my husband's police cruiser coming!" (He's not a cop.)
Also, I'm from the south...people just stop to be nice. I've done it.
