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Axed Gals Take Pole Positions
New York Post ^ | 29 March 2009 | Anka Radkovich

Posted on 03/30/2009 4:53:33 AM PDT by Notary Sojac

The economy's gone bust, and so have they.

Scores of professional New York women stripped of their six-figure jobs are now working as "gentlemen's club entertainers" at upscale Manhattan jiggle joints. Former Wall Streeters, fashion executives and real-estate agents are pole dancing and strip ping for as much as $1,500 a night -- but also because they like the flexible hours.

Randi Newton, 28, who lives in Midtown, was a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley before the crash but was fired.

"A few nights after I got laid off, I went with friends to a strip club to get drunk and forget my unemployment troubles," Newton said. "The manager offered me a job as a dancer. I thought it was different. And fun."

"It was very odd seeing a strip club being better run than a major brokerage firm, not to mention I've never had problems with sexual harassment at Rick's," she said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: economy; schadenfreude
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Now this one DID bust my schadenfreude gauge. Shattered the glass, flew right outa the panel.
1 posted on 03/30/2009 4:53:33 AM PDT by Notary Sojac
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To: Notary Sojac

This whole thread is useless without pictures.


2 posted on 03/30/2009 4:58:15 AM PDT by quikdrw (Life is tough....it's even tougher if you are stupid.)
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To: quikdrw
Read about Ms. Newton here: http://wallstreetstripper.com/.
3 posted on 03/30/2009 5:03:22 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Notary Sojac
""A few nights after I got laid off, I went with friends to a strip club to get drunk and forget my unemployment troubles," Newton said. "The manager offered me a job as a dancer whore. I thought it was different. And fun."

There, fixed it

4 posted on 03/30/2009 5:03:50 AM PDT by Mr. K (physically unable to proofreed (<---oops))
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To: Notary Sojac
Pottersville

This is the second story I've read this morning where the woman resorts to taking a demeaning job as the economy tanks.

5 posted on 03/30/2009 5:06:39 AM PDT by stayathomemom (Cat herder and empty nester)
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To: Notary Sojac
bump (and grind) for later...
6 posted on 03/30/2009 5:08:10 AM PDT by Tennessee_Bob (Save the Hispaniolan Solenodon!)
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To: Notary Sojac

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.


7 posted on 03/30/2009 5:09:57 AM PDT by DTogo (Time to bring back the Sons of Liberty.)
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To: stayathomemom
From the story...

Peter Feinstein, owner of the Sapphire Club on East 60th Street, which opened in January, said, "I am receiving a lot of applications from women who recently lost their jobs -- in particular New York City real-estate agents."

Says a lot about the sort of job skills that were sought by real estate brokers back in the boom times.

8 posted on 03/30/2009 5:10:07 AM PDT by Notary Sojac (Chains you can believe in...)
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“It was very odd seeing a strip club being better run than a major brokerage firm”

Sad, but probably true. Awful indictment of the ivy league egg heads at these brokerages.


9 posted on 03/30/2009 5:13:52 AM PDT by bobjam
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To: Notary Sojac; Mr. K

I’ve been to Rick’s in Houston and New Orleans. Primo entertainment.

Mr. K, the women at Rick’s won’t perform sex acts for any price...or at least any price in my range.


10 posted on 03/30/2009 5:14:16 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (Turning gold into lead!)
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To: Notary Sojac

Some pharmaceutical reps not too far behind I bet.

Barbie and Ken art majors = drug rep for some firms.


11 posted on 03/30/2009 5:14:52 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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To: Notary Sojac

Or not:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-malanowski/a-naked-lie-from-the-new_b_180458.html


12 posted on 03/30/2009 5:15:16 AM PDT by SlapHappyPappy
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I’ve never had problems with sexual harassment at Rick’s,” she said.
One would think she wouldn’t have that proplem when working with the higher educated people at her last job guess joe six pack may be smatrer after all.


13 posted on 03/30/2009 5:18:17 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Blueflag
Gimme an Rx! Cheerleaders Pep Up Drug Sales

"Known for their athleticism, postage-stamp skirts and persuasive enthusiasm, cheerleaders have many qualities the drug industry looks for in its sales force. Some keep their pompoms active, like Onya, a sculptured former college cheerleader. On Sundays she works the sidelines for the Washington Redskins. But weekdays find her urging gynecologists to prescribe a treatment for vaginal yeast infection."

14 posted on 03/30/2009 5:19:41 AM PDT by Notary Sojac (Chains you can believe in...)
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To: Blueflag

You are right on the mark - did some work at major pharm
company few years back. There was a sales meeting, full of
beautiful woman. One of my co workers joked about how
they got their job - all passed the “wall test”. Line’em
up and walk across the room, first ones’ boobs that hit
the opposite wall get the job...

Sad but true, must are bimbos....


15 posted on 03/30/2009 5:32:50 AM PDT by njslim
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To: Notary Sojac

I appreciate “Amateur Night” at the “gentlemen’s” club, as much as the next guy.

Just not sure I want to make it a nightly event.


16 posted on 03/30/2009 5:35:01 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: CholeraJoe

Getting paid to dance semi-nude for men to watch is a sex act.

Ivy league educated whores...now there’s something you don’t see everyday (or do you?).


17 posted on 03/30/2009 5:35:14 AM PDT by mom4melody
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“Ivy league educated whores...now there’s something you don’t see everyday (or do you?).”

Why, yes. It’s called the State Department.


18 posted on 03/30/2009 5:38:27 AM PDT by Levante
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To: Levante

Too funny.

Thanks for the coffee on the monitor and keyboard!


19 posted on 03/30/2009 5:42:25 AM PDT by mom4melody
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To: Vaduz
One would think she wouldn’t have that proplem when working with the higher educated people at her last job

This kind of stuff goes on all the time, perhaps particularly so with positions that have been (and still are) male dominated.

20 posted on 03/30/2009 5:42:30 AM PDT by Publius Valerius
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