Strip Club Recruits Recent Grads
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'Class Of 2010' Sign Drawing Mixed Reactions
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. --
A gentleman's club is taking some heat over a recruiting campaign that targets recent graduates, Jacksonville TV station WJXT reported.
The sign outside the Centerfold Lounge reads "Now hiring the graduating class of 2010."
Some people think the club should take it down, saying it lowers the bar for young people.
"I think it's terrible. I mean really, young people could do a lot better than that," nearby business owner Rose Chirkovich said.
Recent high school graduate Meghan Russell, 18, called the sign "pretty disgusting."
The job posting is club manager William Warner's brainchild. And although he finds it funny, he said it's no joke.
"I mean, look at the economy. We have nothing to offer these grads," Warner said. "I do. I have what they can make money. Yes, we're looked at as scum of the Earth, but it's a paycheck -- money that will put food in their stomach and keep a roof over their head."
Warner admitted the sign is somewhat of a publicity stunt, and hoped it would drive in more customers.
"Yeah, I hope some people will come and say, 'That's funny. Let's check this club out,'" he said.
Customers must be 21 years or older, but dancers can work there as young as age 18.
Warner said he and his staff members have gotten mixed reactions.
"It's not profane. It's not obscene," Warner said. "I don't see what's wrong with it."
The club's owner said he planned to keep the billboard up for a few more weeks until graduation season is over.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. --
A gentleman's club is taking some heat over a recruiting campaign that targets recent graduates, Jacksonville TV station WJXT reported.
The sign outside the Centerfold Lounge reads "Now hiring the graduating class of 2010."
Some people think the club should take it down, saying it lowers the bar for young people.
"I think it's terrible. I mean really, young people could do a lot better than that," nearby business owner Rose Chirkovich said.
Recent high school graduate Meghan Russell, 18, called the sign "pretty disgusting."
The job posting is club manager William Warner's brainchild. And although he finds it funny, he said it's no joke.
"I mean, look at the economy. We have nothing to offer these grads," Warner said. "I do. I have what they can make money. Yes, we're looked at as scum of the Earth, but it's a paycheck -- money that will put food in their stomach and keep a roof over their head."
Warner admitted the sign is somewhat of a publicity stunt, and hoped it would drive in more customers.
"Yeah, I hope some people will come and say, 'That's funny. Let's check this club out,'" he said.
Customers must be 21 years or older, but dancers can work there as young as age 18.
Warner said he and his staff members have gotten mixed reactions.
"It's not profane. It's not obscene," Warner said. "I don't see what's wrong with it."
The club's owner said he planned to keep the billboard up for a few more weeks until graduation season is over.
http://www.wpbf.com/money/23680752/detai…
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This might be a bit tangential, but as someone who recently graduated college, I think the US college system needs a huge purging of students. I got an aerospace engineering degree and am going to use that in the Navy, for me it was necessary to get a degree. I knew people who majored in art history or some useless generic business degree and are going to end up being office receptionists or coffee shop waitresses, what sense does that make?
More girls should probably graduate high school and become strippers as opposed to majoring in philosophy or underwater basketweaving, which will result in nothing but their parents wasting a ton of money, or them being saddled with so much student debt it borders on indentured servitude.