When the subject of Strip Clubs comes up at work
Warrenboy75
Anywhere in the USA on any given day
What do you say?
Do you contribute to the conversation or simply remain silent?
If you hear something inaccurate or something over the top do you correct the information or let it pass?
The past two days I have been remote to my home base in an office and the topic has come up ( from other people) today from a female staff person. Maybe clubs are becoming much more mainstream than I realized.
In both instances the conversation started with Las Vegas and flowed into the Northeast Ohio and Western Pa club scene and touched on a wide range of information.
I remained quiet for the most part but not too quiet --wondering how others would react.
Do you contribute to the conversation or simply remain silent?
If you hear something inaccurate or something over the top do you correct the information or let it pass?
The past two days I have been remote to my home base in an office and the topic has come up ( from other people) today from a female staff person. Maybe clubs are becoming much more mainstream than I realized.
In both instances the conversation started with Las Vegas and flowed into the Northeast Ohio and Western Pa club scene and touched on a wide range of information.
I remained quiet for the most part but not too quiet --wondering how others would react.
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A “lady friend of mine” was telling me how she and a few other girls would go to a club for lunch because they had a good lunch buffet.”
On the other hand I would never bring that up around my wives friends husbands because most of them seem stiff as fuck.
In most circles, bachelor parties get a pervert pass. After that, I'll complain about the booze prices and shut the fuck up.
As a family guy with a fairly tame reputation who clubs alone solely for extras, I prefer to keep my extracuriculars on the down low. The farthest I'll go is whenever someone breaksout the cliche "there's no sex in the champagne room" line, I'll quietly say "that's not true at all."
If I ever get asked if I’ve been to a club - I do what Ishmael does - and say that I’ve been to a few clubs for bachelor parties.
The last thing I want to do is say “Those girls don’t do shit in the back room! I’ve had much better luck with getting my cock wet at this club!”
Outside of those two I do not participate in conversations about those naughty strip clubs. Who goes to those places?
But I don’t go any further in a conversation than that because I don’t know how it’s going to be received. Plus, I don’t want to show any familiarity with clubbing. It’s no one’s business. Some of the shit others come up with in the conversation is pretty funny but I just smile and say “that’s interesting”.
Since I work for a large, internationally recognized company, that usually shuts it down. And paints me as a prude. :)
At home: My youngest daughter is getting married in October. Both her and her maid of honor, my oldest, asked me what clubs would be fun for them to go to for her bachelorette party. Then her fiancé’s father asked me about the bachelor party...
Today was the odd one--three women all younger than me started talking about the various clubs in the area and how their boyfriends always end up in one whenever a group of friends get together....she goes with her boyfriend local, but when they go to Vegas she doesn't go because it is too "raunchy" and the Vegas girls will do more.......her words.
And the one girl in particular knew the places to some extent. Not just by name but the inside atmosphere by looks.I was surprised it went on as long as it did and I said something twice only because I was asked. Otherwise I smiled or laughed at an occasional comment and that was it on my part.
Afterwards I wondered if I was too quiet.
Last summer, I was sitting at my desk getting work done and I heard the very end of a conversation between two female co-workers as they walked by my desk. One woman said to the other, "Try Players or Coliseum, but I think you will like Coliseum better." I pretended I did not hear anything. If the woman in question was thinking about applying at a club to work, she did not follow through, becuause I have not seen her at work every day since I overheard that discussion, and thankfully I have not seen her in a club either.
That should read "I have seen her at work every day since I overhead that conversation"
The next place I worked at, bigger company, some guys knew I clubbed. I ran into some at the club. Word spread among some. I never talked about it at work. You never knew when a female might hear and it would be considered inappropriate.
One co worker asked if about it and he showed me some pics from a regular party. He asked me if I knew if any were strippers. We ended up at the club once or twice. He was more interested in hitting on the better looking waitress than watching the stage show, It seemed awkward having him join me at the strip club. It seemed more like he was joining me at the club just to pick up information about me instead of enjoying the evening.
At work it was stressed it was inappropriate to visit strip clubs as an employee and would be considered against company policy to visit as employees. I made sure not to talk about it and never suggest going there with other employees as part of any company trip. On my own time without any mention of who we worked for, I figured I could keep doing what I've done for years. I made sure not to identify myself on any social media as an employee of company xyz. The old company used to trear foreign customers by taking them to strip clubs on occasion because the guys requested it. Overseas guys aren't hung up on prudish American customs about sexual oriented businesses. However it became against company policy to take customers to strip clubs too. I'm not sure if that caused any loss of business or not. They could still go but only on their own.
I remember at a staff meeting with supervisors, they were talking about starting an employee exercise program. It was actually a female supervisor that suggested we needed someone good looking to lead the exercises because no one would want to watch us lead the group. She suggested just talking maybe we could get a stripper to possibly lead exercises. No one seemed surprised. I was a bit surprised she suggested it and in a staff meeting too. This was before the company became a much bigger company and policy changed. I can just imagine if someone had hired a stripper to lead exercises how that would have gone over when the company changed owners. I think it would have really gotten employees to exercise though if we had a stripper in a bikini leading exercises at work though. Best idea I heard in a long time. At the time, she didn't know I had phone numbers or she might have asked me. Maybe she did too. One guy at work I knew for a couple years dated a different girl or two every week and said he knew a few were strippers. Said he could hook me up if interested. Pretended I wasn't. I didn't want to tell him much. Good thing. Went to local bars with him one night and he blabbed to everyone at work about a drunk girl making moves on me. I'd hate to think what he would have said if he had seen all the girls approach me in a strip club like they knew me.
A particular department's mid level boss had a birthday and they wanted to take him to a strip club. Him and I would talk from time to time and a worker of his I gave input on the different clubs based on what type of girls/music they were looking for. So most of his department and some others did go and I only dropped in briefly to say hello and bought him two VIP dances. Almost every time I passed him or came in his office area he'd be saying stuff about strip clubs and how I be going.
So lesson learned. Best to not let it be known how much I go or know.
After moving here, I talked about them with this one guy once, and that was it. FWIW, his opinion of each of the clubs I have been to has been spot on, with one exception and I think that was mostly because I went on a bad day.
One day in the office break room someone asked me if I had change for a $5 for the soda machine. I reached into my suit pocket and without thinking about it pulled out a wad of singles and started to pull off five $1 bills. Someone else saw this and said, "Hey Pete, why do you have so many one dollar bills?" Then one of the younger women joined in "Peter's gonna make it rain tonight"
Soon everyone was laughing and making little jokes. I was panicked for a moment that my cover had been blown, but then I realized that they were just teasing me because the thought of me actually going to a strip club was so outlandish to them.