You think you have a tough job in talent management? You're a softie. Take the HR Manager gig at a strip club. That's a tough job...
From the land of strange but true, via my hometown newspaper, the Birmingham News. Birmingham Circuit Judge Caryl Privett, this month, denied a request to toss out the suit Patsy Hamaker filed in 2008 against The Furnace strip club:
"That sets the stage for a possible Oct. 26 jury trial on her claims that mandatory on-the-job drinking led to a drunken crash on Oct. 18, 2007, that left her disfigured and with a broken back. Among court documents is The Furnace's manual for dancers and a list of 46 house rules that cover how dancers should look, dress, act and do their jobs without running afoul of solicitation laws.
For example:
--House rules tell dancers they can't chew gum on the job or make a purse out of the blue felt bag sold with Crown Royal scotch.
--Dancers should make sure they have plenty of costumes for each shift, according to the rules. Their shoes should have no scuffs and their nail polish should not be chipped.
--They should be approachable and make sure every patron feels special, the manual says.
--"Remember you are here to entertain the customers," the rules say. "They are leaving their problems at home and coming here to escape."
--Dancers are told to enter the club from a side door -- never the main entrance -- and surrender their car keys when they arrive.
--"You must pass a breathayzer test before you can get your keys," the rules say.
--The dancers' manual takes a pep-rally approach, saying they are part of the "#1 team" in the nightclub business. It encourages the kind of positive and fun attitude the manual calls "Showtime."
--"We make the difference!" the manual says in all capital letters. "Not the tables, not the chairs, not the bars and not the lights . . . What time is it? It's showtime!"
Lots of possibilities for me to be snarky with this one, but I'll end with this. Be thankful for the employees you have. You don't have to take car keys and conduct sobriety tests at the end of every shift.
Well, at least, not every day...
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