- Takes the job.\
It was just a job in retail
I walked into the store the next morning. Ty was standing there.
“Hey, buddy.” He said.
“Hello.” I was friendly. I was professional. I just didn’t want him to think that I was interested in him in any way.
“We did a background check and it looked good. Do you still want the job?”
“Yes.”
“Great. Can you start tomorrow?”
“Yes. What time?”
“Just show up at 7 a.m. and you can help me during the day “
“O.K.”
“See you tomorrow.”
That was easy. Too easy. Nobody has ever given me a job this easy. Is he trying to get in my pants or something?
I was fifteen minutes early the next morning.
“Hey, buddy. Come on up.” Ty said.
I took a step up onto the platform where the clerks worked. Ty said. “Here is your timecard and this is where you clock in.”
I clocked in while he took another sip of his coffee. “I’ll take you on a tour in a minute.” He took another sip of his coffee and filled out some paperwork. I just stood there awkwardly. “Like I said the other day, think of this as a retail store not a dirty book store. I have to keep track of inventory just like any other retail store.”
He then stepped down from the platform and said “C’mon. I’ll show you around. Over here is the lingerie. Just make sure everything looks nice and is hanging properly. Also, make sure tags are on everything. This is a security tag. I will show you how to take this off later. In matter of fact, the delivery guy left us five boxes that we have to tag up and put out on the floor today along with some male bondage videos”. He walked over to the next section. “This is where we have the oils and lubricants.” He then walked over to the other side of the store.
“This is where we have our toys. Once you get your own shift, any of these toys that are over $19 will earn you a dollar commission. The same applies to the lingerie and all the movies. Oh, and the bondage. Let me take you to the bondage room. “ I thought to myself “Oh, shit . This is probably the shit that he likes”
Ty said. “Come on in.”
I was careful, but I stepped in. “Aren’t you worried about people stealing stuff in here?” I said.
“No. We got two cameras in here. You know, this used to be a bank and this part here used to be a vault. People thought we were trying to rob the bank when we first opened because we moved the entire inventory during the middle of the night and we used black vans and stuff. “
“Why?”
“Well, we don’t want protesters and stuff showing up. They might try to do some re-zoning or block us somehow, if they thought a dirty book store was coming here. We just made the vault here into our very own little dungeon. We got your usual whips and gags and cuffs and we got this leather mask with a gage…oh and some handcuffs. Go ahead and try it out.”
I thought “Oh shit. I’m not falling for this.”
“No, thanks.” I said.
“Okay. Well, you already know where the videos and rentals are better than I do. “
We went to the platform and he showed me how to look up video rentals, where to put the extra $20 bills in the safe, where the petty cash was put and other things. We started tagging up the lingerie. Maybe I should buy this for Joyce. No, older women hate that stuff.
The work day went by really quickly. This was not a creepy store. There were no booths and the place was clean. At the end of the shift, the 2nd shift crew came in.