I just spent the day traipising all over Reno trying to get the proper licenses and paperwork so I could work for just TWO WEEKS. I was in tears by the time I got done.
Remember when we used to live in America, not Russia? We could travel from state to state and work and live. Not anymore. In the past two or three years, it has become nearly impossible. Also, this is an ndustry where women get stalked and killed. So, requiring us to disclose all the most intimate deatils of our lives, our relatives and children'snames, puts us at terrible risk.
Every time you enter a new state it's like moving to a separate country if you want to work there for a while. I came to Reno to get away for two or three weeks, do some skiing and finance the trip by working for 10 or 11 days. Here what I went through today in reno:
First, I had to go the city hall to get a city business license. They told me I had to first go to the state of Nevada IRS to get a state business license (cost:$20 cab ride, $100 license).
I took a bus back to the city hall. There, I had to fill out 30 pages of paperwork describing where I lived for the past 10 years, landlord's phone numbers, how long I lived there, and why I left. Same for my employment history. They wanted my parents' names, and three non-relative references. Every single parking or moving violation for the past 10 years. I think I wrote my name, address and phone number about 40 times. Then I had to get the whole package notorized. Cost: $305. Then they gave me paperwork to take down to the police station to get photographed and fingerprinted. Cost: $65. Total cost to get a job in Reno: $470, not including the four hours of my day I wasted traveling to these places and standing in line and filling out paperwork. Everybody who works in a casino or bar of any kind has to do this. How do people who make minimum wage manage to do it?
Pretty soon they will just require everybody to have a sensor surgically implanted in their skulls so they can just scan us wherever we go.
I hear San Antonio recently started a similar program. Not only that, but tha girls have to DISPLAY their business license on their G-string. It has their real name, phone number and address on it.
San Diego was one of the first cities to do this. In San Diego, it takes a MONTH to get your license. Their ridiculous 6-foot laws and other silly rules have done nothing but turn the strip clubs into places where johns go to meet hookers.
So to everybody who voted Republican in the last election, THANKS A LOT!! You just cut off your own feet.
Any thoughts, anybody? Is there anything we can do, or are we at the mercy of the "moral majority" who are trying to get rid of strippers by making our jobs impossible?



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