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Anyone ever work in a card shop, got any horror stories to share. I got one, I been holding on to since pre-Covid
>working at a CoolStuff, a card shop in the US
>get hired on as a part time, with a job of simply eBay price checking and selling Japanese cards the owner brought for pennies from desperate customers
>owner (who is 37) gets excited hiring a 19 year old red head girl to the shop, to be cashier and host while cosplaying
>owner awkwardly flirt with the new girl on a daily basis
>owner schedules the new girl around only the hours he works
>really keep no mind to it, and just do my own work
>few months goes by and ended up doing XY Evolution prerelease event with the new girl alone, who is cosplaying Jessie from Team Rocket. Owner had to leave early
>after cleaning and closing up, new girl comes to me and hands me a Staff promo card. Telling me the boss gave her this and not to tell anyone
>which is fuck up, the boss never gives/tell us any rare promo cards the store gets
>saying the owner ask her to marry him. He been raising her pay and gifting her stuff
>then the conversation stops and ends up being sex on the table
>eventually a week later, I get call into the boss room
>and he said the most disturbing thing to me
>”I was supposed to deflower her”
>she a grown women, she wasn’t a virgin
After that I eventually got fired over some bullshit about not sorting cars the right way. The shop stayed open, up until the end of last year.
I just wanted a nice fun job about card games, but you can never escape drama
