Thursday, February 19, 2009
When her job working at a daycare became too stressful, Allison Ortego started looking for something a little more fun. Now, the Wichita senior gets paid for sitting behind a cash register surrounded by dildos and condoms and for helping people pick out vibrators.
Ortego works at Crilla’s, 1026 West 23rd Street. Most of her job is helping people at the register, she says, but when people ask for a recommendation, Ortego knows what she’s talking about. She says that her bosses didn’t really give her much training about the products, but that she wouldn’t have applied for the job if she didn’t already know what most of the products in the store were.
Naughty but nice: Crilla’s employee Allison Ortego knows her stuff when it comes to sex toys.
“I’m pretty knowledgeable about vibrators,” Ortego says. “And I don’t think someone who doesn’t know about this stuff would even apply.”
The job’s pretty easy, Ortego says, especially because she is not easily embarrassed and her family and friends aren’t shocked by her job choice.
“My parents have known me all my life,” she says. “They’re fine with it. My grandparents are fine with it.”
One time, though, when Ortego was visiting a friend who also worked at Crilla’s, one of her professors was shopping at the store.
“I hid,” Ortego says. “He didn’t see me.”
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Naughty but nice? I don't think so. I don't really care who works or shops at a store like this, but let us start telling the truth.
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What truth is that?
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