Foxy Lady beckons unemployed with the hope of a job

Thanks to the authors of the Facemouth for reaching in their pockets and making one dollar bills rain on strippers, the Foxy lady is going strong and keeping people employed........

"There’s a new audience for the Foxy Lady’s come-hither ads: the unemployed.

One of the state’s best-known strip clubs is hosting a job fair on Saturday, promising to hire as many as 25 new employees as managers, dancers, DJs, bartenders and bouncers. The club has about 75 employees.

The business is not exactly booming, and many of the new employees will replace existing staff, said office manager Lori Savickas. But the staggering unemployment rate in Rhode Island has created a big talent pool the Foxy Lady hopes to tap.

More than 10 percent of job seekers in Rhode Island cannot find work, the highest level in 30 years. One result, Savickas said, is that long spells of unemployment are leading some Rhode Islanders to shed their hang-ups about the adult-entertainment industry.

“With the way unemployment is right now, there are a lot of people looking for a job who normally wouldn’t come to the Foxy Lady,” Savickas said. “They’re just hungry to start working somewhere. They might find out that it is totally different than they expected.”

She said the Foxy Lady hopes to find “new faces” to reenergize the business, which has seen increased competition from newer nightclubs.

Overqualified job seekers might not find the Foxy Lady a place to spend a career, Savickas said, but added that former employees have used their experience at the strip club to land jobs in more traditional segments of the hospitality industry.

For the club, known for its showgirls and “Legs and Eggs” Friday brunch, the new blood could help liven up the atmosphere and draw in recession-weary customers hesitant to leave the house, she said. “Everyone is choosy right now about where they spend their money because they don’t have the money to spend,” Savickas said.

The job fair begins at 11 a.m. at the club, at 318 Chalkstone Ave., in Providence."