Working As A PR In Greece
Door And Floor Whores: Working As A PR In Greece
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If you come from a country that holidays in Greece in decent numbers there will be resorts where the menus are in your language and the bar hoppers and club goers will prefer their own country people enticing them in.
Kos provided jobs for the working age children of some of the expats we met when we first moved to Turkey. Unable to legally work in Asia they found work a few miles away on the nearby Greek island. Other popular resorts in Greece for seasonal workers are Faliraki, on Rhodes; Malia, on Crete; and Zante, on Zakynthos, but any decent sized island popular with tourists may provide an income for the summer.
We spent our first week on Corfu in Kavos, the lairy resort at the bottom tip of the island. Most of the hiring was already done when we arrived in May but, despite the economic downturn then, we still saw plenty of jobs offered signs when we popped back to watch World Cup games in mid June. The resort has around 100 bars and restaurants, give or take, and jobs mostly consist of cooking, bar staff and Pring, also known as door whores.
Door Whore
One working traveller writing on their blog, Euroslacker, describes the door whore role as “generally a guy’s job. This job entails standing outside the bar and enticing passers-by to go in. There are a lot of ways to go about it and everyone has their own style. You can hustle and bustle and be very loud and aggressive which is probably the most successful, or you can just get chatting to people which will also work. It’s a fun way to spend a night, you can go out partying afterwards and you meet a lot of the revellers on the island.“
It’s not for the faint hearted though – one PR we met in Kavos mentioned he was shopping for a stun gun to defend himself when things get a little out of hand. Another was covered in bruises from a self inflicted injury after a turn in the ‘Dentist’s Chair’
Floor Whore
Once customers are enticed in the floor whore takes over. “The life of a floor whore can be explained in one of two ways,” says Euroslacker. “The first way could be told like this; It is a dream job, you get paid to party every night. You get free drinks all night and get paid and all you have to do is dance and chat to the guys that come in. At about 3 or 4 you finish and keep on partying at other clubs.”
“An alternative way to describe it could be that – it is disgusting, these creeps come in and grope you and try stick their tongues down your throat all night. You can’t leave and the boss prefers it if you kiss them because it is good for business because he knows they will come back. It isn’t a job for everyone but some girls are in 7th heaven, if you like to party and dance and can handle a few creeps then this job is for you.”
The jobs page of Zeros Club in Zante doesn’t seem to have made the cut during their website redesign. It was put up in response to all the people going in there to seek employment and said their positions include bar staff, security, promo, PRing and glass collectors. More recently we’ve seen them using their Facebook to hire a cleaner too.
We’ve spotted Faliraki’s DC Club using theirs in search of bar women and female hostess promoters, dancers, PRs, and shot girls once the season is underway.
Image courtesy Stux
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