Rent-A-Center Employee Accused Of Demanding Sex For Debt Relief

I must admit, I worked at a Rent-A-Center for about a year one time. It was the worst job I’d ever had. Here is the scoop on how it all works. They have very good, name brand furniture and appliances that they rent to you on a weekly basis. You come into the store each week and make a payment. If you can pay the stuff off in 3 months or less, you get it for the same as cash price. This is usually one to two hundred bucks higher than retail if you’d paid cash price for it at a big retail shop.

Not too bad if you don’t have 2000.00 bucks to drop on a big screen at the moment, but you just have to have it even though you don’t need it. If you go over the 3 month period and just continue making payments, bend over, cause you’re going to get it up the poop shoot. You’ll pay at least 3 times what the merchandise is worth. If I remember correctly, it’s 3.5 times actually.

So, to get this great deal, you give them three references, then the person that rents the crap to you calls all three references and asks if you’re worth a shit. If all say yes, as they usually do, you get the crap you don’t need sent to your house and setup. Now, if you don’t pay your bill, they will call all of your references, twice a day, call your work, call anyone that they can to shame you into coming in to pay your bill.

Then, when that fails, they will drive over to your house, at least twice a day, knock on doors and windows, put the truck in reverse and put the parking break on so the beep-beep-beep of the backup warning indicator sounds all through your neighborhood and people are staring out their windows at you place until you relent and open the door to make a payment or let them get the shit out of the house, or more accurately, your trailer.

Or, if you hide like a loser, they will then go by your place of work to find out why you can’t seem to make it in to make your payment. It’s complete madness. The customers are completely insane, and the business model is completely insane. The only way that I could see where they made money was on the backs of the poor schmucks that actually paid their bill on time. I saw one idiot pay 2200.00 dollars for a slim line PS2 when they first came out. It took him a year to pay for it.

I lived in a small town at the time, and they had a weekly feature in the paper that would list local arrests over the last week. I would use this to figure out which customers I wouldn’t need to call that day, or for the rest of my life.

I had one girl on rent that stabbed her boyfriend to death with a steak knife. I had one woman who left her husband to bang a black dude, and the husband blew her face off in a McDonalds parking lot in front of their two kids when he went to pick them up from her one day. Needless to say, those were some hard retrievals.

I’ve seen whores that would rent a big screen and a bunk bed for their kids with child support money, and when you had to inevitably go get the shit, they’d pay for the big screen and have you take the kids beds and they’d be left on the couch or floor.

But, on to the subject at hand. It was not uncommon for these folks to pay certain employees of Rent-A-Center with blowjobs or ass so they could keep their shit. I never personally would partake in this activity, but I knew several that did. My guess is she’d done it in the past to this guy or his buddies, and he knew that she used her own style of currency when the going got rough. What a shitty world.