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Fun Fact: Shale Strippers Make Up To $2,500 Per Night
We have discussed the 'downside' of America's "black gold" rush and the town of Williston, North Dakota is the poster child for the costs and benefits of this exuberance. But, as The BBC reports, there is some silver lining for those willing to deal..."Strippers can earn $2,500 per shift here," says a bouncer, "but the men here are 100% worse. It's horrible. They're animals."
A taste of Williston and "Whispers" Strip Club - "if you come to Williston, you'll have a job within 20 minutes"
It's a busy Monday night at Whispers strip bar in the oil boomtown of Williston, North Dakota.
A man in overalls drains his glass before showering money on a pole dancer.
By the side of the stage, a half-nude woman is building a miniature house out of folded dollar bills.
Strippers can earn $2,500 (£1,500) per shift here, says a bouncer.
But one employee, who goes by the name of Alexis, isn't feeling especially motivated tonight.
She's wearing a woolly sweater because whenever the front door opens an Arctic draught slashes at the pleather booths. It's -31C (-24F) outside.
"I do this work back in Illinois," says the mother of two, sipping a Sprite.
"But the men here are 100% worse. It's horrible. They're animals.
"I've only been here a week, but I'm done with Williston. I'm going home next weekend."
Fortunately for Whispers, there's no lack of applicants eager to take her place.
Exotic dancers are flocking here from as far away as Russia for the same reason as everyone else - to make their fortune in a place known as Kuwait on the Prairie.
Williston was once a humble ranching community tucked away near the Canadian border in one of the remotest US states.
But a sea of oil and gas beneath the region's farmland, and the hydraulic fracking technology that began to unlock it in 2006, has turned this small city into the wellhead of the North American energy boom.
However, as we noted previously, it's not all glitz and glamor and making it rain...
Lured by the promise of jobs created by the oil and gas boom, unemployed people are flocking to North Dakota en masse. This is heralded by many in the mainstream media as great news - labor mobility at its best - however, there is a darker side: rents are surging and finding a place to live at any price is difficult. As Reuters reports, amid all the boomtime plenty, however, is a housing affordability crisis. North Dakota saw a 200% jump in homelessness last year, the biggest increase of any state - "people are coming because it's widely publicized that we have jobs, but it's not widely publicized that we don't have housing."
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Don't have housing? Who needs housing when you have motels?
Is everybody in America like between 26 and 34 years old? Hell I feel old. I'm 41 today.
That means you're in your 42nd year of life...jus' tryin' to help!
Sounds like I could sell a beat up fifth wheel for about 50K up there.
Capitalism bitchez ;-)
And in your 5th decade :-)
Yes. Haven't you seen any movies lately? Everyone is a perfect mid-20s to early 30s. The world is populated exclusively by exuberant youth. In fact, all the superheroes I grew up with: as I get older, they seem to keep getting younger. Pretty soon Superman will be played by a 12 year old going through puberty.
Fuck old people, youth is where it's at.
I am Chumbawamba.
is that some kind of a tick you have - the need to say who you are every time you post something. why don't you save that for when you have something profound to say so you don't look like an idiot.
Listen Groucho, he's posted enough good stuff on here that IMHOP he's entitled to end them however he wants
Good Stuff? Can you even point to something he/she wrote that was relevant?
double fuk-U
Is he your boss?
Go back to giving winos handjobs behind dumpsters...eh?
Back to the original question, can you point to anything decent he/she has posted? It shouldn't be too hard.
dude is funny
Yeah, fuck you.
I am Chumbawamba.
i second that.
I am Chumbawamba supporter
Fuck you all.. except the strippers...they earn the money they get.
I AM TrulyStupid
I logged in just to upvote that.
"well I met her in El Centro, in the men's room of a bar, we consumated our relationship in the backseat of my car..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpShQtcipE0&feature=kp
"you know my baby loves me, she comes home once a month, with vomit of her moustache and teeth marks on her butt.."
"Fuck old people, youth is where it's at."
FUCK YOU, dumb shit!
It's just a matter of time before you are old.
In a society where the old are dumb as bread and have nothing wise to teach their children and the youth, this seems a natural development.
it used to be that, because it was such a rarity, being old really was something special. these days, there are hordes of old folk.
I turn 40 next week and when I'm working in Estevan Saskatchewan I usually make a few bones on ladies night as my alter ego, the chubby gangster.
If only they had some.
"Don't have housing? Who needs housing when you have motels?"
There aren't a fraction of the motel rooms needed to support that community. I rode my bicycle across the country a couple of years ago and went through that neck of the woods. You couldn't get a divey motel room for $300 a night even if available. And believe me, I felt safer in some third world countries I've been to. It's a lawless place. Robberies and rapes galore. McDonald's was paying folks $17 an hour and Walmart greeters were making even more.
Make stuff up much?
Wow and I was going to Alaska to get that frontier experience. How is the salmon fishing? Any grizzly bears? Sounds like New Jersey on the back side of the moon.
He's right about the fast food wages and the crime alike. They don't call the place "Williston White" for no reason...
I beeive it, just from the last time i was there and when i used to go through there a lot 15 years ago. But the alberta oilsands are the same, all oil booms bring are rig pigs,strippers, drugs and stds.
I live in North Dakota about 2 hours from Wiliston went up there to have a look , the place is a unbelivable fuck up mess ( need a road and a huge hill in the way don't worry we will move it) the burn off is mad , no housing and lots of kids getting fuck over , if you are a builder there is lots of work , but dont go in an RV in the winter -40 is not unusual.
And this is what you get when you break open the earth.....pull out the by-products of death and decay.....in order to power a false Utopia for the Elite in order to pay back Global Ponzi schemes and the best the dumb schmucks who work the patch can do is drink away their despair and pay another desperate person to make them feel like they are desirable in this Utopia they are sustaining for the Elites in order for them to pay back Global Ponzi schemes so they can make a few bucks to drink away their despair and pay a whore to make them feel manly.
Welcome to Prison Planet
And 99% of these animals will be poor and clueless when the dinosaur shit runs out.
That's how the Elites love it... animals working for them to smash anyone with morality and intelligence into the dirt.
Never understood why plastic ballons as boobs appeal to some people.
Children of all ages love balloons.
The problem with America is that most men are children.
But not so in Europe? That's why we kicked your ass in every war?
What makes you think I'm from Europe? They're children for the most part over there as well.
For real men don't fantasize about a Utopia made of fake money and women with fake boobs.
Well shit! They got skin on 'em, don't they?
/extra sarc/
That's what Ed Gein said about his furniture......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein
The stripper hates it because I bet anything they are pushed hard to prostitute even if they don't want to.
Italia is using prostitution to remedy their GDP. Nothing is surprising anymore.
USSA has to compete . How dare USSA is not adopting Italia's GDP Model? Fuck R&D etc, Whores and Blow
Sums up the future of Amerika , Single Moms getting desperate . Welcome to Third World USSA.
Germany after WW2 was far worse. After most womwn were raped multiple times (primarily by the Russians) most were so desparate and hungry due to the intentional starvation by the occupiers, that they willingly sold their bodies for food. The rape and genocide of the germans AFTER the war was over, was more tragic than the alleged holocaust -even if you believe the gas chamber story and 6 million myth.
...and if you were a German soldier captured on the Eastern front, assuming you didn't die in the prison camps or the uranium mines, you didn't get home until 1951 or 1952.
2 Ounces of Gold a Night...
5 Bitcoins a night
bugs_ 5 Bitcoins a night
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It used to be 2 bitcoins a night. I guess bitcoins aren't worth what they use to be!
Hypothetical story: Dude, get yer hands out of my pants. WTF are you doing. uh...I'm giving you a bit coin. " BOUNCER"!!!! Big burly biker dude comes over and kicks fonestars ass.
I must be getting old, the strippers must be getting dumber or more desperate, but the FED and the banksters are definitely winning.
Back in the early 90's before I sold my soul and became a banker, my girlfriend at the time regularly brought back over 2k a night (or 6 ounces of gold) working in DC... I was moonlighting as a bouncer up the street and my night job brought in an order of magnitude less.
The government-protected grunt labour in the resource industries is sucking up all the available jobs and salaries.
The thing they're most afraid of is...JOB COMPETITION!!!!
Motherfuckin' GDP Yo!!!! Every Wednesday is Federal Reserve Night with free Horse Burgers in a tasty Pink Slime Mayo! Get your boobie balls crumpled for the cornhole titty toss!
My new restaurant chain - Build A Burger, how of the famous TriLateral Sauce which is hotter than Hell. Our goat meat Baphomet Burger is to die for.
Speaking of "Butler"...maybe they need some law in that town too.
"Kinda guy who hangs out in the local saaloon, plays poker all day, drinks like a fish and occasionally take to the Street to kill a bunch of people."
On the good side "the killers come to him rather than the townsfolk."
Now they fly Russian girls there, because in Amerikastan you can't find one slim fit chick?
Are all americunts, overweight obese ugly whales now?
No, but in Amerikastan you get the equivalent of 2 for the price of 1. A good BOGO deal especially when it's freezing cold outside. All that blubber has a purpose after all.
no, just the ones you fuck.
When the boom is done, this will be a massive ghost town. Visit any of the former gold rush hot sites to get an idea.
Housing up there is a problem, no doubt. Most mobiles or trailers aren't able to handle the freezing cold temperatures during the long subzero months. Check the annual average temps to get an idea. Maybe they should try and put up igloos?
Not even the Buffalo can handle it...and they've been there a lot long than the humans.
Too bad the Spanish brought the horse over here.
Still...those things are even less ready for a Dakota Winter.
Too bad the Spanish brought the horse back over here. Fixed it for you.
Between 10,000 and 7,600 years ago, the horse became extinct in North America.
Well... the Gold Rush towns of the past in Nor Cal pretty near heavenly little spots, but uh.....ND ain't Nor Cal! Having fun out there is the wasteland peeps?
This is the upside of feminism.
They make it possible for a woman who is willing to do most anything get very rich.
Half price shale dances in the Frack Frack Room will be reported as full price so that GDP is not deflated.
How about some pink slime with that hottie?
pink slime has Electrolytes -it's what the people crave.
I'm not convinced they would pay $2,500 for a group of Q99X2 prancing across the stage and slithering down the poles. But maybe, they are about the same latitude as most of Russia.
Many years ago a co-worker wanted to go to a strip joint on a payday. On the way home he tore his back pocket off, threw his wallet away and told his wife that he got robbed. Sweating all week in the hot sun laying concrete blocks and nothing to show for it except a sore dick.
In most boom towns the guys that sold the booze and the tools made the most money......not the goldminers
youngman In most boom towns the guys that sold the booze and the tools made the most money......not the goldminers
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If you can afford $2500 a night on a hooker, then you are making plenty at this time. The difference is these dumb fucks are throwing theire money away.
.. and the banks
.. and the banks
Now what a surprise this is....
This is not true. On the weekends, it's possible for the hottest to make something close to that sometimes. But on average, it's 200-400 a night for the ugly ones, 800-1000 for the best ones. Pretty waitresses can make around 200-300 a night (five hour shift). This news article has been grossly distorted, and on top of that, the wages are decreasing in Williston due to more people comingin. The drilling action is shifting south 45mi towards Watford City.
These are so called Christian Values. Nice, Single Moms are getting desperate for the quick fix and then they complain. Amerika as is becoming a whore nation.
"is becoming" ... ????
And I thought the article was about people who strip shale.
Got excited there about the job prospects for a minute.
I don't want to bunk with a gaggle of roughnecks.
Men are animals, but so are Women.
Psst, there is talk of North Dakota imposing oil production limits, to stretch it out.
If the companies can't grow production, they can't pay off their financing. You didn't think they were drilling 220 wells a month in an area of just 4 counties with their own money did you?
"Boom" never really is about oil output. It's about jobs.
Things to go long (pun intended) in ND:
Strippers
Plastic Surgery.
Stripper lotion.
Hookers
Meth
Bimbo's don't need housing, they sleep "whereva".
I bet method sales are really good too.
This article gave me a bit of a flash back to ca. 1989/90 when I was in technical school.
There was a student who was at least twice my age in our class, and I asked what his story was, and he said he worked in the Texas oil patch during the oil boom (early 1980's) but pissed it all away because he never thought it would go bust.
Will this time be different?
I'm going to go out on a branch here and say that a cure for cancer isn't going to be coming out of North Dakota anytime soon .
LOL, I will have to agree with you. After watching that video I had to call Miffed at work and tell her to go watch it. I reminded me of my dairy days in a couple of ways. The girlfriend was endowed as well as cow #24 and was about as out going. Makes me incredibly happy with my choice of spouse.
I prefer vibrancy and intellegence to be included in the package As Seen On TV.(tm) There seems to be some price inflation in the girlfriend market since my dating days as mine looks as good but also can walk, talk, do scientific calculations, and chew gum.
Ok guys, see how it's done? Some man here is going to get something very special tonight from his devoted wife that treats him like a girlfriend. I am a very happy and fortunate woman to have a man that loves me so much.
Miffed;-)
Get a room you two.
Come on you guys!
The guys who run the wells don't have degrees from Harvard, they're all from Levenworth U. The wild catters are mostly ex-cons. Nobody else would do that job. Too hard, too rough and seriously dangerous. In texas when you need some rough-necks to man a new well, you dirve aoround to the local bridges and overpasses and grab the ex-con drunks out from under there. There's your crew.
Welcome to the oil industry: you want the benefits which are very real, then these guys are part of the deal.
They get 1% of what Ben Bernake gets for just sitting at a table but not dancing on it.
I wonder if Ben will in 6 months time join the girls....... horrible thought
Ihave friends who live here in NW Montana and commute to the oil patch in ND. It pays very well but it's a brutal life.
A gal I know bartended in Williston for 2 years. She made enough to open a business here and buy a new truck. She said it was absolutely insane over there. She said two years was more than enough.
Lots of money to be made there but it is NOT for the "faint of heart".
If you are from a warm climate, you better stand by LOL. Williston is one COLD, WINDY place in winter.
aaww i am so disappointed with the video and them pic....