Sex toy startup has some big backers
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Sex toy startup has some big backers
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#2Its original line of toys started at $175 and included a $3,250 diamond-studded platinum vibrator.
The nouveau-riche joke just made itself.
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#3Brilliant. I'm glad to see a sex positive startup being recognised for its value, rather than shunned because investors are too prudish to see value. This kind of stuff really improves the quality of people's lives, creates value, and generally makes the world a better place.
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#4I'll bet their market research is fun...
However there are real challenges in having a company like that on your resume. A couple of (male) co-workers of mine were interviewing an attractive woman who had been doing brand management for K-Y jelly. They managed to hold it together for a while. Then they lost it when she began blithely talking about how their advertising campaign lead to increased (market) penetration.
Yeah, my co-workers should have been more mature. But I'll bet that was not the first or last time she got that kind of response. (Hopefully she learned to be more careful of the potential double-entendres.)
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#5I'll bet their market research is fun... However there are real challenges in having a company like that on your resume. A couple of (male) co-workers of mine were interviewing an attractive woman who had been doing brand management for K-Y jelly. They managed to hold it together for a while. Then they lost it when she began blithely talking about how their advertising campaign lead to increased (market) penetration.…
You're assuming that she wasn't aware of how her words would be interpreted. I think she knew exactly what she was doing.
If you can make your interviewer laugh, your chances of getting the job just went way up.
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#6Apparently if you build it, they will come.
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#7Apparently if you build it, they will come.
That joke was anti-climatic.
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#8I'll bet their market research is fun... However there are real challenges in having a company like that on your resume. A couple of (male) co-workers of mine were interviewing an attractive woman who had been doing brand management for K-Y jelly. They managed to hold it together for a while. Then they lost it when she began blithely talking about how their advertising campaign lead to increased (market) penetration.…
You're assuming that she wasn't aware of how her words would be interpreted. I think she knew exactly what she was doing. If you can make your interviewer laugh, your chances of getting the job just went way up.
If that was her reasoning, it backfired. The reaction from both interviewers was that having her around would be incredibly awkward and personally embarrassing, so she was turned down.