Oh yes, I remember this. It ends up with prostitutes being hired by the company for the evening, sometimes on a banded scale such that the most attractive prostitutes are only for the senior employees. Used to be primarily in the finance industry, but modern Bro-tech companies are following that path. It's nice that some agencies screen out the obvious requests for that, but such customers will just move on to the agencies that don't.
Silicon Valley Is Sneaking Models into This Year’s Holiday Parties
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#12This is wonderful. I am not sure why Silicon Valley did not do this earlier. When I was in South Korea and Japan these was pretty much a common thing.
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#14Nothing new, this has been happening for a long time. They are called atmosphere models.
A lot of things have been happening for a long time. That doesn't guarantee it should continue.
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#15This has been standard practice for decades -- nothing new.
Moreover, it's standard practice in a lot of big industries. Particularly advertising, finance, automobiles, and others.
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#17This isn’t new. https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2014/03/04/the-d... They’ve been flying women to San Francisco for dates.
Totally different. The article you're referencing is trying to connect two dating markets (SF and NYC) where both sides are ostensibly interested.
Models at parties are actors, pretending to be real people.
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#18When attendance is so important to leadership theyre willing to do anything to insist their holiday parties are somehow different than any other corporations awkward, two drink ticket catered navel gazing event.
'non mandatory employee engagement' is generally how HR describes these sterile lifeless get-togethers. This inevitably gets translated into "i strongly encourage my team to attend" by management, which in turn results in every H1B employee showing up in cringing terror of being fired while every salaried non-exempt engineer and programmer brace for the inevitable "so, i didnt see you at the party last week!" from their manager.
Save the time and effort. split the budget for this dumpster fire masquerading as a social event, and add it to my raise.
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#19I was really hoping that this article was going to talk about some kind of machine-learned model that had been used to improve holiday parties. My hopes, dashed against the shores of reality.
haha, I thought the same when I first read the blurb.
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#20This is not new for sure, but it deserves discussion in light of the #metoo movement. In SV we're supposed to be innovators, why aren't we leading the way towards a more equal society? If our holiday parties are boring because we've hired a masculine monoculture, then maybe the solution is to hire more diverse people the entire year. It's objectifying to women and minorities if the only time we're hired is to make so…
no need for more hiring diversity, just keep calling them out. diversity hiring is one way some of these creeps mollify their conscious and excuse themselves for keeping these activities. plus if you can find other people whom you don't agree with you can redirect the guilt.
the simplest method is to make known our displeasure and just call them out. it can be stopped. the culture of men will be men and women will be quiet will end in SV but only by going after the problem directly, not indirectly through hiring practices