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Office Parties Feel the Chill

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Re: Office Parties Feel the Chill

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Post by icebraining »

notliketherest wrote: post #5
paul7986 wrote: post #3

My comment here is regards to the ability for any HN reader to flag a story. Case in point this front page post about A male peer standing up against sexist behavior https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15894242 Why was this flagged.. what is inappropriate about this article and why can any Hacker News reader flag posts? Shouldn't admins only have this capability?

You're digging into a topic I've inquired about many times. I've never received any response from any admin. Ironically my submission was flagged itself for asking why certain articles were flagged and hidden. See here Ask HN: Why are “Google memo” links being flagged and hidden? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14994180

dang replied to you in that thread: the flags are coming from the users. So what exactly are you expecting more? Mind-reading the motivations of individual flaggers?

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Post by cluoma »

Maybe it's just my inner-millenial but I really dislike office Christmas parties. This year my company rented out a large theatre with a buffet of goose and free beer/cocktails/wine all evening. It started at 6pm and most of the attendees were gone by 10pm, and we are a young company with many in their 20s.

I feel like it was really a party for a few outgoing people and those in HR. A Christmas bonus would have been a much nicer way to say 'thank you' for the previous years work.

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Post by gubby »

This article seems to be sponsored by Escape the Room, whatever that is, with its own ad-style paragraph.

"A less philanthropic but still debauchery-free experience can be had at Escape the Room, an interactive game site where as many as 10 people are shut in a room and have one hour to solve a puzzle..."

Could be an example of the pay-per-mention market (there was an article about this last week on HN)

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Post by gadders »

>>Executives surmised (perhaps wisely) the party’s meager attendance wasn’t enough to justify the $300,000 price tag. So, two years ago, HBO offered its employees an afternoon off with their co-workers to volunteer at a charity instead.

That's some reward.

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Post by to3m »

paul7986 wrote: post #7
colanderman wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I may be wrong but I am under the impression that "flagging" something merely brings it to the attention of a mod. Certainly, I've never seen anything happen as the direct result of me flagging something.

In this instance at least flagging it took it off the front page and did so quickly! What was the readers reason for flagging it?

Likely to engender exactly the sort of boring meta discussion that you've managed to start :)

(After a while you get attuned to the HN hive mind/group subconscious, and it's easy to tell which articles will induce this sort of thing.)

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Post by Swinx43 »

cluoma wrote: post #12

Maybe it's just my inner-millenial but I really dislike office Christmas parties. This year my company rented out a large theatre with a buffet of goose and free beer/cocktails/wine all evening. It started at 6pm and most of the attendees were gone by 10pm, and we are a young company with many in their 20s. I feel like it was really a party for a few outgoing people and those in HR. A Christmas bonus would have been…

It is not your inner-millenial, there are many people that feel this way. Christmas parties in general give me the creeps. I would also prefer a Christmas bonus instead of needing to talk to colleagues that slowly (sometimes not so slowly) get inebriated and make some form of fools of themselves.

Christmas parties feel forced to me. A legacy of time gone by that people cling to for some reason.

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Post by bertil »

I actually like Christmas party (it helps I was working for great companies and with colleagues I actually like and I don’t go out as much as I’d like).

I didn’t stay very long this year because I had other things to do, but one thing that surprised me was to hear one of my male colleague objectifying his direct reports (female and married).

I have had until then the odd chance of only noticing offensive comments from female colleagues (rarely and I’ll admit, not the most representative). After the month we’ve had dropping our heroes, that felt… uniquely heedless? and just plain wrong.

Anyway: this is an advertorial but it felt timely.

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