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Post by jacobolus »

th0ma5 wrote: post #483
zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #443

It depends on the company. I worked at a large international bank where we had a couple dozen project managers that would travel abroad for 2-6 weeks at a time. We had server set up in a storage closet with a huge porn cache. When the project managers came back to the US we would copy all the porn they had collected to the server, replace the porn on their laptops with new porn from the cache, then send them back abr…

Balls out actually refers to engine govenors. Additionally if a person AMAB is transitioning you may well not call them men, but if you asked I guess I would take your word for it.

Yep, "balls out" and "balls to the wall" are respectively the steam train and fighter plane expressions for "full speed" (similar to "full throttle" or "pedal to the metal"). Neither expression has anything to do with testicles.

In any event censoring the word "balls" (even when used euphemistically) is a bit weird.

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Post by bluGill »

tasogare wrote: post #376
bluGill wrote: post #264

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You aren't wrong, but I don't think you are correct. There were a lot of "good church going men" who wouldn't sleep with anyone they weren't married to. There were others are appeared that way in public, but wanted some "outside pleasures". The former hired for skill and tried not to care about looks, and in fact ugly could be an advantage as it may limit temptation (but this was still "women's work" so it was her).…

One thing your theory is not taking into account is that some secretaries were willing to sleep for fun too. Women are into sex too, it’s not a male thing.

This is about power, women didnt get power or any of the benefits of the double standards.

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Post by 23523524353 »

zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #443

It depends on the company. I worked at a large international bank where we had a couple dozen project managers that would travel abroad for 2-6 weeks at a time. We had server set up in a storage closet with a huge porn cache. When the project managers came back to the US we would copy all the porn they had collected to the server, replace the porn on their laptops with new porn from the cache, then send them back abr…

>Tumblr had a lot of LGBTQ "diversity hires". One guy would show up at company-wide meetings and use all of the gay porn blogs to demonstrate the latest features he had been working on. Another guy would strut around the office in a zz-top beard and a french maid outfit w/ fishnet pantyhose and heels. There was a group of transitioning guys who would hang out by my desk and discuss their urine fetish - though they stopped doing that after I challenged them all to a "b_lls-out" coding contest knowing they were no longer equipped.

This reminds me of Aphyr (Jepsen guy). He does good work, but his twitter feed was full of NSFW stuff, last time I checked. He was also in the silicone balls cult for a while, and spoke out against its leader noodlesandbeef.

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Post by ikiris »

nomdep wrote: post #455
BrandoElFollito wrote: post #255

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I worked in tech companies, this is why I was mentioning how this is different between companies and organizations.

I believe the reason you don't see this kind of parties in tech is because the industry is filled with people who are introverts, not specially groomed/attractive and/or not very good reading social cues.

These parties are absolutely in tech...

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Post by season2episode3 »

marcus_holmes wrote: post #434
agumonkey wrote: post #148

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But it's interesting. Do we like artists due to marketing only ? Or seducing feature over artistic quality. A small but gifted artist on Spotify could, in theory (in theory), generate word of mouth at quickly get known. Sometimes I believe that labels were filters for that. They could see who was just very good and who had some 'it factor'.

Discoverability. There is more new music uploaded to Spotify every day than I could listen to in a year[0]. How do I discover the new stuff I like? Spotify does a terrible job of recommending new music to me - mostly my "Discover Weekly" is a mixtape of my existing playlists, and "Release Radar" is entirely stuff I hate. I'm not sure how a new band would reach me, but it's not via the methods they're trying now. I ha…

If you're actually interested in up and coming artists, Tik Tok is probably the place to go. Their algorithm really does bring good stuff up.

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zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #443

It depends on the company. I worked at a large international bank where we had a couple dozen project managers that would travel abroad for 2-6 weeks at a time. We had server set up in a storage closet with a huge porn cache. When the project managers came back to the US we would copy all the porn they had collected to the server, replace the porn on their laptops with new porn from the cache, then send them back abr…

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #443

It depends on the company. I worked at a large international bank where we had a couple dozen project managers that would travel abroad for 2-6 weeks at a time. We had server set up in a storage closet with a huge porn cache. When the project managers came back to the US we would copy all the porn they had collected to the server, replace the porn on their laptops with new porn from the cache, then send them back abr…

> We had server set up in a storage closet with a huge porn cache. When the project managers came back to the US we would copy all the porn they had collected to the server, replace the porn on their laptops with new porn from the cache, then send them back abroad again. We never knew what people would come back with but it ranged from "Cinemax" to "Only Legal In Kentucky".

Wait, sorry, what? Why were you storing this porn, exactly?

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Post by vincentmarle »

soma2009 wrote: post #504
BrandoElFollito wrote: post #91

I've been working for 25+ years in huge, international, rich companies — at very senior (tech) levels. Plenty of travel, plenty of team building, plenty of dinners and hotels. My wife asked me a few times about the orgies the movies show, and damn it, I must have always been at the wrong parties. It is interesting how this varies by companies and organizations.

Since we’re sharing weird work stories, I was working for an early cloud provider in SF back around 2010, coming out from NYC about once a month or so. Got into the office right off the plane late afternoon once and one of the sales guys wanted to get drinks after work, told me he’d come by the company apartment to get me. So he swings by to pick me up and I didn’t ask where we were headed, figured just some cocktail…

> Last time I let a sales guy bring me somewhere without telling me what the plan was first

Wow, that sales guy must be thinking: last time I’m bringing the prude guy.

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Post by WWLink »

soma2009 wrote: post #504
BrandoElFollito wrote: post #91

I've been working for 25+ years in huge, international, rich companies — at very senior (tech) levels. Plenty of travel, plenty of team building, plenty of dinners and hotels. My wife asked me a few times about the orgies the movies show, and damn it, I must have always been at the wrong parties. It is interesting how this varies by companies and organizations.

Since we’re sharing weird work stories, I was working for an early cloud provider in SF back around 2010, coming out from NYC about once a month or so. Got into the office right off the plane late afternoon once and one of the sales guys wanted to get drinks after work, told me he’d come by the company apartment to get me. So he swings by to pick me up and I didn’t ask where we were headed, figured just some cocktail…

This kinda reminds me of an experience I had years ago, working at a small startup that was "disrupting" a particular industry. One of my coworkers was interested in this other company's software products so we contacted them and they sent a couple of sales people over for a meeting.

Okay, here's what happened. I'll never forget it because it was so weird. There was a younger guy and a much older guy. They introduce themselves, the younger one hands us business cards and pamphlets, and then the oldest one... starts telling us names of all the people he sold products to.

It was so weird because neither of them knew much about the product they were selling. Just their customers. And they tried hard to figure out if we knew any of their customers. Given our company's culture, we were all fairly new and thrown off guard by that lol. I think only one of us knew any of the people he was talking about.

We ended up not buying any of their products, because among other things, it was the worst sales pitch I've ever heard of. Like they relied on connections lol.

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Post by abhinav22 »

Chris2048 wrote: post #507
abhinav22 wrote: post #343

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How do I report this post, especially the last paragraph?! Edit: Figured it out. Hope he gets banned for it

Report it for what, having an opinion you don't like?

For saying it’s okay for pedofiles to be recognized for their other work

There is disagreement on opinions and there is outright immorality.

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