Huh. Seems like a better way to do it would be to just invite / hire a BUNCH of artists. No need to pretend; support an important part of why the Bay is the Bay, and expose your peeps to people they might not otherwise meet.
Silicon Valley Is Sneaking Models into This Year’s Holiday Parties
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#32Nothing new, this has been happening for a long time. They are called atmosphere models.
We have atmosphere models that show carbon emissions are warming the planet. Should we continue to just gawk at those models too? Or do something about it? It's 2017, not an episode of Mad Men.
Maybe 2017 is a future generation’s episode of Mad Men.
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#33This 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…
Because the honest truth of the matter is that the nerds that got bullied and discriminated against when they were young, only ever wanting to just be like others and fit it, got exactly what they wanted. They are just as bullying and obnoxious and discriminating as the people that bullied them.
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#34When 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 tu…
I've seen two successful approaches:
1) make it super interesting but excuse the family-types who instead take time off.
2) remove the party bit and make it an extra-curricular commitment perhaps giving-oriented like community service.
Mandatory Happiness belongs in one of the circles of hell.
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#35Pathetic. The whole point is to celebrate with the employees and their families and recognize the hard work everyone has put in over the year. A stranger not connected to an employee would take away from that value. If you want more women at the event, hire more women at the company and create a culture that encourages that.
> If you want more women at the event, hire more women at the company and create a culture that encourages that.
Well hold on now, this may be the solution to that. Include some male models on rollerskates and the female hiring rate should climb in response.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of things have been happening for a long time. That doesn't guarantee it should continue.
I’m commenting more on the article than the practice. It’s clear that someone wrote this with a splashy headline and juicy intro to make it seem like some new phenomenon that perfectly dove tails with current events about sexual harassment or lack of company diversity.
I mean, I don't work in Silicon Valley, but it was my impression that this sort of thing _used_ to be common, but had largely gone away now. I'm very surprised that it is (apparently) more common than ever, especially in the current climate.
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#37Submarine for Cre8? I can’t imagine how an article like this crosses a writer’s desk without a tip-off, most likely from the guy quoted in the article, who runs the agency. For all we know he could be totally fabricating the whole claim.
This is “journalism” ladies and gentlemen...
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#38I'd feel incredibly akward turning up to a works party and there's models there who were basically being paid to pretend they want to talk to me.
It's just awful and sad.
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#39This 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…
Do you realize that they are tech companies and need engineers, and only 16% of CS graduates are female? Where will they find the balanced ratio if the supply is so bad?
You can't just wave a magical wand and suddenly make more women engineers.
Most tech companies genuinely want to have balanced gender ratio in their workforce, but they can't as there are just not enough women that graduate on CS.
"By dividing the school's number of female graduates by this overall average, we discovered the average percentage of women in computer science programs; 16%."
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#40Pathetic. The whole point is to celebrate with the employees and their families and recognize the hard work everyone has put in over the year. A stranger not connected to an employee would take away from that value. If you want more women at the event, hire more women at the company and create a culture that encourages that.
> If you want more women at the event, hire more women at the company and create a culture that encourages that. Well hold on now, this may be the solution to that. Include some male models on rollerskates and the female hiring rate should climb in response.
As a straight male, this sounds like a really fun idea.