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The CEO/founder was into "The Game" and the Red Pill and he made all the male engineers go out in SOMA to try seduction techniques, as well as go to strip clubs
by randycupertino 10y ago
The CEO/founder was into "The Game" and the Red Pill and he made all the male engineers go out in SOMA to try seduction techniques, as well as go to strip clubs. Our married and ltr engineers hated it but still had to show up and participate in this nonsense in order to fall in line and stay a "culture fit."
As you can guess, we routinely lost admins and female engineers who were generally solely hired on attractiveness and not talent, knowledge or skill.
- moonshinefe 10y agoeven as a single male I'd find being told to go to strip clubs by my CEO highly unprofessional and not want to work like that. That sounds ridiculous.
- dsfyu404ed 10y agoI dunno. It depends on the work environment. If it's one of those "we're all basically peers but one guy happens to be the manager" type of teams then I don't see it as being that outrageous.
- Jaruzel 10y agoBeing told you have to go to a Strip Club, and that sort of environment is something that makes you uncomfortable (male or female), then that is sexual harassment. Defending it just because most of you are 'mates' in/out of the workplace is not acceptable.
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- youdontknowtho 10y agoIt's tough. I used to have to go to strip clubs with managers and customers. Required attendance. It gets weird after a few trips.
- fsloth 10y agoThat's outrageously unprofessional. Is the company still alive?
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- randycupertino 10y agoYep. They've churned most of the staff except for the CEO's college bros, but they're still going along... no outrageous IPO on the horizon but they haven't spent all the VC $$ yet.
- antisthenes 10y agoPretty sure a good chunk of companies are created just to burn through the VC cash while living it up a lavish lifestyle on the west coast. At least that's my perception as an outsider from another part of the country.
- thiht 10y agoI'm sorry, what is SOMA?
- randycupertino 10y agoIt's an area of SF where a lot of tech companies are located. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_of_Market,_San_Francisco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_of_Market,_San_Francisco
- thiht 10y agoThanks! Didn't find that by Googling
- eskatonic 10y agoSouth of Market, a district in San Francisco with a lot of clubs/nightlife.