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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
by soma2009 6y ago
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 bar or something normal. Nope, we roll up to a strip club out near North Beach. It actually was my first time in one, I was young and it never was my thing. The guy had a bottle of vodka on a shelf behind the bar that he used for clients (but honestly for whoever), and the strippers all knew him. I start talking to one of the performers about regular things - the school she was studying at, her family, etc. Then somehow we start talking about how they had a private room that was mainly for Zynga employees, with video game setups, bottle service and private dances. She made it clear that lots of tech companies came in to entertain clients, investors, and whoever else they wanted to.
Last time I let a sales guy bring me somewhere without telling me what the plan was first.
- vincentmarle 6y ago> 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.
- WWLink 6y agoThis 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.
- coliveira 6y agoThe explanation here is "sales guy". This is the typical behavior of sales people, don't expect anything different when they invite you to go out.