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Silicon Valley Is Sneaking Models Into This Year’s Holiday Parties
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They're not thinking about looking good to diversity critics with these kinds of moves. They want employees going home with the idea (and spreading the message) that it's better to work for tech company A over tech company B because company A throws awesome parties with sweet cocktails, celebrities, live bands, and a chance to totally get some smoking marketing intern's phone number before her friends made her leave I swear to god guyz I was in there.
At a really diverse company, you could just throw a bitching party and you don't need the eye candy. My Christmas party is this weekend, most male employees will be bringing a date or a spouse. My company is biotech and we're about half women, so it's not like it's impossible in STEM.
Anecdotally, San Francisco is the easiest city in America to pick up women on tinder/bumble. I don't know what tech guys are into but it's not working. I'd be in trouble if I ever moved there full time.
Being a model does not make you a prostitute. Unfortunately, many models are harassed and assaulted because guys assume this to be an automatic transition.
They're basically acting. No different from a bar promoter or a cute bartender designed to get patrons chatting and drinking.
The problem is that they are hiring so few women that they have to compensate by paying models to show up. Pathetic.
(Yes, I am aware that a few of the models are male.)
You probably need to DM your abs to the IG of a modeling agency.
Edit: to elaborate on my post above, regular bars and clubs do this all the time. The bar I used to bounce at paid BU sorority girls to come by every week with their friends, and all the thirsty dudes in the neighborhood would pay a cover to chat them up, other people see a long line and say "hey this place is dope", etc. High end clubs just open the line for pretty girls in short dresses, rich men pay exorbitant table/prices to get the chance to hand them drinks.
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I don't think they're doing this to look diverse. They're doing it to make the male employees they already have happier.
I mean why else would they hire attractive people?
So is there anything more to these "So, they are just getting some escorts / hookers" posts than maybe some weird attempt at trying to be funny / clever and making cute implication that "Man or woman working as model and being hired to work crowd in event / party, among other things they do for living e.g. photoshoots for ads == This man or woman is just escorting"?
Booth babes are technically selling the product though. This just sounds like the setup for a tv-show where a couple of guys pay a hooker to go on a date with an oblivious man.
They are selling a product. "Work for us and you get attractive people at your parties." This is retention marketing in an economic sector where your competitive advantage can walk away from you on a whim.
We are not condemning or making fun of the models. Those gals and guys are doing whatever to pay the rent, we get that. We wouldn't be condemning them if they were actually escorts either. We are making fun of the nerdy boy's club that discriminates against women and then has to hire services of pretty women and men because their parties are boring. We are making fun of the phrasing that makes it sound like they are using "models" as some kind of code for escorts.
I used to work on the E3 booth babe videos for IGN for a few years as well as their live E3 show (livewire) and pre-conference coverage. Filming and editing the "babes" always felt a bit off. It was a bit nice not having to hound the "models" the first year it was decentralized.
The whole booth babe scene got completely out of control. It was like being in a strip club.
The whole booth babe scene got completely out of control. It was like being in a strip club.
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This is really the issue here, right? Work get togethers generally mostly feature employees and perhaps a friend or two, maybe a member of family, but mostly just the employees - at least in the places I've worked, that's how it is. If the companies are made up of 90% men, then the parties/nights out are going to end up being of a similar demographic.
This is a pretty sad state of affairs, and the answer is to have more women working in tech yes, that ultimately solves it completely, but I think it's more of a desperation move like 'shit christmas is coming up and this party is going to be totally lame' kind of thing. They should think ahead for next year and see if they can't bring in some new people who aren't the exact same kind of dude they already have 50 of, whether by training or, if they are being sexist, throwing that sexism out and hiring some women for a change.
my god he's right...
This kind of thing does kind of damper self reflection. If they let the parties go on as normal, employees are likely to think "Wow, this sucks, I wish we hired more women. Hey, Jim from HR, why don't we hire more women?"
Between this and the image of you chasing people off your lawn with a pitchfork while in your underpants, it's been quite a week.
Umm you might want to think this through based on the context of the topic.
And you think this is just Silicon Valley? People also do this at very low paying jobs also. People pay for company. It might be sad, but it's normal everywhere
Pretty sure if they're doling out pennies per hour, they're not gonna pay for 'window dressing'.
Sad and creepy.
"No one would just want to be around us, lets hire some buffers"
I keep being reminded of that article that showed a lot of silicon valley was alt right and was cool with Milo
"No one would just want to be around us, lets hire some buffers"
I keep being reminded of that article that showed a lot of silicon valley was alt right and was cool with Milo
Even if it wasn't for altruism, having employees realize that their place of work is a total sausage fest has some worth.
A lot of these teams lack the self awareness to observe their own homogeny. Companies do this to avoid awkwardness and persist in their hiring practices without internal loss of morale.
This has been the norm for as long as I can remember. Just about every industry event after-party (and sometimes the event themselves) I've been to had very pretty girls randomly roaming around and socializing. They stick out like sore (but very attractive) thumbs. It's kinda creepy if you think about it, but that's just the way it is...
Guess I need to spell it out for you. Hire women to keep the men happy and not becuse of thier ability.
REFER TO THE FIRST POST YOU MADE NOT THIS ONE IM QUOTING.
I knew was the gaf meetup was stacked with male body builders.
My ex occasionally did this kind of work and your statement is hyperbolic. Agencies let their clients know there is a line not to be crossed and are very protective of their models.
I'm not buying these companies are hiring only models but I'm cynical.