Yahoo Offered Lap Dances At Hack Event 572
Fotograf writes "Yahoo's latest embarrassment seems like a sign that the company is just trying too hard to be cool. The latest debacle is earning the company some additional publicity. After Yahoo hosted Taiwan Open Hack Day, a special event for engineers and developers that was held last weekend, a series of photos found their way onto the internet — as ill-thought out decisions often do. Yahoo offered lap dances to the attendees of the hack event. Since the pictures have come out the company has decided to apologize."
Re:shucks (Score:3, Informative)
They hate us, for our freedoms!
Re:as they would say on FARK.. (Score:3, Informative)
There's also "knows how to spell 'feminist'".
Re:Kid in the white shirt looks akward (Score:3, Informative)
He looks like he is lit up and on a stage - I wouldn't be surprised if he is a touch more awkward than normal!
Re:Eh (Score:1, Informative)
I've been to a strip club ONCE in my life since my best friend dragged me along. It's pretty much what I expected: Really hot girls from the local university earning some bucks grinding away getting a bunch of nerds and rednecks frustrated with no outlet except for letting loose of a lot of money.
Your doing something wrong then.
Next time you need to take a few different drugs with you. I recommend investing in: Cocaine, Xanax, Vicodin and Soma. One of those always gets a hot stripper to hang out after work. (Not always the one you would like) AND no I'm not talking about slipping shit in girls drinks people. College girls love drugs and if you aren't some creepy looking guy giving them 20s every 5 minutes and aren't staring at their cunt the entire time you talk with them they will be more than happy to eat a pill or two.. I mean they are at work so its not like you can some how carry them out of the place unnoticed if it's some date rape pill.
Pro-Tip: Soma has some very strange effects on women. Tends to make them very horny. I have no idea why but I've seen it a number of times.
*PRO-TIP* NEVER mix Soma and cocaine, I mean NEVER! That is how you end up with dead strippers... Look it up...
Re:as they would say on FARK.. (Score:5, Informative)
Odd. My wife, who is a stay at home, except when she is devoting as many hours as a paying job to the PTA, mom, constantly gets down the nose comments from other women about not working and understanding that world.
Re:Wonder why women are so uncomfortable... (Score:5, Informative)
Actually there was someone there who interviewed a bunch of the women hackers at the event. A lot of them thought it was funny watching the awkward guys up on stage going through having a girl dance next to them. Even more said they didn't even notice what was going on on stage. Apparently the dances only happened twice during the multi-day event and each dance was for about 5 minutes.
There's been a lot of outcry from women in the US about it, but none of the women who attended the event had anything negative to say.
Re:as they would say on FARK.. (Score:5, Informative)
Oh, and to top it all off, the one woman who was working there at the time (the receptionist) ended up suing the company for sexual harassment when she quit.
Re:as they would say on FARK.. (Score:3, Informative)
But men who care about what their peers expect from them and allow themselves to be manipulated by a stripper into giving her money for services you didn't want nor asked for *are* wimps.
Thankfully you seem to have grown some balls afterwards, but stop pretending "playing the game" was the only thing you could do at the time.
Re:as they would say on FARK.. (Score:1, Informative)
Re:as they would say on FARK.. (Score:5, Informative)
Greetings and Salutations...
Hum...do YOU realize that that originally, computer programmers were ALL women?
http://www.witi.com/center/witimuseum/halloffame/1997/eniac.php
and, for quite some time this remained true.
The pendulum swings both ways, and, perhaps one day we will be back to an all female programming staff.
regards
dave mundt
Re:as they would say on FARK.. (Score:3, Informative)
False. Many young earth creationists are pentecostalist (and most pentecostalists are young earth creationists).
Perhaps a better example would be general christians?
As you say, loud and crazy. And also prone to band in groups, and represent themselves as distinctly related group; young-earth creationists are distinctly Christian, but 99.99% of Christians are not young-earth creationists and don't think you're going to hell for thinking the earth is more than 5000 years old.
Re:The Fucking Crybabies (Score:4, Informative)
Cry me a river. Everyone morally objects to something someone else does, get over it. No one was harmed. No one did anything against their will. There were no guns to heads.
Anyone who has a problem with this event is the exact kind of uncultured intolerant person that I personally have no need to work with, male OR female.
I'm not changing my ways to appease someone else because they 'dont like' some aspect of the culture of the field. If they want to be in IT they can adjust to the IT field. As they join the IT field will change based on the ratios of what people prefer.
Real women (just like real men) have no problem entering a hostile field without whining and bitching. What you are doing is attempting to change a field, to encourage more people to join it, but the people you are encouraging don't WANT to join it. You want to change the field to get what YOU want, not what women want.
Not EVERYTHING has to have a perfect balance based on sex or race. Differences between sex and race AND CULTURE will ALWAYS result in less than a perfect balance. Thats not a bad thing, thats reality and you need to check it out.
Re:Kid in the white shirt looks akward (Score:3, Informative)
That's why God invented Canada.