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Yahoo Offered Lap Dances At Hack Event

Posted by samzenpus on from the whos'-next-it's-you dept.

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."

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  1. Re:as they would say on FARK.. by DinDaddy · · Score: 4, 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.

  2. Re:Wonder why women are so uncomfortable... by Jearil · · Score: 4, 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.

  3. Re:as they would say on FARK.. by adisakp · · Score: 4, Informative

    FWIW, Having Strippers at the company is *NOT* a good idea. The last game company I worked for had a stripper come in for the art directors birthday. I t was very awkward -- especially since she tried to get him to strip as well (which is something I did not need to see). Plus between married guys and nerds, no one really knew what we should be doing (I guess neither married guys nor nerds get sex).

    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.

  4. Re:as they would say on FARK.. by xmundt · · Score: 4, 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

    --
    YAB - http://blog.beemandave.com/