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Software Firm Looking To Hire Naked Coders
Nude House, a Buckinghamshire computer software and naturist company, is looking for coders who aren't afraid to let a few Cheetos fall where no Cheetos have fallen before. The company would like to become the first all nude tech business. From the article: "Company spokesman Chris Taylor told The Register: 'As far as I am aware this is not only the first UK office job for naturists in web-coding or web-selling, but is also the first worldwide facility for naturists to earn substantial sums of money from work that incidentally provides them with the capability to work entirely without clothes.'"
first worldwide facility for naturists to earn substantial sums of money from work that incidentally provides them with the capability to work entirely without clothes
Um... I can think of a few others. Just sayin'.
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on my resume
Is a webcam required?
Some companies will do anything to get a little publicity. Oh look, it worked.
Better known as 318230.
I thought telecommuting had been around for some time.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
A goddamn sausage fest is not a pretty site. Plus given the typical programmer's appearance... oh God help me!
Imagine how the one and only female programmer would feel.
I work from home you insensitive clods!
A Buckinghamshire computer software company is looking to recruit female web coders who are prepared to work naked.
Because really, what female competent enough to write code would ever voluntarily disrobe among dozens of naked nerds?
Software engineering already struggles to attract and retain female workers. This place is guaranteed to be and remain a sausage fest. Think about it. Socially-deprived/ignored/isolated nerds who are probably in terrible physical shape working in the buff. What woman would want to be a part of that?
Working from home people... I'm "working" right now while eating a bacon sandwich. Oops dropped some... no Rex... no... ok well maybe just this once...
A job like this is just plan nuts.
Here I thought this was another telecommuting story...until I read the article...
Where do I apply??!
My job is totally undeserving of the pants I have to put on before I go to work, but this still is a bit over the top. Clothing on most people is out of consideration and respect for others. No one should have to see the typical coder naked.....the horror, the horror.
It sounds like a wonderful place to work!
Employers are often in the courts for requiring employees to dress a particular way. I wonder if requiring them to undress a particular way is just as much of a legal quagmire. For example, could they refuse to employee a women wearing a burka?
Sounds like a sexual harassment lawsuite in the making... Now if only they can find a woman who can code.
Any guesses as to what kind of copy protection they'll use? :-)
Just think, somebody's naked butt would get wiped on that cloth ten times per day. That's a deal-breaker right there.
Spilled ....Hot .......Coffee
They'll easily know if you're on "non-work related" sites at work.
I don't know about this. Not that I am shy or anything, but I think having me work in the nude might turn off lots of females.
then why are they using computers?
a room full of naked coders is a scene straight from hell
It's like the mind going AWOL, it's there somewhere
Bare skin on pleather is just no fun. As long as their chairs have either nice fabric coverings, I'm game.
// file: mice.h
#include "frickin_lasers.h"
How does this not fall under a discrimination law, how can you be able to hire based on if a applicant is willing to take off their cloths or not?
Troll is not a replacement for I disagree.
I applaud this. Working naked would be so much more comfortable in general. As to those who would think about butt sweat and germs, well, each person can just bring their own towel to sit on, or better yet, bring your own chair. Then sitter beware. ;)
For anyone worried about how they look naked, stop worrying. Most of the people at nudist colonies are pretty average (well, actually, usually a little older). Go walk around naked in your own house once in a while, and get more comfortable in your own skin. It's a good thing to do from time to time.
// file: mice.h
#include "frickin_lasers.h"
I've done some bare metal machine language programming. Does that count?
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
Bodies. People. Whatever. If the ladies are smoking hawt that's a plus but... can they code well? I've met some mighty non-standard, fun, decent people that can code. As long as they keep the biological leftovers off the office environment, who cares.
Am I the only one who seemed to have RTFA and noticed that they're hiring women coders only?
Finally everybody would want to work with sea-pig....i mean woman-developer. Are these guys going to open an office in Canada? :P
Photography gig ever.
fairly obvious penis reference
"Outdated business models" is code for "I don't like paying for things, but want them anyway"
In a fit of boredom while working on a software project for McGraw Hill called "CARE" I added the following in the comments:
There once was a man from McGraw
who attempted to code in the raw.
His project was CARE
but his job was not there
because the raw is outlawed at McGraw.
That was in 1977. Now, 34 years later, there is a company where the raw is not outlawed.
Bill
Benefits include a 401(k), full dental, and unlimited blindfolds.
Their site: http://nude-house.com
First off their software is lame. Javascript image maps and they are selling that for $2500 no way anyone would buy that in qty.
Also red flags...
Meta description tag: Nude-House combines real houses filled with naked ladies and the clients wanting to photograph, paint, draw and paint upon them. A bit kike a permanent Naked-Office to bond the workers more."
As long as the receptionist is hot. Though that might cause problems with concentration and blood flow...
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Fridays are clothing optional, Mon - Thurs, there is no option.
Do I have to know coding?
is looking for coders who aren't afraid to let a few Cheetos fall where no Cheetos have fallen before.
For any place on the human body you can think of for a Cheeto to fall, it's probably fallen there before.
Captcha irony: My captcha is suture.
Am I the only one who seemed to have RTFA and noticed that they're hiring women coders only?
Well, since it actually says:
All new applicants will be naturists and could be males or females
It sounds like the author was just trying to make the article more sensational.
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i agree....... whaaaaaaaa~~~~
hopefully the male female ratio isnt very one sided
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This brings a whole new meaning to "pants check".
...for casual day?
Now I'll never get the image of dozens of naked Jeff Albertsons sitting in cubicles eating cheesey poofs, surfing the web, having holy wars about Perl vs Python vs Ruby etc.
BTW, how will the pizza delivery be handled? You could really give a pizza delivery person a jolt when they walk into the room with the extra super deluxe monster extra everything pizzas....
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
I'm self employed and in software and I ONLY code nude.
I'm thinking shoes in the data center are still a good idea. I'm also thinking that having something between your lower body and that hot laptop would also be a good idea. I'm also not excited about the ripping sound you'll hear after a long coding session in a leather chair. I've also got no interest in seeing the vast majority of my colleagues naked. I'm also wondering what they do for lunch. Does everyone bring one from home?
Do the outside sales reps wear their birthday suits on sales calls, too?
If so, I want them to hire Keeley Hazell and assign her to my region....
No cameras in the office. No cell phones with cameras in the office. Hell, no sketchpads in the office. Really, it is for the greater good. I'm not talking privacy either.
dull-eyed footstool-temporary octopus
Where no cheetos have fallen before? Sir you may have to check your facts.
And comedy is all about timing.
Please have one clothed employee with the sole job of picking up things that have been dropped on the floor.
dull-eyed footstool-temporary octopus
I can't help thinking how godawful it would be to have to do any maintenance on them.
"Here's what's happening. You're starting to drive like your Dad..." - Red Green
At least no-one would steal your chair
At least they do not have to worry about ESD. ...and somehow that seem like a dirty thing to say
Mutated by Scientists.
According to the article, they're only looking for females.
Sounds like there's a lonely group of male naturist coders who are looking for something to look at...
How about Hawaii or, maybe, Singapore, but who wants to hang in the London fog? We're talking really tight code, if you get my drift.
He can earn the big bucks now.
Sometimes they have issues when there software turns into hardware.
--- Always remember. 99.36% of all statistics are inaccurate.
gone the way of the poodle, and your primitive notions of modesty.
Please don't leave shit stains on the office chairs.
The question is "but?" But, will I be able to still respect the icons I venerate for ever more? With their beards, horn-rimmed glasses and shaped bellies?
It is save to assume the answer is most likely an ubiquitous "Yes!" My wild guess is that the main reason for this would be that such a ridiculous proposition would never ever cross their minds. Brain-cycles will most likely be saved for real problems and issues.
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
Boy, that's just what I want! To work with a bunch of other fat, bald geek males in a room devoted to serious coding! Sort of like "living with goatse" all of the time, tech balls to the wall, so to speak.
Not.
Unless, of course, the just "naturally" attracts all of the young, svelte, female, sexy nude coders. I'm sure there are LOTS of them, all lined up for this job.
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Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. --- Bertrand Russell.
"A Buckinghamshire computer software company is looking to recruit female web coders who are prepared to work naked."
someone read the "female" in this sentence?
If we can't see your scrotum, you'll be sacked.
Anybody want a peanut?
Its time -
SMELL THE CHAIRS!
Do they provide towels to sit on for conference meetings. Oh I hope so.
This signals the death of that part of Agile development
http://nude-house.com/females.html http://nude-house.com/new%20girls.html http://nude-house.com/presentors.html http://nude-house.com/jobs.html There's the real intentions. Bad pimp trying to set up a front.
is a programming language, along the lines of "brainfuck" using crude ascii art. But thanks for giving us all a good laugh at the interview...
Nullius in verba
I want to see your asses here at 9:00 am, literally!!
What is the debugging environment like there?
Don't fall in love with your tools!
Let's try being serious for a second. I know how hard (err.. difficult) it may seem, but doesn't this reek (no, NOT like that!) of stupidity? True coders want to write intellectually stimulating code. Those that want to do everything naked are not of the the same subset of coders (not to say that there isn't any overlap) but it seems that this environment will actually repel many good coders. In fact, it may repel more good coders than it will attract, and in this respect, it is a terrible idea.
Being the first and only slashdot article with the tag "nudism".
How many more years will slashdot have an off-by-one error on your Score in your profile?
For those who read TFA, notice how the picture portrays two female nude coders that appear reasonably attractive. It'd be hard enough to find a coding company that has 2 developer females working there :) And even if you found it, they'd probably look just as scary as your typical male developer.
And then there is one more issue. Clothes are not only there to keep you covered from stares. They also serve a few other functions like protect you from drafts.
You mean I can get paid to sit naked in front of my computer?
Jesus... No wonder, there is no link to the website in the summary. That's it, Slashdot. After so many years I'm done with you.
Ah yes, they are truly getting back to nature with their high-tech web based computer programming business. Why is it people who like going nude call it "getting back to nature" when they still drive cars, cook food, use medicine, etc? Why are clothes the only thing they see as unnatural?
at least cooling will be less of an issue, with their computers out of their cases.
One thing, at least "conceal/carry" isn't an issue for these people. You don't have to be worried about a naked man pulling a gun on you.
You do NOT want to know. *shiver*
Honestly, how likely do you think that is?
+1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
You know the guy, who wears shorts and sandals everyday and has something terrible going on with his toenails? Multiply that by 1000.
It's an easily observable law of nature that the desire to remove one's clothes in public is inversely proportional to one's attractiveness.
Caveat Utilitor
The quote there sounded like something John Cleese would say.
Er... I have a few concerns here....
1.- go to do number 2... and the chairs.....
2.- getting a cold after a few trips to the data center room....
3.- women.... every 28 days....
Check the online ads - they're only after female workers. I wonder if this falls foul of the sexual discrimination act?
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First, what of the seats, will they have protective covering, to avoid those red spots every woman has to have once a month....
Second, as a full hot blooded male, I have to wonder, is there such a thing as illegal chair use.....that material could leave some in an aroused state for the day, depending how they move and brush up against it....so when they are approaching blast off, how is their code going to look...... if (Cat.Meow = true) then Door.Open = True; Me.CallCatsName(); Me.LetCatOuut(); Me.CloseDdddoor(); Me.RUB(); Me.RUB(); ME.RUBBB(); Me...... end if
Third, what is the advantage or disadvantage to this, let the bosses who own the company see the goods, there is absolutely no use in this activity ....it would be more of a disadvantage then an advantage, as code would suffer,.....
but then again, I see this for what it is....smoke screen, the real job is that there are cameras on each computer top.....and they are being streamed and women working there will get paid on how long those cameras stay on for....giving the looker a peeping tom sort of feel, like he caught someone working in the nude (as if at home??)
Actually, this doesn't sound so bad. I know I'm not attractive, and probably many of the coworkers wouldn't be, either... But every morning when I'm struggling to get my clothes on, I keep thinking, "I wish I worked in a clothing optional office..."
Over the years I've become more sensitive to things, and clothes have become more uncomfortable, with the stitches itching, seams rubbing my skin, collars scratching my chin and so forth... I hate getting dressed...
Programmers actually have quite a bit in common with porn stars. We go to work, spend the day doing the most boring aspects of stuff where ordinarily find interesting, then go home and do basically the same thing for the rest of the day (but only the fun parts). Programmers spend our days working on boring web-based enterprise productivity apps that have to be designed for IE6 (cringe), compliant with corporate standards, and under working conditions designed to wring every possible bit of fun and satisfaction out of the process. Then we go home and work on things that are fun and interesting, like Linux. Porn stars spend their day sticking their dicks into hole after hole for a few minutes at a time, while performing gymnastic acts under hot lights in front of a dozen people who are either bossing them around or equally bored, then go home and get the bejesus fucked out of their ass by the hot guy they met at the gym.
I have seen what the average programmer/coder looks like, no thank you. I used to be one of them for a while.
The guys mostly look pale and overweight, many of them still have acne problems. And many of the girls could pass for men or prepubescent boys.
Sorry but if a girl could pass for Steven Hawking, I don't even wanna see them clothed, let alone naked and in groups.
Unless this guy is planning on hiring only the good looking guys/girls which is a sexual harassment lawsuit in the waiting and would cut his possible candidates to less than 0.1% of the possible qualified people I don't see this as really helping their business image any. Really, who wants to see Paton Oswald or Roseanne Barr naked?
Edit: Captcha "Fleeing" haha.
rm -r clothing*
OMG! I work with coders.... and I DO NOT want to see any of them naked... EVER... *looks for brain bleach*
HDGary secures my bank
This guy is a jerk. Like it's not already uncomfortable enough trying to interact with geeks at work.
Well, the naturist mindset of being less hung up (pun intended) about the human body seems like an improvement over the current situation of moral panic, even if your sexual positivism is a different story.
I listen to both RIAA and non-RIAA stuff if I like the music, tangential business/politics nonwithstanding.
"Ms Tasmalker, I've got a boner to pi... I mean a bone to pick with you. I don't think your a breast.. I mean abreast of the cuntract.. err contract with our partner. Rewrite the cockum... documents and get on my desk... err get THEM on my desk by first thing in the porning... uh morning. Spanks... I mean thanks."
A lot of sexy people not doing much work and having affairs. -Denholm
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Right now, I'm sitting on my anti-burst stability ball, at my desk, naked as the day I was born...
What's the big deal?
A "high class escort" may only have a dozen or so customers that they service per year, as they usually demand (and receive) repeat business.
Escorts aren't as expensive as you seem to believe.
How's do they handle sexual harassment training?
Sorry, but I'd rather not spend every meeting wondering who the previous occupant of that conference room chair was!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
meta name="description" content="Nude-House combines real houses filled with naked ladies and the clients wanting to photograph, paint, draw and paint upon them. A bit kike a permanent Naked-Office to bond the workers more."
meta name="keywords" content="Naked young girls. Nude young ladies. Female nudity. Au naturel, bare, bare-skinned, bare breasted, bared, barren, defenseless, denuded, disrobed, divested, exposed, helpless, in dishabille, leafless, natural, nude, open, peeled, raw, stark-naked, starkers, stripped, threadbare, unclad, unclothed, unconcealed, uncovered, undraped, undressed, unprotected, unveiled, vulnerable, in one's birthday suit, in the buff, in the raw, naked as a jaybird, without a stitch"
Finally, a workplace that's NSFW.
I think a lot of workers who work remotely and aren't physically seen already work in the nude. Heck, I ran a conference call from the toilet once.
Web-coding?! Hey I'll be glad to donate a set of my cheatsheets. Never more proud to point out the pages have ... ROUNDED CORNERS.
Bob Stein, http://bobste.in
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