NTK:
They’re called “ambiance and atmosphere models,” and they’re being paid up to $200 an hour to pretend your conversation is interesting.
Holiday party attendees in Silicon Valley can expect a few fresh faces at the parties this year, according to a new report Friday.
Companies ranging from the size of Google to smaller start-ups are contracting with modeling agencies to help liven up stale parties full of mostly male software engineers. The models are paid somewhere between $50 and $200 an hour to “chat up attendees.” read more
Wow. Looks like the HB1 visa’a come with some perks for the socially challenged.
If they were sporting about it, they’d throw a transvestite into the mix and hand out a $200 prize to the attendee who can figure out who it is.
Is anyone here a software engineer?
On the whole, a software company is made up of a lot more people than just the engineering team. The sales force should be able to make the party pretty interesting. But if we’re talking just engineers, well. I don’t care how many sexy, cute, vivacious models you hire to enliven the joint. It just won’t work. The code warriors are denser than a black hole. They suck all the humor, fun and light from their atmosphere. Unless it involves some kind of weirdo engineering humor that no one else gets because they just aren’t as smaht as they are. Sorry. 25+ years of hiring and working with s/w engineers. It’s not anecdotal.
My wife does that for free
paid up to $200 an hour to pretend your conversation is interesting.
haha, these people are boring, so boring they have to hire fake attendees to pretend they are seen as interesting to each other.
vainly rich fools and their money are easily parted.
they’ve been doing this for years with their “BILLIONAIRES’ DINNER” BS. and they think they’re changing the world for the better. kind of reminds me of the late nights at norms after friday night league bowling with a bunch of drunks as their bs.
https://www.edge.org/event/the-edge-billionaires-dinner-2015
Shiny Happy People
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYOKMUTTDdA
They can play this at their fake party, it’ll make up for their non personalities.
Furry Happy Monsters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXVvvRBBUn8
why are they wasting real biological females time, they already have the answer to they dreams.
https://www.google.com/search?q=sexbots
@AbigailAdams: I can personally attest to everything you say.
Source: Was a computer programmer for 45+ years. I can suck the life, heat, and warmth out of an X-class solar flare.
🙂
They used to be called ‘escourts’. I see a remake of PRETTY WOMAN in the future, geared towards geeks.
And why would any man not objectify these ladies and want to touch them in their “lady parts?”
Despite the currents attitude of the times, eh?
Mixed messages, says I.
Back when I was a boy, we called these whores.
Sounds to me like they are one small step away from becoming a hooker, but hey, it’s a job right?
Hookers and blow
Hookers and blow
Mean so much more when I see
Hookers and blow decorations
On every Christmas tree
“They used to be called ‘escourts’. I see a remake of PRETTY WOMAN in the future, geared towards geeks.”
They still are, Mojo, that’s just their day job.
Liquor and whores
Liquor and whores
Cigarettes and dope and mustard and baloney
Liquor and whores
Cheaper and easier to find than female engineers?
If your companionship is payed for then that makes them a non full service hooker does it not?
I thought this has been going on for ever.
rich geeky guys paying hot women to hang out with them.
what’s new about that ?
isn’t weinstein in trouble for not paying them ?
I looked up the word ‘escort’, because the way I spelled it in the comment above, just didn’t look right. I slipped past either because:1- I’m old, 2-the early hour, or perhaps Siri, who often makes ‘corrections’ I know are incorrect.
Anyway, I’m sorry, because misspelled words are like speed bumps to me, and I dislike having them disrupt what my pea brain wants to share. My education peaked at HS graduation in 1962, therefore, the ‘I’m old excuse’, is probably the correct one.
@Bill: “isn’t weinstein in trouble for not paying them ?”
He did pay them, in a sense; he give them jobs worth hundreds of thousands (or millions) of dollars. As the old joke goes, “we have already established what you are, we are now negotiating price.”