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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

I hate when companies do this at conventions.

A few times I approached a booth because I heard some good things about them. More often than not it's an attractive woman who stands there all bubbly to attract engineers. I ask technical questions about the product because I assume that this person wearing the company's shirt that they actually know something. But then they shepard me to toward the technical staff who are exactly who you expect them to be.

One time this happened I asked them why they aren't at the front talking to people and they said their managers wanted someone who could pull people in. I figured out then that the eye candy weren't even employees at the company.

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 4 points 4 hours ago

Shocking discovery: sex sells. More news at 11.

[–] urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe 21 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah unfortunately this has been around for long time. “Booth babes” was coined in the 80s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotional_model

[–] AMoralNihilist@feddit.uk 45 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yep. It's awful. And then you have the occasional other situation when it reinforces that women can't be "real engineers" so a few of my friends and colleagues have been at booths at events and have to deal with awful sexist nonsense because of this being the awful sexist norm.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 16 minutes ago

sounds like the booth babes you've dealt with either had no social skills or took no time to understand any of the products they were selling (ie, did a shit job)

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 24 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

[off topic?]

I live in New York. The story is that a young English woman comes to New York on vacation. Meets people and has a great time. when it's time for her to leave someone suggests she look for a job. In those days if you had a job you could get a green card pretty easily. She goes to a job agency and gets offers right away.

She gets a job at a prestigious firm. The bosses tell her it's because her English accent is really classy and improves their image.

The joke is that at home people would know that her accent is not posh at all, but to New Yorkers she sounds like Lady Diana

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Same in China where some companies hire an English-speaking white dude as a mascot to tag along with executives to give them a more prestigious, international look.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Like the old TV show "Remington Steele."

Female private eye creates a fictional male boss so people will take her agency seriously. Pre-Bond Pierce Brosnan played the stooge.

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 2 points 5 hours ago

There was an episode of Scrubs wherein the female doctor Elliott was given a sexist patient. The patient assumed from her gender that she was a nurse, so she invented a fictional male doctor named Elliott and claimed that all of her directions were being relayed from that individual.

I don't remember exactly how it panned out. It was only one episode, not a major premise.

[–] canyoubringmesunrise@lemmy.world 22 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

After interviewing for a completely different role, I was contacted and told that although I didn’t get the position, the CEO liked me and wanted to bring me on anyway. My role is mostly to keep the CEO company and assist the actual executive assistant. It’s honestly such an easy and enjoyable job, I love it.

[–] magi093@l.tta.wtf 1 points 3 hours ago

Definitely in the "good work if you can find it" bucket

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 11 points 10 hours ago

Me except the vibes are depression and the outfit inspo is what the power rangers normally wear when they're at school.

[–] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 13 hours ago

My face when

[–] the_wizard_of_0Z@lemmy.ca 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Rich people get off on your outrage.... so do the thots

[–] GimmeUrBelt@lemmy.today 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)
[–] toynbee@piefed.social 1 points 4 hours ago

Technically the rules say "anything goes."

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I dunno. Seems pretty shitty to me.

[–] rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

Anything containing a Kardashian maintains at least a baseline level of shitty.

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Nice posture!