He’s trying to end the world

Vichy

Ding ding

Have you ever talked with a woman about her experience working in STEM academia?

45 year old men making gross propositions is not at all unusual. And often those are the people deciding whether you have a professional future.

She probably gets treated more respectfully by her OnlyFans viewers than her co-workers in her PhD program.

I don’t get it

Yeah it’s Sinterklaas day on the 6th, right?

One of my Dutch coworkers always brought in chocolates. He said that once at Philips he played one of Pieter’s countrymen for the company event (yes in full makeup).

That was a while ago tho…

Trump’s friends are Peter Thiel and VV Putin.

Looooooooooooooool

the American version

Walk Of Shaming that dress.

What dimensional space are the people arranging themselves in?

But seriously, this reminds me of a time at my former (FAANG) employer where HR sent out a 40-minute video about not being an asshole and avoiding lawsuits.

12 minutes or so in, they say “as the number of people in a group increases, the number of potential 1:1 interactions increases exponentially.” I thought “actually n(n-1)/2 but whatever”, and finished the video intending to get on with my life.

My inbox was FULL of engineers who were irate. “HR have proven themselves to be fools!” “I expect the company to never ask me to waste my time on their bullshit again.” “Once again non-technical people talking out their asses.”

HR sent a global apology for the error, asked everybody to not watch the video while they fixed it, and released a patched version the next day.