I love being the executive assistant who was brought on as the eye-candy personality hire

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• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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  • AMoralNihilist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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)

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  • urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotional_model

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    • toynbee@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      https://youtube.com/watch?v=gLU989DaDhU

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  • MacNCheezus@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Shocking discovery: sex sells. More news at 11.

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• DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  [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

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  • canyoubringmesunrise@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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.

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  • scytale@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • DagwoodIII@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      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.

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  We learned that a lot of jobs are this thanks to the RTO mandates after COVID-19 pressured companies to let everyone telecommute when possible.

  Two things seemed to mainly motivate people to return to office, even though it cost more in commute time and fuel and workers productivity suffered at the office. One was that companies were still leasing office space that was now mostly empty, and that made upper management sad. And the other is that a lot of clerical jobs are just there as the entourage of executive aristocracy.

  The boss missed forcing his secretary to fetch him coffee on command.

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I hate the entire culture of being in office. Where people are laughing at the boss jokes, only saying what the managers want to hear, and playing politics.

    Covid was really a great time because we could finally produce work without all that, and productivity from the actual workers went up very much. And the people who felt bad at home were the ones who needs the office environment to feel motivated, because they enjoy the politics and social games people play at work.

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  • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah that’s not a bad point. So many of the outward indicators of status are stripped away when everyone is just sat at a computer doing actual work.

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• LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My face when

  Image

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• RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• the_wizard_of_0Z@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Rich people get off on you outrage… so do the thots

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• cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Violet? Is this your new alt account?

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• GimmeUrBelt@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This isn’t a shitpost.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I dunno. Seems pretty shitty to me.

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    • rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • toynbee@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Technically the rules say “anything goes.”

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Nice posture!

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