Boomer Humor Doomergod1d ago

I missed working during the dot com boom, but I heard some crazy stories from older coworkers. Like showing up at 10am hungover, playing video games until the CEO came in around noon coked out of his gourd, then hitting up the strip club at 4 on the company dime.

Then one day they get there and the CEO says “sorry guys, money ran out, go home.”

I can’t imagine what it’s like at these AI startups with orders of magnitude more money to burn.

Show threadgravitas_deficiency1d ago
My dad worked during the heyday of the .com era - he once had a CFO who would just go on benders for like 4-5 days, wake up in some foreign country surrounded by hookers and blow (like, very literally, not as a futurama reference), then just fly back and act like nothing happened.
Show threadBoomer Humor Doomergod

When I worked for Oracle I had to take yearly training to tell me in no uncertain terms that I am NOT allowed to buy hookers for customers OR potential customers. And I was an engineer.

I just wonder what the hell happened that they had to do that.

Mar 20 at 10:34pmWeb
Show threadUnspecificGravity1d ago
They used to have a hooker tent at CES. Seriously.
Show threadPlasticExistence1d ago
Was it a luxury tent at least?
Show threadGreenKnight231d ago
no, but with the blow you didn’t really care.
Show threadSkunkWorkz1d ago
Also the porn companies had booths at CES showcasing porn on VHS
Show threadChickenLadyLovesLife1d ago
My company wouldn’t even let us expense tips at restaurants.
Show threadBarneyPiccolo1d ago
Somebody put hookers on their expense report for reimbursement: “She was for a client!”
Show threadBoomer Humor Doomergod1d ago
Seriously, they said it’s not a valid expense like five times. WTF Oracle.