Bro.Despite holding an office party with Twitter-branded beer pong tables and a sign in Greek- style lettering that read "Twitter Frat House," Twitter's male-dominated culture is nothing like that of an American college fraternity, says Twitter. [...]
A spokesperson for Twitter confirmed that the company-funded frat party did take place, reportedly held for the alpha bros of the revenue team (naturally). But Prosser cleared up any confusion about whether or not Twitter was an actual fraternity, issuing a standard Silicon Valley apology. [...]
There it is. Twitter is not a fraternity. It's just a male-centric environment where dudes can play beer pong, do kegstands, and get in gender discrimination lawsuits.
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> A spokesperson for Twitter confirmed that the company-funded frat party did take place, reportedly held for the alpha bros of the revenue team (naturally).
If I'm reading this right, this was a party for the salesmen?
I thought that it was generally accepted by even the most staunch armchair Social Justice folks that salesmen are disgusting, irredeemable sexists, and that no reasonable person would ever want to be a salesperson anyway.
Or are Sales and "Engineering" now considered to be the same thing?
Wait a minute, what exactly has this "revenue team" been up to? As far as I can tell Twitter's only source of revenue is showing adverts to the five people who still don't use an ad-blocker and VC money.
Have you ever tired to make a cold call to sell sponsored tweets?
You know, I once worked as a "Sales Engineer" at a dot com. It's more likely than you think!
Bit unclear on why Twitter needs sales people.
Well, the B Ark hasn't left yet, so there we are.
When did the jocks and the nerds interbreed, and how do we stop them from ever doing it again?
usually we call their offspring "astronauts", or at least until about 1977 anyway.
It's more like the business students learned a bit of Javascript at Code Academy, then convinced the CS students that it was way more fun to party than code.
Also bubble.
Wait, what's wrong with beer pong and kegstands? Other than cheap beer, I mean.
To explain the semiotics of keg stands, I'm gonna have to quote John Oliver: "It's a bit like arguing the Hitachi magic wand is only used as a back massager. Sure, maybe you only use it that way, but a lot of other people use it very differently."