Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China (2015)

Re:Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China (2015) by lagadu on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @04:15AM (#17455927)

> Even at company parties at big corporations, some Sales and Marketing folks tend go a bit overboard - and employees hooking up with each isn't unusual during such festivities either.

Heh, you should see company parties in northern Europe.

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Re:Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China (2015) by dagw on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @05:34AM (#17456172)

I think that's largely a myth or at least an exaggeration. I've worked in both Norway and Sweden (and currently live in Sweden) and I've never seen an office party get even close to going way overboard. Office parties in the US and the UK I've seen have been 'worse'.

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Re:Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China (2015) by unixhero on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @06:29AM (#17456350)

I work in a Fortune500 company in a Nordic branch.

It's extremely easy to hook up. There's like a mentality that "since you work here" you're already pre-screened :)

Summer parties at the office often devolve into something like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIf1fydxrfo

Global gatherings are, indeed, very crazy.

Maybe it's something like this: "If you can't be corrupt anymore, at least you can be sexually corrupt!"

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Re:Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China (2015) by dagw on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @07:49AM (#17456671)

It's extremely easy to hook up.

Sure, but in my experience most of those hookups happen normally and after normal adult interactions, and not as the unintended fallout of an out of control party.

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Re:Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China (2015) by duxup on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @12:10PM (#17457992)

Prescreened?

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Re:Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China (2015) by unixhero on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @01:31PM (#17458430)

By hr:)

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Re:Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China (2015) by coldtea on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @07:50AM (#17456672)

>I've worked in both Norway and Sweden (and currently live in Sweden) and I've never seen an office party get even close to going way overboard

Perhaps you're not invited to the good ones...

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Re:Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China (2015) by dagw on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @08:03AM (#17456742)

Well, that has been my secret fear since I was about 13...

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Re:Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China (2015) by coldtea on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @08:09AM (#17456770)

Same here, so I can't really feel much superior :-)

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Re:Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China (2015) by lagadu on Thursday July 05, 2018 @07:00AM (#17462277)

Maybe it's more of a Danish thing but that description is pretty accurate of the parties here: getting blackout drunk and hooking up is bread and butter.

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