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Re:WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat by munificent on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:17PM (#17527341)
That's a real stretch.

If the company refused to pay for an escort, they aren't forcing me to be celibate. They aren't affecting my identity they are just choosing not to pay for a certain act.

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Re:WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat by null000 on Friday July 13, 2018 @07:44PM (#17527757)
That's just a completely disingenuous comparison. It's pretty normal for companies to pay for work-related food, just as it's pretty normal for you to pay for food you eat on your own time.

It's pretty not-normal for companies to pay for escorts, just like it's pretty not-normal for you to pay for escorts on your own time. Some people pay for escorts, but it's pretty well outside social norms, and I can't imagine a business situation requiring an escort anyway.

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Re:WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat by apple4ever on Friday July 13, 2018 @10:30PM (#17528467)
Bingo.

In fact, it would be like a company who normally does pay for escorts, but then deciding they'll own pay for opposite sex escorts, instead of allowing same sex escorts.

They'd rightly be pillared for allowing one but not the other.

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Re:WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat by dragonwriter on Friday July 13, 2018 @10:38PM (#17528495)
> It's pretty not-normal for companies to pay for escorts

I've known lots of companies to pay for escorts, but only the “walk you from the building to your car at night” kind and not the “euphemism for prostitute” kind.

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Re:WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat by somecontext on Friday July 13, 2018 @09:38PM (#17528270)
> a business situation requiring an escort

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17453554

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Re:WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat by throwawayou812 on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:29PM (#17527423)
I dare say this is a horrible comparison. There are no circumstances under which employees are expected, or even required, to have sex at work (presumably at least not at a mainstream tech startup). There are, however, many situations where employees would be expected/required to eat company-sponsored meals.
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