Well, a party usually has a lot of people at it. All you need is one person who has qualms and calls the police. I'd have expected that kind of thing to be done with a little bit more discretion and plausible deniability.

That guy calls the police.

The manager answer the door and tells the police that the employee misunderstood, and he'd merely hired dancers for the night. That guy doesn't have a job anymore, and no one is going to get in trouble with the cops.

The only way to be sure that they're prostitutes is to actually have a transaction with one, which if you go to the police about, are more likely to get arrested for than anyone else, since you're the only proven john.

You can be fairly direct with later deniability, and there's an incredibly high cost to being the guy that called the cops.

Why do you think drug use at start-ups is so common, even at work sponsored events?

I didn't know drug use at work-sponsored events was common. Is this a San Francisco thing?

Late reply:

I've seen off-label pill use, marijuana, and cocaine at work related events (or just casually around the office) in at least 5 states, ranging between the West Coast, the East Coast, and Texas. The settings have ranged from small companies and start-ups (which have the most drug use openly) to large corporations like Microsoft (where people at least hid in the bathroom or private areas while doing lines). Marijuana is the most prevalent that I've seen, at 8 different states and between widely varying social groups.

I've even been offered ADHD meds not prescribed for me by senior people at the company I worked for at the time, to keep me working long hours and more focused at work. (Hey, if it works for college kids, it works for adults.)

The simple answer is that not everyone agrees with laws against vices, particularly things like prostitutes and drug use - and see no reason to follow them.

If you're not aware that things like this happen, you probably give off the impression that you'll try to get people arrested and seriously damage their lives because they take an intoxicant you were told was bad, rather than alcohol or any of the various other legal ones.

tl;dr: It's all over, and if you don't see it, people are actively hiding it for you because they don't trust you to make reasonable choices.

Thanks for the information, but you can keep the needless (and hilariously inaccurate) moralizing.

Where I work, most official work events are set up to allow employees to bring in their kids. I believe most people would not do lines in front of preteens. What people do in private is another thing entirely.

> I believe most people would not do lines in front of preteens. What people do in private is another thing entirely.

This has been my impression of work parties as well.

I think I omitted it, but the context to my reply was more of a late-evening-with-drinks party than a good-for-the-family party/event.

As the other guy said they can just call them "escorts" or "exotic dancers".