Yeah, they used paid models to do some weird shit who took the job and by hashtagging it, retweeting it and sharing it on Lemmy you just put the PaloAlto logo in front of millions more people...
Its almost like their plan worked perfectly
Or we call out this weird shit loudly, don’t treat it like some “companies will be companies” thing, and maybe the people who would have worked with PaloAlto previously will reconsider working with the weird company that tried to present women as objects.
Not talking about this stuff is what got us here in the first place.
Wait those rnt mannequins??
why use objects when you can literally objectify women
I had this discussion when Tiger Woods’ affair, et. al., was in the news. My friend argued the classic, “No such thing as bad press.”
And I disagreed.
So they finally upgraded it.
Where can I purchase the upgrade?
Even if we accept the idea that “booth babes” are a legitimate marketing ploy, this symbolic blinding-and-deafening of them and removing their faces (symbolically, their humanity) is superfuckingweird.
Seriously, how this got through to execution is pretty shameful.
Booth babes turned me off car and motorcycle shows... Get me someone who can talk about the product, not a girl hired to look good around it.
It's happy hour, having a lamp shade on your head while drunk at a house party is a very old media trope, you are reaching SO hard.
You normally dress up in slinky black dress and stand motionless in front of some advertising for a multi-billion dollar computer company at these house parties?
This is a shame too, as Paloalto has some good products. Now they have a layer of "skeeve" slathered on.
For men. It's a very old trope for men.
Because women in the 1950s when the trope started wouldn't put something stupid on their heads. Even if they were drunk.
You're rationalizing SO hard.
I use to be in corporate sales, did a lot of conferences. Even in the most "professional" corporations the sales team culture is pretty garbage. My company was a little bit wilder than the others so I know the kinds of people that would be capable of doing this type of shit. The only way I can describe is as shock value, kinda "look what we did haha" and Im pretty sure thats whats going on here. Pretty childish.
Wonder how much per hour lamps make
Depends on which ones:
Booth babes are mostly making minimum wage + 50% to be hired as a model. ~$20 usd
If you see her name anywhere she's getting an appearance fee $1000/hr+ but that usually applies to local celebrities or hired talent.
Probably more than me tbh
Dunno, but these lamps probably make about half of what regular lamps make.
Looks like someone managed to work their forniphilia kink into the event booth. I don't even know how this would tie back to Palo Alto in the slightest
omg i completely forgot it had a name i had just been calling it jd vance syndrome
It actually a secret indictment of the objectification of women.
Hence the lampshading.
All they needed was for one of them to be a well dressed dude with a lampshade.
To be fair I'm a man and have ended a few evenings out with a lampshade on my head
This has more to do with cybersecurity than you think: Anyone who thinks this booth is related to cybersecurity urgently needs cybersecurity advice.
What does the company think it's saying with this?
This is undoubtedly a cocaine fueled decision.
Long drag off of 13th consecutive cigarette
"Yeah man, yeah! And then we can have sexy lamp bitches at the entrance and a guy doing chainsaw ice sculpting and..."
idk, maybe that women have a bright mind.
But I don't think they want us to tell anything at all, other than that it's marketing that makes people look.
It's marked on the poster as a happy hour event. The old 'lampshade on head drunk' character is what I'd guess the intention was, nothing more. It's a bit at odds with a formal dress since it's normally associated with a more raucous frat party type image, so not the best thought out particularly in a business presentation, but I doubt it was anything more sinister than that.
Yeah the ideas people are having in this thread is far more gross than what this actually is, imo. Those people need to go outside and interact with real people instead of sitting on xitter and lemmy all day.
Guys I think Graendal isn't bound in Shayol Ghul anymore.
As long as they're getting paid well to do a job they want to do and have breaks, I don't see the problem. It's a job and in this capitalist world, bills have to be paid somehow. Pretty low effort way to earn some money.
I'd stand around in a dress with a lampshade on my head if you paid me a living wage.
genuinely cannot tell whether those are mannequins
If only there was a way to say no if someone ask you to be a lamp.
Is it weird that I kinda want one of those hats
nah, let's do the fucking bonkers VR drinky thing. I'm intrigued
Should have had a dude too
Anyone caring about this has a different problem that needs addressing.
Outta curiosity, are you a man?
What problem is that?
