genuinely cannot tell whether those are mannequins
So they finally upgraded it.
Where can I purchase the upgrade?
Should have had a dude too
Guys I think Graendal isn’t bound in Shayol Ghul anymore.
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.
Anyone caring about this has a different problem that needs addressing.
What problem is that?
Outta curiosity, are you a man?
Wonder how much per hour lamps make
Probably more than me tbh
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.
Dunno, but these lamps probably make about half of what regular lamps make.
It actually a secret indictment of the objectification of women.
Hence the lampshading.
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.
Is it weird that I kinda want one of those hats
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
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.
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.
