I had a mate who worked IT for Citibank pre-GFC. This would not have been out of character for their Christmas parties.
Vodka fountains pouring through ice scupltures of naked bodies (with the vodka exiting in predictable locations) were also a feature.
Wow. Just… wow.
Let’s just say that my (limited) experience working in IT for Canadian banks was rather more prosaic. No alcohol, for one, and more children at the Christmas parties, for another.
My friend was in London. Mountains of cocaine.
Let’s not forget the infamous Tyco- exec party.
NSFW ( unless you work in porn, prostitution or merchant banking)
@anon62577920 Are you thinking about the parties made by the guy in whose house Pied Piper employees lived?
Wow. Just plain WOW. I mean I always subconsciously knew this existed, but the website recommends it for funerals of all places!
1 Are the employees in that company so ugly that they need to do this?
2 Why are they hiring male models?
Eyes and armpits, right?
IIRC first episode they go to a party with Kid Rock playing and there’s hired women there? But it could have been Erlich’s Alcatraz Bankruptcy bash
Reading this and the comments fascinates me because these ‘tech company life’ stories remind me of stories my older colleagues have told me about the way the defense industry (our field) used to be, at the height of the cold war. I always assumed these stories were highly exaggerated but it seems today there are still places that have fancy parties for employees, offer booze, hire models for entertainment, and so forth. Defense companies today are are highly regulated and struggle to avoid even the appearance of impropriety (for the good reasons that they have misbehaved in the past, are stewards of taxpayer money, and so forth). In any case, I haven’t been to a company-hosted party in years, because they no longer exist for regular employees. There are strict rules about booze at company events; and I’ve never heard of anyone hiring entertainment for the employees, let alone models. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining. I’d much rather work for a company that A) doesn’t try to fool me this way and B) doesn’t cheapen what we do with sex appeal and C) doesn’t actively attempt to promote negative stereotypes about how male dominated we are.
(Though, it’d be nice to have a proper, off-site, catered holiday party. Cutting that is just being cheap.)
I’ve heard tell of these silicon valley parties. The answer is: once the party is underway, they won’t have a half dozen functioning ones between the lot of them.
The Alcatraz party was what came to my mind, I didn’t remember the Kid Rock party. Thanks for clarifying 
I think it was Flo Rida, not Kid Rock.
There’s a second bar in the back.
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