China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?
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Chinese IT Companies Hiring “Programming Cheerleaders” to Motivate Staff
tech companies in China are now hiring young and pretty ‘programming cheerleaders’ to help motivate their male staff. The idea, apparently, is to create a ‘fun work environment’ for programmers around the country.
the job involves buying programmers breakfast, indulging in small talk, and playing ping-pong with them. ‘Talented’ young women are specially trained for the job by a senior employee.
http://www.odditycentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/programming-cheerleaders-China.jpg
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@Ascendant Gotta do something with that 15:1 male-to-female ratio their "let's abort female fetuses" policies lead to.
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Oh wait. There is a woman in the team in the photo! Does she get a man cheerleader? I wonder.
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@Ascendant said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
Oh wait. There is a woman in the team in the photo! Does she get a man cheerleader? I wonder.
Who cheers the cheerleaders?wait i fucked upMaybe she's a lesbian?
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never mind I'm going to go pirate some TV>
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Never seen such thing happened when worked in China.
It ought to be company specific thing...
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@cheong said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
Never seen such thing happened when worked in China.
It ought to be company specific thing...
The western media has a particular boner hardon for going "lol weird thing in China aren't those mongos so backwards lolololol". Most of the time the story is misinterpreted, fake, or from a satire site, or all of the above.
- also Korea and Japan
** fuck you ModeDD that's an asterisk you fucker
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To answer your question from the title: yes.
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@Lorne-Kates said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
Japan
You mean the country that refuses to believe a computer can be used to play video games?
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@ben_lubar
Hey, the amount of PC game titles in Japan is actually incredibly huge. Just that the gaming demographics here are just not into Action games. And given the mindset of the general gaming population spends on their vocation, it makes less sense to play games on your PC. The moment one is connected to the internet, there is an urge to reply emails and continue working. One could say that Japan is a country of workaholics.
That is probably why the console market is actually performing better in Japan, because one does not simple answer business calls using consoles (although technically, you can do it).
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Wait, those guys are working? Bullshit I say, that's Zelda LTTP in an emulator on the right!
So yeah, jelly, I'd rather play Zelda too!
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@Onyx said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
Wait, those guys are working? Bullshit I say, that's Zelda LTTP in an emulator on the right!
Clearly, this is a photo of the development team of that and he’s just testing it.
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I don't have time to do a proper triptych, but that poor woman who they actually hired to do programming. How degrading.
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@Lorne-Kates said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
The western media has a particular boner hardon for going "lol weird thing in China aren't those mongos so backwards lolololol". Most of the time the story is misinterpreted, fake, or from a satire site, or all of the above.
If you read about companies, you realize that this shit happens all the time in the US too. It's just not reported upon until the company causes a huge scandal before they are mature enough to tamp-down the behavior on their own.
For example: Zenefits' case, nobody said anything about it until it was revealed that their CEO had written a Chrome plug-in that helped their representatives "complete" a required-by-law insurance class without even sitting at their keyboards. After that news broke, suddenly the whole business world was awash with "oh yeah, sex in the stairwells" stories.
I could see an out-of-control startup like Zenefits hiring "hostesses" (or whatever euphemism they'd use) exactly like this Chinese company.
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@WPT said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
Hey, the amount of PC game titles in Japan is actually incredibly huge.
Right! They have... uh... Fairy Bloom Freesia?
@WPT said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
Just that the gaming demographics here are just not into Action games.
I could see "not into FPS games", but Action games? Are you defining "Action" in a way that doesn't include shmups and fighting games? Or... what? Because those are HUGE in Japan, AFAIK.
In any case, it's not like the PC can only run "Action" games. Where's the Japanese equivalent to, say, Civilization? Or SimCity? Tons of PC games are strategy games with little or no "action".
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@blakeyrat said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
How degrading.
Why? What is wrong with being a cheerleader or dancer? How technocrat of you.
Now that lady should demand her company to also bring men to cheer her up, and then it would be fair.
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@Lorne-Kates The WtfCorp female contingent would certainly appreciate female cheerleaders.
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@dse said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
Why? What is wrong with being a cheerleader or dancer?
How's she gonna play ping-pong in those heels? The blurb promised ping-pong!
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@blakeyrat said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
If you read about companies, you realize that this shit happens all the time in the US too.
Yeah, they just call them "secretaries" (ahem, sorry... "administrative assistants") instead of "cheerleaders".
@blakeyrat said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
How's she gonna play ping-pong in those heels? The blurb promised ping-pong!
You don't expect her to actually break a sweat, do you?!
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@blakeyrat said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
Where's the Japanese equivalent to, say, Civilization? Or SimCity?
Nobunaga's Ambition is on steam. Kind of a popular series?
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@blakeyrat said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
@dse said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
Why? What is wrong with being a cheerleader or dancer?
How's she gonna play ping-pong in those heels? The blurb promised ping-pong!
hint: she won't be using a paddle
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@Ascendant said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
Chinese IT Companies Hiring “Programming Cheerleaders” to Motivate Staff
tech companies in China are now hiring young and pretty ‘programming cheerleaders’ to help motivate their male staff. The idea, apparently, is to create a ‘fun work environment’ for programmers around the country.
the job involves buying programmers breakfast, indulging in small talk, and playing ping-pong with them. ‘Talented’ young women are specially trained for the job by a senior employee.
http://www.odditycentral.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/programming-cheerleaders-China.jpg
Anything to get more women into the office? Also note the woman programmer ... awkward?
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@Lorne-Kates
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@Ascendant Is that woman being there supposed to make them more productive or less?
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I wonder what laptop that guy on the left is using.
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@loopback0 said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
@Ascendant Is that woman being there supposed to make them more productive or less?
More hard at work
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@TimeBandit said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
@loopback0 said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
@Ascendant Is that woman being there supposed to make them more productive or less?
More hard at work
If I ever get hard at work, I'm definitely not going to be productive.
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@Lorne-Kates said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
- also Korea and Japan
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@loopback0 said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
If I ever get hard at work, I'm definitely not going to be productive.
Maybe, but you could get more reproductive
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@loopback0 said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
If I ever get hard at work, I'm definitely not going to be productive.
Working hard, or hardly working?
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@dkf said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
I wonder what laptop that guy on the left is using.
On close examination, I've determined it's LITERALLY ANY ULTRABOOK ON THE MARKET RIGHT NOW.
... seriously though, unless there's a version of that image with like 10x the DPI you'll never be able to identify it more specifically than "literally any ultrabook on the market right now".
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In any case, it's not like the PC can only run "Action" games. Where's the Japanese equivalent to, say, Civilization? Or SimCity? Tons of PC games are strategy games with little or no "action".
There are tons of Japanese strategy games but just not for general public (R18). In Japan, PC games are usually R18.
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@Magus said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
@blakeyrat said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
Where's the Japanese equivalent to, say, Civilization? Or SimCity?
Nobunaga's Ambition is on steam. Kind of a popular series?
And the whole series of "Three Kingdoms" also by Koei.
Btw, I have the impression that nowaday most big PC game titles in Japanese market are imported from South Korea (especially those online games). Most of the Japanese game companies (including Sega) now are busy doing mobile phone games.
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That is because, the number of PC users in Japan is minute as compared to mobile users. In fact, most locals I know, do not own a PC at home. If they need to use the internet or any essential printing or scanning, they can do it via mobile. And some are masters of generating documents in mobile.
There is a huge community of web novel writers who produce their works on mobile.
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@blakeyrat said in China has female cheerleaders for programmers. Jealous?:
How's she gonna play ping-pong in those heels?
Not very well, which may be the point of the exercise: giving the
fatdesk-bound coders someone even they can beat at a real game.
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@WPT @blakeyrat @cheong
Isn't the Total War series Sega?
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@Ascendant Published by Sega. The developer is British.