Posted on 02/23/2016 8:29:41 PM PST by rickmichaels
An American tech startup that once prided itself on being a fun place to work and play has had enough: no more drunken sex in the stairways of Zenefits, please!
An e-mail went out to employees of the health-insurance brokerage this week asking they please tone down their frat house behaviour at all U.S. offices.
"Cigarettes, plastic cups filled with beer, and several used condoms were found in the stairwell. Yes, you read that right. Do not use the stairwells to smoke, drink, eat, or have sex," the e-mail says, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Zenefits has hit hard times recently. After a quick start that won over investors in 2013, the company has since missed revenue targets and has been under fire for violating regulatory measures.
Founder Parker Conrad stepped down as CEO earlier this year.
Just last week, new CEO David Sacks sent out an e-mail banning drinking at work "to set the right tone in the office."
The memo banning sex in the halls came with the warning to "respect building and company policy and use common sense."
Cigarettes?
Call the smoking police.
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Good one!!
Sex in stairways = Bad.
Sex in Boardrooms, Waiting Rooms, Training Exam Rooms, Human Resource Rooms (but after hours only!) = Good.
From the sound of the reports from Forbes and others; they won’t be around long. Somehow these companies keep popping up that raise hundreds of millions in capital and really don’t produce much besides “industry buzz” for a couple of years.
Outrageous!! next they will ban drinking on the job. I wouldn’t stand for it.
It was a real problem. So, they came up with a novel solution. They began serving fresh donuts at break time.
The problem then went away.
Sex in the Hallway? Nothing new, the coarsening of our culture continues. I had a conversation with a head-hunter / contract employee type. The stories he told would curl your hair. Like the 19 year old Nympho that said they could fire her for having sex with a lot of co-workers in the restroom because it wasn’t on company time it was her lunch break. We are so Fubar’d...
I'd like to short their stock...
So either way, the red light was ON at break time!
I’m with you BB :)
They got ya covered, microdose.
Sex in oval office- good
Reminds me of the Little Caesars commercial, THERE ARE NO RULES, puts shirt back on THERE”S ONE RULE!.
George Costanza asks, "Was that wrong?"
Regards,
One place I worked for as a network guy, workers hid bottles of booze everywhere. A gal that installed wiring in the walls for me would show me all the secret hiding places she stumbled across. Employees thought nothing of drinking on the job. The managers had the most booze. Crazy.
Or on the bosses (company owner) desk with his 18 year old daughter who had started working there a week before, after hours of course. She was a wild, wild, wild one. Sigh. Alas, it was too much fun to be young. (True story, 25 years ago, she told the boss when they were fighting to spite him, I did not get fired, merely verbally reprimanded, and then invited to Thanksgiving at their house.)
I used to work for a place like this with a free beer fridge, loud music playing, etc. The owners wanted young people they didn't have to pay much, and acted like a frat house to get them. It produced exactly the quality of output you'd expect.
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