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Stop having drunken sex in the stairways, startup tells employees
Toronto Sun ^ | Feb. 23, 2016 | Postmedia Network

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."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: davidsacks; drunkensex; parkerconrad; stairwells; usedcondoms; zenefits
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

What a family. Did you go to that turkey dinner?
I wouldn’t trust any of them.


21 posted on 02/23/2016 9:51:14 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Nailbiter

Location, location!


22 posted on 02/23/2016 9:52:42 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Vince Ferrer
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.

Although ignorant of economics, or Wall Street, I partly blame this immature culture for the tumbling stocks. These kids can't run a company. They don't have the stamina. Everything must be fun & games; they get restless & move on. No one takes it seriously. Dour businessmen would be attacked as "patriarchy." Older companies like IBM or even Microsoft were built up by paternal types.

23 posted on 02/23/2016 9:56:30 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

As newlyweds, my wife and I used my boss’s office couch for some after-hours activity once. It was a small office, I imagine when a bunch of us would meet up between field work and heading off for dinner or a bar we would have a beer while waiting.


24 posted on 02/23/2016 10:04:57 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: lee martell

Of course I did. The kicker is her older sister was hitting on me hardcore during dinner. I thought better of going there, and looked for and found a diff job. Yeah, that family was a tad different, but really rich people.... most are a little cookoo.

(I think the father was hoping I would swoop in and make his 20 year old daughter a bit more stable. She was wild as hell. Fun when you are young, but I knew a life with her would lead to either me killing her or her killing me.)


25 posted on 02/23/2016 10:08:48 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: rickmichaels

Lack of ethics will doom a group or company. Kinko’s had raging parties in Las Vegas in the 1980’s involving drugs. The top management wrote a letter about how drugs and alcohol will no longer be tolerated in 1990. The hippies from the 60’s finally felt remorse. Fed Ex bought the company and all the stores are now just large mailing facilities.

I remember reading Herb Caen in the SF Chronicle about how stuffy people are against intimacy among co-workers in the office. Caen really was a rich, unhappy loser.


26 posted on 02/23/2016 10:33:12 PM PST by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: rickmichaels

Maybe the company is just spreading this rumor, hoping to recruit geeky guys, desperate for sex.


27 posted on 02/23/2016 10:38:51 PM PST by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo
Maybe the company is just spreading this rumor, hoping to recruit geeky guys, desperate for sex.

They need to know, that just like in the wild, it's usually one buck running the does.

28 posted on 02/23/2016 10:42:23 PM PST by Stentor (Oh Teddy Cruz, Canadian that you be. Oh Teddy Cruz, we stand on guard for thee.)
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To: rickmichaels
I am reminded of that outfit from the 2000 internet bubble which knocked off Fast Company's initials to come up with a NSFW domain name (to include Fast Company's font scheme, until a C&D landed in their inbox).

Interview with the founder (2002). He was an old BBS hacker. The first thing he noticed about the internet was, it was just like a BBS, except it had more content and it didn't matter what your area code was.

29 posted on 02/23/2016 11:12:50 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: rickmichaels

Reminds me of a lot of companies i used to vist during the dot.com boom of the late 90’s early 2000’s as a computer tech...


30 posted on 02/24/2016 1:10:19 AM PST by mowowie (`)
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To: Vince Ferrer

When i worked for Pitney Bowes in the late 80’s we had a Coke machine stocked with beer.
The work days were professional enough but at 5pm almost every night a party would start.


31 posted on 02/24/2016 1:16:17 AM PST by mowowie (`)
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To: mowowie

One company in particular, Monster.com. i believe it was in Marlboro, MA but not sure, the place was a 24/7 party.
Every desk had toys and other crap on it, sofa’s and fully stocked small kitchens, pool tables, Foosball, pinball machines...
I was there one day fixing a computer and my girlfriend at the time called me on my Nextel, I had to speak loudly over the sounds of billiards, pinball and the 30 guys in the conference room playing EA NHL 99 computer game on the large screen projector.
Some clown office guy comes up to me and rudely tells me to keep my voice down.
I couldn’t believe it....i wanted to smack him upside his head.
Probably a fun place work though....haven’t heard much about Monster.com lately lol


32 posted on 02/24/2016 1:30:04 AM PST by mowowie (`)
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To: Falconspeed
I remember reading Herb Caen in the SF Chronicle about how stuffy people are against intimacy among co-workers in the office. Caen really was a rich, unhappy loser.

Bllsht...he had him moments and once gave me great advice. He was a San Fran institution for what? 35 years. So he got paid for 35 years writing what you call loser material. Have you come close to this? I will agree he put out lots of liberal rot

33 posted on 02/24/2016 1:45:13 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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> Founder Parker Conrad stepped down as CEO earlier this year.

Lots of pickup lines came from him, “I’d like to Parker Conrad, if you know what I mean”.

And the new guy is David Sacks...

When he resigns, some prankster will change the sign on the door to “Hugh G. Rection”, and the whole happy go lucky staff will just party on.


34 posted on 02/24/2016 3:23:26 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Not-a-Ping?


35 posted on 02/24/2016 5:29:33 AM PST by The SISU kid (I think they taste like Barbie dolls smell.)
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To: grey_whiskers

What’s the name of this company?

I’d like to short their stock...
***************
Good call ,, recent headlines have the CEO quitting and California investigating..


36 posted on 02/24/2016 6:37:30 AM PST by Neidermeyer (Bill Clinton is a 5 star general in the WAR ON WOMEN and Hillary is his Goebbels.)
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