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Actually I see what might be the source of those allegations.

My office has a sleeping space and we have all sort of names for it including 'man cave', 'room where bad things happen' etc. etc. I can totally see how a disgruntled employee can convert it into "kink room" where people have sex.

On various office parties we had hired strippers and escorts and while none of them were prostitutes I can totally see how it can be reconstructed. We have gone to clubs to pick up women and discussed strategies.

All this in my opinion is perfectly normal and yet can be represented in a negative way.

EDIT: Strippers were not hired by employer but everyone contributed their own money for team event.

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With this (edit: and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14346174) you're recreating the very dynamic on HN itself that stories like this describe happening in the workplace, which leave so many of us shaking our heads in disbelief. I don't mean the disbelief of 'that never happens' but the disbelief of 'who does this'. No, it is not "perfectly normal". It's gross and beyond the pale.

Since we just had a whole conversation with you about bad HN comments and the very next day you come out with this, I've banned this account.

You apparently don't work somewhere normal. Hiring strippers and escorts for an office party: not normal.

If you work in the US, you are describing what lawyers will call a 'hostile workplace' when your employers are, based on your description alone, successfully sued for discrimination.

This is not perfectly normal in any professional setting. More and more often, it has real professional and legal consequences.

lol....uh... huh? Is this an elaborate troll?

I would say hiring strippers and escorts for office parties is not "perfectly normal". I don't think that there would really need to be any other representation for that to be viewed negatively.

If your office has a place to sleep, your company is probably taking advantage of you. If it's renting strippers, it's probably a pretty misogynist culture, as well.

Sounds like an exhausting and terrible place to work, frankly.

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