{"id":6024,"date":"2023-10-05T05:16:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T23:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=6024"},"modified":"2023-10-05T22:24:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T16:54:12","slug":"please-dont-take-your-date-to-your-office-for-a-romantic-night-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/please-dont-take-your-date-to-your-office-for-a-romantic-night-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Please don&#8217;t take your date to your office for a romantic night out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When folks think about where to take someone out for a date, they usually think about a nice restaurant, movie, show, outing etc. Some more adventurous would go for a hike or outing together. But apparently there is a group of men who think that taking their dates to their office is a good option for a first date. It boggles my mind that anyone would think that. Imagine being so one dimensional that you think taking a date to your office to show off the perks at work is a good idea.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/60e1ab4092112018.png\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\nTaking people to work on a date<\/center><\/p>\n<p>The above popped up on my feed over at Mastodon and folks are rightly making fun of the folks who do this. What I take away from this is that these folks have almost no existence outside their work and their &#8216;achievements&#8217; over there. What is especially interesting is that this guy is not the only one taking folks to their office for a date. I actually feel sorry for the folks they are dating because that is the only interesting thing\/place these folks know.  <\/p>\n<p>Out of curiosity I checked out the posts by <i>@VCBrags<\/i> over on Twitter (I refuse to call it X) and they are as bad as expected. I especially liked the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You have hobbies and interests outside of startups and venture capital?<\/p>\n<p>Redflag &#x1f6a9;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Being a well rounded human is considered a red flag by these self defined geniuses. So it is a good idea to keep away from them, because they are literally incapable of having thoughts outside of work. I mean I am a workaholic, I love to geek out on things and have spent weeks of my free time writing code for personal projects but that is not all I am capable of. I travel, I write, read books, trek, listen to music, go out with friends and generally have a life. <\/p>\n<p>The problem is that these folks are stuck in a sort of echo chamber with other such folks who encourage and promote such behavior and then they wonder why folks don&#8217;t want to date them. Then they blame the other sex for the lack of interest and call themselves &#8216;incels&#8217; and demand that they be given sex because they deserve it. Basically they do everything other than take a look at themselves and don&#8217;t realize that they are absolutely uninteresting because they really don&#8217;t have anything to contribute to any conversation that is not related to work (or their very specific niche field of interest). <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When folks think about where to take someone out for a date, they usually think about a nice restaurant, movie, show, outing etc. Some more adventurous would go for a hike or outing together. 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