Behind the scenes people have described more general complaints… mis-management and a hostile work environment (yelling and bullying), unrealistic or even impossible technical demands… stuff like that.

*shrug* Obviously, this is hearsay, but the fact that it has come back to me from multiple people is what leads me to believe that it is enough to label kink.com as a “terrible place to work”.

Of course everything heard through the grapevine should always be taken with a grain of salt, purely because things always get diluted as they travel from one person to the next…

That’s ultimately the moral of my story- take everything in full perspective.

I remember a big kerfuffle a few years back about suicidegirls…

You mean the adult industry is generally somewhat shady?

I’m SHOCKED.

(difficulty: I used to be a strip club DJ)

I’ve been with my employer for 16 years and, while I wouldn’t describe them as perfect, I wouldn’t say they were “terrible”, either.

Please refresh my memory — I’ve bantered with you a lot, here, and I cannot remember your opinions on this subject.

I happen to like them in the abstract, but suspect that, in practice, I would be in a different room (in a different building). Freedom of speech, and all that. Oh, and I like what they’ve done with the property!

That being said, I think they’re right on this one. Building a 5-story tower (be it as “ugly as shit” as the one proposed, or be it some beautiful hypothetical structure) only a few feet from the wall/windows, as planned, is a terrible idea.

That’s not even mentioning that building apartments four feet from a giant unreinforced masonry wall is probably not a very good idea in and of itself.