But what's the value or the point? What am I missing? Why would I want to, say, have a serious 1:1 with my boss in a Romance Room?
Every early stage startup in San Francisco has an employee who is a combination secretary, HR person and vice president of ops. She usually went to an quirky college like UCSC or Evergreen and is often the ex-girlfriend of one of the founders or has some other quirky but never-again-mentioned relation to someone in the office. This employee's main distinguishing characteristic is her high level of quirkiness. Her title is Vibe Director or VP of Vibe or Senior Vibeologist.
This quirky person is in charge of buying the snacks, getting the t-shirts printed, buying white board supplies, paying the bills, picking out the posters, ordering the Aerons and also higher level stuff like finding new office space. When the company gets a new office she is in charge of naming the office rooms. However, for some reason the CEO and other founders also find naming the rooms a very serious and important task. The names can't simply be decided upon, there must be several heated meetings arguing the pros and cons of naming them after San Francisco Streets, or SF Neighborhoods, or cities in California. Since nobody wants to meet in Fresno or Bayshore or on Geary Street, this is a big deal and the meetings generally end with slammed doors, silent crying, and the vibemaster sitting alone in the nameless conference room with a 1000 yard stare into one of the whiteboards.
Then one day one of the investors visits the office and his adorable french bulldog starts humping the VP of Vibe's adorable english bulldog in one of the still-unnamed rooms and a lightbulb simultaneously appears above everyone on the room naming committee's heads.
Every early stage startup in San Francisco has an employee who is a combination secretary, HR person and vice president of ops. She usually went to an quirky college like UCSC or Evergreen and is often the ex-girlfriend of one of the founders or has some other quirky but never-again-mentioned relation to someone in the office. This employee's main distinguishing characteristic is her high level of quirkiness. Her title is Vibe Director or VP of Vibe or Senior Vibeologist.
This quirky person is in charge of buying the snacks, getting the t-shirts printed, buying white board supplies, paying the bills, picking out the posters, ordering the Aerons and also higher level stuff like finding new office space. When the company gets a new office she is in charge of naming the office rooms. However, for some reason the CEO and other founders also find naming the rooms a very serious and important task. The names can't simply be decided upon, there must be several heated meetings arguing the pros and cons of naming them after San Francisco Streets, or SF Neighborhoods, or cities in California. Since nobody wants to meet in Fresno or Bayshore or on Geary Street, this is a big deal and the meetings generally end with slammed doors, silent crying, and the vibemaster sitting alone in the nameless conference room with a 1000 yard stare into one of the whiteboards.
Then one day one of the investors visits the office and his adorable french bulldog starts humping the VP of Vibe's adorable english bulldog in one of the still-unnamed rooms and a lightbulb simultaneously appears above everyone on the room naming committee's heads.