A "LemonLime afterparty" sounds like something very different..

I have to be fair, though: that apology was one of the most decent public apologies I've seen in the last while (OK, I get it, it's a low bar, but still). Full admission that it was wrong (no "sorry if you didn't like it" bullshit), no blaming it on someone else, no trying to say "it wasn't really that bad". The only thing I find questionable is that some facts don't add up.

For a moment I thought this was employees getting company tattoos which would be horrifying. But it was worse, pressuring young people into getting tattoos as a "power play". You could psychoanalyze that to death in valid ways but I don't personally need to because no matter how you slice it, it's legitimately terrifying that people took them up on this.

And then the apology seems written by ai. I'm doubting the right lesson was learned here. The lesson they probably learned was "don't create optics like this, moving forward".

This may be the most fitting post for this community that there ever will be.

Well, the apology is more than I would've expected.

“We want desperate people who will work long hours for low wages. Prove how desperate you are by permanently modifying your body for a chance for an interview “

"Personalized art" dawg that's just your company logo

"For the facts: interviews were available to everyone regardless" I bet the people who have to go laser off a corporate tattoo are super thrilled to hear there wasn't even a point in getting one.

This is what happens when a workplace is seen as the owner's exclusive social club of people that are identical to them in every way and not a collection of individuals with job skills.

Lots of start ups are like this. It's like 20% job interview, 80% dating.

Satire is dead.

Outpost dot com https://youtu.be/l7vngee0mio

Wow. Didn't expect this to be real but it is

I'll wager the offer of removal comes with certain legal requirements that end all other responsibilities for them.

The apology is AI.

It's amazing how many people have a free spinning moral compass

It takes a real sociopath to think this was ever a good idea or anyway acceptable.

At first I was going to call out the artist, but then I read more about it. It wasn't required to be the company logo, and was actually canvas choice.

I guess the tattoo artist didn't give a shit even though they were the one doing the actual work

Insanity aside, their company better be really fucking good for people to commit themselves that hard. I'm sure they are doing something absolutely revolutionary for the human race.

Check inside: AI Slop Company.

Nice.

Damn, so you make this irreversible sacrifice for them and they don't even give you the certainty of a job in return? Crazy

And the lucky (not smart) among them get wealth, real power, and nobody to point out the problems with their reckless ideas.

Just for an interview? Guarantee me a job that will let me live as comfortably as I want and retire at a decent age and I'd tattoo my face, but for an interview? Fuck off.

Fun fact: the other YC-grad execs are all pretty jealous of this. My boss wants us to come up with some similar-level stunt I think.

The whole industry's gone a bit loony over the last couple of years.

Bet their pizza parties are amazing

“Hey, if you get a tattoo of our company logo, you get an interview!”

“Hell yeah, sign me up! I could use the settlement money from the lawsuit to tide me over until I can land a job.”

"read all these negative comments and then write an apology for me, chatbot"

Hope they get sued into oblivion

Smells like a promotional stunt to get into the headlines.

The apology does not match the initial post. And am I so out of the loop, what the heck is YC? Yellow Cosmonauts? Young Cannibals ( of the normal variety)?

finally a company with guts and creativity

Cult.

Well at least there seems tonbe a somewhat genuine apology with some self reflection, not a corporate lawyer response

But that is about the only redeeming factor here

I wonder if it had to be a tattoo related to the company, or if the artist had a flash sheet with other designs, too.. If he was a decent artist and I had options, I'd totally walk away with a free tattoo and never interview for that company.

I 100% know a few people that this is just "free tattoo if I do an interview" to them lol

They already have dozens of tattoos and this would just be another funny story to add to the list.

Also based on the followup post, sounds like ppl were allowed to get whatever tattoo they wanted, so it was basically just an offer for free tattoo service in practice.

No! I wanted orange!

Honestly I want to get some small tatoos and I dont because it's minimum 100€ for anything so I would love to find free tatoos to get like a little heart or two lol