You may have heard about some corporations getting in a batch of new hires and then, on the first day of training, offering them $1000 if they quit and never come back. I can’t quite grasp the psychology of how it works (meaning that I have three incompatible notions) but companies which hire for phone banks and customer service jobs report that they save money by doing this, so I’ll take its effectiveness as a given.
What if we extend this to our personal lives? Specifically, to dating? Despite two generations of women being able to get any job they can do (and quite a few that they can’t) and decades of “I don’t need no man”, everyone knows that the vast majority of dating expenses are borne by the man. That pattern continues if dating turns into a marriage.
It would be an interesting experiment for a man to go on a first date, pay for dinner, and then tell her, “This was a good evening and I enjoyed your company. Now I’d like to offer you a choice: we go on more dates and see where this takes us, or I give you $200 cash right now and you never contact me again and don’t mention me to your friends or on social media.”
I don’t know how well the corporate experience, adding trainees fifty at a time to a pool of a thousand and maybe losing a couple to the cash offer, maps to dating one woman per evening and a dozen or so in a year and ending up with only one at the end. Still, it would be interesting to see a few men try this and total up how much they spent in a year versus how much they spent on ordinary dating. And also total up how much action they got each way and how many dates turned into solid relationships.
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Well, I’m confused…
I’d long felt (when I was a bachelor many, many moons ago) that the purpose of a “date” was to wind up (on both parts) in a more intimate situation – or not. The man is going to pay for (what he thinks is) access to the (wily) female’s “charms”.
If the woman is not so inclined, she will demur at any point in the “game”.
I understand what you’re saying, but I don’t believe there can be any correlation between the individual, personal level and the corporate level: though, on the other hand, if you’re talking about divorce …
The glaring flaw in that plan is positing that there are any women out there worth dating in the first place.
Asking a woman in the U.S. out on a date, for the last 30 years, has been testimony to the power of hope over actual experience.
Your time and money are better invested looking for a vein of gold in the desert, the returns are better, and you don’t get STDs from gold mining.
Just saying.
A small amount of people hire on so they can work for two weeks, get fired, then collect unemployment, which the company must pay. (I was the guy that usually did the firing.) This plan is a cheap way to weed out those people.
Ah, now I understand. Never worked for a big company, but I’ve seen a few scammers.